Two Garretson teaching icons retire this year
by Adi Fink, GHS Blue Ink
After many years of teaching the middle school, English teacher Mrs. Stoltenberg and science teacher Mrs. Mueller are setting themselves up for a different change of pace at the end of this year, as both have announced their retirements. They have both done a lot for our school in the time they have been here, and they will be greatly missed.
The kids loved Mrs. Mueller’s class and the labs she had the students do.
“My favorite memory with Mrs. Mueller is when she came back from surgery and we did the exercises; those were fun,” said Isabelle Froehlic. Even when Mrs. Mueller was out for surgery, she came back better than ever and got her students involved with her exercises among many other hands-on activities.
Mrs. Mueller will continue to be part of our school and you can see her taking tickets at the soccer game. She will miss the kids but says it also will be nice to have time to herself and not feel bad when she has to leave town and can’t grade papers.
Mrs. Stoltenberg has been at our school for 40 years and has done a lot for our school. She takes the time to get to know her students and tries to make them achieve.
“I’m going to miss the kids,” stated Stoltenberg, but she did say that she was looking forward to enjoying and spending time with her grandkids and traveling with her husband.
In her 40 years of education, Stoltenberg has seen a variety of changes. “The hardest part about working for this long was technology and seeing how much it’s changed,” Mrs. Stoltenberg stated.
The kids enjoy the fun games that Stoltenberg provides them to engage with their English. Students' favorite memory with her was on April Fool’s Day, where they all ditched her class and they had a quiz that day and she reversed that prank on them.
These teachers have done a lot for other teachers and students. It will be different without these two teachers in the hallways. But we wish them a wonderful retirement and thank them for all they have done for Garretson.
