Provo teacher named D.C. museum fellow

PROVO — A Provo School District teacher has been selected as a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum fellow.

Pat Drussel, a teacher at Dixon Middle School, was one of 15 teachers to receive the fellowship for the 2005-2006 school year. She will work with the museum to ensure accurate, effective and long-ranging instruction of the Holocaust throughout Utah.

Fellows visited the museum in Washington to research and listen to Holocaust survivors over the summer, according to a Provo School District newsletter.

In July, Drussel and Jean McPherron, also of Dixon Middle School, toured Poland and the Czech Republic with Vlada Meed, a resistance fighter and survivor of a ghetto in Warsaw. The group visited ghettos and concentration camps for three weeks in July.