FRESH FACED FACULTY West’s new faculty can be found everywhere, from the guidance office to the temps. With interests varying from cycling to soft circuitry, this bunch is bringing their skills and talents into this school year. BY NATALIE DUNLAP & JESSICA MOONJELY
Q: Do you have a hidden talent or something about you students wouldn’t know? A: “I was a Scottish Highlander in college and that was at the same time that the first President Bush was elected president. I marched in the inaugural parade in Washington DC and I carried the Iowa flag.”
-LISA GOODWIN, FINANCIAL SECRETARY
Q: What was your least favorite class in high school? A: “Art. I hate to draw. I’m very bad at drawing. I was good at math, science and sports, but art was my least favorite. I was looking at my friends and I could tell how they were drawing flowers and people. But my flowers were sticks and my people were also sticks with circles. They were shapes instead of people.”
-HANAN RAHMATALLAH, MATH
Q: When did you know you wanted to go into education? A: “It was my senior year of college, and I was failing out of college. I took a semester off, or dropped out rather, and I went traveling on a road trip through the western United States. And when I was in Portland, Oregon one night, it dawned on me. I started talking about teaching to someone I had met. I got really fired up about it, and I realized ‘Oh, I really want to be a teacher.’ It was at that exact moment.”
-ASHLEY LORSUNG, SPANISH
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PROFILES OCT. 3, 2019
DESIGN BY XIAOYI ZHU