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ou Know SVnÿ'®”' Ward Lewis aw»mou<f \ jg * « * * 6 ----- wear'ngen Instructions: Match each teacher above with one of the descriptions below. The goal is to match the teacher with the correct description. Answers will be posted on The Amplifier blog, found at www. wlhs. wlwv.kl 2.or.us /blogs / amplifier. All teacher profiles compiled by Shawn and Julie McDevitt, science teachers, as part of a leadership class they are currently taking. ^ "*ei>ne Photos by ] and Part Vfho aw 1 — I have been married for almost five years and have two daughters: three years and 11 months old. My biggest accomplishment is delivering my own daughter! My favorite vacation was my 11 month honeymoon spent living m Spam. You may not know that I cut down a tree and crafted my own dugout-outrigger canoe, and it floated and worked! In school I was a straight A geek, but 1 played enough sports to avoid getting beaten up I have been married 27 years and I have two sons, 25 & 21. I love biking, piano, quilting, yard work, and getting people together for parties on the back deck. I climbed Mt. Saint Helens six weeks after giving birth to my second son. i iie ""happiest moments in my life have been my 25th wedding anniversary party with my family and friends and flying to Hawaii the next day, my son graduating from college, and crossing the finish line of the Seattle to Portland bike You may not know that I have f Slx sisters and two brothers T fair* classes, and I taught a conSn/ f I have been married 32 years and — ° ° m dance I h " h " T aged 20' 23 3" d ° ne dai h t e r \ Ke 27 f n: S K 1 WaS 3 dmgen‘ stl|dent Xly^b/ggesf1 * accomplishment was fin ish ing ___ l . ?s * ‘ ,U!S S °lng cair>ping in great we klng' and Paying games late i ^ g e t t i n g to laugh, laugh, laugh I have been married 36 years, and have a son who is 32 and a daughter who is 29. You may not know that in elem entary school, 1 becam e very interested in African-American history and the civil rights movement. The happiest moments of my life so far are my family, my church/faith and working here at WLHS. I played football, basketball and golf, and I was on student government. am I W ÊÊÊÊHÊRÊÊÊÊÊÊKM I love to fix and build things, camping, hiking, gardening and garden-designing. I watch way | too much HGTV and I'm always looking for my next design project. In grade school I was called 50-yard | marshmallow man. It took me a while to understand the importance of education, but my biggest accomplishment [ is becoming a teacher. If I could miss school for a day, I would grab my dog, Alaska, pack up my truck and | explore parts of Oregon I have never been to before. I have one child who turns 12 in March. I like walking with my dogs, reading, and traveling. I've lived in Michigan, California, Oregon, Arizona and spent 10 years in Philadelphia where I began my teaching career. I'm proud of the Rockefeller Grant I received in 1991 and the video project I completed that summer in Lafayette called, "Discovering Acadiana." I have been married 33 years and have two sons, 26 and 29. I love reading, tennis, music and hiking. My favorite vacation was to Machu Picchu in Peru. In elementary school, people called me "Draw." I was an unfocused hyperactive student. The happiest moments in my life have been seeing my sons bom, fishing with my sons and walking on beaches with my spouse. If I could skip a day of work, I would have a 'spa day', take a yoga class, and have lunch with my sister-in-law, Kathy. I have been married for 351/2 years, and have three daughters, ages 32,28 and 20, and one son age 18. When I was in ninth grade, I attended the Bad Zwischenahn / Edewecht Gymnasium (a high school) m northern Germany. I never got in trouble, but I did skip school (one time) and got stopped by the police who then took my name and parent's names then let me go back to school with a warning. I enjoy photography, making pottery, knitting, traveling, folk dancing and singing. I have been married Tour and a half years, and I don't have any children. /You may not know that I have two dogs over H20 pounds. I enjoy reading, hiking, basketball, (running, cooking and working on the house. My (favorite vacation was when I went to Hawaii for a (month last summer. So far, the happiest moment ^in my life has been marrying my high school (sweetheart during a beautiful summer day in the You may not know that I have applied to be on the TV show 'Survivor' twice, but sadly, I never got an interview. In high school, I was very driven, always had to get those A's! My biggest accomplishment is being the first one ever in my family to get a college degree. The three happiest moments of my life have been my niece/nephew being bom, graduating from college, and watching the Patriots win the Super ~ 3Wl.
