S1E13: Pillar of Eye Street - Mrs Helen Free

S1E13 starts highlighting Saturday's (12/4) "A Roaring Return" the 41st Annual Mothers’ Club Gala. After a virtual event in 2020, Jeannette Staton and Hazel Lychak from the Mothers Club briefly share the exciting details.

Bid pay auction links here. The Gala Gram link is here.

As the 2020-2021 school year ended, one of the longtime Pillars of Eye Street, English teacher Mrs. Helen Free, retired. When Helen arrived in 1983 at Gonzaga, she joined a largely male faculty. Over the last 38 years, much has changed about Gonzaga. The faculty makeup is much more diverse, the physical campus has transformed, and Helen Free admits, she changed, too. She believes the last 15 years, she was doing some of her best work.

How did her teaching journey lead her to Eye Street? Who inspired her early on, to get her Masters? What challenges did she face as a mom when 2 sons attended Gonzaga? How did she approach parent-teacher conferences? And what does she hope for Gonzaga’s Future as she steps away? These answers and many more you won’t likely forget, especially our Gonzaga Mom’s.

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As mentioned, we want your holiday shout outs! (Moms are welcome, too!) For our Christmas week episode, we want to include your voices sharing Christmas greetings from where ever life after Gonzaga has taken you. Use your voice memo device, record this:

Hey, this is ____________ from the Class of ___ / mother of __________

wishing the extended Gonzaga family a Merry Christmas from _________ (where u live)

(feel free to ad lib if you like and name check some classmates)

then send the voice memo to [e-mail]

Thanks!

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