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Three EXTRAORDINARY TEACHERS Step into Retirement “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.”
Matthew 12:34 Jane What a joy and privilege to write about my friend Jane Henegar’s Henegar
years of devoted service to GPS and the Chattanooga community at large. She is the ultimate master of quotes, thoughts, and words, some of which are on this issue’s cover! God’s word and the words of loved ones and friends tell a story of this remarkable and Godly woman. Sara Gahan, a former GPS teacher and editor of a newly published book of Jane’s prayers, starts us off with this observation: “Jane’s bulletin board in her classroom covered with photos of former and current students says it all: she is all about others. She loves her students, her friends, her family, and her God with selfless devotion that is superhuman.”
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Opposite page: Jane Henegar, concluding 30 years of teaching at GPS, is pictured in front of her classroom wall decorated with the images of the students she’s enjoyed and who have treasured her. Weesie Glendenning Cook ’95, the GPS Community Service Director and an experienced classroom teacher, will be leading The Hebrew Text course for Middle School and the New Testament Life & Letters elective.
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Jane Henegar’s kindness, wisdom, steadfast love, and gracious instruction have been received by hundreds of GPS girls, faculty, staff, and patrons over three decades of exceptional service to the school she calls home and a community she calls family. At each year’s opening faculty meeting, Mr. Tucker graciously says to Jane “open us in prayer.” My colleagues and I sit in awe as we experience Jane’s gift of praise, intercession, and compassion woven into a story of love for the girls we have been entrusted to teach and to grow into young women of character and grace.