Speech-language pathologist Peggy Syverston is retiring at the end of this school year, after eight years at Gunn. As a speech therapist, she helped students with communication disorders work on their grammar, social skills, and how to communicate with an iPad.
Syverston shared some of her favorite...
After 38 years of teaching, theater teacher James Shelby is retiring, effectively closing the curtains on his career at Gunn.
Shelby enjoys all the parts of being able to teach theater. He shares that “what [he] love[s] about theater is that it takes your heart, it takes your mind, and it takes...
After spending 22 years as an art teacher, Deanna Messinger is retiring from Gunn. Messinger has been the second Drawing and Painting teacher since Gunn’s founding, which is something she takes great pride in. “I think that this is kind of a phenomenal thing, and I hope the next person stays for...
After six years at Gunn, assistant principal Pier Angeli La Place is retiring. 35 years in education have taught La Place to value personal growth. “Who students are becoming as people is just as important as what you all are learning in the curriculum in the classroom,” she said.
As assistant...
After working at Gunn for more than 25 years as a community counselor, wellness counselor and college advisor, Linda Kirsch is retiring.
At first, Kirsch didn’t plan on working at Gunn. But after getting a job at the school, she learned to love it, especially since she was able to be with kids...
After 23 years working at Gunn, English Language teacher and coordinator of the English Language Learner Program (ELL), Kerstin Helbing has announced her retirement.
Helbing still recalls her first moments at Gunn. It was in these early moments where Helbing realized that Gunn was where she was...
Diane Gleason is retiring after working at Gunn for 21 years as a math teacher, and for the past 6 years, as the Speech and Debate mentor.
During her years at Gunn, Gleason has made many cherishable memories, one of which was teaching AP Calculus after school. “For tutorial time, I had everybody...
Senior Lila Sanchez’s name is blue and yellow. “The l’s are blue, and then i’s and a’s are yellow,” she said. “Pretty much all of my vowels are yellow except for o, which is black.”
Sanchez has a rare sensory condition called synesthesia, which affects 2 to 4% of the human...
Fools R Us
A myriad of harmonizing voices, singing a creative jingle, flood into the microphone: this is the way the most recent episode of “Fools R Us”—a podcast created by junior Quincy Rosenzweig and Gunn alumna Katie Brown—opens.
The Holiday Special marks the ninth episode of the podcast...
Jessica Zang, Features Editor and Assistant Business Manager
• February 18, 2021
Gunn has always been known for its sense of community: From counter-protesting the Westboro Baptist Church in 2010 to building the strong mental health supports we have access to today, our campus has always been able to come together despite many obstacles along the way. Now, students face yet another...
Physics teacher Catherine Cohn and English teacher Kate Zavack each welcomed newborn babies into the world. In the midst of a global pandemic and virtual school, they’ve had to adjust both their personal and professional lives to new circumstances. However, despite the changes, both teachers agree...
