Working to Build a Brighter Future
Administration
Donna Dunson – Principal
Eugene Kendrick – Assistant Principal
Chris Reams – Assistant Principal
Daniele Shick – Assistant Principal
Anuj Saran – Director of Educational Operations/IB Coordinator
Paul Buehner – Dean
Jason Dewitt – Dean
Carol Floyd – Behavior Management
Krista Thompson – Title One Facilitator
Degrees: BS from Wingate University, Masters from the University of South Carolina
Quote: “Happy to be here! Happy to serve!” Krista Thompson original…. and “Have a great day the Ridge”
School Counselors
Rebecca Thomas – Director and Counselor of A-G
Degrees: BS – Middle Grades Education Math and English from Campbellsville University, M.Ed. – School Guidance from Western Kentucky University, Ed. S. in Educational Leadership from Liberty University
Book: The Believers by Janice Holt Giles
Quote: “Learning happens when people feel comfortable in talking about both successes and failures.” Kouzes & Posner
Theresa Roberts – Counselor Q-Z
School Resource Officer
Jonathan Flecher
Athletics
Marvin Pavy – Athletic Director (SAT PREP and Liberal Arts/Math)
Degree: BA from Evansville University in Indiana and a Masters from Indiana University
Book: The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Quote: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Technology Support
Gary LaSpina – Network Manager
Departments
Agriculture
Jesse Gattis
Degree: Bachelors of Science Degree in Agricultural Education…. will be getting my Masters of Science Degree in Agricultural Education and Communications in December 2012
Book: A Land Remembered
Quote: “Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.” -Letter from Thomas Jefferson to George Washington (1787)
Business
Linda Gee
Digital Arts
Jonathan Berkenfield
Degree: B.S. Mass Communications at Florida Southern College
Book: Batman – The Long Halloween
Quote: “We are responsible for each other. That’s part of being human — isn’t it?” – Robin, from Batman #355
English
Anna Barcenas
Degrees: BS in Business Admin, Hotel Resort Management from Florida Southern College, MA Educational Leadership from Stetson University
Book: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Quotes: “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. ” — Eleanor Roosevelt
Brenda Howell
Degree: B.A. from Warner Southern College
Book: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Quote: “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.” Proverbs 27:17
Jenny Medlock
Degrees: BS in Business Administration UCF, MBA from Webber International Univeristy
Book: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Quote: “The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.” ~ Jane Austen
Laura Jarrett
Degrees: A.A. in Humanities and B.A. in English from Indiana University
Quote: “The best thing for being sad, replied Merlin is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.” T.H. White The Once and Future King
Ashley Schwarze
Degrees: B.A. in English Education from Warner Southern College, M.A. in Educational Leadership from Stetson University
Quote: “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rod Shafer
Degrees: BS in English from Wayne State University, BS in English from Taylor University, MS in Educational Administration from Eastern Illinois University
Book: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Quote: “Love people when they are alive, so you don’t have to mourn them when they are dead.”
Amy Morrow
Degrees: BA in English from University of Central Florida
Books: The Bell Jar, The Old Man and the Sea, A Girl Named Zippy, A Prayer for Owen Meaney, Where the Wild Things Are 
Quote: ’All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.’ -Ernest Hemingway
ESE
Brook Weathersby
Michelle Castleberry
Brenda Smith
Gary Chapman
Dena Elmore
Degrees: BS in Elementary Education from Florida State University, Early Childhood from Warner Southern College
Book: A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers
Quote: “This is my work, and I can do it only because Christ’s mighty energy is at work within me.” Colossians 1:29
Jane Jackson
Degrees: AA from Polk Community College, BS in Education from UCF
Book: A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
Quote: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has” -Margaret Mead
Marla Raulerson
Degree: B.S. in Elementary Education/ESE from UCF
Book: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Quote: “A loving heart is the truest wisdom” Charles Dickens
Beverly Riley
Degree: BS in Special Education from University of Southern Mississippi, MS in Educational Leadership from Nova Southeastern University
Book: Take Your Best Shot
Quote: “Nothing is hard…..You just need to get an understanding of what is required!”
Tonya Royal
Degree: BA in Organizational Management from Warner Southern College
Book: The First Days of School
Quote: “If you always do what you’ve always done, You’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.”
Ellen Sullivan
Degree: BS in Business Administration from Webber International University
Family and Consumer Science
Lisa Davis
Fine Arts
Kenneth C. EvansBand/Chorus
Degrees: B.A. in Music – Furman University; M.A.T. in Music – Winthrop University
Book – The Bible
Quote – ” To teach is to touch lives, To teach music is to touch souls.”
