Lakeside Lutheran High School Teacher Pages

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Andy Asmus
Gayle Bauer
Jim Bauer
Paul Bauer
Darice Brumm
Jim Buege
Jacquelyn Colletta
Sandra Corlett
Matt Doering
Pastor Caleb Davisson
Dave Fenske
Principal Jim Grasby
Dennis Gulczynski
Todd Hackbarth
Gerald Hahn
Ruth Hirschfeld
Lance Johnson
Ted Klug
Dan Kuehl
Steve Lauber
Tim Matthies
Jodie Schommer
Pastor Clark Schultz
Pastor Don Schultz
Lori Tetzlaff
Pastor Mark Toepel
Damon Tracy
Gerry Walta
Ken Westphal

Andy Asmus

As a teacher and a student, I have been blessed to be apart of the Lakeside Lutheran Federation since the 1980’s. Being born and raised in Watertown, the son of the Fire Chief and a school teacher, I attended St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran School from 2nd through 8th grades.

Upon graduation from St. Mark’s, I started high school in 1984 at Lakeside Lutheran. While at Lakeside I participated in football, basketball, baseball and track. I served as class president during my freshman, sophomore and junior years, while serving as student body president senior year.

After graduation ceremonies in 1988, I moved on to Dr. Martin Luther College to study education in hopes of becoming a called worker for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. I started at DMLC with intentions of becoming a coach and physical education teacher in an area Lutheran high school. While at DMLC I participated in football and intramural basketball.

It is also during this time that I was involved in a near-fatal motorcycle accident. While the accident could have been much worse, the Lord’s angels were watching over me. I only suffered broken ribs and was left with a badly injured, reconstructed elbow.

During Christmas of 1994 I received my first call to teach 5th and 6th grade and coach at St. Matthew’s Lutheran School in Oconomowoc, WI. In later years I also took on the duties of athletic director. While at St. Matthew’s I coached flag football, girls basketball, softball, and track. My years in Oconomowoc were some of my favorite.

After 9 years, in 2003, I received the call to teach at Lakeside Lutheran. Initially I was called to teach physical education and coach. After 5 years my duties have changed and now I spend my time teaching in the classroom full-time, entertaining high school students in classes like world history, geography, and health. I truly enjoy the challenge of coaching. Since 2003 I have been blessed to be involved with the football and girls basketball programs. After starting out at the freshman levels, I now serve as the offensive coordinator of the varsity football team and head JV girls basketball coach. I also enjoy assisting with the federation elementary basketball tournament and serving as the public address announcer for the varsity boys basketball team.

In 1996 I was married to Gretchen Thiesfeldt. We reside in Lake Mills and our 3 daughters go to St. Paul’s Lutheran School.

I don’t know much but I know that I can’t imagine going anything else. Teaching is not just my job, it is my hobby and my passion. I am blessed to serve the Lord here at Lakeside Lutheran and any where else He leads me!

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Gayle Bauer

I was born in Milwaukee, WI. but grew up in Menomonee Falls, WI. I was privileged to attend Lutheran Schools from kindergarten through college. After graduating from Dr. Martin Luther College, I married Jim Bauer and both of us were called to teach at St. Marks Lutheran School in Watertown, WI. I taught 3rd and 4th grade and coached all the girls’ teams until the birth of our daughter, when I resigned to stay home and raise a family.

Shortly after the birth of our second child I was asked to begin a girl’s sports program at Northwestern Prep School now LPS. I coached JV and varsity volleyball and basketball, and helped with track. I have many fond memories of my coaching days at Prep including a basketball state championship won 2 weeks after the birth or our 3rd child.

A few years later my husband, Jim, took a call to Minnesota Valley Lutheran High School in New Ulm, MN. MVL was just opening its doors in a new building and Jim coached most of the varsity boys’ teams and I coached varsity girl’s basketball and softball. I also coached varsity volleyball at New Ulm Public High School. Being in both sectors was fun and the camaraderie between the schools was great. I continued raising our 5 children and I also did some substitute teaching and worked in the distribution department at Kraft Foods. I even have a fork truck license and was part of the code blue team.

We bought our first home in New Ulm. It was a fixer upper which had “great potential” as many people pointed out to us . Our 1 ½ year old son was not very fond of the scary looking house with 14 broken windows and said he didn’t want to live in the “junky house on the hill”. To this day everyone calls that house Junker Hill. It took us 18 years but it truly became our home complete with a full court basketball court in the backyard, rope swing in the ravine, and the biggest, unique sandbox you have ever seen.

