Mr. Brown has worked at Warren for 34 years and is now, sadly, retiring. Throughout all his years here, he always said it was “about survival with these kids,” but you could still tell how much he truly loved coming to work every day and giving students his full respect.

I never personally had Mr. Brown as a teacher, but he brought brightness and laughter everywhere he went, and I honestly think everyone deserves to know someone like him. He’s the kind of person who would take a blueberry-crusted pie to the face in front of hundreds of students for a contest, even though he hates pies and ended up throwing up under the bleachers later. That’s just who he is — someone willing to do anything to make people laugh and create memories.

His advice to students is to “slow down and smell the roses,” because people move too fast and forget to enjoy the moment. I wish someone had told me that freshman year, because now that I’m graduating myself, I realize I didn’t take enough time to appreciate each moment along the way. And for new teachers he believes it’s to try new things, make friends with whoever you can even the custodians you may not see often, and most importantly, be yourself as a teacher, because you don’t get any redo’s. And his advice to everyone is to find happiness within yourself instead of relying on others to make you happy.

Mr. Brown was inspired by his own high school math teacher, Mr. Palmer, and he continued that same legacy by becoming an inspirational math teacher himself. Warren won’t be the same without him, but the impact he made on students and staff over the past 34 years will definitely be remembered!