Two math teachers who have been at Gulf for many years plan to retire at the end of the school year. They are Dan Fagan and Craig Schneider. Craig’s wife Else, who is the clinic aide, will also retire.
Dan Fagan has been teaching for 36½ years. He began his teaching career at the start of the 1974-75 school year at Dade City Grammar School. He taught physical education for the first 12 years of his career. He moved from Dade City to Gulf Junior High School, where he taught for 10 years. In 1986 he came to Gulf High School. He has coached football and baseball during 30 of those 36½ years. He has also frequently been the public address system announcer for pep rallies and other events.
Mr. Fagan was born in Brooksville but raised in Pasco County. He is a 1970 graduate of Pasco High School in Dade City and also graduated from the University of Florida. He is married to Ligia, the supervisor of a nursing home. They have two adult children, and a 10-month-old grandson Aidan. Joe Dan Fagan, 27, works as a sales representative for Ring Power, and Kevin, 23, is a nurse at the V. A. in Gainesville. Both sons are GHS graduates.
Asked what he plans to do after he retires, Coach Fagan said, “Anything I want.”
Craig Schneider came to Gulf High School in 1984. He has had an interesting career, having started teaching in the Teacher Corps at the Connecticut State Reformatory. He was employed there for 1½ years. From 1970 to 1980 he taught at the Mount St. John Residential Treatment Center in Deep River, Connecticut. At Gulf High School he has been the Business Manager for the athletic department since 1995.
Mr. Schneider was born in the Bronx. He graduated from Massapequa High School in Massapequa, N. Y., and earned a bachelor’s degree from C. W. Post College at the University of Long Island and a master’s degree in Urban Education from the University of Hartford.
Else Anderson was born in Union City, N. J. She graduated from Emerson High School. She started at Gulf in 1997 and has been the Clinic Aide since then.
They have a son, Chris, 35, who graduated from GHS in 1993 and is now a correctional officer for Coleman Correctional Institute in Sumter County. They have a granddaughter, Kirsten, who is 7.
Asked what he plans to do after retirement, Mr. Schneider said, “Sleep in and travel.”
