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THE IOLA REGISTER Thursday, August 29, 2013

Taking care of business

Schinstock returns to IHS By KAYLA BANZET kayla@iolaregister.com

There is a new teacher joining the business department at Iola High School this year but she is a familiar face to many. Laura Schinstock, the new business teacher, has taught at the high school before. Schinstock was a business teacher at IHS from 2006 to 2010. Due to funding cuts Schinstock’s contract, along with other teachers’, was not renewed in 2010. “I didn’t want to leave in the first place,” Schinstock said during her planning period Wednesday. “I liked teaching here, but since I wasn’t tenured, I was chosen,” to be cut. Schinstock is more than happy to be back teaching in Iola’s classroom. “I couldn’t imagine being

anywhere else,” she said. “I missed sharing lessons with the kids and making them more successful. I’m glad to be back.” After leaving Iola she worked at Crest High School. She has a full load of classes this semester. She is teaching business essentials, consumer education, which is a personal finance class, computer applications, accounting and career and life. Schinstock likes to make her lessons interactive and interesting to students. “I like to make my own tests and worksheets and make it better for them (students),” she said. “ I didn’t like lectures in school and I don’t like them now and I know the students don’t like them either.” This year the students are See SCHINSTOCK | Page A4

Payton Wilson, above, a junior at Marmaton Valley, stands in front of the oldest temple in Japan. Wilson, below, spent lots of time with his Japanese host family. Pictured is his host mother, Miyuki, grandmother, Shoji, and grandfather, Mineko Matsuo. COURTESY PHOTOS

Wilson experiences Far East By KAYLA BANZET kayla@iolaregister.com

Iola High School business teacher Laura Schinstock helps explain an accounting question to senior Bryan Mueller. Mueller is taking accounting as independent study. REGISTER/KAYLA

MORAN — Some students spend their summers at camp or working. Payton Wilson spent his in Japan. Wilson, a Marmaton Valley High School junior, spent six weeks with a Japanese host family in Tokyo as one of 14 members of the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA), chosen for the Japanese Exchange Scholarship. Kikkoman Corp., maker of a popular brand of soy sauce, underwrites the program and scholarship, valued at almost $10,000 per student. For the first two weeks Wilson attended a school that regularly hosts exchange students. At the time of his visit there were eight exchange students from other countries attending the school in Seikei. One girl was from the same FCCLA program. “In history they were learning American history and I knew they were talking about the Panama Canal but I didn’t

understand the questions,” he said. “In English class they would have us read or help with English,” he said. Wilson said high school students are required to learn English. Students attend school from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday as well as from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday. His host sister, Kyoka Matsuo, 15, attended junior high. His host brother, Junpei Matsuo, See WILSON | Page A4

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“We’ve had problems: just not between us” 60-year sweethearts are Colony Days marshals By SUSAN LYNN susan@iolaregister.com

Gene and Claudetter Anderson REGISTER/SUSAN LYNN

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COLONY — Claudette and Gene Anderson are quiet, unassuming folk who don’t think they make much of a story. “You can come by,” Gene said. “But we don’t have much to say.” The elderly couple live 1.5 miles east of Colony on their farmstead of 57 years. “I’d invite you in, but we’re redecorating,” Claudette said. The husband and wife are do-it-yourselfers who have pretty much their entire house “torn up,” for a major redo. “We do it about every 10-15 years,” Claudette said. “I like to change things up.”

THE ANDERSONS are this year’s grand marshals for Saturday’s Colony Day Parade. Both have lived in Colony most of their lives. Gene graduated from Crest High School in 1951; Claudette in 1953. They were married during a seven-day furlough Gene got from the Army while stationed over in Regensburg, Germany, shortly after Claudette finished high school. “It tickles me to think of today’s younger generations and how ‘connected’ they are with technology,” Gene said. “When I was in the Army I couldn’t call Claudette but a couple of times of year. We could talk for only two-and-a-half minutes before they

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” — John Muir 75 Cents

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