CHS grad now on faculty

Kiran Dhillon, a 1997 Colfax High School graduate, will be among new faculty members who have been signed at Colfax High School for the upcoming year. She has been hired to teach science and math at the junior high and high school levels. The faculty position was open following the resignation of Casey Zander, who has departed to teach at Stevensville, Mont. A newlywed, Zander was raised in Montana. She was also an assistant volleyball coach at Colfax during the four years she was on the faculty here.

The daughter of Jagtar and Jasvin Dhillon of Colfax, she earned her undergraduate degree at Washington State University and her master’s degree from Gonzaga University in Spokane.

She comes to Colfax from the Granger district and has 12 years of teaching experience with other faculty stops at Union Gap and Sunnyside.

Other new faculty members are English teacher Jordan Magrath, a WSU grad who has been teaching at Yelm; Andrew Penwell and Ronda Penwell, English teachers from the Grandview district; Molly McNeill, social studies teacher who has taught at Okanogan and Tillamook, Ore., and will also coach the Bulldog volleyball team, and Maarika Vercamer, WSU grad who has been a substitute teacher at Bowdish Middle School. She has been hired to take the vocal music position which opened with the retirement of Cary Cammack.