There's a dinosaur in the New York Museum of Natural History called a lambeosaurus.
Mr. Lambersie – Lambo, for short – probably didn't discover it, but Ali Martin still emailed him after she saw it just to make sure. Given Lambo's multitude of interests, it isn't at all unlikely that he might have had a stint as an archaeologist and dug up a pile of bones that no one had seen before.
"He was learning with us," Martin said of Lambo's role as coach of the academic decathlon team at Crown Point High School in Crown Point, Ind. "Whether it was history or English or art he was really dedicated to learning it."
In title, though, Lambo is an English teacher. Martin met him during her junior year of high school when he taught her AP Literature class. That class, she says, set her on her life course.
"I credit him as the person who gave me the initiative to start writing seriously," she said.
Lambo's pedigree as a phenomenal English teacher isn't the lone trait that made him so influential on Martin's life, though. He's also "an absolute asshole" who is "so funny" and "hilarious."
As much of those revelations came from Martin's time in his class as it did from spending two hours after school with him twice a week as a part of the academic decathlon team. It was there that the two were able to forge even deeper bonds.
Still, his presence in that AP Literature classroom junior year, the hilarious asshole that he is, made his biggest mark on Martin's life.
"If I ever write a novel, I plan to dedicate it to him," she said.
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