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Holiday Rotary Students of the Month

Holiday Rotary Students of the Month

The Holiday Rotary Students of the Month for January are Lauren Bobek and John Vann. The criteria for selection are academics, service, behavior, citizenship, and leadership, and a minimum GPA of 3.0. They will be recognized at a luncheon in May.
New teacher joins the Gulf faculty

New teacher joins the Gulf faculty

Bob Fogel joins the Gulf faculty today. He will be co-teaching with Mr. Evans and Mrs. Dale and also will have two science classes of his own in one of the portables. He replaces Mrs. Cardinale (Maitland), who transferred to Pine View Middle School. Mr. Fogel taught...
IB Group 4 Project

IB Group 4 Project

IB seniors went on a field trip to the Energy and Marine Center on Feb. 28. According to Mr. Uchacz, in the G4P (Group 4 Project) biology and chemistry students work together as a team to investigate some phenomenon. For example, students tried to find a correlation...
Coach DeWitt retires

Coach DeWitt retires

Lonnie “Buck” DeWitt, who has taught and coached at Gulf since the 1980s, has retired. Coach DeWitt most recently taught social studies and phys ed, but he taught driver education for many years. He was the head boys basketball coach in 2009-10 and 2010-11...
Two Gulf wrestlers earn medals at States

Two Gulf wrestlers earn medals at States

Congratulations to Spencer Baxter, who placed 3rd in the 160-pound class, and Forrest Swartsel, who placed 5th in the 120-pound class, in the FHSAA state wrestling tournament at Lakeland. Both are juniors. Spencer is on the left in the upper photo; Forrest is in the...
Tropicana Speech Contest winners

Tropicana Speech Contest winners

The GHS Tropicana Speech Contest winners are (pictured) Kris Stolarczyk and Corey Palermo. Since Corey has been awarded a shirt earlier, he was given a gift box with candy and Chili’s coupons.  The students will compete at the district level on Feb. 23....
Painting Gulf High School

Painting Gulf High School

The photo below is taken from a second-floor classroom window and shows school district worker Cheryl Buckley on an elevated platform pressure cleaning the second story of our main building. After it is cleaned, the first story will be painted.