After 18 years in New Ulm the Lord led Jim to take a call to Lakeside Lutheran in Lake Mills. It was a bitter sweet call as it was hard leaving New Ulm where we raised our 5 children but it was sweet coming back to our Wisconsin roots and close to both our families. It is also fun to be back in the area where we started our teaching careers. In fact it is very interesting to be teaching children of some of our first students from St. Mark’s Watertown. Many of them have the same characteristics and traits as did their 3rd and 4th grade parents.

At Lakeside I am privileged to teach and coach as well. I teach in the Phy. Ed. Department but I have taught World Geography and Health. For many years I coached in the volleyball and basketball programs at Lakeside. It was a thrill to be a part of Lakeside’s first ever WIAA state championship basketball team as well as coaching my daughter that year. I now supervise the after school open weight room and am assistant to the Athletic Director.

Giving up coaching was hard to do as sports is a big part of our family life. But I love teaching and consider it a privilege to serve the students here at Lakeside.

Outside of school I love to travel, take my grandchildren on little adventures, attend Lakeside events, watch my youngest son play college basketball, and recently I took up geocaching. And when it’s 70 and sunny and the fish are “jumping in the boat,” I join my husband fishing.

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Jim Bauer

I am a 1969 graduate of Manitowoc Lutheran High School and a 1973 graduate of Dr. Martin Luther College in New Ulm, MN. I was assigned to St. Mark's, Watertown, WI where I taught 7th grade and coached every sport the school offered for boys.

In 1981, the LORD led me to accept a call to Minnesota Valley Lutheran High School. I enjoyed starting a football program from scratch and I was also the Vasity Boys Basketball coach. While there, I taught a variety of classes but as the school grew, I settled into teaching Geometry and New Testament Religion.

In 1999 I came to Lakeside Lutheran where I have served the LORD for the last 12 years as a math instructor and coach. Currently I enjoy teaching Geometry and Strength/Speed. I now am the Varsity Boys Basketball coach and head Girls' Track coach. For the first 37 years of my ministry I coached all 3 seasons and for the first time I do not coach a fall sport.

My wife Gayle and I have five children and 14 grand-children. My hobbies are enjoying hunting and fishing.

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Paul Bauer

Lakeside is the third stop in my teaching ministry. I was assigned out of Dr. Martin Luther College in 1979 to a small two room school in Hoskins, Nebraska. I served there for five years as the Principal, upper grades teacher, and believe it or not, Senior Choir Director. While there I had the unique experience of teaching a one room school for half a year. From there I accepted a call to San Jose, California, to serve as Vice-Principal, Athletic Director, and 7th grade teacher in a school of about 200. Five years later I became the Principal and served in that capacity for 5 years before accepting my present call to Lakeside. Those ten years provided a wonderful opportunity to serve in a mission field and work with people from a diversity of cultural and religious backgrounds.

God in his goodness is allowing me to begin my 18th year at Lakeside. This year I will be teaching Biology and serving Lakeside as its Athletic Director. My extra curricular duties include being the Head Varsity Football Coach, Varsity Assistant Boys Basketball Coach, and I love driving bus for sporting events. So that totals up to 33 years of God’s grace and blessings associated with full time service in his church.

My better half, Rebecca, has been with me every step of the way and God has blessed us with 3 wonderful kids, all Lakeside grads, and 4 grandchildren.

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Darice Brumm

I am the oldest of 10 children. My father was a Lutheran pastor and served congregations in Kansas and Minnesota. My mother was a kindergarten teacher before she got married. I graduated from Martin Luther Academy, New Ulm, MN in 1973 and Dr. Martin Luther College in 1977. My first call was to Medford, WI, where I taught frist and second grade for one year and first grade for two years. After getting married and moving to Lake Mills in 1980, I taught third grade for one year and was an aide to the principal at St. Paul Lutheran Grade School for a few years. I stayed home to raise our two children for the next several years.

In 1998, I was hired as an aide in the Extended Learning Center at Lakeside Lutheran High School. This school year will be my 14th year in the Extended Learning Center. I also help out as an organist for 3 area Lutheran churches.

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Jacquelyn Colletta

While growing up in San Jose, California, and attending Abraham Lincoln High School, I quickly discovered a passion for the Spanish language and culture. In 2008, I graduated from Martin Luther College in New Ulm, MN with a degree in Elementary Education and a Spanish emphasis.

