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Saturday, Feb. 4, 2006 |
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NIS web site information for Kathy Chagluak |
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The first of three daughters, I was born in Hillsboro Oregon on June 25, 1958, just one day shy of being a birthday gift for my father. Both my mother and father, Carol and Bob Huson were born in the Hillsboro hospital as was one of my sisters. In the late 6o's we moved to McMinnville where my parents continue to live. Dad, who is now retired worked as a lineman, first for the telephone company and then for the city of McMinnville. He retired about 4 years ago and now pursues the more important things in life, golf, hunting, fishing, sitting under the tree in the back yard admiring the garden. Mom, was always home for us. She volunteered in Sunday school, Girl Scouts, school, came to all of my swim meets and kept dinner hot for me when I came home late from practice or work. Mom enjoys her 5 grandchildren who come to visit often and the other 2 (my kids) who come to visit once a year for 6 weeks. Linda is the sister that is 2 years younger than me. She has 3 children and lives in Hillsboro with her husband and many cats (they came with the husband). Barbara, the baby, is about 8 years younger. She was supposed to be a boy (poor Dad). Barb is a special education teacher. She has 2 children, a husband, a cat named Cinderella and a dog named Buster. After graduating from McMinnville High School in 1977, I attended Oregon College of Education in Monmouth just 25 miles from my home town. I graduated in June of 1981 with a Bachelors degree in Elementary Education. Not finding a teaching position right out of college, I substituted for a few months, I hated it! Desperate, I went back to college to avoid the substituting and broaden my job possibilities. Now armed with a reading endorsement I continued looking for a job. Finally in 1982 I got my first break. A friend of mine was teaching in Bethel and heard that a principal in a village was in need of a teacher. She gave him my name and he called and hired me right over the phone. It was a mad rush to get there because school had already started. I was off to Tuluksak Alaska to teacher 6th, 7th and 8th grade. So began my Alaska experience. I married in June of 1983, a man from Toksook Bay who I had met the previous summer in Oregon (that's another story). We moved to a rural farming town in Eastern Oregon, where I taught Special Education. After three years, we moved back to Toksook Bay where I was fortunate to find a job teaching Special Education. We have been here ever since. My husband Gabriel and I have two beautiful girls, Emily and Alicia who are the light of our lives. They both are loving, caring, curious children who will talk your leg off if you will listen. They love living in Toksook Bay and the freedom they have to play out in the snow or tundra without worrying about things big city kids have to worry about. They go with me to Oregon each summer to visit my side of the family. We always are on the go and have to come home to rest before school starts in August. I have been in Toksook Bay for 14 years. Here, I have found and am still finding friends for life. It is a great place to live and work. I love being a teacher. It is so rewarding to see students learn and grow and know that I was part of that process. I believe that every child and teacher brings something to the learning process and that each can and should learn from the other. Teachers and adults in the school should expect the most of the children and show them how to achieve that goal. Discipline is a very important factor in this equation. Disciplined children who know there are limits and where they are will be more productive students. They will respect themselves and others as well. |
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