Here’s a Chalkboard Champion who is truly unparalleled: Lou Kokonis, a mathematics teacher at Alexandria City High School in Virginia. Lou, is 91 years old, and his career as an educator, which began in 1959, spans a total of 65 years!

In 2019, as Kokonis celebrated six decades of teaching, he was honored in through House Joint Resolution No. 727 of the Virginia General Assembly, which stated, “Louis Kokonis has imparted his passion for lifelong learning to his students, many of whom went on to become physicists, engineers, doctors and professors.”

Here’s a four-minute You Tube video aired by CBS Mornings last month which celebrates the career of this remarkable educator: