Birth date: Feb 2, 1919 Death date: Mar 13, 2011
Helen Leah Kubico of Newark, DE, passed away in Lewes, DE on Sunday, March 13, 2011. She was 92 years old. Born February 2, 1919 in Lowellville, OH to the late Paul and Annabel Smith, she was the youngest of three sisters. Her ea Read Obituary
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What a wonderful teacher she was. I think she was brand-new when I had her in class. I remember being amazed that she practiced drawing things at home in order to be able to draw them well on the blackboard the next day. What dedication and commitment! Then it was nice when the Kubico's bought the house next door to us.
I, too, had Mrs. Kubico as a teacher, at Newark High, for chemistry. Her obvious interest in the subject led to my initial pursuit of a chemistry major in college. I remember her as one of my best teachers.
Nancy Bonney Crissman
Newark High School Class of 1961
Lakeland, FL
She was a wonderful teacher !
Helen was my chemistry teacher at Newark High and one of my favorite teachers. My parents, June and Warren Anderson were friends with them at Newark Country Club and thoroughly enjoyed Mike and Helen. She was a wonderful person and a free spirit. We would chat in the later years at the Superfresh in Newark.
Sincerely, April Hubbard
She was an amazing woman.
Michael and Steve,
Robert H Dutton and the Dutton family were saddened to hear of Helen's passing. Please accept our sincerest condolences.
No doubt that Helen Kubico and Marjorie Dutton have found a golf course and are playing a few rounds together!!
You Mother was a wonderful person, a good friend to our family, and a tremendous mentor to her many students.
Helen Kubico was an inspiring and awesome teacher. She nurtured my interest in chemistry and jump-started a 50 year academic career. She and Connie Dunbar were advisors to the Chemistry Club, where many of us in the post-sputnik group broadened our interests in science and technology.
She had a deep understanding of the subject and shared many interesting and informative anecdotes with her classes: taking waste sodium to the edge of Lake Michigan at night while a graduate student at Northwestern and watching the mini explosions as the waves lapped the metal fragments; the time that Michael Sr. accidentally inhaled fluorine (or hydrogen fluoride) at DuPont; the task of attaching Teflon to the frying pans.
Her broader interests came into the classroom in very positive ways. From her I first learned about progressive jazz and the wonder (at that time) of music in stereo at home; Her reading of a Ray Bradbury short story about the overcrowding of heaven with soul that ended emotionally with the line "let there be light".
Mrs Kubico was stands out among the many excellent teachers at Newark High School, especially in the sciences, Mr. Musselman, Mrs. Dunbar, Mr. Chambers, Grayson Wheatley, and in other disciplines, Miss Weaver, Mr. Cottone, Mr. Justin. For those of us interested in the subject, she was willing to spend time taking us deeper into the intricacies and wonder of chemistry. Her inspirational teaching is a legacy that that lives with many former students. The candle represents to me a flame of curiosity and desire to learn that lives on.
Hi, all, I graduated from Newark High School in 1964and Mrs. Kubico was one of my favorite teachers, along with Trudy Weaver. She was the reason I started out the U of D as a chem major. I remember her as smart, smiling, competent and a gifted teacher.
