Upper School: 2nd Generation Spartans

By: Lisa Schooler  Jack Guthrie '13 son of Lizanne Guthrie '78 remarked that he is named after Jack Chesky '72 whose life was taken in a tragic car accident.  Sage Farha '13, daughter of Cliff Farha '86 and Laura Madison Farha '83, talked about her dad erasing all his detentions off of Mrs. Hill's computer! Houston, Hunter, and Hayley Cusick, sons and daughter of Trey Cusick '89 and Laura Brim Cusick '88, talk about a time when their parents renamed their economics teacher, Doug Glenn, to Goud Nnelg (Doug Glenn backwards).  They had many stories about this teacher, starting with the time they took the tires off his car to to the time Mr. Glenn was their chaperone on their senior trip.  This time they ambushed him at night in his hotel room, jumped on his bed, and sprayed him with shaving cream! Grace and Salem Cusick, daughter and son of Nick Cusick '88, reported that their father Nick was standing in the hallway with Brian Drevets '81 and, on a $20 bet, he said, "What would you do if...?" Then Nick yanked his tie so hard, it had to be cut off to remove it!

Two Generations of Spartan Teachers

 By:  Lisa Schooler

There is a lot of history here or should I say a lot of math ... Devon Rothwell graduated from Wichita Collegiate in 1971 with a class of twelve students. She returned to WCS twenty years later as a 7^thgrade math teacher.  Now her son Johnny, who also graduated from WCS is 2002, has returned as Collegiate's 8^th grade math teacher.

I asked Devon what it was like to have Johnny as a student.  She replied that not only did she have Johnny but also a niece and a nephew, Patrick and Vivian Ritchie, in the same class.  She said Johnny usually behaved in her classroom but does recall that he was the first one to receive a Saturday detention from her for whiting out the numbers on another students locker dial. 

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