Selkirk Alumni Board

Mr Cain is my daughter Sarah's favorite teacher and coach I think he had only been there a year or so before I graduated

trying to come up with one favorite for me is virtually impossible....

i had a very rough family time during high school...during that time Mrs Six and Mrs Redinger were the best!!!!!!!!!!

Mr V definately made class alot less sleepy!

Luved Mr Whysong and Mr Reed too(now principle, still getting used to that one ;} )!

hate to admit but i was one heck of a teachers "pet" during school........

Ok..my Mrs Six story.......I will *try* to give the readers digest version...

Our sophomore year she would give us 20 or so words on monday, then a spelling and vocab test on friday. She would take 5 of the words, at random, and we would have to use them in a sentence.

I was on the bus ride home, and Josh Sharp and myself were the last two to get dropped off on the Sullivan Lake route. We were looking at the words, and the word delegate come up on the list. Josh blurted out a sentence that made me hit the floor...

I asked him if was going to use the sentence if the word delegate came up for vocab? He said no, but might. I told him to tell me if he was going to, because if he didn't, I would.

The word came up....

He declined to tell me he was going to use it. So he used it, and I used it. I thing had she not read it twice on two different papers, we may have gotten away with it. We didn't. We were booted from her class for like a week. Now that I think of it, Justin Ronning may have used it, too...he is signed up on here, so maybe he can answer....

Alas, she read the following sentence on more than one paper:

"We delegate George, to help Jack off his horse."

Eva Gayle if you are out there I apologize......

...but not in N.D.?   


You know we love ya Vee!

In tx, huh Vee?  I wonder who u are talking about in the great state of Texas.  You ARE old.  Very old.  But you know I love you!  you have always been one of the best people in my life and over the years have become such a great friend.  V was always my favorite a long with Mrs. Weir.  I loved Cain's class during basketball season when we got to go back to his desk to discuss games!:)

I call BS Mr. V...but in either case it didn't work did it??

Now that I WON'T call BS on...but doesn't change the comment I made prior!!

Am I being wishy washy saying I don't have clear favorites????

My many faves would be:

Mrs. Carlson- fun, fun, fun. Everything you think a fourth grade teacher should be.
Mr. McKinley (had him twice)- Believed in me and pushed me to join the math team when I didn't like math as a fifth grader.
Mr. Whysong- Top-notch teacher, more school districts need teachers like him. I retained things I learned in his classes.
Mr. Cain- Didn't like history much, but he taught me much more about life, more than I can ever thank him for.
Valerie and Clarinda VanDyke- Both really motivated about becoming the best teachers they can be.
Mr. Almquist, Cathy Enyeart, Andy Anderson- words can't express how much they made differences in my life, softball was my favorite sport in school. Being a part of that team was a passion.
Whittekiend- somebody I could always go to- A person who cared about my spiritual well-being. Though we didn't see eye-to-eye all the time, knowing he cared made a difference. Dedicated volleyball coach.
Coon- Solid algebra teacher for somebody who doesn't grasp math easily.
Mr. Barnes- good times in JV basketball. We weren't a very obedient sixth grade class either, and he laid down the law when we wrecked our snow fort. Good man.
Kim Larson- although she is my aunt and I am biased, she gave me freedom to work on the school website as I pleased!
Ms. Weir- Made writing easy and enjoyable- Helped my score on the WASL! Had her one year only though.
Mr. Kinney- there are those teachers who you will forever tell stories about...good ones though!!!! hilarious and a person who encourages you to really enjoy life.
Dianne Allert- Counselor/Adviser and a great individual and somebody I look up to very much.
Mr. Reed- worked with him most with ASB. He believed I was capable of making a difference, which meant a lot to a 17-18 yr old.
Last but not least...Villegas- despite the terrible, fake letters of recommendation he would write me and the constant bullying, something tells me he liked me as a student a little. Maybe i liked him back as a teacher too, maybe :) Really though, single-biggest inspiration in HS for me to look at myself as a person with a voice and and with a moral responsibility to know and care about what is going on in the world.


There were a lot of teachers I didn't get the opportunity to have because I missed out on a little bit taking Running Start. But I really do mean it when I say every teacher I had made a difference in some way or another. Apologize for the novel too, but it's a serious question to pick out faves though! Might as well back them up too :)

Ahhhh, I forgot two teachers if you can believe that...shame on me.

Mr. J and Ms. L

Mr. J knew me the longest of all Selkirk faculty. Gifted teacher and I admire what he has done for the Selkirk music program.
Ms. L, amazing woman. I wasn't a great actor by any means, but she made plays challenging and fun.

