Three staff members set to retire

Despite closing her 31st year at LFHS and 34th year teaching, English and media literacy teacher Dr. Amy Birtman is retiring at the peak of her performance. “When you get to be a certain age with so many years put in, my philosophy has always been I want to go out at the top of my game. I don’t want to be the old teacher that has food on her shirt and pencils in her hair,” said Birtman. Birtman...

If your teacher has ever had trouble with a projector, computer, or other piece of technology, you may have had Ron Butcher come to the rescue. Butcher, who will retire this month after 17 years, says this is his first job in education, adding that his original career was as a chemist, but he was always into computers as a hobby. He’s enjoyed a varied career, but says that possibility of being...

Leslie Sandler will retire this year after a long and fulfilling career teaching Spanish. Ironically, she never expected to become a teacher, despite loving Spanish from an early age. “Hands down my favorite class was Spanish in high school. In fact, I enjoyed it so much that I knew I had to try and take another language class in high school while I had the chance. However, if you had told...