Mrs. Helen Blazis This is Me

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1. 1. Mark Blazis is a former National Science Teacher of the Year, and the trip is not only meant as an eye-opener for his students

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   Published on: 9/1/2008   Last Visited: 9/1/2008

   Helen Blazis
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   Mr. Blazis resides in Grafton with his wife Helen and they have two children.
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   Helen Blazis holds a Master's degree in Foreign Languages from Assumption College, degrees from Anna Maria College, and is a Spanish Teacher at Oxford High School.Her command of the Spanish language comes in very handy on her expeditions to the Amazon.To watch Helen for two minutes is to be in awe of this woman.Mrs. Blazis knows just about everything there is to know about birds and then some.Every Saturday and Sunday during migration, if Mrs. Blazis is not standing at the table sharing her knowledge about the captive bird in her hand, she is trudging through the swamp or in the wooded areas removing captive birds from the nets, placing them in bags and bringing them back to the banding station.Helen's knowledge of wild flowers, fauna, mushrooms, and wildlife, just fascinates the children (along with the adult volunteers).Her patience is unending, her sincerity genuine, and her willingness to share her love of nature admirable.
   
   Mrs. Blazis resides in Grafton with her husband Mark and they have two children.
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   Tom has banded birds with the Mark and Helen Blazis in Massachusetts, the Darien in Panama and Amazonian Ecuador.
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   Stephanie has banded birds with the Mark and Helen Blazis in Massachusetts, the Darien in Panama and Amazonian Ecuador.

2. 2. Auburn Bird Banding Project

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   Published on: 5/20/2006   Last Visited: 9/1/2008

   Under the tutelage of dedicated teachers, Mark and Helen Blazis, the students of Auburn, Massachusetts have been given a rare opportunity to get up close and personal with many species of migrating song birds.
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   Mr. Blazis, a recently retired Science Teacher at the Auburn Middle School, is a former National Science Teacher of the Year.Students from the Auburn schools assist Mr. and Mrs. Blazis, and several other volunteers, who have included Dr. Richard Weagle, Keith, Kim, and Garrett MacAdams, Dr. Larry, Marcy and Sarah Reich, Gary and Jill Hetel, Jim, Pauline, Brian and David Sheridan, the late Tom Donaldson, Stephanie Donaldson, Lois Kolofsky, Stephen and Audrey Vincent, Mattie VandenBoom, the Sharkey sisters, Joan and Mary, Justin and Ken Dion, and Joe Bourget in banding over 2,000 birds a year.
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   Mr. Blazis, one of only approximately 500 Master Banders in the United States, Outdoorsman and Naturalist, frequently refers to the captive neo-tropical birds as "jungle jewels."
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   Mark and Helen Blazis admire a rare Lawrence's Warbler
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   Exciting info concerning our tick research from Mr. Blazis:
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   Sunday, June 18th, 2006 Article starring Mark and Helen!

3. 3. Greetings All

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   Published on: 6/17/2008   Last Visited: 9/1/2008

   Helen Blazis' class of special education students, because of problems at their school with buses, graduation, the predicted thunderstorms on Wednesday, etc., will be coming on MONDAY morning, June 9, instead.
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   Not all students will be able to participate, so Helen might remain back with the severely handicapped student(s).
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   We're taking the day off on Tuesday, preparing for a special education class that Helen Blazis will be bringing on Wednesday (weather permitting -- they're calling for some sporadic thunderstorms.
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   Helen Blazis, advisor to Oxford's National Honor Society, brought that brilliant group of scholars to observe the banding research today.
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   Helen, like a pied piper or Mary Poppins, led her group to the beaver dam, where they examined the construction and got totally soaked.They now know beaver dams.She also amazed most of them, capturing a very large, sunning male water snake (the tail length and shape from the cloacal opening to the tip is different in both sexes).She also caught a huge male bullfrog for them to examine field marks to differentiate it from the similar, but smaller green frog.
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   Tomorrow, Helen Blazis will be leading the teaching/banding at the table with the Honor Society students from Oxford High School.
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   Surprisingly, when Helen and I spent a weekend living with Roger Tory Peterson just before his death, he confided to us that he had actually developed a little bit of admiration for this deadly, destructive little interloper because of its improbable ability to survive and even thrive in habitat unnaturally altered by us humans.
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   The research station had been totally self-financed for most years of its work by Helen and me.
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   Could you please take over email communications next Saturday, Sunday, and Monday (I'll be banding Saturday morning, then leaving for Cape Cod with Helen for family matters.) Please include total numbers of captures and recaptures.
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   Keith MacAdams and Mary Sharkey directed net operations, as Gary Hetel was proudly attending his daughter Emily's graduation from Assumption (Great Job!) and Helen Blazis was raising student scholarship money with Garden Club sales on Grafton Common. (Bravo!)
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   Helen Blazis was in her natural niche, explaining the subtleties of identification and making sure all our apprentices got plenty of hands-on training.
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   Years back, when Helen and I volunteered to work with the team developing the first Lyme disease vaccine, we put ourselves at risk (along with many other people) and wound up with a vaccine that is only 80% effective.