September 18, 2024 • 32 mins
What if your high school teachers were once students sitting in the same classrooms as you?
Join Amanda Bauer and special guest host Mr. Vance Sarlow as we celebrate Randolph alumni who have returned as educators and staff, bringing their unique journeys full circle.
In The Alumni. Part 1., we connect with Coach Elliott Ortiz, the passionate athletic director who shares his inspiring transformation from student to leader, emphasizing life skills and positive experiences for student-athletes.
We also experience heartfelt reflections from Coach Tania Grace, Mr. Daniel Carmean, Mr. Jacob Ritter, and Mrs. Kaylyn Flores as they recount their paths to education, driven by influential mentors and a love for the supportive Randolph community.
Each of our guests emphasize the unity, support, and lasting bonds within the Randolph community, highlighting the importance of cherishing every stage of life. Tune in for a nostalgic and inspiring celebration of Randolph's enduring legacy and the people who continue to help make it so special.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Field Independent SchoolDistrict.
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Hello and welcome back.
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I am so excited for this nextepisode.
You are in for a real treattoday, and the reason I am so
excited about this particularepisode is because it is an
episode that is largely focusedon homecoming and alumni but not
just any alumni a unique subsetof alumni who actually all
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attended schools at Randolph atsome point as students and then
have returned and now work asemployees of the district, and
so I think they have such aunique perspective and I cannot
wait to hear their stories.
They are going to do individualmini segments and we will splice
them all together and I thinkit's going to be so fun to
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listen to.
And another neat thing aboutthis particular episode is that
we have asked a guest host tojoin us, so I will not be the
one asking the questions.
Instead, we've invited one ofour teachers not just any
teacher, but the teacher who hasbeen employed by the district
if not the longest, definitelyone of the longest.
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He is, I believe, in his 29thyear at Randolph as a teacher.
So I think he will bring a verycool perspective into the
conversation and I am reallyappreciative for Mr Sarlo and
each of the guests who agreed tobe on this special episode.
Who agreed to be on thisspecial episode.
So, mr Vance Sarlo, the highschool theater teacher at
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Randolph, how many years haveyou been at Randolph, mr?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Sarlo.
Oh wow, this is, I'm startingyear 29.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Okay, that's what I thought.
So nearly three decades and youstarted your career at Randolph
.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I did, I did.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Right after student teaching.
I came here.
I didn't even know the schoolexisted, but I got a and work as
employees for the district, sowe figured what better person to
interview these alumni thansomebody who taught many of them
and now works as a colleaguewith them.
I am really appreciative, MrSarlo, that you agreed to be
host for this episode and Ithink you're going to have some
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fun conversations.
I'm going to turn it over toyou and we will be back shortly
with our first mini segment.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Well, thank you for having me.
Thank you, hey, here we arewith Coach Elliott Ortiz.
Welcome, coach.
Thanks for coming in with ustoday.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Oh, thanks for having me.
It's real exciting to be on thepodcast first season, so
special.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Right, yeah, fantastic.
So tell us a little bit aboutyourself, as in what grades were
you here and years, if youremember, were you here?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
as a student.
So I was in New Mexico, atKirtland in Albuquerque, fourth
grade and we moved here fifthgrade, and so I came to Randolph
from fifth grade to and Igraduated from here, so from
fifth to 12th.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
All right.
And what was the graduationyear?
2006.
2006.
And then, when did you come?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
here to work.
So then I went to school inTexas State.
I did my student teaching hereas a student teacher for Coach
Gendron in the spring of 10.
And then I got my first job inYorktown, Texas, and I was there
a year and then I came backhere in the fall of 12.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
All right, yeah, and what would you say is your
favorite thing about your job asathletic director?
Cause I mean, uh, I know wesaid coach and all that, but
there are probably folks herethat don't know exactly what you
do here.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah Well, I guess the best part about being
athletic director is like so Iam an administrator but I still
get to be hands-on with kidsevery day, so that's the whole
reason you get into.
Education is to work with youngpeople.
And so, even though I'm anadministrator and I have
administrator-type paperwork andthat kind of stuff, I still get
to, on a daily basis, work withour boy and girl athletes, and
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that's the best part of thiswhole gig.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
What is your vision or goal as the athletic director
for RFISD?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
So I would say the the main goal is to is to make
sure that we are teaching morethan sports right, more than
just athletics that we are, thatwe are empowering our young men
and women to go on and and beproductive citizens and to and
to be, you know, future fathersand mothers and citizens and to
be, you know, future fathers andmothers and husbands and wives
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and good people.
And then also, you know, a goalis to give them the experience
that us, as a coaching staff,had in high school or in our
athletic, you know, endeavors.
That is positive, you know,because the whole reason we got
into coaching was we had such agreat experience in high school
athletics and and we want to tryand give that to our students
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as well.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
So when you were a student, did you ever imagine
that you would work here?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
No, I really didn't.
I didn't.
You know, I graduated, uh, 2006and I went to school and I, and
I had no idea really what wasgoing to happen.
I was either, hey, I was goingto go to school and then, when I
graduated, I was going to jointhe air force, or I was going to
go to school and be a coach,like those were the two options.
And and, uh, and I decided to.
You know, the coaching thingand and teacher thing was, uh,
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the place for me.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
So what made you want to come back here?
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Well, first off, I've had a connection with Randolph.
When I was going to college Iwas working on base, I worked at
the U Center, I worked at theArts and Crafts Center, worked
for the services it's now forSupport Squadron.
So I did all those things whileI was going to school.
So I've always been connectedto Randolph.
And then, knowing the type ofplace that Randolph is, when
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Coach West called me like hey,we have a job opportunity here,
I jumped at it.
I was like, yeah, that's home,so I want to be back.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Well, let's take you back down memory lane a little
bit more In honor of homecoming.
We have homecoming coming up.
What's your favorite homecomingtradition?
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I would say that the newest thing that we're doing is
with our district-wide peprally.
That, I think, has been a hugesuccess.
It has been an awesome eventevery year that we've done in
the last three years.
I would say that's probably myfavorite thing since the parade.
It can no longer be done withthe base housing situation.
The district pep rally has beena tremendous success, so I
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would say that's my favoritething.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, having the younger kids, they all come.
It's elementary plus middleschool plus high school.
It really is a big part of theRFISD.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Especially when you get younger kids, middle
schoolers and elementary kids.
