Long Beach Wilson High’s Ruth Mohr-Silofau receives the Teacher of the Year award from the California Assn. for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (two years tap, three years jazz.) Mohr-Silofau has been a teacher at Wilson for 21 years and is noted for her enthusiasm and high energy approach to fitness. That approach includes some alternative forms of exercise such as country line dancing. Of course, with todays’ sedentary teen, just about anything qualifies as alternative exercise: “going outdoors” for one, “not spending the entire afternoon lying prone” for another. It’s also been noted that Mohr-Silofau doesn’t look like the typical P.E. teacher. The Rossmoor resident counts as one of her fitness mantras “If you look good, you feel good,” (OK, then ’splain Lindsay Lohan) and though she works out hard, she does so wearing lipstick and blush. Coincidentally, I had a high school P.E. teacher who worked out wearing the very same stuff. I wonder whatever happened to Mr. Voorhees? That dude made the bitchin’est lemon squares!

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