Retired teacher keeps learning with genealogy, photos

Photo: Edgar and Cecelia Short. Article by Gary Herron.

RIO RANCHO, N.M. — Someone once famously said, “A picture’s worth a thousand words.”

That same person might say Edgar Short’s photos are worth twice that.

His Facebook page says Short’s a “genealogy researcher and conception artist,” but a lot of former Rio Rancho High School and The ASK Academy colleagues will remember him as a favored teacher.

A former RRHS colleague of his, Patricia Di Vasto, recalled: “Edgar Short was the teacher who loved his job and his students. ‘Super dooper’ was an expression he always used when something was going really well. I worked with him in the Engineering and Design Academy from 2004-06. He was the CAD teacher. Students begged to be in his class.” […]

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