by District | May 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
Randy Bishop will become our new Plant Manager on Monday. He succeeds Dave Van Mensel, who is transferring to the new Fivay High School, which opens in August. Mr. Bishop has been at River Ridge for six years and has served as Acting Plant Manager there for the last...
by District | Mar 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
Top row: Loop, Pereira; bottom row: Tran, Johnson Mr. Knobl announced the names of Gulf High School’s 2010 valedictorians and salutatorians today. JACKSON LOOP is the valedictorian. He is the son of Gregory and Camilla Loop. Jackson was born in Oneida, N. Y., and...
by District | Feb 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
The Gulf wrestling squad won the state Class A championship tonight. In addition, Anthony Ayers won the individual state title by a pin and Ladarious Jackson won the individual state title by a 3-2 decision. Both wrestlers are juniors. R. J. O’Connor finished second...
by District | Feb 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
Milton Stevenson, 83, who dropped out of GHS in the 9th grade and soon after entered the military, was given a well-deserved Gulf High School diploma on Feb. 4 under a new special program. In the upper right photo, Mr. Knobl presents Mr. Stevenson with his diploma....
by District | Jan 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
Jan. 11, 2010, was a memorable day at GHS as Progress Energy Florida turned off our electrical power from 6:02 a.m. till about 9:50 a.m. because of the cold weather. With power out until 9:50 and lunch served at 10:30, the only menu item was peanut butter and jelly...
by District | Dec 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
Junior guard Nicole Adams was honored tonight with a 1000-point basketball before the start of the basketball game vs Mitchell. Coach Mike Quarto praised her as both an ideal athlete and student. She is in Gulf’s International Baccalaureate program. Dr. Lepley...
by District | Nov 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
Mr. Knobl announced today that Trevor Abbott, Gulf’s Outstanding Senior, has been selected as Pasco County’s Outstanding Senior. In the picture with Mr. Knobl are Trevor’s parents and step-parents, Mark Abbott, Roland O’Dell, and Rhonda O’Dell. In his letter to Pasco...
by District | Oct 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
Scott Poling has been named Gulf High School’s SRP of the Year. Scott Poling is a custodian who has been at Gulf for five years. He grew up in St. Petersburg. His wife is a teacher at River Ridge High School, where their daughter attends school.
by District | Oct 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
Lizzette Nazario, who is a Media Specialist, has been named the Gulf High School Teacher of the Year. Her selection was announced at a faculty meeting after school today. Mrs. Nazario joined the Gulf faculty at the start of the 2003-04 school year. She originally...
by District | Aug 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
Lynn Goettel, a Gulf High School graduate, has been named our new school nurse. She replaces Susan Girardi, who retired at the end of the previous school year. Mrs. Goettel is an R. N. She has been a pediatric nurse for 30 years locally, and she has been in the Pasco...
by District | Jul 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
Troy LaBarbara, who has taught at Gulf for 15 years, will be leaving to become an assistant principal in Hernando County. Mr. LaBarbara will be the assistant principal for ESE and eleventh grade at Central High School in Brooksville. He said that he will miss Gulf...
by District | Jun 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
Mr. Knobl today introduced staff members to Gwendolyn Gideon. Pending school board approval, Ms. Gideon will begin at GHS on July 6, 2009.
by District | May 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
Physical education teacher and JV volleyball coach Barbara Munday is retiring at the end of the school year. Mrs. Munday has been at Gulf High School for 25 years, starting at the beginning of the 1984-85 school year. She is known to earlier students as Barbara...
by District | May 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
At a faculty meeting after school today, Mr. Imerson honored two Gulf staff members who are retiring at the end of the school year. They are Assistant Principal Al Palma and School Social Worker Wendy Kall. Here are three pictures.
by District | May 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
Gulf High School sophomore Bella Calafiura has qualified to take part in an international ballet competition. Normally, only about 30 to 35 students worldwide participate. She passed the highest examination for pre-professional dancers and thus qualified to take part...
by District | May 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
Three Gulf students were among winners of the 2009 Anne Frank Humanitarian Award announced tonight at the Florida Holocaust Museum. They are Steve Toth, Brit Smith, and Krystal Rosado. Toth and Smith are pictured. The three students have organized two concerts which...
by District | May 26, 2009 | Uncategorized
A fairy ring was discovered on the football practice field today by Chris Mosher. According to Wikipedia, a fairy ring, also known as fairy circle, elf circle or pixie ring, is a naturally occurring ring or arc of mushrooms. The rings may grow over ten meters in...
by District | May 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
Les Snyder, who taught science at Gulf High School for 26 years and at Gulf Junior High for 2 years, will retire at the end of the school year. Mr. Snyder attended Gulf High School. He graduated in 1965 as the salutatorian and he was named Best All-Around Student. Mr....
