Union's Director of Special Projects looks back at his career in education

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It was January of 1975 erstwhile Lee Snodgrass started his vocation successful nationalist education. That's 46 years of a beingness devoted to kids.

"First, 20 years arsenic a teacher and main astatine Tulsa Public Schools, and past the past 26 years astatine Union."

While astatine Union Public Schools, Snodgrass has had a fig of antithetic jobs. In 1994, helium started with the schoolhouse territory arsenic the Information Technology Director, a caller presumption conscionable created.

"The biggest archetypal exertion we did was to enactment a telephone successful each teacher's classroom," Snodgrass said.

Now he's the Director of Special Projects doing a assortment of jobs.

It's everything that my boss, Charlie Bushyhead, tells maine I request to do," Snodgrass said. "But a batch of it has to woody with construction."

Of each the operation projects, Snodgrass says he's astir arrogant of two. First, gathering Ochoa Elementary School.

"It's a large building, we're precise excited astir that."

He's besides arrogant of the caller Union High School Stadium which is designed to beryllium a multi-purpose facility.

Snodgrass was expected to discontinue earlier but decided to enactment with the territory to spot the students bask the stadium his squad built.

"I deliberation we'll spot concerts happen," Snodgrass said. "We're going to spot the set here, we're going to spot the athletes obviously, not conscionable for football, but for a assortment of sports."

Snodgrass is ending his vocation successful acquisition connected October 1 and the folks astatine Union accidental he'll beryllium greatly missed.

"I've loved my clip successful the classroom, and I've loved my clip arsenic an head due to the fact that it's fixed maine the accidental to bash things I ne'er dreamed I was going to beryllium capable to do."


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