Oh, and JB (Mr. Jungblom) used to always confiscate my Copenhagen for his personal use.

C'mon!  Nobody is going to give a shout out to Mr. T.??  Poor ol' dad, he's going to be really hurt...

for Pete .....
your dad and I battled all thru school we just did not get along at all but to my surprise ...... when kelly Herrick was living with them I got to know him outside school I discover a very different man some one I now admire for putting up with all the crap that we as kids dished out and one of the smartest men I have met he never held it against me


a short one about Mrs six my senior year I broke my hand skiing. I had the hardest time writing with my left hand just could not get the hang of it. well i was taking french 2 from ms six I remember it was time for a final and I had told her there was just know why I could take the test she told me I do not care if every bone in your body is broke you will take this french test.... This all took place at the top of the stairs at the lunch room door I was so mad at her i could have killed her she walked past me and down the stair i threw my french book at her hit her in the back of the head 2 seconds after doing this I felt like my world would soon be falling in. She never said a thing to me about it .a few weeks later at graduation she came up to tell me congrats and give me a hug when she did with tears in her eyes she asked if she could still come to my graduation party I spent the next 10 minutes crying my eyes out...... talk about feeling like a heel I don't think she ever said a word about it to anyone and she never had a bad thing to say to me Mrs six if you ever see this i am so so sorry about that  

Milissa,

No worries.

I doubt many students got along with my dad.  He was right up there with Mrs. Six among us kids.  Darin Scheel (SP?) wrote a pretty good poem about him, I don't remember the entire title, but it was "Baldy" something or other.  It was hilarious.  My dad got a hold of a copy and thought it was really funny.

These days pop is doing pretty well.  He had the heart attacks and beat the prostate cancer.  The ol' dude just still keeps going.  Mom's doing well too.

I really love it when they visit San Diego, pop loves going to see the Padres at Petco Park.
 
Funny, he still speaks highly of a lot of his students.  I don't remember him ever mentioning Milissa.    

I had Mr. T. for frosh Algebra.  He gave me a D.  Well, he didn't so much as give me a D, I earned a D.

Once when I turned in an incomplete, he grounded me for a week.  Right there in front of the entire class.  Man, I was pissed!  I got home from school that day and found that he had hung a picture of himself on the dart board in my room.

I took Algebra 101 in college and ended up with a B.  I saved the grade card and showed it to him when he and mom visited.  He'll never admit to it, but I swear it brought a tear to his eye.  I explained to him that the college prof was just a much better teacher...not sure that dad always appreciates my sense of humor.

Of course Mr. V, you were a great teacher/coach and now I can certainly say friend.  I had a great experience playing softball for you and love to tell people how we would lose that first year 0-40  and working our way up to state by my senior year.  You are a passionate person and I definately took that with me as I left school.  It is a shame that you have to get "old" and start your retirement:) because the upcoming students will sure miss out on a wonderful teacher that obviously impacted many lives!!  

I also must add Mr Kinney.  He was the most entertaining.  He would be explaining a problem for 5 minutes only to get the wrong answer at the end of all that work and then have is son Abraham get up there and within seconds have the answer.  Mr Kinney's hair was standing up in every direction from him pulling on it.  I always think of him and his lab coat when I hear the song Crazy by Gnarles Barkley.  However, I don't think they come much smarter than him!

My favs are Cain, Ellersick, JB, V, Ellsworth.

Mr. V was always a bomb teacher, no matter the class. we had a high school leadership class my freshman year, and i was the only freshman in there with a bunch of seniors. all i really remember is that when the reader board by the highway needed to be changed on a day of pouring rain, i was always nominated to go out and change it.

Mr. Whysong taught me how to drive, and i hated biology, which wasn't his fault.

Mr. Whittikiend, who most of you probably don't know, got me really interested in math, which is what i'm continuing with now.

Ms. Weir got me hukd on fonix. and helped me pass the WASL. DID ANY OF YOU "OLDER" PEOPLE EVER HAVE TO TAKE TAHT TEST???

Mr. Kinney... crazy fella. but loved his class.

hated history, but Mr. Cain made it sweet. and it was always easy to "rest my eyes" during a movie because his desk was at the back of the classroom.

I spent most of my time in high school with Mrs. Larson, who was probably the librarian when some of you were around. she's the tech lady now, and very very good at it.


the cake goes to V though, have any of you ever had his tostadas??? doesn't matter how good of a teacher you are, if you can create a food that tastes that good...amazing. try one before you die.


i'm leaving out way too many great teachers, and i apologize.  next time. 

