by District | May 31, 2011 | Uncategorized
Debi Pitcock, who has taught Geometry Honors to our pre-IB students, has retired after teaching in Pasco County for 37 years. Ms. Pitcock began her teaching career in 1974 at Gulf Junior High School, teaching Spanish and French. In 1980 she transferred to Land O’...
by District | May 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
Carol Hlad, who has taught Family and Consumer Science at Gulf since 1996, will retire at the end of the school year. Ms. Hlad began her teaching career in 1968 at Donora Junior High School in Donora, Pa. She taught Home Economics there. She subsequently switched to...
by District | May 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
Nicholas Baker has been awarded a scholarship by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. In February, Baker, Kelly Hallisey, and Lauren Kanapka had been named National Merit Finalists. This photo shows Dr. Knobl congratulating Nick on March 28, when we learned...
by District | Apr 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
The names of the Gulf students who will be attending Boys State and Girls State has been announced. The students are Regina Pascali, Alec Cranford, Corey Palermo, and John Vann. Each program spends a week in Tallahassee studying the local, county, and state...
by District | Apr 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
Three Gulf seniors have made the Florida Athletic Coaches Association All-State girls soccer team. They were honored this afternoon. They are, left to right: Melissa Morlan, goalkeeper; Dani Schulman, center back; and Chelsea Foster, forward. Melissa has been playing...
by District | Apr 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
Six Gulf juniors who took the 2010 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test have met the requirements to enter the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program. They are among the 50,000 highest-scoring participants out of about 1.5 million program...
by District | Apr 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
Longtime Gulf English teacher Barbara Starkey will retire at the end of the school year. She has taught 9th grade English for most of her career, but has also taught honors English and other grade levels, and she has taught Reading. Mrs. Starkey has the distinction of...
by District | Apr 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
Zachary Ivanac, Marí Mercado, Lauren Kanapka, Brandi Taylor, Nicholas Baker Pictured above are the valedictorians and salutatorians of the Gulf High School Class of 2011. Because of a tie in GPA’s, there are two IB valedictorians this year. Zachary Mark Ivanac is the...
by District | Apr 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
GHS Band Director Bill Rutherford revealed the first photos of the new band uniforms yesterday on the band web site. The photo on the right shows the new uniform, although black gloves will be added. The center photo, taken on Dec. 11, 2002, shows a band member...
by District | Mar 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
Three Gulf students have been named Athletes of the Year by the Sunshine Athletic Conference. Ladarious Jackson is the wrestler of the year, Nicole Adams is the girls basketball player of the year, and Dani Schulman is the girls soccer player of the year.
by District | Mar 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Gulf NJROTC unit placed 4th in the state competition at Oviedo High School today. The unit had placed 5th last year, and 6th earlier. In an email, Dr. Knobl wrote, “I would like to congratulate Commander Nesthus, Chief Rodriguez, and the 110 cadets for their...
by District | Feb 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
Dr. Paul P. Pollack, the Gulf High School valedictorian in 1999, is the author of a recently-published college textbook on number theory titled Not Always Buried Deep: A Second Course in Elementary Number Theory. Dr. Pollack graduated from the University of Georgia in...
by District | Feb 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
Gulf wrestlers Anthony Ayers and Ladarious Jackson won first place in their weight classes in the state wrestling tournament tonight. Both wrestlers also won first place last year as juniors. Dr. Knobl sent the following email to the faculty: Congratulations to Coach...
by District | Feb 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
Dr. Knobl announced today that all three of our 2011 National Merit semifinalists have been named National Merit finalists. He stated that this establishes a record for our school. The students are, left to right, Nicholas Baker, Kelly Hallisey, and Lauren Kanapka....
by District | Jan 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
Longtime Gulf High School coach Jerry Young, who had his No. 10 baseball jersey retired during a preseason baseball tournament in 2009, officially had his uniform placed on our school’s Wall of Fame in the front office in a ceremony today. Coach Young coached at Gulf...
by District | Dec 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
Linda Allan has been named the Gulf High School Teacher of the Year. Her selection was announced at a faculty meeting after school today. Linda Allan has been at Gulf for 11 years, since 2000. She usually teaches English in the ESE program but is currently teaching...
by District | Dec 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
Phil Baggett has been named Gulf High School’s SRP of the Year. He is a custodian who has been at Gulf almost four years. He did much of the painting of the school over the summer, and you might have heard him announcing the names of the players before the start of...
by District | Nov 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
Melissa Morlan, Gulf High School’s Outstanding Senior, was selected the 2010/11 Outstanding Student of the Year by the Pasco County School District today. She is a daughter of Kim and Scott Morlan of Trinity. Melissa will be recognized at the Excellence in Academics...
