Students of U.S. History and Anthropology will not be going to the same classes anymore.

Returning from a heart operation, History teacher Mr. Scire has decided to leave once again to receive another operation. This time, Mr. Scire is receiving a third hip operation.

A resident of West Haven, Mr. Scire had his hip operated on in Milford Hospital by Dr. Irving. However, he needed to receive the heart operation in Yale New Haven Hospital.

“It was a revision of a previous hip replacement operation,” his wife, Mrs. Scire, said. “He also has nerve damage from one of the three operations he had done.”

Scire went in for the hip operation on Tuesday, September 12, and he is at home now. His doctor ordered him to rest for a while and to not engage in any strenuous activity.

Because of his eagerness to return to Law and his fortunate recovery from the heart operation, Scire was teaching his history classes at the end of August. He did not yet explain to his students that he needed to leave for a hip operation in early September. Instead, he continued to teach his classes with the usual zeal and enthusiasm.

“I thought that [Scire] was a very good teacher who taught differently than my other teachers,” sophomore Marc S. said. “He made the class more fun than any regular class.”

When Mr. Scire left late last year to receive the operation for his rare heart condition, he held contact with Mr. Zuraw, the substitute for his classes, and he continued to assign his own work for the Anthropology class. However, Zuraw comprised the final exam for the class.

“At first it was difficult to teach a subject I had little knowledge in,” Zuraw said. “But as I communicated with Mr. Scire, it became easier and easier to teach the subject.”

Scire is currently recovering from an operation, thus unable to teach or directly influence his students, but in the past he has inspired and enlightened many classes that have been under his tutelage.

“Mr. Scire definitely changed the way I think about people and life in general,” UConn student and Law graduate Samuel C. said. “He was different from the rest of my teachers; he teaches like my university professors.”

The only thing that students can do is wait and hope for the quick recovery and safe return of Scire to Jonathan Law.

“He is looking forward to coming back as soon as possible,” Mrs. Scire said. “But the return is tough to tell, so we would hope he’d be back by mid-to-late October.”