Foreign Languages
Yomar Cardona
Degrees: BA in Secondary Education Spanish from University of Puerto Rico, MA in Public Health Education, MA Administration and Supervision in Education from Phoenix University
Book: El Alquimista by Paolo Coello
Quote: “You can always achieve your dreams, if you work for it” by Y. Cardona
Sue Landron
Degree: Certified Teacher in Foreign Language / Spanish K-12, Certified Teacher in Mathematics 6-12, BA in Industrial Management, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus
Book: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Quote: ”Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going” -Rita Mae Brown
JROTC
Sgt. Henry Porter
Degree:BA in History from Columbia College
Quote: “No one cares about how much you know,until they know you care about them”
Cpt. David Simpson
Degree: Electronics Management at Southern Illinois University
Book: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Quote: “Always choose the hard right over the easy wrong”
Math
Katrina Childress
Zachary Kapphan
Degree: BA in Education, Secondary Mathematics, Fairmont State College
Quote: “Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it’s in my basement… let me go upstairs and check” (M.C. Escher)
Lillian Anderson
Degree: Bachelor of Science in Math Decision Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Master of Arts in Teaching from the University of Southern California
Book: One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Quote: “What can be seen on the outside is only a hint of the magnificence within” – Denzel Washington
Donna Weaver
Degree: BA in Mathematics from Mercer University
Book: Gone With The Wind
David Russell
Degrees: BA in History from UCLA 2006, MA in Education from Warner University 2010
Book: Thoughts for young Men, by J.C. Ryle; Romans
Quote: “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes…” Paul of Tarsus
Marvin Pavy – Athletic Director (SAT PREP and Liberal Arts/Math)
Degree: BA from Evansville University in Indiana and a Masters from Indiana University
Book: The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Quote: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Book: Once A Runner
Quote: “I can do no great things, just small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa
Media Center
Aundrea Croft
Degrees: B.A. Music Ministry- Warner University, MS.Ed. Adolescent Literacy & Technology- Walden University
Book: Anything by Laurie Notaro
Quote: I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. -E. B. White
Medical Career Academy
Joe Hulett
Degree: Paramedic/EMT
Book: Through My Eyes Tim Tebow
Quote: “You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.” Christy Mathewson
Ed Options
Tina Morrow – Ed Options
Degree: BA Warner University
Book: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Quote: “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” Aristotle
Ben Starks – Ed Options
Degree: BS from Florida Christian College
Book: Once A Runner
Quote: “I can do no great things, just small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa
Stephen “Miles” Bilinski - Ed Options
Degrees: B.S. and M.Ed Florida A & M University
Book: Wins, Losses and Lessons
Quotes: “Success is getting what you want, happiness is liking what you get!” ”The best way to predict the future is to create it!”
Physical Education
Kim Campbell
Degree: B.S. Florida A&M University
Quote: ” We can never change our past, but through achievements made today we can mold our future”
Randy Lee
MS, Ed – Sports Leadership – Virginia Commonwealth University
BA – Humanities, specialization in Geography – University of South Carolina
Book: The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
Quote: “It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.” – John Wooden
Reading
Dee Coconato
Degree: BS from Berry College
Book: A Land Remembered by Patrick Smith
Quote: ”Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.”
Kelly Cernell
Degree: BA in Elementary Education from Warner Southern College
Book: Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Quote: ”A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.” Eleanor Roosevelt
Tina Markley
Degree: BA in Secondary Education – English and Business from East Texas Baptist University
Books: Little Women and Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World
Quote: Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cheryl Nichols
Degree: BA from Warner Southern College
Book: A Land Remembered
Quote: “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ― Maya Angelou
Tammy Shields
Degree: BA in Business Administration from Warner Southern College
Book – Gone with the Wind
Quote – “It is better to have tried and failed, than to never have tried at all.”
Wendy Wolford
Degree: BA in Business Administration with Minor in Education from Warner Southern College
Book: 365 Thank Yous by John Kralik
Quotes: The Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebur
“Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.”
“The more you read, the more you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you will go.” by Dr. Seuss
Science
J Blake Fann
Degree: BS Biology from University of South Florida
Book: A Land Remembered
Quote:”Nothing shocks me, I am a scientist” ~ Indiana Jones
Jonathan Hodach
Degree: BS in Criminal Justice and a minor in general Education from University of North Florida
Book: James Paterson 4 blind mice
Quote: “One Small Step. … One giant leap for mankind”
Allison Kapphan
Degree: BS in Biology from Warner Southern College
Book: “A Land Remembered” Patrick D. Smith
Quote: “Do or do not; there is no try.”. -Yoda
Meghan McLeod
Degree: BA Geology, Archaeology from State University of New York at Potsdam
Book: Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
Quote: “It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.”. -Isaac Asimov
Erin Affrunti
Degree: B.S. in Physiology, minors in chemistry and psychology from Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Book: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch and Every Patient Tells a Story by Lisa Sanders, MD
Quote: “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” Albert Einstein
Lara Sharp
Degrees: BS in chemical engineering, University at Buffalo; MBA, University of Massachusetts; Certified Production Technician, CPT.
Quote: “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.” John F. Kennedy
Authors: Shakespeare, Stephen King, George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, Mary Roach
Social Sciences
Michael Campbell
Degrees: B.S University of South Florida, M.S. from University of New Orleans
Book: Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun
Quote: “Be willing to do today what others won’t do, so you can do tomorrow what they can’t do”
Clare McAdams
Degree: B.A. In History @ Randolph-Macon Woman’s College , Lynchburg, Va.
Book: The Traveler’s Gift by Andy Andrews
Quote: ”Success is never final, failure seldom fatal, it’s courage that counts.” Winston Churchill
Cindy Nelson
Degree: BA in History
Book: A Land Remembered By: Patrick Smith
Quote: “A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.” Cicero
Commander, USNR (Ret.)
Degrees: B.A. - University of California, Berkeley, J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law
Book: Master and Commander, et seq by Patrick O’Brian
Robert Wilkinson
Degrees: BA in HIstory; Rutgers University
Books: 1491 by Charles Mann
Quote: “History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.” -John F. Kennedy