After graduation, I had a unique opportunity to teach second grade at St David School in Santiago, Dominican Republic. In 2009, I received my assignment to teach Spanish at Lakeside Lutheran. I have the privilege of serving the Lord by teaching Spanish l, lll, and lV here at Lakeside Lutheran. As well as teaching, I enjoy coaching Girls' Volleyball and Softball.

I love to travel (especially to Latin countries), to dance and to travel.

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Sandra Corlett

My undergraduate degree was earned in Middle and Secondary Home Economics Education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. I completed graduate work in Early Childhood Education at Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee. I have Synodical certification at both the early childhood and secondary levels. During my teaching career, I have taught at Synod preschools, substitute taught at Lutheran elementary schools and public schools, taught classes at the local Middle School during the summer, served as an instructor at Madison Area Technical College, and served as an adjunct professor at Wisconsin Lutheran College. When my children were young, I operated a state licensed child care center and ran a before and after school program at the local public elementary school.

At Lakeside Lutheran I teach Family and Consumer Education The courses that I teach allow students to attain hands-on-skills that can be used throughout life.

My husband Alan and I have five children. All five are graduates of Lakeside Lutheran High School. Two of our four daughters are married and we have one young granddaughter. We have been residents of Lake Mills for our entire married life.

I enjoy volunteering at Twice Is Nice Resale Store in Jefferson, singing in the church choir, scrapbooking, taking photos, baking, sewing, and working in my flower garden. Currently I am working on writing children’s books and a fictional story of a teen girl who learns to trust in God.

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Matt Doering

For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15

This is one of my favorite passages. What a privilege it is to serve at Lakeside Lutheran High School!! It it truly an opportunity to show my Savior's love in everything I do as a teacher and coach here at Lakeside.

I grew up in south central Minnesota and graduated from Minnesota Valley Lutheran High School. I was married in 1995 to my wife Jill (Boggs) and we have three children.

I graduated in the spring of 1996 as part of the inaugural graduating class of Martin Luther College. I was assigned to Our Savior's Lutheran Church & School in Bylas, Arizona and served there from 1996-2001. I have been serving as a faculty member here at Lakeside since the fall of 2001. I teach Junior and Senior Social Studies courses--Government, U.S. History, and Economics. I also coach Varsity football and Varsity softball here at Lakeside.

Lakeside Lutheran is truly an awesome place to serve!!

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Principal Jim Grasby

I have served as Lakeside Lutheran's Principal since 2003. Before coming to Lakeside, I served at Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School (1993-2003), Winnebago Lutheran Academy (1981-1993), and Bethany Lutheran School, Kenosha, WI (1976- 1981). I grew up in LaCrosse, and I graduated from Luther High (Onalaska) in 1972.

My love is serving God's people in ministry. Although I currently enjoy teaching the Word of God to 9th graders and English to seniors, my first love is music. I was a choral director at two area Lutheran high schools for a total of 22 years, and I still dabble in music whenever I have the opportunity.

The thing I love most about Lakeside is its people: the students, the parents, the alumni, the faculty and the staff, the supporters, and the people of the federation. In all the places of ministry I have served, the way in which Lakeside's people stand behind the school is unbelievable.

I am married to Nancy (Meyer) and I have two adult children. Other than music, my interests include collecting old hymnbooks, and working in the yard and on my house.top

Ruth Hirschfeld

As the the director of the Extended Learning Center (ELC) here at Lakeside, I teach Reading Strategies and General Math; I also provide study hall support.

I received a bachelor’s degree from Dr. Martin Luther College and a master’s degree in education from Edgewood College in Madison. I am currently licensed by the state in Education as well in Cross-Categorical Special Education with an emphasis in Learning Disabilities. I taught at the primary level in our WELS Elementary Schools before joining the faculty at Lakeside Lutheran.

I was born and grew up in Manitowoc, and I graduated from Manitowoc Lutheran High School. My husband Bill and I are blessed with four children and three grandchildren. We live in Fort Atkinson.

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Dan Kuehl

I am the Director of Instruction as well as the English Department Chair. World Literature, Speech, and College Prep English are the classes I am currently teaching. My co-curricular duties include coaching JV boys’ basketball and Head Varsity baseball.

I love teaching at Lakeside. The students, parents, alumni, and the rest of Lakeside’s community make it truly a special place. We offer a very strong academic program which meets the needs of all students. But that would not mean much if it weren’t for the love of Christ which sustains everything we do.

As for my life--my early years were spent in Lake Mills and Hartford, Wisconsin, and I attended high school at Northwestern Prep in Watertown. I received a bachelor’s degree from Dr. Martin Luther College and a master’s degree in English from the University of Toledo.

