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Show rmnMn,)n "Extra Milers" Honored at Pleasant Grove High School o s J li : ,A V- i L v: V ill , , , - - - - . - - . The "Extra Milers" for the month of November at Pleasant Grove High School are Russ Mayo and Ruth Dowling. Pholo courtesy of Timpanogos Times The "Extra Milers" for the month of November at Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove High School are Russ Mayo and Ruth Dowling. Russ Mayo is a techi, teaching teach-ing Radio, KPGR, Digital Media, Me-dia, and TV Broadcasting at the high school. Mr. Mayo is a guy who is always there for anybody. He is an amazing artist. During his senior year at Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove High School, the new Student Center was built. At that time the Student Center was an open court and then the school enclosed it, putting up a big barricade bar-ricade during construction. It was so ugly that Russ painted a big Viking head on it to make it look better. Mr. Mayo is an athlete as well. In high school, he played basketball and participated in track. Russ was known for his ability to jump and dunking a basketball is one of his many talents. Russ is the assistant coach for the cross country team. He not only coaches them, but runs with them every day. He also coaches the boys tennis team. Fun, generous, kind, and great mentor are words that describe Mr. Mayo. He helps students at the high school as well as those who have graduated and moved on. The students ask him if he will be their advisor to their club because he doesn't know the word "NO". On senior night he doe's caricatures of the students and every banquet he does pictures pic-tures with the kids. "Russ is amazing and PGHS is lucky to have him," stated Assistant Principal Prin-cipal Kori Thomas. Ruth Dowling is in her second sec-ond year of teaching at PGHS. She teaches Painting, Art Foundation, Foun-dation, and Sculpture. She graduated grad-uated from BYU in April 2009 and she and her husband, Drew, have a three and a half month old boy named Dustin. Ruth is originally from Columbus, Ohio, where she graduated from Dublin High School. She has two sisters and one brother. Ruth is a teacher, mentor, innovator, and friend. She works with all levels of students, especially espe-cially those who are struggling. strug-gling. She is a true professional profes-sional and looks for any opportunity to engage, not just teach kids. Mrs. Dowling Dowl-ing is envied by a veteran teacher at the school for her "Milers" continued on Page 5 "Milers" continued from Page 4 inventiveness. She learns from her mistakes and changes things next time. Ruth won't be a teacher that gets in a rut because she expands ex-pands her horizon and learns from new teachers. Mrs. Dowling's classroom class-room is always busy. You will see her students all over the school drawing and she is always looking for new and innovative ways to do the same old assignments! Ruth is creative, friendly, knowledgeable, knowl-edgeable, and passionate. She loves her subject matter, but loves her students even more! Ruth will work with even the most non intentional learners and somehow find a way to motivate them. If she hasn't seen someone in a day or two, she just stops by to say "hi". Ruth claims this is her dream job and her husband turned down a job at the U so she could continue to teach. |
