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James K. Cross brought history to life for Los Alamitos High School students, but he also kept an eye toward the future.
"He was a world history teacher who taught by actually becoming the character from history," said Jane Davis, a family friend whose daughter, Tracy Davis, was a student of Cross' at Los Alamitos High School in 1987. "When he talked about Gandhi or King Tut, he dressed as them and talked to the class as though he were that character from history."See the full content of this document
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Los Al Loses Loved Teacher
With his then-wife Jean Cross, a career guidance specialist, Cross also developed a "History of the Future" course in the mid- 1980s that taught...
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