Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
DAVENPORT-Three teachers with the district here celebrated their retirements at the conclusion of the 2020-21 school year after a combined 102 years here with the district. Jean Parsons, Karen Brewster and Rawleigh Fisk will head out of their educational careers, with most having plans to remain in the area in their post-career lives.
Parsons was Spanish teacher
Jean Parsons was employed by the district full-time in 1984, but was a substitute teacher for seven years prior, starting in 1977. She grew up in Mexico and came to the United States in her senior year of high school, so she became a Spanish teacher in the district.
She was also well-known as teaching ELA, senior culminating project and scholarships. She also spent time teaching science at the middle and high school.
She and her husband, Daryl Parsons, live in Davenport. They plan to spend retirement traveling and golfing at Harrington Golf and Country Club while possibly traveling south to escape the cold in the winter.
"I will miss the people I worked with and the students. I love to see them be successful," Parsons said. "I worked with some incredible people."
Brewster took music knowledge from Alaska to Davenport
Karen Brewster grew up in Alaska and taught at a private music school there before coming to the district in 1990. She taught K-12 students as a choral instructor, swing choir advisor and drama advisor.
She plans to stay in town and travel with her husband Steve, a former sound technology advisor around the district. The pair live north of Davenport.
Brewster said her students will be most missed.
"I'll miss making music with the kids and giving kids the opportunity to sing while sharing that with the community," Brewster said.
Fisk taught science and coached several sports
Rawleigh Fisk spent 30 years with the district and taught for eight years in Creston prior to that. He moved to Davenport originally in 1969 as a fourth grader, then moved to Clarkston in high school. He enjoyed it here so much, he moved back as an adult and became a teacher here.
Fisk mainly taught high school science while specializing in chemistry, but also taught P.E. and weightlifting while spending time coaching high school softball, high and middle school wrestling and middle school football.
He and his wife of 38 years, Katie (Teel) Fisk, plan to stay on the family farm they took over in 2007 on Teel Hill Road north of town.
"I don't know yet what I'll miss most...it hasn't sunk in that I'm not going back in the fall," Fisk said. "We had a pretty good staff and we worked well together...it was a good time."
Drew Lawson is the editor of the Davenport Times. He is a graduate of Eastern Washington University.
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