Wednesday, 1 June 2016

Driving instructors are still on the road

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Tom O’Brien and Jack Burgess have taught more than 2,000 people to drive.

The retired teachers, and coaches, started the driver’s education program at Missouri Western State University in 1989. At that time, there was just the two of them, one car and around 13 students. When the program ended in 2015, there were eight teachers, four cars and 200 students.

O’Brien was in the right place at the right time when a Western official came looking for someone to lead the driver’s education program back then. He convinced fellow Griffon alum, Burgess, to join him.

At that time it cost about $200 to take the class. Around 10 years later, Western formed a partnership with the St. Joseph School District to make the class a part of summer school. That drove the fees down to $50.

O’Brien retired from teaching and coaching from Central High School in 2009. He retired from being a driving instructor a few years after that.

But the economic reality came last year when Western announced it was ending that partnership. Burgess, Leonard Newey, Deb Wenzel, Dennis Reule, Kevin Kelly, Roger Price and Greg Glauser were all instructors at the time.

While O’Brien retired and moved to Liberty, Missouri, several of the instructors have stayed in the area and still are teaching, including Glauser and Burgess.

“By word of mouth, people want their kids to drive the proper way, and we’ve just been contacted throughout (the years) and I continue to do it,” Burgess said.

The St. Joseph man retired after 30 years with the St. Joseph School District but kept coaching at Lafayette High School until earlier this year.

In the smaller communities, Burgess said most young people learn to drive on the farms.

“When you bring them to the city, everything’s so much faster,” he said.

The one-way streets, four-way stops and crosswalks could throw some young drivers for a loop.

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