James Childers:
CLASS OF 1960
Grants Pass High SchoolClass of 1960
Grants pass, OR
James's Story
I spent 12 years with Safeway, the last six of them while commuting to Ashland for classes. I graduated SOSC in 1972 with a degree in Secondary Education. One of my Biology profs was a familiar face; Mike Flower was the chairman of the Biology department at SOSC while I was there. He taught a mean Developmental Biology class! When I graduated in 1972, I started teaching in the Josephine County unit. Little did I dream that I would spent my 30 year career there at only two schools--five years at Fleming Junior High and 25 years at North Valley High School after it opened. I was fortunate enough to be nam...Expand for more
ed 2-A girls' basketball coach of the year in 1986 and Oregon Conservation Teacher of the Year in 1996. I had great students at both schools (two of them are now emergency room doctors here in Salem) and worked with some pretty amazing teachers.
Personally, I married Karen Tedrick (class of 1961) in 1962 and we had two kids, Randy,now a geologist based in Sandy, Utah, and Lisa, a reiki master and NIA instructor living in Montgomery, Texas.
We retired in 2002, and moved here to Salemtowne in 2006. Salemtowne is an active retirement community with its own golf course, which I am currently trying to wear out.
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