Back to the future: Jeremy Evans (Class of 1993) always enjoyed being involved in the game. Jeremy and Michael Elliot ’93 were Varsity teammates during the 1992-1993 school year, under the fine coaching of Brian Brumsickle (Humanities teacher 1992-1994). Jeremy is now the proud coach of the HKIS Junior Varsity boys’ team, with 16 wins and only two losses!
Jeremy with HKIS Junior Varsity Boys’ Team
Strolling by the Humanities office, still located in Room C416 at the high school, some of us might recall the likes of Mr. Dan McCarthy, Marty Schmidt, Brian Brumsickle, and George Coombs, two of which have continued into their decade and a half of teaching at HKIS (Mr. Coombs and Mr. Schmidt). Suddenly you hear a student say, “Hey, Mr. Evans, I had a question about the Civil War….” Mr. Evans? John Evans, high school counselor in 1992-1993? Na, couldn’t be! Jeremy Evans, Class of ’93? Couldn’t be him either! Out strolls a tall man explaining the intricacies of the battle between the North and South to the student inquiring about the American Civil War. He’s the splitting image of….Jeremy Evans, Class of 1993!! After leaving HKIS to attend Guilford College, Greensboro, NC in 1993, Jeremy graduated with a degree in Secondary Education and History and started teaching in North Carolina from 1997 (history, economics, and government). Jeremy attributes his passion and interest to teaching to his parents who were both teachers here at HKIS during the 1992-1993 school year.
In November 2004, Jeremy returned to Hong Kong for an interview with HKIS to teach American Studies and AP American History, as he felt it was time to explore other teaching opportunities. 2005 was a successful and exciting year for Jeremy! He was offered the position at HKIS and returned to Hong Kong in August 2005. Also during the summer of 2005, Jeremy married his wife Sylvia, whom he met in Seoul during his time at SFS. Jeremy and Sylvia spent their honeymoon in Costa Rica before coming to Hong Kong to prepare for the school year ahead. After having been back in Hong Kong and at HKIS for almost a year now, Jeremy is extremely happy that he pursued his interest in teaching and living in Asia once again. The rest of the Evans family is doing equally as well. Jeremy’s parents who left Hong Kong for India in 1993, are currently living in Columbus, OH teaching at a private school. Jeremy’s mother (who taught American Studies, AP American History, and Humanities) and father (who was a Counselor) returned to visit Hong Kong in March 2006 after a 13 year absence! They can be contacted at jolyevans@hotmail.com. Rachel ’95, Jeremy’s younger sister, is also returning to Asia with Food for the Hungry, and will be living in Chengdu, China. She can be contacted at rachjim@hotmail.com. So, if you are ever walking through the halls around Tai Tam looking for a Class of ’93er, listen for the “Hey, Mr. Evans….!” and you may well be lead to the doorway of the Humanities department to see a familiar face! Jeremy can be contacted at jevans@hkis.edu.hk and is eager to hear from all his old friends!
In between teaching, Jeremy partnered with a friend to open a club in Greensboro, where he also pursued his interest in the record label industry, serving a stint with a local company called “Second Coming Records”. This was a valuable “real world” experience he feels grateful to have had, although the daily scheduling of events promotion managing a club was extremely hectic, and Jeremy discovered that he preferred spending his time with kids and traveling. In 2000, Jeremy decided that he wanted to seriously pursue teaching overseas, where he spent fifteen of his childhood years, so he actively sought out recruiters for schools based in Asia. As tenacity and timing would have it, he landed at Seoul Foreign School (SFS) and never looked back. While Jeremy taught IB and American history, and Asian Studies at SFS, he also pursued his passion for basketball and coached the Junior Varsity boys team for the five years he spent in Seoul. Being a basketball player himself since the Eighth grade, Jeremy has
Jeremy and family Christmas 2005
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