I began my teaching career at Zion in Toledo, Ohio, where I was the principal and taught grades7-8. From there I came to Lakeside (for the first time). I then taught at Martin Luther College and Luther Prep School before coming back to Lakeside in 2003.

My wife Tammy and I have three children: Zach, Hannah, and Sam, all graduates of Lakeside.

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Steve Lauber

Currently I teach various English classes at Lakeside Lutheran. I also serve by being the Head Junior Varsity Boys football Coach and the Head Coach for the Forensics Team.

The LORD has led me to experience many different levels of interactions with not only students but also parents in my ministry. Previously I served as a principal of a grade school in Falls Church, Virginia. Then I became the Athletic Director and 5-6th grade teacher at St. Pauls in Cudahy, Wisconsin for six years. Finally, before coming to Lakeside Lutheran, I served as Athletic Director and English teacher at Illinois Lutheran High School in Crete, Illinois for another nine years.

I grew up in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and feel blessed to attend a Lutheran Elementary School and high school there before graduating with an education degree from Dr. Martin Luther College in New Ulm, Minnesota in 1991. In 2002 I married Rebecca (Meier) and we have 2 children, Ella 4 and Trey 7. I enjoy hunting, fishing and spending time with my family. top

Tim Matthies

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Algebra I

Algebra II

Girls' Basketball

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Jodie Schommer

I grew up in a military family and have moved over 21 times in my lifetime. I have served in my various capacities in the Wisconsin Ev. Lutheran Synod for 24 years. I have experience in teaching pre-school though 12th grade and hold a bachelor’s degree from Martin Luther College, New Ulm, MN in elementary education and a master’s degree from Concordia University, Mequon, WI in Curriculum and Instruction.

Currently I am in my 12th year serving at Lakeside Lutheran teaching in the English department. My current duties include Language Arts 9, Journalism, British Literature, and Vocational English.

I enjoy swimming, biking and running.

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Pastor Clark Schultz

I grew up in the hill country of the pre-outlet mall of Johnson Creek. My gradeschool tour involved attending St. Paul's Lake Mills as a wee lad and then finally settling at the "Hawkdome" of St. Peter's in Hellenville. I then attended Northwestern Prep and Northwestern College in Watertown.

My ministry includeds vicaring in the shadows of Lambeau field at St. Mark Green Bay, I then supervised the dorms for two years at Luther Prep, was missionary pastor at Risen Savior Cedar Grove, and then I traveled the globe as the Luther Prep recruiter. Now I am entering my seventh year of teaching at Lakeside Lutheran. I am blessed to teach 10th grade religion which includes the life of Jesus and the journeys of Paul.

I am equally blessed to coach boys and girls soccer and currently encourage teens to consider ministry and MLC.

My loves: Jesus, my new bride Kristin, the Green Bay Packers and of course, Batman.

What I love about Lakeside is the safe,family, Christ-centered atmosphere you experience as soon as you walk through the doors.

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Pastor Don Schultz

I currently serve as the Assistant Principal for Student Life and as a religion teacher at LLHS. I have been at Lakeside Lutheran for the last six years.

Before serving at Lakeside Lutheran, I graduated from Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in 1999 with a Master of Divinity degree. I then served as an exploratory mission pastor in Indiana for six years, as a tutor for two years at Martin Luther College and as a religon teacher for one year at Fox Valley Lutheran.

Again, I graduated from Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in 2011 with a Master of Pastoral Theology degree. This second degree offered a deeper look into the areas of teaching, working with youth, counseling, and administration, which has been helpful in my service to God's young people here at Lakeside Lutheran.

I grew up in Milwaukee, WI, where I attended a Lutheran school K-8. I am married to Jennifer, and have 3 children, ages 3,5, and 7. I enjoy spending time with my family, summers at the beach, winters on the sledding hill, and eating.

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Pastor Mark Toepel

In my time here I have taught all four levels of Religion, Spanish I and II, Latin I and II and Algebra. In the past I have coached football, basketball and track. Presently I am the faculty advisor for the Student Council and the S.H.O. Team.

I attended Michigan Lutheran Seminary, Northwestern College and graduated from Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in 1978. I served two small congregations in Minnesota for four years before coming to Lakeside Lutheran for the 1982-83 school year. I am beginning my 29th year here.

In 1977 I married Pamela (Gibbons). We have two children Jason and Jamison. My hobbies and interests include a variety of sports, vegetable gardening, boating and spending time with my family and two grandchildren.

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Gerry Walta

Favorite Bible Passage:  Rom.1:16, "I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes..."

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