Sharon Welcomes Fish Home From New School

Sharon Education Foundation honors former Sharon High educator.

Hugs and love letters welcomed William Fish home Thursday night after a two-month absence. Former colleagues, students and community members hugged the former Sharon High School math teacher and assistant principal, who left Sharon this summer, after seven years, to become Norwell High School principal. Fish returned to receive the Sharon Education Foundation's 2011 Lee Flaxer Award. A letter from a former Sharon High math student, who read it aloud during the festivities, especially moved him. "I'm trying to catch my breath after Anna's letter," Fish told the audience in the Sharon Community Center ballroom. "I have to tell you: that's the second time I've heard that letter. It gets me." The nonprofit education foundation honored Fish …

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Sharon: Back to School 2011

Shakespeare Fan Enjoying New Role At Sharon High

New Assistant Principal William Klements taught English at Norwood High for the past six years.

If the fates are kind, Sharon High School's first day of class won't be a comedy of errors for new Assistant Principal William Klements. That said, Klements is a fan of Shakespeare's plays -- particularly of the bard's comedies. "He understands people, in my opinion, better than anyone that's ever written," Klements says of Shakespeare, for whom his appreciation developed in college. "I'm a fan of the comedies because they're not taught as much in schools. Kids will read 'MacBeth.' And kids will read 'Romeo and Juliet.' And if you're not careful, in Shakespeare, everybody dies and it's all misery. In the comedies, everyone winds up living happily ever after. It's important to see those, too." Sharon's first school day is Aug. 31. Klements …

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