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Talking  to  his wife ,
           Lynette, between                               has  been  the  most  meaningful  part
           volleyball matches at
           the staff sausage feed is    of  being  a staff  member?  ·
           counselor Paul  Barnes.
           "It seemed like I never
           got to sit down because      •    Being  associated with young people keeps me
           I was running between            challenged and motivated.  In  the future,  the
           volleyball matches,"  he     technology will  make teaching even  more exciting.
           said.  It paid off, though,                 --business teacher Gary Waldron
           because the Counsel-
           ing/SPED Department
           team won the building
           tournament.  photo by                                          I like meeting, getting to know, and  working with
           Sheila Pedersen                                            •   students.  The  relationships with  different stu-
                                                                      dents are  what teaching is  all  about.  Math  is  just the
                                                                      vehicle.
                                                                                    --math teachers Linda Ottemann and
                                                                                    Jeff Pulverenti
                                             The best moment is  when someone comes
                                        •    back to  tell  me  that they didn't realize  it  at first,
                                        but they learned so  much  in  my class and they were
                                        helped so  much  by  me.
                                                       --English teacher Deb  Fischer




                                        Spending  quality time
                                        playing basketball at the
                                        staff's beginning-of-the-
                                        year-sausage feed with
                                         his son , Dusty, is
                                         foreign language           A Day in  the  Life ...
                                        teacher Bill
                                         Cunningham.  At  the     of French  teacher  Nancy  B uda
                                         picnic, staff members
                                         and their families also               5:30 a.m.--get up  and get ready
                                         ate, visited, and played
                                        croquet and volleyball.                6:00 a.m.--get family up and ready
                                         photo  by  Sheila                     for school
                                         Pedersen
                                                                               6:50 a.m.--leave for school
                                                                               7:-15  a.m.--arrive at school, help
                                                                               students
                                                                               8:00 a.m.--French I
                                                              8:55 a.m.--A.P. French
                                                              9:55 a.m.--Honors French IV
                                                              10:50 a.m.--French I
                                                              11:45 a.m.--Lunch/Planning
                                                              1:15  p.m.--Honors French III
                                                              2:10 p.m.--French I
                                                              3:00 p.m.--help students
                                                              3:45 p.m.--pick up daughter's carpool
                                                              4:00 p.m.--chauffeur kids to  various activities
  ~ASA's  Ellington                                           6:00 p.m.--preparing dinner and eating
  \irfield in  Houston,
  ·exas was teacher                                           7:00 p.m.--chauffeuring again to Scouts, band, church,
  ~oger Kassebaum's                                           Bible study, piano, choir, etc.
  .ummer education
  !Xploration.  Here, he  is                                  9:30 p.m.--get kids ready for bed
  'xperiencing the feel  of                                   10:00 p.m.--schoolwork, grading, lesson plans
  1e T-38 trainer in  which
  eal  astronauts trained.                                    1:00 p.m.--go to  sleep
  :assebaum also toured                                       photo by Michelle Lee
  1e  airfield, its various
  drcrafts, and NASA
  ope rations.                                                                                      Staff Divi.der  2  Q  J
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