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By MARY V. BICOUVARIS
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
Editor’s note: The following is a message to seniors graduating from the public schools of Virginia from Mary V. Bicouuaris, the 1989 National Teacher Of The Year. “Mrs. Bic," as she is affectionately known to hundreds of students, teaches government and international relations at Bethel High School in Hampton. The National Teacher of the Year program is sponsored by Good Housekeeping Magazine, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and Encyclopaedia Britannica. Mrs. Bicouuaris will represent America’s teachers during the year, traveling the tuition for appearances, lectures, consultations and other activities.
Through its public schools and its public school teachers, the Commonwealth of Virginia has given you the best it has to give - a free public education. For the past 12 or 13 years of your life, my colleagues and I have done our best in classrooms across Virginia to see that you were
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