TheStar.com - News - Canadian shooting victim had passion for teaching

re: "...Born in Montreal, raised partly in Yarmouth, N.S., Couture-Nowak moved to Truro, N.S., where she met her husband, went to teachers' college, raised two daughters and founded the new Acadian school board's first francophone school in 1997. /"Without her passion, I don't know that the École acadienne de Truro would exist," said Heather Parker, a co-founder of the school. "She would never give up. If she wanted something she got it. She loved life and everything good about it. She was passionate about non-violence. That is what makes the way she died so ironic." /Couture-Nowak was one of 32 people gunned down at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., Monday... /Couture-Nowak taught francophone studies at Virginia Tech, rated by one of her students as an "excellent teacher." She moved there from Truro about seven years ago, after her husband, Jerzy Nowak, was hired to run the horticultural program. Couture-Nowak, who was in her 40s, had two daughters, Francine and Sylvie..."...