Tanya Loffler:  

Hello, old friend! I graduated from Texas Tech University in December of 1981 with a B.A. in Speech and Hearing Sciences and again in May of 1984 with a M.S. also in Speech and Hearing Sciences. I completed my Educational Diagnostician's certification in June of 2001 and my Principal's certification in June of 2004. I married Larry Loffler, a Seminole native (can you believe it?), on March 14, 1987. We have one daughter, Madison Marie, born Jan. 19, 1989. I worked in DC as a Speech-Language Pathologist for 16 years also teaching American Sign Language at the High School for several of those last years. We lived in DC until we moved to Seminole on April 1, 2000. I was employed by Seminole I.S.D. as an Educational Diagnostician for three years, an Assistant Principal at the High School for five years, and took over as the High School Principal on Sept. 14, 2007 until June 30, 2009. In July, we relocated to the beautiful Texas hill country where we'd always dreamed about retiring. We live in Driftwood, Texas which is not really even a town. We're out in the middle of the beautiful oak trees and creeks about 20 minutes from the heart of Austin. For two years, I commuted about an hour one way to work in Pflugerville ISD as the Director of Special Education. Schools were becoming not such a wonderful place to be working any more, so I retired effective June 2011. It's nice to be receiving a Teacher Retirement System of Texas check and have other options. I began woking for Carousel Pediatrics as their Specialty Services Manager in May 2011 and hope to continue this position until Madison finishes graduate school (May 2015) or until I can officially retire altogether! Larry still works for Occidental Petroleum but s...Expand for more