THE VERITAS
May 24, 2019
Covenant Christian High School
Tiny News Issue 6
LOOKING BACK: A FLASH ON THE PAST Article by Hannah Mossbarger (‘20) and Joann Ncube (‘21)
What group of Covenant kids would you hang out with now?
Here at Covenant, we love our teachers. A lot. Seriously. The way that they are so selflessly invested in the students every day demonstrates their willingness to ensure that we understand the material from a Christian worldview and that we are adequately prepared to embrace the challenges brought on by academics. However, we also love them because of their quirks, senses of humor, character traits, and interests. It’s what helps them to connect with certain students or to significantly impact specific groups. Do you ever wonder what your teachers were like in high school? What kids they hung out with? Well, Joann and I did, so we went and asked a few.
Mr. Tripple: I was friends with a lot of different groups. I would be friends with everyone. Maybe Josiah Suarez and/or Josiah Allman. C-Hutch: OH MY GOSH THAT’S SO DIFFICULT TO ANSWER! Probably Sam Young, Connor Craig, some of the guys from the volleyball team, just because they come here during 8th period. They’re not jocks, but are like second-tier kids.” Mr. Ward: I’ve been told I would be Oliver Kortepeter. He and Sorin came to me last year with this religious debate and it totally seems like something I would be talking about with my friend in high school. SHIELDS: All of them.
How would you describe your high school self? Mr. Aguinaga: Overall, I wasn’t a good student most of my high school life except senior year. I would describe myself as apathetic, and only getting my grades to where I can pass. I wasn’t a self-seeking learner my first years in high school. Until I became a Christian Junior year, and then I realized how much I have lost. My senior year, I totally changed and I raised my grades to straight A’s and I felt that I had a purpose for learning.
How have you changed since high school? Ms. Brown: I look exactly the same. I am a lot more confident. In high school, I was really insecure, but I acted like I was confident, like a fake till ya make it kind of thing. I wasn’t a Christian in high school, so my relationship with God has changed my heart. I am a lot more patient and a lot more loving now. Mr. Wildman: I was pretty scattered. Definitely a slave to my emotions. And I think I’ve become a little more level-headed and a lot less caring as far as worrying about the social implications of who I am. I still try to stay pretty involved and active and do various things— so that part hasn’t changed.
Mr. Ward: I was extremely conscientious, mostly in terms of religious things. I had a Bible study routine that I was really strict about, and it was really intense. I was probably a little too legalistic with things like that— a lot more than I am now. Whereas now I feel like (and I think teaching has done a lot of this), you see how people are and how relationships are supposed to work. And I think that my view of our relationship with God has developed and changed a lot through things I’ve seen at church, but also through things I’ve seen here at Covenant, things I’ve read, and just through growing older. I still read my Bible and pray every day, but I just think about it differently. That was something that held me back a lot. So much of my life was consumed with “when I go to school, I need to be evangelizing,” but I was too afraid to do it. And I just think my life was too consumed with that anxiety.
Aguinaga: I became a teacher because I realized how important [learning] was in life. I value every opportunity to learn something new. Now I take every opportunity to learn whatever: culture, science, and obviously languages. Now I consider myself a lifelong learner.
FOR WILDMANS: Do you think you would have dated each other in high school? Mr. Wildman: Oh definitely not. She would not have dated me— she’s a lot nicer with a lot better intentions. I was a very traditional high school boy in that I didn’t always have the best intentions at heart when I was dating. She was definitely a lot better behaved than I was in high school, and she wouldn’t have been interested in me at all. And I probably would have thought that she was a goody two-shoes, which now I look back and that was foolish, too. You grow up and you learn the error of your ways. I’ve definitely done that and now I’m glad that she and I are together.
This is C. Hutch!!!! C-Hutch: My brain has developed. Isn’t it supposed to be fully developed in a male when they’re like 21? Anyway, my frontal lobe is fully developed now. I played a lot of sports like baseball, I ran cross country, swimming. I was in the “non-cool sports,” and it was like being a college athlete in high school. I was tired all the time— in a constant state of fatigue. But I was like second-tier cool— I was a second-tier kid. I was in with the kids who were popular, but I wasn’t one of them.