Roger Beck, St. John teacher for 50 years, gets state awards

Kara Davidson, Gazette Reporter | Dec 13, 20180

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SJE ASB officers, from left, Hannah Thompson, Riley Lamb, Glory Dickerson, Cydney Selk and Olivia Larsen help teacher Roger Beck show off his three new awards.

Roger Beck, business teacher and yearbook instructor at St. John/Endicott High School, received three separate awards at the Washington State Business Education Association's fall meeting in October.

Beck serves as treasurer for WSBEA's board.

The first award was a 50-year service award for teaching business. Beck, who was raised in Kellogg, Idaho, and graduated from Eastern Washington University in 1968, moved to St. John and began his teaching career that year.

His career has been in the same town and even in the same classroom.

Now 72, Beck admits that the two-block commute to work is one o...