A great loss for us all.

Mr. Fisher was my teacher at GFHS in my last year, when I crammed senior classes and my remaining junior classes together in a last ditch effort to actually graduate. I took virtually every art class offered by the system during my school years. I was terrified of taking a foreign language, and I enjoyed art. Mr. Fisher offered me a spot in his AP art class my final semester, and gave me a rather stern lecture (for him) when I turned it down. I told him to give the spot in his class to a better student who was more likely to use the opportunity, and college credit, than I was. He informed me that I was as likely to benefit as any other student, and even if I never took college courses in the art field it would still benefit me to have that credit. And that it was a much larger offer than I realized, as my previous art teachers from CMR had actually contacted him on my behalf.
He was very passionate about art and the benefits his students could gain from participating in the arts. I truly regret not listening to him, and understanding what he was trying to tell me. I remember running into him at Paris Gibson Square a few years ago, and not only did he remember me, he got in a little dig about me not taking that class. And we agreed he was absolutely correct, I should have taken that class.
He was a good man, and a wonderful teacher.