Photo courtesy of Marion Glaser
From left, Mike, Jolie, and Sarah Glaser, Samara
Johnson, and Kate Glaser stand in front of their displayed
artwork at the Ranting Raven.
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By Willow Hetrick
Turnagain Times
Moose Pass Correspondent
Moose Pass School Welcomes New Principal
Moose Pass School will welcome a new principal this coming school year, Mr. Jim Dawson. This is his 26th year with the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District. He spent nine years as an elementary teacher and15 years as the principal of a large elementary school, and two as the principal of Cooper Landing and Hope schools. When asked by the Borough to add Moose Pass to his list of schools, he was happy to assist in bringing all three schools together. Mr. Dawson plans on being at the school a minimum of once a week.
Moose Pass School Bids Farewell to teacher of 16 years
Rose Hetrick started teaching at Moose Pass School 16 years ago, when I was eight years old. Mrs. Hetrick started out as a teaching aid and then went on to become a special education teacher. She is the longest known teacher in the school’s history.
Leora Roycroft started the first school in Moose Pass in 1928. The class consisted of her five boys and a child from a hunter station, whom she housed all winter so she could have the minimum number of children to start a school. The school was first held in a tent, and then in subsequent years, various houses were used around town.
The schoolhouse that the classrooms are still in today was built in 1930. Mrs. Hetrick has seen all of the Moose Pass children grow up in the school, and has many fond memories and funny stories of us all. She has been instrumental in the schools policy and curriculum on a Borough level and will be missed. On behalf of all of the Moose Pass kids, I want to thank my mother Rose for all she has done for us and hope that future teachers and students recognize her hard work as all of us graduates do. Rose will still be leading the Brownie Troop 206, which will begin after school starts.
Moose Pass School begins Aug. 24
School will begin on August 24. The school currently serves approximately 30 students in grades K-8. Mrs. Lisa Morris is returning to the staff as the K-3 teacher and Mr. Douglas O’Brien is will teach grades 4-8. School begins at 8:45 a.m. and ends at 3:45 p.m. To contact Moose Pass School: P.O. Box 46, Moose Pass, AK 99631, Phone: 907.288.3183, Fax: 907.288.3670. The school bus will also be in operation beginning August 24, so please drive carefully and watch out for the children along the Seward Highway.
Local Artists Show Artwork at ‘First Friday’
Local Moose Pass families presented their art work at the ‘First Friday’ art walk at the Ranting Raven in Seward. Sourdough residents Mike and Kate Glaser and their lifelong resident Jolie, and Sarah Glaser, along with neighbor Samara Johnson were all present to talk to viewers of their ideas and inspirations behind their artwork. Jolie presented her photography work from travels around North and South America, Africa, and Alaska.
Sarah displayed beautiful acrylic paintings, the proceeds of which she donated to the school that she volunteered at in Costa Rica during the spring semester. If visitors did not act quickly enough, the painting(s) they were looking at were sold! Mike has colored pencil artwork, Kate had detailed watercolors of wildflowers, and Samara showed fantastic oil paintings that all viewers were in awe of.
The show will be at the Ranting Raven until August 31 at 3 p.m. stop by and pick out what is left, the majority of the work was sold out in the first two hours!
Also at the First Friday Art Walk was bronze work by Shawn McDonald of Moose Pass. He displayed his work at the Starbird Studios in downtown Seward.
