Jean Powers Sheild

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Pete, so sorry to hear of your loss. My deepest sympathies to you and your family.

To the Sheild family, My family is saddened with the news of Mrs. Sheild's passing. Please accept our deepest condolences. Mrs. Sheild was very wise, thoughtful, kind and approachable. I feel so lucky to have known her for so long. My son, Po-Shen is fortunate to have her, a very experienced teacher for 4th grade in 1991/1992, her last year of teaching before retiring. Po-Shen’s math was advanced, and she worked hard to prepare and teach him separately with material up to Pre-Algebra level for middle schoolers. Mrs. Sheild was happy that Po-Shen enjoyed the challenge each day. Towards the end of 4th grade, she initiated a meeting for the Madison School District elementary school Talented and Gifted (Tag) program coordinator, Mrs. Sheild, my husband (Wei-Yin) and I at Orchard Ridge Elementary School. The Tag coordinator provided many books on math and science for Po-Shen, and continued to monitor his progress in 5th grade. A week before Po-Shen entered middle school for 6th grade, I received a surprised phone call from the middle school Talented and Gifted program coordinator. We met and she educated me on the math curriculum for Po-Shen, which was excellent. In 7th grade, Po-Shen became eligible to take part in the middle school MathCounts competition which is carried out at the regional, state and national levels. He did well in the state competition and his name appeared in the Wisconsin State Journal. And we were pleasantly surprised to get a congratulation card for Po-Shen together with the newspaper article from Mrs. Sheild. She was amazingly encouraging and supportive of our children and we are forever grateful to her. Mrs. Sheild and I met a few times each year for sandwich or burger lunch until Covid 19 struck. After that I visited her at her house. My husband and I visited her on May 5 this year before going to Singapore (picture attached) for the summer. During the visit, she was very sad from Rev. Sheild’s passing and was missing him very much, but she communicated very well, just like in the past. I never expected to learn the sad news that she had passed on after we returned from Singapore. She is an inspiration to me. I am fortunate to have a lot of good advice from her. I miss her dearly but her memory lives on. Sincerely, Theresa, Po-Shen, Po-Ru, Po-Ling & Wei-Yin Loh