{"id":38153,"date":"2010-11-18T14:32:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T19:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=38153"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:22:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:22:28","slug":"margarones-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/11\/18\/margarones-obituary\/","title":{"rendered":"John J. Margarones &#039;48, professor emeritus of education, dies at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Emeritus of Education John J. Margarones &#8217;48, who helped to transform teacher education at Bates from a classroom-based endeavor to one that embraced student teaching in local schools, died Nov. 15 at age 87.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li>A funeral service is Nov. 19 at  10 a.m. at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, 186 Bradley Street, Saco.<\/li>\n<li>The <em>Portland Press Herald<\/em> devotes a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/news\/john-margarones-87-oob-historian-retired-bates-professor-_2010-11-17.html\">feature obituary to Professor Margarones<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Professor Margarones arrived at Bates in 1966, and at the time of his 1991 retirement, he told <em>Bates Magazine <\/em>that &#8220;instead of treating education courses as classroom subjects, Bates has a laboratory adjunct program, where students get hands-on practice in the schools. It&#8217;s not just a separate practicum, it&#8217;s just a part of the course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The goal, he said, was to help aspiring teaching gain skills that cannot be learned in a classroom.<a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/11\/crop-320-margarones-003.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/11\/crop-320-margarones-003-200x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"crop-320-margarones-003\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a teacher, &#8220;you have to have the attitude for outreach,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You not only have to have the basics &#8212; knowledge of content &#8212; but you have to have the personality attribute, and this you <em>can<\/em> develop. This you can&#8217;t teach, you must experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Professor Margarones grew up in Old Orchard Beach, where his Greek-immigrant father was a barber and bowling lanes owner who, in the summer, gave haircuts to Bates President Clifton Daggett Gray and other Bates professors who vacationed at nearby Ocean Park, a Freewill Baptist enclave.<\/p>\n<p>Since more than a few of these professors, including Gray, were classicists and theologians trained in Greek, they also enjoyed speaking with the elder Margarones in his native tongue.<\/p>\n<p>In retirement, Professor Margarones lived in Old Orchard Beach, where he was a passionate and thorough town historian. He\u00a0 wrote <em>Personality Vignettes of Old Orchard Beach, 1930s and 1940s<\/em> and <em>People and Place Profiles, 1930s and 1940s<\/em>. A third history, tentatively titled, <em>The Unsung Personalities<\/em>, was being written when he died.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Margarones served as an Army Air Corps bombardier in World War  II. He earned a doctorate in education from Boston University.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife, Viola (18 Seaside Ave., Old Orchard Beach,  04064); children Estelle &#8217;88, Joseph, Margot, Katherine, and Melissa &#8217;96; nine grandchildren; and two sisters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Emeritus of Education John J. 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