Thursday, August 1, 2013

UPDATE: Four DHS Alums Now Serving As Dorchester Educators


Dorchester starts a new school year in less than two weeks (Aug. 13). When the school bell rings again, three new teachers will grace the halls of DPS, including two very familiar faces.

Lisa (Bruha) Lautzenhiser will be Dorchester's new second grade teacher.  She will take the place of Lori Vyhnalek, who left for a job in Friend.  Lautzenhiser is a Dorchester area native and a DHS alumnae (DHS Class of 1987). 

According to DPS Principal Dohmen, Lautzenhiser comes highly recommended after her years of teaching in McCool Junction.

Also joining the faculty will be Ty Peteranetz, who replaces longtime educator Scott Pohl as fourth grade teacher.  Peteranetz will also serve as the new DHS volleyball coach.

Finally, it has been announced that DHS alumnus Brandon Bruha (DHS Class of 2008) will be replacing industrial technology instructor Steve Fusco. Bruha will be working to complete his IT endorsement, while organizing curriculum for IT courses offered by DHS. He will also assist in coaching Longhorn girls basketball.

Other staff changes will include Ryan Voelker taking over as the new girls basketball head coach, while Brent Zoubek (DHS Class of 1995) has fully assumed the role of athletic director.

*UPDATE* -- According to several sources, the upcoming school year will mark the first time in modern school history that four DHS graduates have served as leading educators in the classroom. Terri (Feeken) Carroll, Dorchester's kindergarten teacher, is a 1977 DHS graduate. (We are told there are still a handful of fellow teachers at DPS who taught Bruha and Zoubek.) 


Good luck to all DPS students and faculty members as they prepare to begin the 2013-14 school year.

7 comments:

  1. Check the year Lisa graduated. I believe it was 1986, not 87.

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  2. Anonymous:

    If we are wrong, we will cut in half the annual salary of our research staff.

    Our regrets for the error.

    Dorchester Times Staff

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  3. I am so happy to see this positive change taking place at Dorchester Schools. As a taxpayer in the school district, I have been concerned for a while that so few faculty members live in the school district. I know it's unreasonable to think all teachers and admin staff can live here, but years ago at least 50% did. The superintendent lived just across the street for years.

    I know Lisa L. has Dorchester stitched on her heart and soul while Brent Zoubek literally bleeds orange and black. I don't know Brandon all that well but how nice it is to see young talent like him want to come back to DHS to prepare those young minds. This is certainly a nice change from the school having to pay a teacher who despised her place of work so much she sent her kids to another school. I never figured that one out.

    Good hires, Dorchester. These are people who will give 110% to insure that Dorchester is doing everything for their kids.

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  4. There is another DHS alumni teaching at Dorchester - Terri (Feeken) Carroll is the Kindergarten teacher and a 1977 graduate.

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  5. Look at our school board members mark boors and Steve vynalek were great longhorn students.

    Go black and orange

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  6. What's going on with the construction. I heard the building foundation is falling in

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  7. I'm so glad about Zoubek and the Bruhas working at our school. They put Dorchester first, foremost and always. You don't have to wonder about where their loyalties lie. I'd trust them with either of my kids' education.

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