November 2022

George Ayoub

Class of 1968
Alumni Liaison

Volume 7 | Number 6

Welcome to Rise, the voice of Grand Island Senior High alumni and friends. We show up every other month in over 7,000 in-boxes bringing you news, views, and memories of GISH. Rise is a publication of the Grand Island Public Schools Foundation.

We’re wrapping up another year of Rise — our 7th — with some newsy and novel articles. Here’s some of what you will find inside: “At the Top” tries to put us in the holiday spirit recalling a couple musical and drama traditions at GISH and detailing a couple new ones. Jackie Ruiz-Rodriguez’s “On the Island” has a report on a new holiday play about to hit the stage at Senior High. Executive Director Kari Hooker-Leep looks back and forward with happenings at the Foundation. Annual Giving Coordinator Alicia Lechner reminds us that small ripples make big opportunities. 

As usual we’ll remember alumni who have passed recently, see who has reached a Milestone, and keep up on the lives and achievements of Islanders everywhere. All that and the musings of Mike Monk as he takes us back to barber shops; Bianca Ayala tells us why she’s grateful in this season of gratitude; Abbey Kutlas-Prickett writes with her usual eloquence about education’s power of possibility. And yours truly tells you while I’ll be shaving every day in November.

Keep in touch, Islanders. And remember: Keep pushing on.