Hepburn News

With spring here it's good to get outside and walk. But at Sioux City's Convention Center Thursday night, it was all about walking the runway.

"The show must go on" is one of the oldest cliches in the book, but it sums up the situation faced tonight by Boone Community Theatre.

Jeffrey Hepburn, a high school chemistry teacher at Central Academy in Des Moines, likes to give his students a little 'CPR' in the classroom: That's chemistry, problem solving and relevance.

He speaks enthusiastically about the gilded stenciling and the manner in which restorationists matched colors and patterns with the building's original scheme in 1927.

In a few weeks, Jeff Hepburn will receive one of the most prestigious awards for science teachers in the nation - the $5,000 American Chemical Society 2010 James Bryan Conant Award in High School Chemistry Teaching.