Sixth grade English teacher Michele Dugan has been teaching in the school district for a total of 36 years! She graduated from Penn State University in 1989 and shortly after started being a substitute teacher. After some long term substitute jobs, she was hired in 1992. At the end of this school...

After 19 years of teaching and 16 years of being a principal, eighth grade principal Jerry Koehle is retiring once this school year ends. Koehle said one of the things he is looking forward to once he retires is being able to travel more, and do a lot of the things he's had to put on a list that he...

Eighth grade science teacher Barb Mackereth loved the kids she taught over the years. "The kids were wonderful," said Mackereth. After retirement, Mackereth wants to travel when school is in session over the next couple years. Mackereth says she's really going to miss the people who she worked...

Sixth grade social studies teacher Julie Hatch has been a teacher for 31 and a 1/3 years,  and now she’s getting ready to move on. She says what she’ll miss most are the students and their different personalities. She also said she really enjoyed working with her co-workers. When she’s not...

The slap of the stick on the ice, the swish of the puck sliding through the rink, these are the sounds all too familiar to hockey players. However, no one really wonders how these players got to that spot, how they progressed to that level.  In the world of hockey, leagues span all over the place...

For 30 years, eighth grade science teacher Barbara Mackereth has been at the junior high level.  "I am very fortunate to have had the ability to work doing something I love. Teaching science to my students, getting to watch their curiosity grow and they, themselves, mature into wonderful people, ...

Eighth grade principal Jerry Koehle has been an educator for 35 years! He first taught at Theodore Roosevelt Junior High School and Altoona Junior High School as a teacher for one year. He became a principal for the rest of his time here since 2009. Being a principal is very important and challenging...