12 Aug 42 teachers honored for impact on 2016 Boettcher Scholars
25th-anniversary event to recognize five-time award recipients
August 12, 2016 — Forty-two Colorado teachers will be recognized this evening for the significant impact they have had on some of Colorado’s top students, while two others will receive special honors for being multi-year recipients of the award.
The Boettcher Foundation is hosting its 25th annual Teacher Recognition Awards Program this evening at the Denver Botanic Gardens. The program allows each recipient of the 2016 Boettcher Foundation Scholarship to acknowledge the teacher who has impacted him or her the most. At the event, each Boettcher Scholar will deliver remarks about his or her teacher, and each teacher will receive a $1,000 grant from the foundation to be used toward an educational program or project to benefit students at his or her school.
“These 42 teachers have played a significant role in shaping the educational experiences of our Boettcher Scholars,” said Tiffany Anderson, the Boettcher Foundation’s scholarship program director. “We are proud to honor these individuals for championing excellence in their classrooms.”
In addition to celebrating the 42 teachers, the Boettcher Foundation will honor two teachers who have each been recognized five times over the 25-year history of the Teacher Recognition Awards. Richard Ransome, a retired teacher from Pueblo South High School, and Peter Mehlback from Lakewood High School, will be recognized at the event. In their honor, the Boettcher Foundation will make a donation to the Colorado nonprofit of each teacher’s choice.
“It is a significant achievement for a teacher to be recognized as the most influential educator in a Boettcher Scholar’s life,” said Tim Schultz, president and executive director of the Boettcher Foundation. “In its history of recognizing roughly 1,000 teachers, only a small number of teachers have been honored more than once, so it is truly remarkable for a teacher to be recognized five times.”
This year’s Teacher Recognition Award recipients are:
| Teacher | School | District | Nominating Student |
| Cindy Calder | Horizon High School | Adams 12 Five Star Schools | Leilani Osmundson |
| Steve Lash | Horizon High School | Adams 12 Five Star Schools | Lina Osmundson |
| Amy Stern | Legacy High School | Adams 12 Five Star Schools | Lauren Plomer |
| Adrienne Pere | Adams City High School | Adams County 14 | Fernando Chavez |
| Tammy Strouse | Rangeview High School | Adams-Arapahoe 28J | Alexis Wall |
| Megan Noonan | Aspen High School | Aspen 1 | Harriet Pryor |
| Nathaniel Smith | Grandview High School | Cherry Creek 5 | Camilla Hallin |
| Courtney Hendricks | Cherokee Trail High School | Cherry Creek 5 | Janaye Matthews |
| Eric Eidson | Overland High School | Cherry Creek 5 | Jasmine Middleton |
| Jim Techau | Smoky Hill High School | Cherry Creek 5 | Eric Paricio |
| Michael Mazenko | Cherry Creek High School | Cherry Creek 5 | Grace Rooney |
| Bette Anterra | Colorado Springs School | Cheyenne Mountain 12 | Michael Gohde |
| Hayley Raitz | William Mitchell High School | Colorado Springs 11 | Jessica Perea |
| Will Forrest | Paonia Senior High School | Delta County 50 (J) | Chelsea Meilner |
| Laura Marschke | Southwest Early College | Denver County 1 | Cesar Caraveo |
| Keith Oxman | Denver East High School | Denver County 1 | Ethan Greenberg |
| Michael Wylde | George Washington High School | Denver County 1 | Maureen McNamara |
| Lisa Nolte | Chaparral High School | Douglas County RE 1 | Kellyn Dassler |
| Staci Stech | Mountain Vista High School | Douglas County RE 1 | Pranathi Durgempudi |
| Brian Wood | Mountain Vista High School | Douglas County RE 1 | Noah Hirshorn |
| Lindsey Pahs | Chaparral High School | Douglas County RE 1 | William Holtzmann |
| Tina Stroman | Legend High School | Douglas County RE 1 | Erin Jones |
| Emily Franks | Highlands Ranch High School | Douglas County RE 1 | Paula Pulido |
| Robert Hazlehurst | Castle View High School | Douglas County RE 1 | Kelly Winn |
| Laurie Schlekeway-Burkhardt | Elizabeth High School | Elizabeth C-1 | Marianne Hughes |
| Penny Grasmick | Fowler High School | Fowler R-4J | Brennan Bates |
| Marguerite Yowell | Genoa-Hugo High School | Genoa-Hugo C113 | Kaeli Humphrey |
| Charlotte Camp | Crested Butte Community School | Gunnison Watershed RE1J | Benjamin Swift |
| Eric Friesen | Columbine High School | Jefferson County R-1 | Peter Heller |
| Julie Dill | Arvada West High School | Jefferson County R-1 | Korissa Straub |
| Kait Cumsille | Palmer Ridge High School | Lewis-Palmer 38 | Tanner Bobak |
| Julie Larsen | York International High School | Mapleton 1 | Kali Horn |
| Jennifer Dickson Eyler* | Grand Junction High School | Mesa County Valley 51 | Mari McCarville |
| Nancy Jirka | South Park High School | Park County RE-2 | Jesus Banuelos-Rivera |
| Brad Beauprez | Poudre R-1 | Poudre High School | Gillian Breuer |
| James Glenn | Rocky Mountain High School | Poudre R-1 | Analise Iwanski |
| Tony Filpi | Pueblo South High School | Pueblo City 60 | Kaylene Khosla |
| Andrew Roberts | Niwot High School | St. Vrain Valley RE 1J | Rohan Baishya |
| David Lavender | Telluride High School | Telluride R-1 | Madison Alexander |
| Gregory Morrison | Loveland High School | Thompson R-2J | Richard Ortecho |
| Lori Birch | West Grand High School | West Grand 1-JT | Jill Wilkinson |
| Kelley Rebis | Wray High School | Wray RD2 | Lauren Soehner |
* Jennifer Dickson Eyler teaches at North Fork Community Montessori School. She is being honored by a student who graduated from Grand Junction High School.
About the Boettcher Foundation
At Boettcher we believe in the promise of Colorado and the potential of Coloradans. Every day we champion excellence across our state by investing in our most talented citizens and high-potential organizations, because supporting their hard work and leadership will enable them to give back for years to come. For more information, visit www.boettcherfoundation.org.About the Boettcher Foundation
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Kristi Arellano
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kristi@boettcherfoundation.org
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