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It is hard to believe that somewhere there might be a man who loves life more and wrings more out of it than Larry Pomeroy does and always has. And it is even harder to see how he could have dived off a 35 foot high walkway six years ago in an attempt to end all that. He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a mental disease which also affects many other creative and intelligent people and all too often results in their deaths. Today, against the doctors' predictions and in a remarkable recovery, not only is he NOT dead and NOT a vegetable, his zest for living is stronger than ever, and he is an accomplished and busy artist/poet/ photographer/scientist, in love with and planning to marry Yen Cress, a former teacher, poet, and artist whom he met at the Depressive and Bipolar Support Alliance meetings. They occasionally co-facilitate DBSA meetings, and they help each other to continue the therapies that keep them stable, happy, and alive. They share a love of books, animals, beauty, and being each other's best friend.
As a high school science teacher from 1981 to 1997, Dr. Pomeroy enjoyed stimulating his students' knowledge of science and showing them how science overlaps every aspect of their lives, all the while modeling a constant love of learning and art and of the world and all its natural contents. He walked on fire and lay on a bed of nails all to demonstrate the laws of physics. His classes, based on the adventure of learning as much as possible, attracted the attention of fellow educators, his supervisors, and administrators from local to state levels.
He produced a video, Windows Into The Universe, composed of never-before-photographed images--the beating heart of a snail, a tiny crustacean unsuccessfully attempting to escape from a water droplet, human fingers (his own!) dipping into molten lead without injury, and other equally amazing things. This production earned him Tandy Technology's Teaching Award, and a photograph in Time magazine. He also received the Genentech Access Teaching Award, the prestigious Golden Bell Teaching Award, and Corona-Norco Unified School District's Teacher of the Year Award. The team he coached one year for the Odyssey of the Mind creativity competition won fourth place out of 5000 international teams. He also designed The Millennium Center, one of California's most remarkable high school science learning centers, which was built by Santiago High School as an incentive to get Dr. Pomeroy to join their faculty as Chairman of the Science Department.
