by Emma Dorman
Staff Reporter
At the end of last semester, Mrs. Goetz went to teach at Seaholm and the new teacher joining the OHS staff is Ms. Gordon. Ms. Gordon previously worked at Daniel Axford as a gym teacher for a little over a year. In addition to joining the staff, she is also a coach for girls soccer at the high school. She has one dog named Adrian who is a German Shepherd/Great Pyrenees that she cares for deeply. Ms. Gordon is very excited to take on the role of being a mentorship, leadership, and health teacher.
Q: If you could travel anywhere, where would it be and why?
A: I’ve always wanted to go to Greece, it’s so beautiful and right on the ocean. I love the warm weather, all of this snow is not my jam.
Q: What do you enjoy doing in your free time?
A: In my free time I love reading, playing my Nintendo switch, walking my dog, snowboarding, coaching and playing soccer, and spending time with friends and family.
Q: What is one thing you wish your students knew about you?
A: I really love classic rock music and would love to be in a rock-n-roll band
Q: Who is your biggest influencer?
A: My biggest influencer is my little sister. With her being 13 years younger than me she influences me to always be a child at heart, to try hard in everything I do, and to never give up on my dreams.
Q: Why did you decide to start teaching?
A: I decided to start teaching because of all the teachers that influenced me. I would not be the educator I am today without the impactful teachers that paved the path for me to want to be one. I love being able to make a difference in a student's life and make them feel just as important as all my teachers did with me. I love what I do and I would not trade it away for any other job.
5 Questions with: Mrs. Gordon
5Q's with: Mr. Nelms
by Sam Zeiter
Staff Reporter
An overwhelming majority of more than half of the students at Oxford High School haven't talked to their assistant principals. The administrators at the high school are commonly looked at as just for students who get in trouble, but they are also just here to talk.
Assistant Principal Mr. Nelms agrees that his favorite part of being assistant principal is simply talking to students. Mr. Nelms has been at the high school for four years, three of those years have been in the special education department. Mr. Nelms has learned a lot, and is trying his best to make the high school a safe place for all students and facilities. Mr. Nelms offered to give the students of Oxford high a first hand viewpoint into just what it's like to be an assistant principal.
Q:If you had the opportunity to meet any celebrity in the world who would it be? And what would you say?
A: ¨I would probably go with a sports figure, um more than likely Bart Star, the green bay packers quarterback from a long time ago. The history of the packer organization has always been one thing that I've always been kinda interested in.¨
Q: Do you have any pets? What's your favorite activity to do with them?
A:¨I have a two year old golden lab, 75 pounds, sheds like everything. His biggest thing is you know with him just being a puppy he loves just throwing the ball and going to retrieve it. He's got a lot of puppy left in him right now.¨
Q: If you could have any superpower what would it be? And why?
A:¨Probably the ability to reverse time, so to go back and look and remake decisions. So reverse time to see what life would have been like making different decisions.¨
Q:If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?
A:¨Greece, there's an island off the coast of Greece About eight and a half hours south of Greece called Santareni. My son lived there this past summer, with the college that he is attending now. And the pictures that he sent back were just beautiful, the water is about as blue as you can imagine. They have white washed buildings, all over the island, with really deep blue roof tops to them. It's unbelievable.¨
Q: What's your favorite activity to do in your free time?
A: ¨I like to watch college football a lot when I have time. And reading, i like to read a lot of different things.¨