So it's nice to get thatelementary energy in there
because it kind of upliftseveryone's energy.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
It does that's great and it once it once again,
builds community, it's, it's, uh, everybody.
So what would?
What do you think would be somegood?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
advice, or your best advice that you might have for
your current students I justjust go for it.
Whatever it is you want to youwant to do, just go for it.
It's um um.
The pain of regret will alwaysbe worse than the pain of
failure.
So just always go for what youthink is, and it may be
something that you don't succeed, but it takes you on a path to
where you're going to havesuccess.
So, just whatever it is youwant to do, go for it.
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And but understand that youknow hard work is required, like
that's the bare minimum.
If you for success is to workhard, so make sure that you know
that work is required Likethat's the bare minimum for
success is to work hard.
So make sure that you knowthat's the main thing.
Go for it and work hard.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Was there an influential teacher that helped
you learn that and other things,or a favorite teacher?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Yeah, I would say that at Randolph in high school,
even in middle school, coachGendron was a very influential
teacher.
He was the middle school PEcoach.
When you know I was in middleschool, coach Gendron was a very
influential teacher.
He was the middle school PEcoach.
When you know, I was in middleschool he was the.
You know, he was my US historyteacher when I was in high
school he also was my positioncoach and basketball coach.
So he was very influential andif you know about Coach Gendron,
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like he, he will make sure thatthings are done right and
they're done the best waypossible to your best abilities,
and so that's really a biginfluence on kind of what we're
doing now All right and lastquestion Do you have any final
thoughts that you would like toshare with our Randolph
community?
Once a RoHawk, always a RoHawkmantra is what we preach.
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So you know our doors arealways open to you.
You know, please reach out, andall former athletes that I've
had you know you have my number.
If there's anything you everneed, reach out and we'll be
more than happy to help you out.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Fantastic.
Thank you, coach Ortiz, forbeing with us today.
We really appreciate your time.
We know you're very busy, butyeah thanks, no thanks, it was
fun.
All right, I want to welcomeour next guest, ms Tanya Grace.
How are you today, tanya?
I'm great.
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Thank you a little bit.
So tell us a little bit aboutyourself regarding Randolph, as
in when you went to school hereand like what grade, if you can
remember what year.
I know you may have to do alittle bit of math, right, but
just a little.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Okay, well, I went here from my sophomore year of
high school until my senior year.
I graduated from Randolph, so Iwill say I graduated in 1992.
Okay, class of 92.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Yes, and then you came back to Randolph.
When did that happen?
And tell our listeners what youdo.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Well, I came here in 2017.
I actually had just beenwaiting for something to come
open for me here, so I was happy, when the opportunity came,
that there was a PE teacher jobopen, and, even though that's
not what I had done before, Iwent back and got certified in
PE.
I had always done SPED, so Igot certified in PE and I've
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been here ever since.
So currently I'm PE teacher andcoach and I'm also the middle
school athletic coordinator, andjust this year I added on the
strength and conditioning.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
What was it about?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Randolph.
That made you want to come back, and Randolph just holds a
special place in my heart.
I always knew that this was aplace that hopefully I could get
back to.
When I went into education Ijust said I know what Randolph
was about, what Randolph did forme, and so I was hoping to get
back and be able to do the samethings that all the teachers and
coaches did for me with someoneelse's kids.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
So do you have any special memory of your time at
Randolph as a student?
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Actually a lot of things.
Probably what stands out themost was well homecoming.
I was homecoming queen, so thatwas exciting.
And I also ended up going tostate for shot put and discus
and I was the only person in theentire Randolph track team that
went to state that year Wow.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I didn't know that.
Yes, so that was exciting.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
When you were a student, did you ever imagine
that you would come back hereand work?
Absolutely not.
No, I had no idea because,honestly, when I got out of high
school, my first thought wasnot even to go into education.
I switched up from likepsychology and went into
education.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Okay, I want to go back to this homecoming thing.
All right, Because homecomingis coming up.
Yes it's coming up.
Do you have any particularhomecoming tradition that I mean
it could be current or it couldbe something you know from the
past that that was your favoritething.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
So I just think it's always a good time when people
can come back and get together,and it's just nice to see
different eras ofRandolph-Rohawks come back
together.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
So when you were a student here, did you have a
favorite teacher or teachersthat maybe were influential on
you or taught you something inanything in particular that
might you might have carriedthrough the rest of your life,
and so forth.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Absolutely.
I will say that is Donna Lane.
I still keep in contact withher, still to this day.
She has always been someone whohas been encouraging for me,
even I mean through high school,through college and obviously
beyond.
Even I mean through high school, through college and obviously
beyond.
But she's always been able tobring out the best in me, and
it's not even just on the courtor in the gym, it's just as a
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person in general.
She taught me a lot of thingsof how to carry myself, how to,
you know, put myself out there,take chances and just always be
the best I can be.
So I have always kind ofmirrored a lot of stuff after
her.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Donna Lee is a great choice.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
She's just a very caring person, absolutely, and
that's the number one thing.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Whenever you first, she's caring, and like I said,
it goes beyond just her coaching.
So that's somebody who I wouldalways say like you know, I want
how I remember her.
I'm hoping that I can touchother kids that way and they
remember me just as well whenthey're as old as I am.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I'm sure some of them already think it already, and
but all right.
So do you have any advice fortoday's students, anything that
you would think would be yourbest advice to hand off to that
next generation?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Yes, and I actually I say this all the time now to
kids.
I think, coming to Randolph,some people don't realize how
good they have it here.
I think Randolph goes above andbeyond for a lot of our kids
and even our families.
I just think we, our communityand our environment, we just
live a different life, you know,than people outside the
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military.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I just think we have something very special here and
I just want kids to realize that, as far as the community is
concerned, do you have anythingyou would like to say to them?
Speaker 5 (15:11):
I would just say keep up the good work.
I mean, I think we do a goodjob of supporting one another,
so I think we're doing somethingright.
You know, people want to comehere for a reason.
We have something special and Iwant people to realize that.
And as long as we havecommunity involvement and parent
involvement and people are allworking towards the same goals,
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this will always be a greatplace 100% agree.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Thank you so much for coming out, coach Grace.
Oh, and here we are with DanielCarmine.
How are you doing?
Speaker 7 (15:43):
Daniel, I'm good.
How are you, mr Sarlo?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I'm doing great.
