Longtime Montgomery High School math teacher Charlie Stenger died last week. He was 82, In addition to his tenure at Montgomery, Stenger taught at Santa Rosa Junior College. Three years ago, Stenger led the charge to get approximately 200 retired educators in Sonoma County to join the California [...]
Montgomery High School class of 2011 grad Kelsey Dayton will spend six weeks this summer in Morocco learning Arabic through the National Security Language Initiative for Youth Scholarships. The entire cost of Dayton’s travel and stay in Morocco will be paid for by the U.S. State Department. Dayton is one [...]
UPDATED: Chris Borland, Lili's dad, emailed me to say that the working title of Borland's high school memoir was incorrect. It has been corrected in the copy below. ____ Lili Borland is heading to Wesleyan University in Connecticut – but not next year. She’s first taking a gap year to [...]
Trey Smith is not afraid to try something new. Raised in west county and a graduate of small elementary and middle schools, Smith said he decided to transfer to Montgomery – his mom’s alma mater -- for high school. He was struck by what he called the “upper middle class [...]
Adriana Reyes is headed to UCLA. The Montgomery High senior said despite a stellar academic career that has earned her a place in the UCLA’s 2011 freshman class, her proudest classroom moment came when she graduated from her ESL class in third grade. At Matanzas Elementary, she was one of [...]
Jamie Dorn-Caruso’s voice has greeted the Montgomery Vikings’ campus every day her senior year. As co-president of the school’s Green Team, she has given tips and admonishments to her fellow students to remember to recycle, reuse and think green while on the Hahman Drive campus. The group led a massive [...]
Soccer, football, golf and basketball – Chris Kelly has suited up in Viking red for them all throughout high school. When he’s not wearing goalkeepers’ gloves or holding a five-iron, he is wearing a crown – he was named prom and homecoming king by his peers this year (he didn’t [...]
Montgomery High’s Gabe Ferrick will be honored tonight as a Distinguished Finalist in the 2011 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards program. Ferrick was chosen from among more than 5,000 middle and high school students nominated in November for their volunteer community service. Ferrick, a sophomore at Montgomery, is credited with raising [...]
UPDATE: At the Santa Rosa City School Board meeting Wednesday night, the board honored retiring teachers and staff. The list of those retiring was updated from a previously published list. Here is the updated version: ____ When the school year ends later this month, Santa Rosa City Schools will say [...]
Reunion season is upon us and there are a few new ones on this list. As I did last year, I’ll try to post and repost calls for classmates as often as practicable throughout the spring or summer. So if you and your Sonoma County classmates are having a reunion [...]