""I've just seen the best teacher I've ever seen in my life," he told a friend after visiting Mary Ann and hearing about her teaching techniques."
""She's 93 and she's got the energy of a teenager," Paul Cummins, 88, said of his wife. "She's kind of a freak of nature.""
"Cummins harness the squirmy energy of second-graders wielding xylophone mallets. She's been using the Orff Schulwerk Approach for decades, in which students create music in something of a percussion-driven jamboree of singing, dancing and moving."
"When the session was done, Cummins, who bakes more cookies than Famous Amos, sent each of her students out the door with a treat."
Paul Cummins, headmaster of St. Augustine-by-the-Sea, sought a music teacher and was drawn to Mary Ann, a pianist. Initially uninterested, she hosted a gathering and eventually accepted a teaching position at Crossroads, co-founded by Cummins. They married in 1972 and have lived together for 55 years. At 93, Mary Ann continues to teach, using the Orff Schulwerk Approach to engage students in music. Paul praises her energy, and she is known for her generosity, sending students home with baked treats after class.
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