Hey, thanks for coming outtoday.
We really appreciate it.
So tell us actually real quick,tell us your current.
What are you teaching here atRandolph?
Speaker 7 (15:53):
I teach chemistry and UT chemistry.
What are you teaching here atRandolph?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
I teach chemistry and UT chemistry.
Fantastic, and originally youwere here as a student, right.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
So what grades and or years, if you can remember,
were you here as a Randolphstudent?
Speaker 7 (16:08):
I was here from eighth grade and I graduated, so
it was 95 to 2000.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Wow, 95 to 2000.
So you got to see a little bitof the middle school process all
the way through high school andfantastic.
And then you came here as ateacher in what year?
2022.
2022.
And what is your favoritememory here at Randolph?
Speaker 7 (16:34):
I think my favorite thing was we had the homecoming
parade and when I was a senior Ifinally was part of the float
and we just ran around gettingall the kids excited and
throwing candy at them andthings like that.
That was a blast.
There were so many of us in thebed of the truck that it was
almost rubbing the back tires.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Well, when you were a student here, did you ever
imagine that you would be backhere working and teaching?
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Honestly, no, I did not plan on being a teacher
until I graduated college.
It just wasn't on my radar.
But after I started teaching,my goal was always to come back.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
It just took me 17 years to do it, hey, hey,
sometimes.
Sometimes it takes a while toget to the good place, right?
Yes, sir, and what was it thatmade you want to come back to
Randolph?
Speaker 7 (17:24):
I always liked the small school atmosphere.
It's like if I, when I startedteaching, I taught at larger
schools and all the time I waslooking for openings here.
But I like the small schoolatmosphere.
Here is so much more personalwith the students than those
larger schools, as we're able tofocus more on every single
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student.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
So what do you think is the best advice that you have
for our current students?
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Yeah, not to worry too much about what everybody
thinks about you.
One of the issues with a smallschool and we all ran into it is
everybody knows too much abouteverybody and just not to worry
about that.
Just keep everything personal.
Keep who you are and be happyabout who you are.
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And the happier you are withyourself, the more accepted you
will be by everybody else.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Wow, that's.
That's really good.
I'm like wow, hey, I like that,I like that, I like that a lot.
So so tell us about perhapseither your favorite teacher or
maybe your most influentialteacher that you had here at
Randolph.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
Probably my favorite and most influential was my
chemistry teacher, ms Tentino.
I had her for regular chemistryas a sophomore and then I had
her for AP chemistry.
And chemistry was the firstclass that I ever took that I
actually had to work on.
I didn't get it right away.
I actually had to study how todo my work.
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I had to to work on.
I didn't get it right away.
I actually had to study how todo my work.
I had to go ask questions andit was the first time I ever
truly felt academicallychallenged.
And my teacher, she said it wassupposed to be hard.
She said if it wasn't hard itwouldn't be worth it.
And that kind of stuck with mefor my entire life.
I tell everybody if it's nothard, it's not worth it.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah, I remember Karen Dentino as well and I
remember her holding thestudents to the high standard
and being very well respected ather time.
Well, last question for youtoday Do you have any final
thoughts that you'd like toshare with the Randolph
community as a whole?
Speaker 7 (19:43):
So I think this community is probably the most
involved community that I'veworked with as a teacher.
It's a very different community.
Most public schools, you know,everybody lives in the district,
but here we have people likespread out.
We have just a smallercommunity on the base but it
seems like we get more done andcome together more as a
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community than the otherdistricts I worked at.
I think that's just amazing.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I don't think I could agree with you more.
Thank you very much for joiningus today.
Mr Carmin, thank you, we reallyappreciate your time and yeah,
thanks, all right, thanks a lot,appreciate it.
Our next guest for today is MrJacob Ritter.
Mr Ritter, hello, hey, thanksfor coming out today.
We really appreciate it.
So if you could tell us whenyou were a student here, if you
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can remember the years, gradelevels, things of that sort.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
Yeah, I was out here from 2005 through 2009.
I started in eighth grade andthen made it all the way through
to my senior year, and then youcame back to start working at
Randolph.
Yeah, I was gone for four yearsat Texas State and then I got
really bored of not being atRandolph so I was like well,
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let's try that again.
So I just started working thereright away.
What made you want to come back?
Oh, I love this school.
I think it's such a cool school.
I loved going to this school.
I was one of those guys that'slike I like going to school, so
I was pretty thrilled when I waslike no way, I can work here.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Do you have a favorite memory about your time
when you were here as a studentat Randolph?
Speaker 8 (21:21):
Yeah, I mean, one of the coolest parts about a school
like this is you can beinvolved in so many clubs,
organizations, sports, thingslike that.
I'm a guy that has way too manyhobbies and interests, so this
was a perfect school for me andI think anyone who's like that
probably experiences that toowhere it's like you can be a
cross country runner, you can bein the marching band, you can
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be in theater, you can be in 14other things like that's kind of
what I did, and so, yeah, allmy favorite memories are usually
related to that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Tell us a little bit about, or your favorite teacher
and or most influential teacherfrom your time at Randolph.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
Yeah, I don't know if I can pick one, so I just kind
of have more micro stories.
We have one of the coolestthings about my time at Randolph
.
I thought I was one of thosestudents that when you hand them
like an assignment, like mymind just is bursting with like
how could I do this in the coolway I want to?
And, um, a lot of teachersdon't let you do that, and I had
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a lot of teachers that did letme do that.
And that was really special.
Um, I think, uh, Amanda'ssitting right here.
She was my English two teacher.
I remember, uh, you know, weread this book and I was like,
can we make a movie out of it?
And she's like, sure, andthat's what we did for a few
weeks.
Um, and she was flexible andlet us play and fail, um,
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spectacularly, but still like,have a cool, like effort in
doing so.
Um, Mary Shields, my Spanishteacher, was the same way.
Me and my friend Robbie werejust like, uh, can we get out of
the Spanish exam and insteadmake an entire movie in Spanish?
He's like, yeah, that's waymore work and you're going to
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learn more.
And you know, for us that wasway more fun than sitting down
and memorizing vocab words.
We got to write a script in itand then film it and practice
our pronunciation.
It was like way more work thanstudying for a test, but that's
what we wanted to do and thatwas really cool.
Way more work than studying fora test, but that's what we
wanted to do and that was reallycool.
