Students elated over ‘Survivor’ teacher Bob Crowley says he’d like to take his wife on belated honeymoon to Gabon — as tourists this time
December 16th, 2008 | by cwalton |Students elated over ‘Survivor’ teacher Bob Crowley says he’d like to take his wife on belated honeymoon to Gabon — as tourists this time BY RAY ROUTHIER
Students elated over ‘Survivor’ teacher Bob Crowley says he’d like to take his wife on belated honeymoon to Gabon — as tourists this time
On Monday morning, hours after Gorham High School physics teacher Bob Crowley won national fame and the million-dollar prize on the CBS show “Survivor,” his class was scheduled to take a test.
Surely, students thought, their teacher would be too busy with his newfound fame and fortune to give a test.
He was.
But he had arranged for a substitute to give the test, an indication that Crowley hasn’t changed much.
“My phone is vibrating right now, and I’m sure it’s kids complaining they still had to take the test,” Crowley said by phone Monday morning while riding in a limousine in New York City just after appearing on CBS’ “The Early Show.” “But they have to learn that life goes on.”
It was that kind of no-nonsense approach to even the smallest details that helped the 57-year-old South Portland resident survive 39 days in the African wilderness on the hit reality show. He ended up “outwitting, outplaying and outlasting” opponents with a combination of Maine-honed survival skills, ingenuity and physical agility.
Besides teaching physics, Crowley is a lobsterman, a tree pruner, a wildlife handler, a handyman and an outdoorsman.
“I think he’ll be the same guy. He just might joke about money a little more now,” said Clayton Loubier, a senior at Gorham who took Crowley’s test on Monday. “The guy you saw on TV is the guy we see in class, but he’s a lot funnier in person.”
John Caterina, a chemistry teacher at Gorham, was even more confident that Crowley would not change.
“He’ll still be the ultimate penny-pincher,” Caterina said. “Hopefully, he’ll fix his lobster boat so he can finally haul his traps from a real boat instead of from a canoe.”
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By italianbiach on Dec 16, 2008 | Reply
I’m glad Bob won although Sugar deserved it as well. As far as Corinne goes…she is pathetic. There was no reason to say the things she said. As someone who also lost their father, I can certainly relate to Sugar. Sugar showed amazing restraint on the show and hope she knows that what comes around…goes around.