By Huang Zhiling (China Daily)
Updated: 2008-06-16 07:01

Luo Jianping, deputy chief of the school's student section, said Zhou's daughter had a promising future.

"She stood first in grade 6 and everybody was convinced that she could enter Peking University or Tsinghua University."

Zhou did not sleep for three days after the quake. He was haunted by the images of his students buried in rubble. "I forced myself to work overtime to get the images off my mind."

Since his school in Hanwang town has been destroyed, Zhou is now busy trying to rebuild one in Deyang. "I see myself as father of all the students. I will try my best to help them make it to the new school," he said.

Father's Day was a day of full of sorrow for Liu Yuanjun, 16, too because she attended her father Liu Siyuan's funeral in the suburbs of Deyang just a day ago.

Her 45-year-old father had been teaching in Dongqi High School for 22 years. Liu Yuanjun is a student of the same school.

"My father used to treat all the students well He used to say all the students were like his children and he should be responsible for all of them," she recalled.

"I do hope my father can hear me say 'Happy Father's Day' and that I love him very much."

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