And then I also just hadteachers that really challenged
me in areas that I even feltgood in.
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I remember my math teacher,Steve Andreas was just like one
of those guys that I don't know.
I was like I was okay at mathbut he like brought me to that
next level and made it fun andjust was quirky and goofy and
made the classroom exciting tobe, in which I didn't associate
math with that.
I mean, you, mr Sarlo, uh, wereI was in a, I was in this
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public speaking class and uh, Ithought I was pretty good at
that already and I just remember, you know him giving me tons of
feedback and I could not getthat 100, you know, I had to
keep working it and pushingmyself and thinking about things
I didn't even think about, likewhere you pause and where you
put your body to transitionthings.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Wow, that's a, that's a great list and um, it's uh.
Those are some really goodstories about things that you
remember from that time.
So what would be some of theadvice you might have?
What do you think would be yourbest advice for today's?
Speaker 8 (24:29):
students.
You're going to discover somuch about yourself in high
school and this is the time tojoin the club.
You don't even know if youmight like it.
What is impact?
What is robotics Like?
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Go check it out.
It can be mid-year and you canjust pop in and most clubs are
just happy to have you there, soyou can find something that you
didn't know, that you loved,that you loved, like I
discovered the love of actingand video editing and running
and so many things here at thiscampus, and that's a special
thing to like, just discover.
So, yeah, take those risks andyou know, those things really
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grow you as a person.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
It's good stuff All right and last question Do you
have any thoughts that you'dlike to share with the Randolph
community as a whole?
Speaker 8 (25:28):
Just keep supporting our school, make sure it never
goes away, because this is aspecial place and I don't want
to ever see it disappear.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Thank you very much, mr Ritter.
Thank you, it's been a pleasurehaving you.
Yes, I want to welcome our nextguest today, ms Kaylin Flores.
Tell us a little bit about yourstudent experience here at
Randolph, as in what grades wereyou here, what year, if you can
remember, you know?
Kind of give us a littlebackground on Ms Flores, the
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student at Randolph.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Okay, so as a student at Randolph I was Kaylin
Chassie, my dad was in the AirForce and so we were stationed
at Randolph and I actuallystarted off at the CDC, so young
enough to start off at thedaycare center on base and then
kind of work my way up to theelementary school.
So I was in the elementaryschool for kindergarten first,
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second and third grade, and so Ithink that's 1995 to 1999.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
So quite a while ago.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
And, for those of you that are listening, that you
heard the CDC.
That's the ChildhoodDevelopment Center, I believe,
or Child Development Center, notthe Center for Disease Control.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Right.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
So, but okay.
But then you came back as anemployee, as a teacher.
When did that happen and whatdo you do?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Yes, so in the 2017-18 school year, that's when
I came back to Randolph as ateacher.
That was my fourth yearteaching and I'm still here
teaching and I teach biology andthe college-level biology class
, our UT on-ramps biology.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
We're going to have homecoming coming up soon, just
a couple of weeks out.
As a teacher, you've been herenow for a few years.
What are your thoughts onhomecoming?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I like homecoming.
It's in Texas such a bigtradition.
I went to high school in Texasso I get it.
I had the mums and everything.
Probably not as big as they'vegotten now.
They're out of this world.
They're so big now but I loveall of that.
I love the school spirit.
I do like that.
We do our district pep rallynow where we have elementary
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coming over and middle schooljoins and high school.
All of the school spirit isjust nice to see.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
So what do you think would be your best advice for
students today?
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I think probably just enjoy it while it lasts,
because especially with the highschool students, high school is
about figuring out who you areand what you like.
School doing the work is partof that.
But I think it's also like asafe space to kind of you know,
figure out who you are, what youlike, what you want to do, and
then that you know serves youlater in life.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
I want to know was there a teacher or teachers that
had a major impact on you?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Thinking back to elementary school and the
teachers that I had.
You know, my kindergartenteacher will stand out to me
because she's my firstexperience of school, so that
was Mrs Talbert.
And then I do also think of myfirst grade teacher, mrs Walpole
, because she was the one whotaught me how to read.
So, and I love reading, I havea little book club that you know
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I read with my friends, where Iread every single night, and so
I kind of credit her, you know,teaching me how to read.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Oh, that's huge, yeah , and of course you're going to
carry that Well.
Our last question is do youhave any final thoughts for that
you'd like to share with theoverall Randolph community?
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I just think it's a great community to be a part of.
It's super supportive,everyone's willing to kind of
jump in and help when needed,whether they are a parent or a
non-parent, just someone outthere in the community.
I feel like they do kind ofstress.
You know family and themilitary service too, and that's
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nice to see especially.
I was a military kid, so I getit and I understand it and it's
just really nice to be here.
It's got a small town vibe,even though you know we're in a
larger city, but it's got thatsmall town feel to it that I
also like and it's just overalljust a good place to be.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Well, mrs Flores, I think we are fortunate to have
you, and thank you for comingout here today to talk with us.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Of course.
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Well, that means that it's time for our Randolph
podcast trivia.
So the way this is going towork is I'm going to read a
trivia question.
If you would like to submit ananswer to potentially be
eligible to win some podcastswag, this is what you need to
do.
If you know the answer to thetrivia question, you are going
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to email your answer to podcastat RFISDnet.
I will be looking for thetimestamp to tell me who gets in
the correct answer first.
So whoever responds and has theanswer correct and is the first
one with that correct answer toget an email through to podcast
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at RFISDnet will be selected asthe winner.
If you are the winner, I willrespond to your email and we
will coordinate how we want toget your swag to you.
If I don't respond to youremail, that means that you are
not the winner, but I will besure to announce the answer to
this month's trivia question onnext month's podcast episode.
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That way, everybody will knowwhat the answer is, Because,
remember, just because yousubmit an answer and you don't
get a response from me, itdoesn't mean that your answer
was wrong.
It just means that you weren'tthe first one to get the answer
in.
Okay.
So now that we've got theinstructions out of the way,
here is the trivia question whenwas the first nighttime pep
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rally held to celebrate theRandolph High School football
team?
What was the location of thevery first night pep rally
celebrating the Randolph HighSchool football team?
Again, you're going to emailyour answer to podcast at
rfisdnet.
Podcast at rfisdnet.
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Thank you so much forparticipating and again, be sure
to tune in to next month'spodcast episode to hear the
answer revealed.
