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Parting a sweet sorrow

A trio of retiring personnel from Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) bid farewell through tears during the June 17 meeting of the CCSD2 Board of Trustees at the Central Office in Saratoga. Carrie Craig, Deb Riker and Cheryl Munroe were all presented with personalized gifts along with complimentary statements from CCSD2 Superintendent Jim Copeland.

Teacher, wife, mother ... rancher

The first teaching job that Chelsea DeWitt got out of college was at Medicine Bow Elementary School (MBES).
"This was the best first teaching job I could have ever hoped for," DeWitt said. "I came fresh out of the University of Wyoming in 2014."

Learning and lunch

Vicki Scott has made up meals and served them up for Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2) students for 39 years.
"I began in Medicine Bow, the year my oldest son, Zack started kindergarten," Scott said. "I started under Shirley Stoner who taught me everything. Shirley was a beautiful person. When I first started, we cooked for 300."

'Short' term memories

Jamie Short has been teaching science and math at Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow High School for five years. She is leaving after half a decade to be closer to her family in Worland where she grew up.
After graduating high school, Short went to Northwest College, the University of Alaska and graduated from the University of Wyoming.
She graduated with an education degree in science.

Resignations, contracts and a plaque

At 4 p.m. on May 20 at the Elk Mountain Elementary School, the Carbon County District No. 2 (CCSD2) held their monthly board meeting.
The agenda was quickly approved.
CCSD2 Superintendent Dr. James Copeland recognized Kathy Thompson, the head librarian for all the northern county schools for her service to CCSD2 for the past ten years.

Capital idea

Cody Sheldon has been the music teacher at Saratoga Elementary for the past five years. As the school year ends, Sheldon is leaving Wyoming and moving to Washington D.C. to teach music in the nation's capital.
Sheldon said he started playing the piano when he was five.

Glasser leaves on a 'high note'

Pam Glasser is known to many inhabitants in Carbon County as a music teacher. To fellow musicians and concert goers in Wyoming, Houston and Israel, Glasser is acknowledged as an accomplished French horn virtuoso.

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