1. Christopher James Bishop, known as Jamie Bishop, was an instructor of German language at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, as well as an artist and craftsman.
10 Facts About Jamie Bishop
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Jamie Bishop was among those shot and killed in the Virginia Tech shooting.
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Jamie Bishop was the son of Michael Bishop, an award-winning science fiction author.
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Jamie Bishop was a Fulbright scholar at Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany.
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Jamie Bishop helped run an exchange program at Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany.
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Jamie Bishop spent four years living in Germany, where he "spent most of his time learning the language, teaching English, drinking large quantities of wheat beer and wooing a certain fraulein," Stephanie Hofer, who later became his wife.
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Jamie Bishop received an OASIS Director's Choice Award in 2004.
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Jamie Bishop left UNC in 2004 for Virginia Tech, where he was an instructor in German, and taught information technology for VT's Faculty Development Institute.
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Jamie Bishop was a people lover from the get-go, and his energy levels put mine to shame.
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Jamie Bishop was killed on April 16,2007, during the Virginia Tech shooting, while teaching an Introductory German class with 15 to 20 students.