That brings us to the conclusionof part one of our special
alumni homecoming episode.
Be sure to listen to part twocoming right up.
Thank you for tuning in today.
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future episode, please reach outto Amanda Bauer via email.
Come back to listen againanytime.
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and, as always, thank you to ourguests, past, present and
future, our listeners and theentire Randolph community.
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Hello and welcome back.
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I am so excited for this nextepisode.
You are in for a real treattoday, and the reason I am so
excited about this particularepisode is because it is an
episode that is largely focusedon homecoming and alumni but not
just any alumni a unique subsetof alumni who actually all
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attended schools at Randolph atsome point as students and then
have returned and now work asemployees of the district, and
so I think they have such aunique perspective and I cannot
wait to hear their stories.
They are going to do individualmini segments and we will splice
them all together and I thinkit's going to be so fun to
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listen to.
And another neat thing aboutthis particular episode is that
we have asked a guest host tojoin us, so I will not be the
one asking the questions.
Instead, we've invited one ofour teachers not just any
teacher, but the teacher who hasbeen employed by the district
if not the longest, definitelyone of the longest.
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He is, I believe, in his 29thyear at Randolph as a teacher.
So I think he will bring a verycool perspective into the
conversation and I am reallyappreciative for Mr Sarlo and
each of the guests who agreed tobe on this special episode.
Who agreed to be on thisspecial episode.
So, mr Vance Sarlo, the highschool theater teacher at
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Randolph, how many years haveyou been at Randolph, mr?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Sarlo.
Oh wow, this is, I'm startingyear 29.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Okay, that's what I thought.
So nearly three decades and youstarted your career at Randolph
.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I did, I did.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Right after student teaching.
I came here.
I didn't even know the schoolexisted, but I got a and work as
employees for the district, sowe figured what better person to
interview these alumni thansomebody who taught many of them
and now works as a colleaguewith them.
I am really appreciative, MrSarlo, that you agreed to be
host for this episode and Ithink you're going to have some
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fun conversations.
I'm going to turn it over toyou and we will be back shortly
with our first mini segment.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Well, thank you for having me.
Thank you, hey, here we arewith Coach Elliott Ortiz.
Welcome, coach.
Thanks for coming in with ustoday.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Oh, thanks for having me.
It's real exciting to be on thepodcast first season, so
special.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Right, yeah, fantastic.
So tell us a little bit aboutyourself, as in what grades were
you here and years, if youremember, were you here?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
as a student.
So I was in New Mexico, atKirtland in Albuquerque, fourth
grade and we moved here fifthgrade, and so I came to Randolph
from fifth grade to and Igraduated from here, so from
fifth to 12th.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
All right.
And what was the graduationyear?
2006.
2006.
And then, when did you come?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
here to work.
So then I went to school inTexas State.
I did my student teaching hereas a student teacher for Coach
Gendron in the spring of 10.
And then I got my first job inYorktown, Texas, and I was there
a year and then I came backhere in the fall of 12.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
All right, yeah, and what would you say is your
favorite thing about your job asathletic director?
Cause I mean, uh, I know wesaid coach and all that, but
there are probably folks herethat don't know exactly what you
do here.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah Well, I guess the best part about being
athletic director is like so Iam an administrator but I still
get to be hands-on with kidsevery day, so that's the whole
reason you get into.
Education is to work with youngpeople.
And so, even though I'm anadministrator and I have
administrator-type paperwork andthat kind of stuff, I still get
to, on a daily basis, work withour boy and girl athletes, and
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that's the best part of thiswhole gig.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
What is your vision or goal as the athletic director
for RFISD?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
So I would say the the main goal is to is to make
sure that we are teaching morethan sports right, more than
just athletics that we are, thatwe are empowering our young men
and women to go on and and beproductive citizens and to and
to be, you know, future fathersand mothers and citizens and to
be, you know, future fathers andmothers and husbands and wives
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and good people.
And then also, you know, a goalis to give them the experience
that us, as a coaching staff,had in high school or in our
athletic, you know, endeavors.
That is positive, you know,because the whole reason we got
into coaching was we had such agreat experience in high school
athletics and and we want to tryand give that to our students
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as well.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
So when you were a student, did you ever imagine
that you would work here?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
No, I really didn't.
I didn't.
You know, I graduated, uh, 2006and I went to school and I, and
I had no idea really what wasgoing to happen.
I was either, hey, I was goingto go to school and then, when I
graduated, I was going to jointhe air force, or I was going to
go to school and be a coach,like those were the two options.
And and, uh, and I decided to.
You know, the coaching thingand and teacher thing was, uh,
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the place for me.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
So what made you want to come back here?
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Well, first off, I've had a connection with Randolph.
When I was going to college Iwas working on base, I worked at
the U Center, I worked at theArts and Crafts Center, worked
for the services it's now forSupport Squadron.
So I did all those things whileI was going to school.
So I've always been connectedto Randolph.
And then, knowing the type ofplace that Randolph is, when
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Coach West called me like hey,we have a job opportunity here,
I jumped at it.
I was like, yeah, that's home,so I want to be back.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Well, let's take you back down memory lane a little
bit more In honor of homecoming.
We have homecoming coming up.
What's your favorite homecomingtradition?
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I would say that the newest thing that we're doing is
with our district-wide peprally.
That, I think, has been a hugesuccess.
It has been an awesome eventevery year that we've done in
the last three years.
I would say that's probably myfavorite thing since the parade.
It can no longer be done withthe base housing situation.
The district pep rally has beena tremendous success, so I
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would say that's my favoritething.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, having the younger kids, they all come.
It's elementary plus middleschool plus high school.
It really is a big part of theRFISD.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Especially when you get younger kids, middle
schoolers and elementary kids.
So it's nice to get thatelementary energy in there
because it kind of upliftseveryone's energy.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
It does that's great and it once it once again,
builds community, it's, it's, uh, everybody.
So what would?
What do you think would be somegood?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
advice, or your best advice that you might have for
your current students I justjust go for it.
Whatever it is you want to youwant to do, just go for it.
It's um um.
The pain of regret will alwaysbe worse than the pain of
failure.
So just always go for what youthink is, and it may be
something that you don't succeed, but it takes you on a path to
where you're going to havesuccess.
So, just whatever it is youwant to do, go for it.
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And but understand that youknow hard work is required, like
that's the bare minimum.
