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<\/a>The pride of the staff members is obvious in their comments about their school.<\/p>\n
\u201cGrossmont has a real sense of community,\u201d said Jeff Lee, Class of 2004. \u201cI believe this is due to the many students who are children or grandchildren of GHS alumni. I am honored to be a part of a great community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bree Honeycutt Pagano, Class of 2001, is also from a family of Foothillers.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy maternal grandparents attended Grossmont in the 1950s,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love my students and I find them fascinating every day,\u201d said math teacher Yvonne Baer Vellone, Class of 1975. \u201cI also love my co-workers who make my job easier every day. We help and support each other to make Grossmont a great place to be for students and teachers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Returning teachers do have the challenge of learning to become colleagues of their former teachers. U.S. History teacher Don Ginn, Class of 1987, had Frank Foggiano for math in the same room that Foggiano teaches in now.<\/p>\n
Although he still teaches in the same room, much has changed at Grossmont since Foggiano, Class of 1968, was a student.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe student demographic has changed dramatically from a predominately white student body when I was in school to a completely diverse population,\u201d he said, adding that he is happy that student involvement has continued to happen because of the unique opportunities students have.<\/p>\n
Teacher Carolyn Jungman, Class of 2010, has a unique deja vu about her current classroom.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have the bizarre experience of teaching in the same room where I was a student,\u201d she said. \u201cBeing back on the other side of the desks is exciting and absolutely crazy, but I love it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brie Pagano said that \u201cSe\u00f1orita Park\u201d (another GHS alumnus) still speaks to her in Spanish whenever she sees her, just as she does to all her students.<\/p>\n
Tom Karlo, Class of 1992, current Varsity Football Coach, has daily reminders of being a player himself as he coaches his players.<\/p>\n
Karen Willson Manns, Class of 1977, who has been teaching at Grossmont for 28 years, loves the individuality of each student and how they come together to bring spirit and pride to the campus.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can honestly say that there is not a better place to be than GHS where students are number one,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Long-time teachers remark on the new buildings that have populated the campus in the past five years, but nostalgically remember being in the Old Main \u2014 the 1937 classroom building that housed the English Department and is now part of the District Office.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s too bad that the kids don\u2019t get to experience having classes in the Old Main; I always loved being in an old building that so many Foothillers had passed through,\u201d said Jeremy Cooke, Class of 2001.<\/p>\n
Pat Giovengo, Class of 1985, summed up how the alumni staff members feel about being at Grossmont.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have had several job opportunities at other schools and even had an offer to join a major corporation in teaching Computer Science teachers globally, but I really have no desire to be anywhere else than right here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u2014Connie and Lynn Baer write on behalf of the Grossmont High School Museum. Reach them at ghsmuseum@guhsd.net.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By\u00a0Connie and Lynn Baer One of the things that makes Grossmont High School remarkable is the number of alumni who return as staff members. Two of our longest serving principals were Walter Barnett, Class of 1928, and Bill Davis, Class of 1948. Other early teachers returning to GHS included Elsie Moriarty Reed, Class of 1922; […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":222746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11548","_seopress_titles_title":"Students who return as staff","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-la-mesa-courier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Museum hours: noon \u2013 4 p.m. May 4 or June 1; other Wednesdays by appointment. Contacts: phone: 619-668-6140; email ghsmuseum@guhsd.net<\/a>; sitio web: foothillermuseum.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n