Student Recalls How Teacher Taught Her Honor, Grace and Integrity

Patch and When the Game Stands Tall are asking about the coaches, teachers or mentors who inspired you.

Nikki Craig’s mentor is a teacher who taught her life lessons that extended well beyond the classroom.

Mentor Name: Robert Meckstroth

Known Mentor for: 43 years

School: GGSDAC

Town: Villa Park

State: California

What mentor taught about success: He is a man of honor, grace, integrity, kindness, patience. He did not only teach me those qualities he lives it out daily.

What mentor taught about dealing with failure: All I came from was failure, but he taught me that God had an even greater call for me, a greater significance, and he took me by the hand as a wounded little girl and accepted me and loved me like Jesus.

Best advice from mentor: To be proud of who I was. See he loved me just as I was created, he didn’t hurt me, he didn’t try to change me, and he did n’t cast me away. He met me right where I was and took me into his fold.