 Pauline Bauml
(Math: Pre-Algebra through Calculus)
Pauline Bauml has lived in Fort Worth, Austin, Dallas and (mostly) San Antonio. She has a secondary teaching certificate for math and (seldom used) English. She has taught math for thirty-plus years: private, public, and homeschool. She loves it! And she loves her students. She and her husband, Thomas, raised five children and currently have six grandchildren (mostly boys). Pauline also does SAT Prep Math, so if you need any help...
Sandy Graham
(Computer Science, elementary and middle school Math)
Sandy Graham is a native of San Antonio, graduating from Churchill High School in 1982 and Texas A&M University in 1986 with a BS in Educational Curriculum and Instruction with teaching fields in computer programming and math. She married her high school sweetheart and taught at Health Careers High School for three years and then worked as a computer programmer at USAA until her oldest son was born in 1991. She homeschooled her oldest son, who is now a sophomore pursuing pre-medicine at Texas A&M University, and she still homeschools her daughter and younger son.
Morgan Kleypas
(Beginning Piano)
Morgan began taking piano in Waco, TX, when she was nine years old. She learned mostly classical music and some jazz, but it wasn’t until she moved to San Antonio that she focused on a more contemporary style. She took lessons from her worship pastor at Grace Point Church and learned a lot from him. Morgan will be a sophomore in high school in the 2011 – 2012 academic year and attends classes at HAAC Day. She has a very deep love of music.
From Morgan’s piano teacher:
To Whom It May Concern:
I understand Morgan Kleypas has expressed interest in teaching piano within your organization. As someone who taught her piano for a couple of years in San Antonio, I feel confident she would be able to teach students at the beginner level. Additionally, she has some limited knowledge on contemporary piano that could be beneficial to beginner students interested in learning contemporary piano.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me using the information below.
Sincerely,
Justin S. McCartney
Director of Worship Ministries
Community Alliance Church
800 Mercer Road
Butler, PA 76001
724.282.0230
justinm@butlercac.org
Kim Liffick
(Art History)
Mrs. Liffick grew up moving every few years because her father was career Air Force. She graduated from Huntindon College in Montgomery, Alabama with a Bachelors Degree in Liberal Arts. After graduating college, Mrs. Liffick went to spend the summer with her parents in Germany but she ended up staying for over a year. During her time in Europe she traveled whenever possible; she was able to take tours lead by an Art History professor from UCLA. Kim returned to the U.S. in August 1980. She worked for the Cancer Therapy and Research Center from October 1980-May 1991. In 1988, she met and married her husband, Jim Liffick. They now have 2 children: Ruth (1991) and William (1993). She homeschooled for over 14 years and has been involved with HCCH from its beginning.
Cathy Marciniak
(7th Grade General Science, Biology, Anatomy and Physiology)
Cathy Marciniak has degrees from Wellesley College and Boston College. She has been homeschooling for 12 years. She has taught life sciences for middle school and elementary school students at St. Gregory's School in Boston, at the Boston Science Museum, and the Circle School Co-op in San Antonio. In addition to her published contributions to High IQ Kids and another book now under contract with Royal Fireworks Press, she co-owns the TAGMAX forum for gifted homeschoolers, and is a contributing editor of the Twice Exceptional newsletter. She is on the board of directors of Beyond IQ and the Circle Schools. She is a practicing Quaker with the San Antonio Friends Meeting.
David Petershack
(Computer Usage and American History)
Mr. Petershack graduated from The University of Texas in 1985 with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in marketing. He spent 14 years in corporate sales and sales training before becoming a stay at home dad. His experience includes teaching Professional Skills classes and technology training classes, and work as a computer teacher at Rolling Hills Academy. In addition to this, he has done Web Design, Edited Professional newsletters, and Homeschooled three of his four children for the past five years. David has been happily married for twenty-two years and lives in San Antonio with his family.
Connie Redmond
(Physical Science, Chemistry, Physics)
Connie Redmond has degrees in Secondary Education with majors in Chemistry and Math minor in Physics from Stephen F. Austin State University. Doctorate work done at University of Texas at Tyler. She has 19 years experience teaching in public school, private school, charter school and working one on one with troubled kids removed from their homes. She has tutored homeschoolers 2 years. She loves science and loves kids.
Connie and husband Barry (of 40 years) built a home five years ago on the north side of Canyon Lake to “retire” moving from Longview in Northeast Texas. They have a 5 pound Maltese dog named Emily and a pet roadrunner named Roadie.
Connie also supervises student teachers and Interns part time for Le Tourneau University, a Christian University in Longview, Texas, from their satellite in Austin.
Connie considers it a privilege to work with your son or daughter as they discover the exciting world of science. Someone said you can’t be a scientist and believe in God. She says the truth is, you can’t be a scientist and NOT know God is everywhere!