-- Edited by natereed at 21:37, 2008-04-24

I haven't formally introduced  myself yet, but I graduated in '97. This is a great topic, and there are many good teachers. When I was a student at Selkirk I had a really crappy home life so unfortunately I don"t remember much of high school.

I remember Mr. Reed's awesome sense of humor and Mr. Whysong's positivity and enthusiasm. JB always had a soft spot for some of the troublesome students (and yes, he did confiscate chew for his own use). Mr. Kinney is as quirky as they come (I once lit a bottle rocket out the window of his class when he stepped out).

Mr. V may have been my most influential teacher. I hated his class because I always got in trouble for disrupting. Mr.V really encouraged me to consider what I was going to do after high school, and he wanted his students to have goals and achieve them. Thanks Mr. V.

Now that I'm in education, I think I view teachers in a completely different light. I certainly have some top favorites (some from my other school) but I have to share some bests.

Mr. V--I have to say, V, I can't remember much about your class! (sorry!) The one thing I remember was our court case about the Exxon Valdez. "The ship ran aground in the Prince William Sound." (or something that rhymed) It was also way back in 8th grade that I got to experience your teaching...and I was probably more interested in boys or sports at the time. ;) I did enjoy seeing the V's for haircuts and they always held a special place in my heart. I also enjoyed my interactions with Mrs. V in my sub stints at SHS.

Mr. Thomas--I loved this class because I sat next to Sarah and Julie and we would cause problems. I think we were in a class where half of the class was algebra and the other half was algebra II. I wore these star earrings and Mr. Thomas would always sing to me about "stars in my eyes" or something when I came to class. He was very entertaining.

JB--saved my life in algebra. I can't remember if I was taking algebra from Reed or Thomas at the time, but I was terrible at math (and now I'm a math teacher...huh...). I'd show up for shop and JB would make us bust out our math books. :) I think Sarah was a part of this study group, though I don't want to drag her into my math misery. One of the greatest memories was when we were defending our grade in shop. I talked with JB and I was pissed because he was going to give Sarah a better grade than me. Long story short, she received an A and I received a mere A-. I was so angry. I brought that up every chance I had. The Jungbloms were at my graduation in Blaine and what did I get from JB? I framed picture of all the A+'s that I wanted. lol! I still give him hell about it.

Reed--Definitely one of my biggest influences in life. Mr. Reed gave me the confidence to pursue my dreams (even when I thought I'd be a zoologist for 5 minutes). I had a bit of an infatuation with space and he spurred my interests for that. His teaching practices were inspirational and I still try to implement the kookiness he always had in my own class. He was also a fantastic coach, encouraging everyone to do their best. He was around in that terrible part of life called jr. high/middle school when everything is so tough...and that has helped me to see how I can make such a difference in my own student's lives.

Ms. Baker--Where are all the stories about Janie?! This lady had such an impact on my junior high experience that I still try to use some of her antics in my class, as well. I use the names Zed and Zoe and my students think it's ridiculous. The term "diarrhea of the mouth" comes up occasionally. I remember April and I taking her Twinkies and having Twinkie parties together. She was awesome.

I also had fond memories of Mrs. Six, being a part of her class when I was in 7th grade. I think I was part of some smart class and we got to spend some time with her. She put us on an Odyssey of the Mind project and I remember how much time we spent trying to build a chain reaction somethingrather to enter into the contest. (read: wasting time) We failed!

The other person who had an impact on my elementary career was Mrs. Whysong. I was thrilled in kindergarten to get to go to her class for reading. She held a special place in my heart even through my return as a sub!

Amie...now that you mention it, I took a shop class from JB freshman year, and I learned more Algebra in that class, since there was a lot of us who were struggling....I forgot all about that...

I remember chalk boards and Mr T Karla and your right Mr Neal was Amazing I don't think there was a instrument made that he could not play hey does anyone besides me remember fruit cake sales lmao

Yeah Milissa, I remember fruitcake sales..wow

Is Mr. Cain still a Boston Celtics Fan....and if so, has anyone told him that Larry Bird has retired? I will be showing my age here, but Cain would give us grief for idolizing Micheal Jordan (and at the time, he had not won a title).....I can see him saying the same thing about Lebron James..........

Mr. Cain has an open invitation to sign up and defend himself!

he was famouse for movies during history

Hey Petey- I remember Bill Bailey, and I do think you are right about him not getting a fair shake....filling Gordon Neale's shoes would have been impossible at Selkirk....BUT..I also think that Bill had "issues".
Were you in the guitar group/band that he started teaching??.I remember that he was trying to teach a group that included Allen, Allen actually bought a bass guitar for it.