Editor’s note: In partnership with the Burlingame High School Career Center, Daily Journal reporter Heather Murtagh had two students shadow her for a day so they could see what it is like to be a newspaper reporter. As part of the assignment, the students also wrote a profile of a Burlingame teacher. Here is one of two we selected to be printed as an example of the work of a student journalist.
Tim Larkin’s first school play he had to dress up as a girl because his character had a sister who didn’t like her brother and wished for him to become the sister she never had.
But in the end, Larkin realized he didn’t do a good job as a girl.
Now he’s better known as a dad, husband, teacher and a musician are some of the characteristics that Larkin a 36-year-old English teacher at Burlingame High School portrays.
At a young age, Larkin was convinced he was going to be an astronaut. He wasn’t your average Joe; he liked sports, drawing, music, books, drama, basketball and baseball.
"I had a finger in different pies” When he was asked about being a rare individual.
He was a rare individual; he even had to play a girl in one of his school plays. But today you won’t find him playing that part anymore. He now has his own band called Tebucky Jones which you can see them live on April 14 at Kimo’s bar.
Larkin’s father is a history professor and that influenced him quite a bit to become a teacher. And through out his life Larkin was around his dad quite often. During college he worked at the Old Sturbridge museum, which is an outdoor museum that is based on villages of the 1930s. Also during college Larkin met his wife Adelpha; which at the time they met she had a boyfriend but with perseverance he was able to show her that he was a better guy for her. Now after 12 years, they have two boys Elia, 4, Noah, 6. He is originally from the east coast and when he first moved here, he realized that things move very quickly.
When asked which one he preferred, being a teacher or a musician, Larkin said, "Music doesn’t define me as person. I’m a teacher, a dad and a husband. The rest I do on my free time. My family always comes first.”
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Larkin as a teacher interacts with his students in away that is interesting, and very capturing.
"Mr. Larkin makes learning not only easier but more intriguing, and his humor makes the class environment relaxed, and at ease.” said Emily Lewis, sophomore at Burlingame High School.
And that’s just the way Larkin is he said, "I don’t know how to control without humor.”
"Tim Larkin has a passion for literature, and makes great connections with his students,” said Principal Chris Holleran.
Larkin has displayed his different characteristics in our community and has shown that he holds very good morals.
Larissa Silva is an 18-year-old senior at Burlingame High School.
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