Huth — who is reported to be the only teacher in Hamilton to win Teacher of the Year award twice, most recently in 2008 — has been teaching at Fillmore for 20 years in a career that dates back 37 years. He started teaching at Taft High School and has done a tour of duty at Pierce Elementary as well.
“They say when you’re teaching the grandchildren of your first students, it’s time to retire,” he said. “That’s where I’m at now.”
Having taught “everything from third grade on up,” he pioneered technology education in the district, said Principal Rex Bucheit, but it was the things he did outside the classroom that helped set him apart.
He’d been known to buy a bag of popcorn for a kid with no money at a carnival , or even a computer for a student who needed one to be able to work from home.
“He’d do anything for anybody,” Bucheit said. “But he never wanted any recognition for it.”
“He has no idea of the void that will be here when he leaves,” LoBoffe-Pierson said. “But I don’t think he’ll ever stop being a teacher. This will just be a new chapter in his book.”
Huth, however, said his retirement plans are very simple: “Grow tomatoes, do some farming.”
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