Campbell students honor late teacher with project

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Most of Mickey Soroka’s pre-calculus 11th-graders were in their second-period English class when they got the news — Soroka had died a short time earlier.

Soroka, who also taught seniors calculus and supervised the multimedia program for ninth through 12th grades, had collapsed while supervising morning announcements in the multimedia lab at Campbell Memorial High School. He died a short time later after being taken from the school by an ambulance crew.

After hearing about his death, his students, who loved him, had to make their way to his room for their third-period class.

“We all put our heads down and just cried,” said Brian Austalosh, one of about 10 students who got together in the days that followed Soroka’s death to design T-shirts to fund a memorial to their teacher.

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