If you for success is to workhard, so make sure that you know
that work is required Likethat's the bare minimum for
success is to work hard.
So make sure that you knowthat's the main thing.
Go for it and work hard.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Was there an influential teacher that helped
you learn that and other things,or a favorite teacher?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Yeah, I would say that at Randolph in high school,
even in middle school, coachGendron was a very influential
teacher.
He was the middle school PEcoach.
When you know I was in middleschool, coach Gendron was a very
influential teacher.
He was the middle school PEcoach.
When you know, I was in middleschool he was the.
You know, he was my US historyteacher when I was in high
school he also was my positioncoach and basketball coach.
So he was very influential andif you know about Coach Gendron,
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like he, he will make sure thatthings are done right and
they're done the best waypossible to your best abilities,
and so that's really a biginfluence on kind of what we're
doing now All right and lastquestion Do you have any final
thoughts that you would like toshare with our Randolph
community?
Once a RoHawk, always a RoHawkmantra is what we preach.
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So you know our doors arealways open to you.
You know, please reach out, andall former athletes that I've
had you know you have my number.
If there's anything you everneed, reach out and we'll be
more than happy to help you out.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Fantastic.
Thank you, coach Ortiz, forbeing with us today.
We really appreciate your time.
We know you're very busy, butyeah thanks, no thanks, it was
fun.
All right, I want to welcomeour next guest, ms Tanya Grace.
How are you today, tanya?
I'm great.
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Thank you a little bit.
So tell us a little bit aboutyourself regarding Randolph, as
in when you went to school hereand like what grade, if you can
remember what year.
I know you may have to do alittle bit of math, right, but
just a little.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Okay, well, I went here from my sophomore year of
high school until my senior year.
I graduated from Randolph, so Iwill say I graduated in 1992.
Okay, class of 92.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Yes, and then you came back to Randolph.
When did that happen?
And tell our listeners what youdo.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Well, I came here in 2017.
I actually had just beenwaiting for something to come
open for me here, so I was happy, when the opportunity came,
that there was a PE teacher jobopen, and, even though that's
not what I had done before, Iwent back and got certified in
PE.
I had always done SPED, so Igot certified in PE and I've
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been here ever since.
So currently I'm PE teacher andcoach and I'm also the middle
school athletic coordinator, andjust this year I added on the
strength and conditioning.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
What was it about?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Randolph.
That made you want to come back, and Randolph just holds a
special place in my heart.
I always knew that this was aplace that hopefully I could get
back to.
When I went into education Ijust said I know what Randolph
was about, what Randolph did forme, and so I was hoping to get
back and be able to do the samethings that all the teachers and
coaches did for me with someoneelse's kids.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
So do you have any special memory of your time at
Randolph as a student?
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Actually a lot of things.
Probably what stands out themost was well homecoming.
I was homecoming queen, so thatwas exciting.
And I also ended up going tostate for shot put and discus
and I was the only person in theentire Randolph track team that
went to state that year Wow.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I didn't know that.
Yes, so that was exciting.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
When you were a student, did you ever imagine
that you would come back hereand work?
Absolutely not.
No, I had no idea because,honestly, when I got out of high
school, my first thought wasnot even to go into education.
I switched up from likepsychology and went into
education.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Okay, I want to go back to this homecoming thing.
All right, Because homecomingis coming up.
Yes it's coming up.
Do you have any particularhomecoming tradition that I mean
it could be current or it couldbe something you know from the
past that that was your favoritething.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
So I just think it's always a good time when people
can come back and get together,and it's just nice to see
different eras ofRandolph-Rohawks come back
together.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
So when you were a student here, did you have a
favorite teacher or teachersthat maybe were influential on
you or taught you something inanything in particular that
might you might have carriedthrough the rest of your life,
and so forth.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Absolutely.
I will say that is Donna Lane.
I still keep in contact withher, still to this day.
She has always been someone whohas been encouraging for me,
even I mean through high school,through college and obviously
beyond.
Even I mean through high school, through college and obviously
beyond.
But she's always been able tobring out the best in me, and
it's not even just on the courtor in the gym, it's just as a
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person in general.
She taught me a lot of thingsof how to carry myself, how to,
you know, put myself out there,take chances and just always be
the best I can be.
So I have always kind ofmirrored a lot of stuff after
her.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Donna Lee is a great choice.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
She's just a very caring person, absolutely, and
that's the number one thing.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Whenever you first, she's caring, and like I said,
it goes beyond just her coaching.
So that's somebody who I wouldalways say like you know, I want
how I remember her.
I'm hoping that I can touchother kids that way and they
remember me just as well whenthey're as old as I am.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I'm sure some of them already think it already, and
but all right.
So do you have any advice fortoday's students, anything that
you would think would be yourbest advice to hand off to that
next generation?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Yes, and I actually I say this all the time now to
kids.
I think, coming to Randolph,some people don't realize how
good they have it here.
I think Randolph goes above andbeyond for a lot of our kids
and even our families.
I just think we, our communityand our environment, we just
live a different life, you know,than people outside the
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military.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I just think we have something very special here and
I just want kids to realize that, as far as the community is
concerned, do you have anythingyou would like to say to them?
Speaker 5 (15:11):
I would just say keep up the good work.
I mean, I think we do a goodjob of supporting one another,
so I think we're doing somethingright.
You know, people want to comehere for a reason.
We have something special and Iwant people to realize that.
And as long as we havecommunity involvement and parent
involvement and people are allworking towards the same goals,
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this will always be a greatplace 100% agree.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Thank you so much for coming out, coach Grace.
Oh, and here we are with DanielCarmine.
How are you doing?
Speaker 7 (15:43):
Daniel, I'm good.
How are you, mr Sarlo?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I'm doing great.
Hey, thanks for coming outtoday.
We really appreciate it.
So tell us actually real quick,tell us your current.
What are you teaching here atRandolph?
Speaker 7 (15:53):
I teach chemistry and UT chemistry.
What are you teaching here atRandolph?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
I teach chemistry and UT chemistry.
Fantastic, and originally youwere here as a student, right.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
So what grades and or years, if you can remember,
were you here as a Randolphstudent?
Speaker 7 (16:08):
I was here from eighth grade and I graduated, so
it was 95 to 2000.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Wow, 95 to 2000.
So you got to see a little bitof the middle school process all
the way through high school andfantastic.
And then you came here as ateacher in what year?
