Donald Irving Worcester (1971- ) is a teacher of AP/IB Calculus, PreCalculus, and College Algebra at Winter Park High School in Winter Park, FL. Mr. Worcester, (or Donny Angel/"Chester"/Donny Boy as his students slanderously refer to him as) is a nationally certified teacher, the head of the Winter Park High School math department, a CAS advisor, and the National Honor Society and Math Honor Society sponsor. Donny is known for his intense eye-rolls and dislike for those students whom he deems as incompetent, inconvenient, or simply a detriment to his well-being.

Donny was born to a middle-class family in Addison, Maine, in Washington County. Washington County is the poorest county in the United States, but Donny overcame the hardships of his community to become a success. As a student in high school, Donny was dismayed at the lack of movie theaters or other entertainment venues in his small town of 1,209 people (most of them inbred). He befriended Jack Daniels about this time. As the son of the town butcher, Donny, when hungry, would simply go to his dad's shop and chop himself a nice filet of beef. In fact, Donny's love of Jack Daniel's and steak persists to this day. Strawberries also intrigued young Donny, who could many mid-afternoons be found working on local berry farms. Although the winters began in August and ended in July, Donny was a vibrant young man who enjoyed the outdoors of Maine to the fullest. But as we shall see, Maine would not be in Donny's future.

At the end of high school Donny decided to apply to the University of Maine and the University of New Hampshire. Since it only took a heartbeat to get into Maine, Donny hoped for UNH. But through divine intervention, Donny decided he should apply to one more school. He opened up a book of colleges and applied to the first one his finger fell upon, which turned out to be the University of Central Florida.

The rest is history. Donny skipped most of his classes at UCF, but his unparalleled genius allowed him to pull out a "solid B average." Coming out of college looking for a teaching job, Donny could only find a position at one school: the dreaded Wymore Alternative School. Universally reviled and scorned, the school was a bastion of hope for students who had been expelled from their previous schools. In a testament to his relationship with his new, mostly minority students, Donny became known as the "white motherf**cking cracker." Yet he was never scared. Dedicated to his students, Donny served, or rather survived, five years at Wymore, years that included four death threats and numerous other incidents directly threatening to his life. Donny again prevailed and eventually moved onto Winter Park High School.

At Winter Park, Donny is admired by both students and teachers alike. Deeply suspicious and sometimes openly hostile to authority, Donny refuses to take no for an answer. During the 2002-2003 school year, Donny applied for the prestigious National Board Certification, the highest honor a grade school teacher can receive in the United States. Although most teachers spend months preparing the necessary paperwork to apply, Donny, in what has become myth, assembled the necessary paperwork in a matter of two sleepless nights. In spite of this, Donny became one of the 33% of applicants who received the certification. In 2003, Donny's apartment flooded, but this would not hold Donny back. In the summer of 2004, Donny was called up by the Orange County School Superintendent's office to be one of forty teachers to partake in a meeting to discuss ways to improve Orange County's F schools. However, the meeting was a trap aimed at forcing the teachers to move to the F schools. Wily and astute as Donny is, he dodged the trap and was even quoted in the Orlando Sentinel as saying he would quit before changing schools. After an arduous battle, Donny, whose nom de guerre became "Donny the Conqueror," emerged victorious.

Lately, Donny has taken pleasure in torturing his Calculus I classes, but saves his best stuff for his Calc II kids. Continuously pushed to the point of insanity, Donny refuses to give up in his quest to become the best, yet somehow laziest, Calculus teacher around. Who knows what Donny will do next. With limitless possibilities and with the support of all those who know him, even those who continuously receive his evil eye, Donny's possibilities are limitless. Perhaps he will receive another B.S. Masters, or even receive a Ph.D and go on to teach Biostatistics at an accredited university, under the name Dr. Donald I. Worcester. Only the future will tell...