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Retiring Teachers

Retiring teachers reflect on time at ETHS: Randal Derousse

Retiring teachers reflect on time at ETHS: Randal Derousse

Hannah Cervantes, Staff Writer May 8, 2024

After 36 years teaching Physical Education at ETHS, Randall Derousse is retiring. When Derousse started at ETHS in the fall of 1987, he was a full time substitute teacher for PE classes as well as a soccer...

Retiring teachers reflect on time at ETHS: Jed Curtis

Retiring teachers reflect on time at ETHS: Jed Curtis

Ethan Ravi, News Editor May 8, 2024

After 33 years of teaching at ETHS, Jed Curtis is retiring. A math teacher during the entirety of his ETHS career, Curtis was also a 1985 graduate of the high school.  During his tenure at the school,...

Retiring teachers reflect on time at ETHS: Teresa Granito

Retiring teachers reflect on time at ETHS: Teresa Granito

Jaren Davis, Staff Writer May 8, 2024

Teresa Granito, an ETHS biology teacher, is retiring after 30 dedicated years of service. Granito, who started teaching at ETHS in 1993, has taught all levels of biology, from AP Biology to Earned Honors...

Retiring teachers reflect on time at ETHS: Stephen Dickman

Retiring teachers reflect on time at ETHS: Stephen Dickman

Nadira Bumi, Staff Writer May 8, 2024

After over 30 years at ETHS, Stephen Dickman has decided that the 2023-24 school year will be his last year teaching physics as he transitions to retirement. Throughout the many years, Dickman has demonstrated...

Retiring teachers reflect on time at ETHS: Joel Weiner

Retiring teachers reflect on time at ETHS: Joel Weiner

Sam Froum, A&E Editor May 8, 2024

It is the year 2000. A young-ish Joel Weiner with a full head of hair and 20/20 vision arrives at ETHS to teach chemistry.  Flash forward 24 years. It is the year 2024. An older, bald, bespectacled...

Retiring teachers reflect on time at ETHS: Liz Hartley

Retiring teachers reflect on time at ETHS: Liz Hartley

Alexis Rogers, Sports Editor May 8, 2024

Elizabeth Hartley is a woman of many hats. One—most familiar to the hundreds of students that have passed through her classroom—is for teaching. One is for farming. One is for interior design. One...

English Lisa Oberman retires after over three decades at ETHS.

English teacher Lisa Oberman reflects on long career

Ahania Soni, Staff Writer May 21, 2021

In 1985, when Take on Me dominated radio stations and The Breakfast Club had just been released to theaters, Lisa Oberman joined the ETHS English department. She’s spent several decades teaching freshman...

Painting, ceramics and drawing teacher Marla Seibold retires after 33 years

Painting, ceramics and drawing teacher Marla Seibold retires after 33 years

Eden Drajpuch, Feature Editor May 21, 2021

At the end of the 2020-2021 school year, painting, ceramics and drawing teacher Marla Seibold will be retiring but will continue to look back fondly at her 32 years of teaching at ETHS. When asked about...

English as a Second Language teacher and instructional coach Patricia Payne retires from ETHS after three decades.

Teacher and instructional coach Patricia Payne bids farewell to ETHS

Eden Drajpuch, Feature Editor May 21, 2021

After nearly 31 years of teaching, ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher and Instructional Coach Patricia Payne is retiring. With her upcoming retirement, Payne recalled her best memory from ETHS. “I...

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