2022.
2022.
And what is your favoritememory here at Randolph?
Speaker 7 (16:34):
I think my favorite thing was we had the homecoming
parade and when I was a senior Ifinally was part of the float
and we just ran around gettingall the kids excited and
throwing candy at them andthings like that.
That was a blast.
There were so many of us in thebed of the truck that it was
almost rubbing the back tires.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Well, when you were a student here, did you ever
imagine that you would be backhere working and teaching?
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Honestly, no, I did not plan on being a teacher
until I graduated college.
It just wasn't on my radar.
But after I started teaching,my goal was always to come back.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
It just took me 17 years to do it, hey, hey,
sometimes.
Sometimes it takes a while toget to the good place, right?
Yes, sir, and what was it thatmade you want to come back to
Randolph?
Speaker 7 (17:24):
I always liked the small school atmosphere.
It's like if I, when I startedteaching, I taught at larger
schools and all the time I waslooking for openings here.
But I like the small schoolatmosphere.
Here is so much more personalwith the students than those
larger schools, as we're able tofocus more on every single
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student.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
So what do you think is the best advice that you have
for our current students?
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Yeah, not to worry too much about what everybody
thinks about you.
One of the issues with a smallschool and we all ran into it is
everybody knows too much abouteverybody and just not to worry
about that.
Just keep everything personal.
Keep who you are and be happyabout who you are.
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And the happier you are withyourself, the more accepted you
will be by everybody else.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Wow, that's.
That's really good.
I'm like wow, hey, I like that,I like that, I like that a lot.
So so tell us about perhapseither your favorite teacher or
maybe your most influentialteacher that you had here at
Randolph.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
Probably my favorite and most influential was my
chemistry teacher, ms Tentino.
I had her for regular chemistryas a sophomore and then I had
her for AP chemistry.
And chemistry was the firstclass that I ever took that I
actually had to work on.
I didn't get it right away.
I actually had to study how todo my work.
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I had to to work on.
I didn't get it right away.
I actually had to study how todo my work.
I had to go ask questions andit was the first time I ever
truly felt academicallychallenged.
And my teacher, she said it wassupposed to be hard.
She said if it wasn't hard itwouldn't be worth it.
And that kind of stuck with mefor my entire life.
I tell everybody if it's nothard, it's not worth it.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah, I remember Karen Dentino as well and I
remember her holding thestudents to the high standard
and being very well respected ather time.
Well, last question for youtoday Do you have any final
thoughts that you'd like toshare with the Randolph
community as a whole?
Speaker 7 (19:43):
So I think this community is probably the most
involved community that I'veworked with as a teacher.
It's a very different community.
Most public schools, you know,everybody lives in the district,
but here we have people likespread out.
We have just a smallercommunity on the base but it
seems like we get more done andcome together more as a
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community than the otherdistricts I worked at.
I think that's just amazing.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I don't think I could agree with you more.
Thank you very much for joiningus today.
Mr Carmin, thank you, we reallyappreciate your time and yeah,
thanks, all right, thanks a lot,appreciate it.
Our next guest for today is MrJacob Ritter.
Mr Ritter, hello, hey, thanksfor coming out today.
We really appreciate it.
So if you could tell us whenyou were a student here, if you
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can remember the years, gradelevels, things of that sort.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
Yeah, I was out here from 2005 through 2009.
I started in eighth grade andthen made it all the way through
to my senior year, and then youcame back to start working at
Randolph.
Yeah, I was gone for four yearsat Texas State and then I got
really bored of not being atRandolph so I was like well,
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let's try that again.
So I just started working thereright away.
What made you want to come back?
Oh, I love this school.
I think it's such a cool school.
I loved going to this school.
I was one of those guys that'slike I like going to school, so
I was pretty thrilled when I waslike no way, I can work here.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Do you have a favorite memory about your time
when you were here as a studentat Randolph?
Speaker 8 (21:21):
Yeah, I mean, one of the coolest parts about a school
like this is you can beinvolved in so many clubs,
organizations, sports, thingslike that.
I'm a guy that has way too manyhobbies and interests, so this
was a perfect school for me andI think anyone who's like that
probably experiences that toowhere it's like you can be a
cross country runner, you can bein the marching band, you can
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be in theater, you can be in 14other things like that's kind of
what I did, and so, yeah, allmy favorite memories are usually
related to that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Tell us a little bit about, or your favorite teacher
and or most influential teacherfrom your time at Randolph.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
Yeah, I don't know if I can pick one, so I just kind
of have more micro stories.
We have one of the coolestthings about my time at Randolph
.
I thought I was one of thosestudents that when you hand them
like an assignment, like mymind just is bursting with like
how could I do this in the coolway I want to?
And, um, a lot of teachersdon't let you do that, and I had
(22:26):
a lot of teachers that did letme do that.
And that was really special.
Um, I think, uh, Amanda'ssitting right here.
She was my English two teacher.
I remember, uh, you know, weread this book and I was like,
can we make a movie out of it?
And she's like, sure, andthat's what we did for a few
weeks.
Um, and she was flexible andlet us play and fail, um,
(22:48):
spectacularly, but still like,have a cool, like effort in
doing so.
Um, Mary Shields, my Spanishteacher, was the same way.
Me and my friend Robbie werejust like, uh, can we get out of
the Spanish exam and insteadmake an entire movie in Spanish?
He's like, yeah, that's waymore work and you're going to
(23:09):
learn more.
And you know, for us that wasway more fun than sitting down
and memorizing vocab words.
We got to write a script in itand then film it and practice
our pronunciation.
It was like way more work thanstudying for a test, but that's
what we wanted to do and thatwas really cool.
Way more work than studying fora test, but that's what we
wanted to do and that was reallycool.
And then I also just hadteachers that really challenged
me in areas that I even feltgood in.
(23:29):
I remember my math teacher,Steve Andreas was just like one
of those guys that I don't know.
I was like I was okay at mathbut he like brought me to that
next level and made it fun andjust was quirky and goofy and
made the classroom exciting tobe, in which I didn't associate
math with that.
I mean, you, mr Sarlo, uh, wereI was in a, I was in this
(23:52):
public speaking class and uh, Ithought I was pretty good at
that already and I just remember, you know him giving me tons of
feedback and I could not getthat 100, you know, I had to
keep working it and pushingmyself and thinking about things
I didn't even think about, likewhere you pause and where you
put your body to transitionthings.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Wow, that's a, that's a great list and um, it's uh.
