Talented teachers bid goodbye after 20-plus years
Phyllis Byrdwell conducting Chorale, circa 1990s.
Lakeside School Archives
Lakeside School Archives, 1998
Kathleen Sears in her Middle School history classroom.
the yurt, resulting in fleeing cold and wet into the library where we spent the rest of the night.” Alicia Hokanson
Middle School teacher • 1987 Backstory: After teaching stints that included
a few years in South Australia and seven years in a one-room school for grades 1-8 on Waldron Island, a fortuitous encounter with a then-Lakeside teacher led her to Lakeside in 1987. “It was like coming to teacher-heaven!”
Best known for: Encouraging students to
send their work out to River of Words national poetry contest and the Scholastic Writing programs, resulting in many national winners and finalists. Initiating and then working with colleagues and the students every spring to put out the Middle School literary magazine, rated each year by National Council of Teachers of English from “excellent” to “superior.”
Memories: Winning “Poetry Teacher of the
Year” from River of Words and accepting the award at the Library of Congress in 2003. “Put- ➢ Alicia Hokanson in her Middle School English class.
Tom Reese, 2014
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