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Lori Mangan

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Andie Kephart
Sad smiles. Main principal Lori Mangan will no longer be located in the main office as of 2024. She has decided to retire after her long, hard-working time here.

Most importantly and also very sadly, our head principal Lori Mangan will be leaving the faculty to retire after a total of 27. 5 years at three different schools including Theodore Roosevelt Junior High School, the high school and the junior high.

Believe it or not, principal Mangan was a teacher before she became head of the building! She taught math at the high school when she first started her career. Mangan taught Algebra, Algebra 3, Trigonometry, Geometry and Algebra 2. She taught math for a total of nine years. This was before she stepped up and became principal.

“My favorite thing about being a principal, now, is just the people, kids, teachers, staff, everybody in general and just the interactions that I have with them on a daily basis,” said principal Mangan.

On the other side of things, she expects to spend more time at the Outer Banks in the time ahead of her!

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Ella Heverly, Reporter
Hi! My name is Ella, and I am in 8th grade. I am honored to be on the news writing team! I hope to work with you and am looking forward to writing stories for our school website, Livewire! I found writing to be fun, and I am here now! In my free time I like to read, spend time with my friends and watch movies. I am a part of the Blair Regional YMCA swim team and am looking to join track. I am so excited to help our website and write stories for you to read and enjoy!
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Hey! My name is Andie Kephart, and I'm an eighth grader and reporter for Livewire. I really enjoy writing, reporting and photography. I'm very excited to be a part of the Livewire staff. Outside of school, I enjoy doing competitive weightlifting, painting and spending time with my friends. I have been lifting for 3 years now and have competed in many national competitions  all across  the U.S.  My favorite quote that I hear coaches and teachers say is, “Give 110% in all that you do.” I try to apply this to my life in the things that I do. My future plans are to go to Penn State University and become a physical therapist.

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    McKenna KoeckMay 17, 2024 at 8:22 am

    I never really personally knew principal Mangan, but she seems like a really nice lady. I guess I never knew her because I didn’t have to go to her office at all the entire 3 years of jr. high. I guess that’s a good thing. She worked so hard to become a principal, starting off as a math teacher. Going from a teacher to a principal is a hugh accomplishment. She deserves this retirement, she’s worked so hard her whole life.

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