What gets you
It all started when a young version of Mr. Stoll began his junior year of high school as an exchange student in Hamburg, Germany. Stoll spent a year in the country, and felt a deep connection with the language and culture. Herr (German for “Mr.”) Stoll felt like access to learning German was what the community really needed, so he went on to be a German teacher. He feels the rewards of his choice everyday, being able to engage young students in learning the language. Stoll is the only German teacher at Liberty and has been the only teacher at LHS to ever teach the language. In comparison, Spanish and French have multiple teachers that teach varying levels of difficulty. Stoll begins every morning with walking in from the hallway of his classroom and greeting them with “Moin moin meine lieblingsklasse” which means “good morning my favorite class.” Knowing that students enjoy and love coming to your class is the biggest part of being a teacher. “I love class with Stoll; one of the best teachers I have ever had,” said junior Shane Wolz.
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As you may expect, teaching exclusively various courses of chemistry at Liberty, Ms. Beierman is in love with science. She has always loved the subject and originally had wanted to put that love towards veterinary. Although once she arrived at high school where many of us, including her, had her first chemistry class she fell in love with the subject that mixed math, science and chemistry. Flash forward, Beierman uses chemistry almost everyday of her life, in an attempt to understand the world around her. She makes decisions about the food that her family eats based on the chemicals used, or even assessing the biochemistry aspects of the COVID-19 vaccine. Before becoming a teacher, Beierman was a research chemist, and she misses it some days, but she’s glad she carried out the teacher lifestyle. She is now investing her love of chemistry into the minds of students and even her children at home. “I wouldn’t say my passion is in chemistry but rather building those relationships with students and helping them when they are struggling academically or emotionally,” Beierman said.
“I have a strong passion for speed development,” said Mr. Tutterrow a history teacher here at Liberty, but also a track and cross country coach for multiple years as a whole. For him, running is more than just a sport, it is a legacy and something you strive for greatness for. “My dad was a phenomenal cross country runner for Holt in the 1970s so I’ve always thought of running as part of the ‘family business,’” said Tutterrow. To a non-athlete, speed may be a simple concept that just looks like a runner running fast and pushing their limits. Yet there are so many aspects that go into speed; to name a few: stride length, stride frequency and believe or not flexibility. Tutterrow says that he has always found the biological processes of speed fascinating, always coming up with new methods to improve. He has committed himself to running distance, of course when his ankle isn’t bothering him, as it is bad right now. “My longest run ever, I began before the sun rose and watched the sunrise while running. I feel it (running) also connects you to what your body has always been meant to do.”
