Gene Buinger:
CLASS OF 1963
Shawnee Mission East High SchoolClass of 1963
Shawnee mission, KS
Blue Valley West High SchoolClass of 1975
Stanley, KS
Gene's Story
I retired in 2013 after a 45 year career as an educator. Starting out in the Blue Valley School District in 1968 as a high school history teacher and concluding my career as the superintendent of schools in the Hurst-Euless-Bedford School District in the suburbs of Dallas-Fort Worth. The district enrolled 24,000 students and had twenty campuses. I served there for 14 years and must have done a good job because they named a school after me when I retired. The Gene Buinger Career and Technical Education Academy opened in the Fall of 2013 and now enrolls over a thousand students.
My wife, Mary Kay, retired at the same time. She was a teacher and division head at Tarrant County College. We have two children, Ann and Doug. Ann is an administrator in a school district and our son is working in I...Expand for more
T sales. Both live in the DFW area. Our first grandchild, Avery Buinger, arrived in January 2019. What a great present for our 50th anniversary.
In July 2019 we moved to a new home that places us within five minutes of our grandchildren. Both our son and his wife work from home but have to travel several days a month so we get to take care of Avery. Then in September 2020 our second grandchild was born--Henry William Buinger is doing well. With Covid we have stepped up and were taking care of the grandchildren during the week.
We have begun to travel again. We cruised the Baltic in June 2022 visiting seven countries and visited Japan in November 2023. Next year's travels will take us to Sicily in March and a tour of Frank Lloyd Wright designed buildings in the Mid-West in the Fall..
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