Those are some really goodstories about things that you
remember from that time.
So what would be some of theadvice you might have?
What do you think would be yourbest advice for today's?
Speaker 8 (24:29):
students.
You're going to discover somuch about yourself in high
school and this is the time tojoin the club.
You don't even know if youmight like it.
What is impact?
What is robotics Like?
(24:50):
Go check it out.
It can be mid-year and you canjust pop in and most clubs are
just happy to have you there, soyou can find something that you
didn't know, that you loved,that you loved, like I
discovered the love of actingand video editing and running
and so many things here at thiscampus, and that's a special
thing to like, just discover.
So, yeah, take those risks andyou know, those things really
(25:15):
grow you as a person.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
It's good stuff All right and last question Do you
have any thoughts that you'dlike to share with the Randolph
community as a whole?
Speaker 8 (25:28):
Just keep supporting our school, make sure it never
goes away, because this is aspecial place and I don't want
to ever see it disappear.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Thank you very much, mr Ritter.
Thank you, it's been a pleasurehaving you.
Yes, I want to welcome our nextguest today, ms Kaylin Flores.
Tell us a little bit about yourstudent experience here at
Randolph, as in what grades wereyou here, what year, if you can
remember, you know?
Kind of give us a littlebackground on Ms Flores, the
(26:02):
student at Randolph.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Okay, so as a student at Randolph I was Kaylin
Chassie, my dad was in the AirForce and so we were stationed
at Randolph and I actuallystarted off at the CDC, so young
enough to start off at thedaycare center on base and then
kind of work my way up to theelementary school.
So I was in the elementaryschool for kindergarten first,
(26:24):
second and third grade, and so Ithink that's 1995 to 1999.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
So quite a while ago.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
And, for those of you that are listening, that you
heard the CDC.
That's the ChildhoodDevelopment Center, I believe,
or Child Development Center, notthe Center for Disease Control.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Right.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
So, but okay.
But then you came back as anemployee, as a teacher.
When did that happen and whatdo you do?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Yes, so in the 2017-18 school year, that's when
I came back to Randolph as ateacher.
That was my fourth yearteaching and I'm still here
teaching and I teach biology andthe college-level biology class
, our UT on-ramps biology.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
We're going to have homecoming coming up soon, just
a couple of weeks out.
As a teacher, you've been herenow for a few years.
What are your thoughts onhomecoming?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I like homecoming.
It's in Texas such a bigtradition.
I went to high school in Texasso I get it.
I had the mums and everything.
Probably not as big as they'vegotten now.
They're out of this world.
They're so big now but I loveall of that.
I love the school spirit.
I do like that.
We do our district pep rallynow where we have elementary
(27:40):
coming over and middle schooljoins and high school.
All of the school spirit isjust nice to see.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
So what do you think would be your best advice for
students today?
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I think probably just enjoy it while it lasts,
because especially with the highschool students, high school is
about figuring out who you areand what you like.
School doing the work is partof that.
But I think it's also like asafe space to kind of you know,
figure out who you are, what youlike, what you want to do, and
then that you know serves youlater in life.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
I want to know was there a teacher or teachers that
had a major impact on you?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Thinking back to elementary school and the
teachers that I had.
You know, my kindergartenteacher will stand out to me
because she's my firstexperience of school, so that
was Mrs Talbert.
And then I do also think of myfirst grade teacher, mrs Walpole
, because she was the one whotaught me how to read.
So, and I love reading, I havea little book club that you know
(28:44):
I read with my friends, where Iread every single night, and so
I kind of credit her, you know,teaching me how to read.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Oh, that's huge, yeah , and of course you're going to
carry that Well.
Our last question is do youhave any final thoughts for that
you'd like to share with theoverall Randolph community?
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I just think it's a great community to be a part of.
It's super supportive,everyone's willing to kind of
jump in and help when needed,whether they are a parent or a
non-parent, just someone outthere in the community.
I feel like they do kind ofstress.
You know family and themilitary service too, and that's
(29:28):
nice to see especially.
I was a military kid, so I getit and I understand it and it's
just really nice to be here.
It's got a small town vibe,even though you know we're in a
larger city, but it's got thatsmall town feel to it that I
also like and it's just overalljust a good place to be.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Well, mrs Flores, I think we are fortunate to have
you, and thank you for comingout here today to talk with us.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Of course.
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Well, that means that it's time for our Randolph
podcast trivia.
So the way this is going towork is I'm going to read a
trivia question.
If you would like to submit ananswer to potentially be
eligible to win some podcastswag, this is what you need to
do.
If you know the answer to thetrivia question, you are going
(30:19):
to email your answer to podcastat RFISDnet.
I will be looking for thetimestamp to tell me who gets in
the correct answer first.
So whoever responds and has theanswer correct and is the first
one with that correct answer toget an email through to podcast
(30:40):
at RFISDnet will be selected asthe winner.
If you are the winner, I willrespond to your email and we
will coordinate how we want toget your swag to you.
If I don't respond to youremail, that means that you are
not the winner, but I will besure to announce the answer to
this month's trivia question onnext month's podcast episode.
(31:01):
That way, everybody will knowwhat the answer is, Because,
remember, just because yousubmit an answer and you don't
get a response from me, itdoesn't mean that your answer
was wrong.
It just means that you weren'tthe first one to get the answer
in.
Okay.
So now that we've got theinstructions out of the way,
here is the trivia question whenwas the first nighttime pep
(31:23):
rally held to celebrate theRandolph High School football
team?
What was the location of thevery first night pep rally
celebrating the Randolph HighSchool football team?
Again, you're going to emailyour answer to podcast at
rfisdnet.
Podcast at rfisdnet.
(31:47):
Thank you so much forparticipating and again, be sure
to tune in to next month'spodcast episode to hear the
answer revealed.
That brings us to the conclusionof part one of our special
alumni homecoming episode.
Be sure to listen to part twocoming right up.
Thank you for tuning in today.
(32:35):
If you have an idea, questionor trivia suggestion for a
future episode, please reach outto Amanda Bauer via email.
Come back to listen againanytime.
New episodes release on thethird Wednesday of each month
and, as always, thank you to ourguests, past, present and
future, our listeners and theentire Randolph community.
Remember we are Randolph.
(32:56):
This is our story.
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