Mrs. Lien to retire as year comes to a close.

By: Jocelyn Arends


As the school year comes to an end, some students are beginning to say goodbye until next fall, while others are saying goodbye for good do to graduation. But a few teachers are also saying goodbye to RRMR do to better opportunities elsewhere and retirement. One of RRMR's seasoned veterans is saying goodbye to teaching here at RRMR. Mrs. Lien, who has been teaching here since the 1977-78 school year, announced her retirement earlier this year. And as the school year comes to a close, I decided to ask her a few questions on her experience here at RRMR for the last 30 plus years. Mrs. Lien says that her favorites classes to teach were Earth Science, as well as Biology due to the dissection projects and also Chemistry. Her worst memory while teaching here at RRMR would have to be the school fire in the early 1990's. Mrs Lien said that it was like she lost 15 years worth of memories and curriculum. The best memory through out her years of teaching is just experiencing the graduations every year and seeing the students walk across the stage and getting their diplomas. Through out the many years of teaching, there have been many changes. The biggest change education wise in Mrs. Lien's mind is the technology, but she also believes that trying out the block scheduling was a different experience too. Mrs. Lien's plans for retirement include gardening, reading, and going on camping trips with her husband. She will miss working with students and seeing the accomplishments in the students faces when they finally understand what they have been trying to learn in class. Mrs. Lien's advice to students and faculty going forward is to "Stick with it, set your goals, get to the end of those goals and don't procrastinate!" She went on to say that it's better to have a dream to accomplish because you tend to stagnate through life when you do not have a dream or a goal to look forward to. Everyone here at RRMR will miss Mrs. Lien and we thank her for all the years and effort she has put in to teaching. We wish Mrs. Lien nothing but the best in her retirement.