Special Features / May 2008

Mother of Hundreds

Vicky Robb

This woman will never have to fear the “empty nest syndrome”.  She is “Mom” to hundreds of children in the Charleston, WV area.  Vicky Robb is the birth mother of a daughter who is engaged to be married this summer and a son who is a junior at Marshall University.   And, she is “Mom” to hundreds of students at Sissonville High School and even more students at the South Charleston Memorial Ice Skating Arena. 
            “I have never forgotten what I learned as a child growing up.  I learned what family is all about.  And, I learned that you can always go home to your family.  This belief has led me in all that I do as a mother,” she said.
            Vicky grew up in Cleveland, Ohio.  Her father was a tennis player and ice skater and her mother was an avid ice skater.  “Actually, I was on the ice before I could walk.   My parents held me as they skated.   Growing up at the ice rink was natural for me,” she added.   When Vicky finished high school, she first headed off to Bowling Green, Kentucky to go to college because they had a wonderful ice skating ring there.   She soon discovered the Kentucky was not the place for her, so she transferred to Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio.  Back at home on a skating scholarship, she thrived.  She received her teaching degree in Physical Education and then set out to see parts of the world that had ice skating nearby.  
            While she was in California working and skating, she had the chance to see her brother skating at the Nationals.  It was then, that Vicky decided that she wanted to be closer to home again.   “I saw a job posting for a skating teacher in West Virginia.   I decided that it was pretty close to home, so I interviewed for the job,” she added.   Vicky was well qualified for the ice skating instructor position since she had won several gold medals and was a competitive skater most of her life.   “The ice rink was very small.  The couple who ran it was leaving, and I was under the assumption that they were going to build a new, larger ice skating rink, so I took the job,” she commented.   “Although I didn’t see the new, larger rink for many, many years, I did meet my future husband and settled down into a life I love,” she smiled.
            Now teaching reading at Sissonville High School, Vicky takes each of her students as her “children for the semester”.   “They are just as important to me as my own family.   My real children know each of my students my name and my husband knows each of my students just the same as if they were ‘ours’,” she added. 
            “Probably the most important thing I can offer them as their newly adopted mom is their trust and love.   Every one of my students, both in the classroom and at the skating rink know, without a doubt, that I care about them.  It is an important piece that is missing from many of my student’s lives outside of school,” she noted.  
            Vicky has an endless list of success stories that would make any mother proud – from children who had no hope, who are now on the honor role to children with no self-esteem or desire, who are now high achievers.    When you talk with her, you know that she cares about each one of her students in a way that is extremely special.    From ice skating champions to student athletes to honor roll recipients, Vicky has been there through the “growing years of change” that has made each of her students a success.  
            This Mother’s Day, we want to congratulate and commend Vicky Robb for all she does every day for all the students that call her “Mom”.  

Vicky Robb is a reading teacher at Sissonville High School and an ice skating instructor at the South Charleston Memorial Ice Arena located off Corridor G near Target.   304 744 4ICE.

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