With gratitude and fond memories, I am bidding farewell to my Lipreading students. I’ve enjoyed so many years of learning from you and made so many great friends through the classes, that no longer teaching will definitely leave a void in my life. However, I need to admit that it’s time to “hang up my shingle”. Foothill College has been a wonderful supporter of our classes and I am most appreciative of their efforts; they made it possible for us to learn from each other and that has been extremely rewarding. I also want to thank our teaching sites, Saratoga Senior Center and the Jewish Community Center of Los Gatos for supporting our classes.

I thank all of my students for their participation in my lipreading classes. You inspired and motivated me for many, many wonderful years. I wish all of you well and of course, please continue to practice the communication techniques we learned in our classes.

Marcia Fariss, M. A., F-AAA

Audiologist and now retired Foothill Instructor