JAMES YOUNG
Nov 30, 2021
3 minutes
BY MIKE MILLER
Photography by
Kevin A. Roberts
James Young, a musical theater instructor at Johnson-Wabash 6th Grade Center in Ferguson, became the top teacher in Missouri, you must first know the story of his grandmother, Elizabeth Hutcherson-Rucks, and the imprint she left on a young man looking for direction. For more than four decades, Hutcherson-Rucks was a beloved music educator at Parker Road Primary School in the Ferguson-Florissant School District. Her passion for
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