{"id":76014,"date":"2016-05-04T07:50:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T12:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=76014"},"modified":"2016-05-04T07:50:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T12:50:49","slug":"vwhs-seniors-honor-favorite-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/05\/04\/vwhs-seniors-honor-favorite-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"VWHS seniors honor favorite teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"

VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n

On Monday, 10 seniors at Van Wert High School had the opportunity to tell their favorite teachers just how much they impacted their lives during the 2016 Van Wert City Schools Teacher Endowment Banquet, held at Willow Bend Country Club.<\/p>\n

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VWHS senior Chris Kraner (right) tells teacher Anita Zuber how she impacted his life.<\/strong> (photos submitted)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 10 students include five seniors with the top grade point average in the class, along with five other students selected by the committee that oversees the event.<\/p>\n

Emcee Wally Grimm opened the event by welcoming those in attendance and later introduced the participating seniors for this year. Students this year (and their favorite teachers) include Hayley Klausing (Mike Ragan), Kiara Lamb (Laura Etter), Chris Kraner (Anita Zuber), Dominique Grothause (Kathleen Overmyer), Cade Fleming (Betty Holliday), Shianne Baldwin (Kelly VanHorn), Jacob Covey (Chris Covey), Drew Myers (Tricia Hughes), Sandy Nguyen (Julia Reichert), and Katie Trittschuh (Bob Priest).<\/p>\n

Event founder Randy Gardner, whose idea for the banquet arose from the impact three teachers — Ralph Gallapoo (his grandfather), Glenn Livingston, and Gil Smith — had on his own life, introduced the five selected students.<\/p>\n

Those students then read a letter to the teacher \u201cwho made a difference\u201d in their lives. Hayley Klausing told retired teacher Mike Ragan that she learned \u201chow being kind can start a chain-reaction with others,\u201d while Cade Fleming told teacher Betty Holliday that \u201cin my room, a piece of paper hangs above my bed reading \u2018Coach Believes in Me, I Believe in Me\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Seniors pose with their favorite teachers at the 2016 Van Wert City Schools Teacher Endowment Banquet. They include (front row, from the left) Katie Trittschuh, Betty Holliday, Kiara Lamb, Hayley Klausing, Sandy Nguyen, Julia Reichert, Kathleen Overmyer, Dominique Grothause, Jacob Covey; (back row) Bob Priest, Cade Fleming, Laura Etter, Kelly VanHorn, Mike Ragan, Tricia Hughes, Drew Myers, and Chris Covey (Anita Zuber and Chris Kraner were not present for the photo).<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After the five selected students read their letters, VWHS Principal Bob Priest introduced the five top students of the Class of 2016, who read their letters to teachers who have impacted their lives.<\/p>\n

Jacob Covey wrote his to his father, Chris, noting: \u201cI have always tried to model myself after you, as you are one of the all-around best people I know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sandy Nguyen told favorite teacher Julia Reichert: \u201cWithout you, I would not have found the courage to audition for a solo. \u2026 Not only did you direct me musically, you showed me what confidence, hard work, and patience looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n

The evening ended with Superintendent Ken Amstutz recognizing high school guidance counselor Connie Ainsworth, the lone retiree for this school year, for her 40 years of service in education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent\/submitted information On Monday, 10 seniors at Van Wert High School had the opportunity to tell their favorite teachers just how much they impacted their lives during the 2016 Van Wert City Schools Teacher Endowment Banquet, held at Willow Bend Country Club. The 10 students include five seniors with the top grade point average […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 03:07:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}