Copies of work history and resume are available should you wish more detail. If you have questions, call 830-935-3023 (home) or e-mail cjredmond@gvtc.com .
Mickey Riviere
(Native Plants, Handyman)
Mickey Riviere grew up in southeast Texas and has since lived in Denton, Dallas, Austin, Elgin and now resides in Canyon Lake. He graduated from Lamar University with a BA in Business Management. he did landscaping and worked with plants (with an emphasis on native plants) for about 20 years. he also completed a course on native plants at the University of Texas. Mr. Riviere has worked as a handyman for about 11 years.
Nancy Salazar
(Middle School Spanish I and High School Spanish I)
A native of Columbia, South America, and the ninth of eleven children, Mrs. Salazar immigrated to the DC area with her parents when she was 14-years-old. Three years later, her family moved to San Antonio where she graduated from Thomas Edison High School and then earned an AS in computer operations from SAC, learning RPG and COBOL. She married her husband when she was 22 and together they moved back to DC. She continued her education at the Professional System Institute, earning certification in computer programming, and then worked for the federal government for about 9 years as a COBOL/CICs programmer. With now three children under the age of five, one with cerebral palsy, she and her husband decided that the busy DC career life was not right for their family. They moved to Bulverde and, shortly after, began homeschooling after being advised to do so by her special needs daughter’s therapist/ learning disabilities advisor. Mrs. Salazar’s oldest three children have graduated from homeschooling and are in college, but she is still homeschooling her 11-year-old daughter. She has been tutoring Spanish since she began homeschooling, 16 years ago and has taught Spanish at SAC Day for one year and at HAAC Day for two years. Mrs. Salazar is also a certified Braille transcriber. With three of her children graduated now and only one at home, she plans to soon return to school to earn a BA in Spanish Education.
Karen D. Schultz, JD
(Pre-Law)
II Key Planning Group, Inc.
Mrs. Schultz graduated from Rice University in Houston, Texas, in 1986 and earned her law degree from The University of Texas School of Law in Austin in 1989. Karen is the president of a legal consulting company that provides marketing and operational packages for attorneys nationwide in the elder law field. She is a certified continuing education provider for the National Association of Social Workers and has written and taught continuing education courses for social workers, case managers, long-term care administrators, nurses and discharge planners.
She was previously employed as Staff Attorney at Parkland Health& Hospital System in Dallas, Texas, for 7 ½ years and, prior to that, with a large Dallas law firm for 4 years. Karen’s focus at Parkland was on health care and contract law as she worked with various health care providers, including social workers, physicians, nurses, clinicians, and administration. She served on Parkland’s Institutional Ethics Committee as well as the hospital’s Compliance Committee. During her four years with the Dallas law firm of Arter & Hadden, she concentrated her practice in litigation and tried numerous lawsuits, including contracts, insurance, and DTPA issues.
Karen and Tim Schultz’s article entitled “Advance Directives – A Primer” was published in the December, 2000 edition of the Texas Bar Journal. Karen also published an article entitled “The Texas Hospital Lien Law – Ten Basic Things to Know” in May, 1998, edition of the Texas Bar Journal. She has been an Adjunct Professor for law students from SMU and Baylor University School of Law in the health law specialty. She is a member of the State Bar of Texas.
Karen currently homeschools her fourth grade son and is a freelance writer for several websites.
Timothy D. Schultz, JD
(Pre-Law)
Schultz Law Office, P.C.
Schultz Mills PLLC
Mr. Schultz graduated from William Jennings Bryan College in Dayton, Tennessee in 1988, and earned his law degree for Baylor University School of Law in Waco in 1994. He is a certified continuing education provider for the National Association of Social workers and has taught hundreds of continuing education courses for health care professionals and CPAs. Tim has also taught professional classes as an adjunct professor for the American college in estate planning and income tax law. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys.
Tim has owned his private law firm since 1994, representing many families in the Medicaid eligibility process with the Texas Department of Human Services. His practice is focused on elder law issues for seniors and their families.
Gail Smith
(Art)
Mrs. Smith earned a BA from Trinity University and has been the chairman of the Fine Arts Department at San Antonio Christian School for 18 years. She has been teaching drawing, architecture, sculpture, pottery and painting from a classical point of view for over 20 years. She was trained by her close friend and mentor, Carl Rice Embrey, a landscape artist from Hamilton, Texas, who has been named the State of Texas’ Artist of the Year and has his own room at the McNay Art Museum where his works are showcased. Mr. Embrey is considered one of the nation’s greatest landscape artists and sells his work out of the David Findley Gallery in New York. Mrs. Smith has worked as a professional artist and illustrator as well as an interior designer before she want to work at SACS. She has sponsored numerous workshops for teachers and students, teaching them the fundamentals of drawing and painting.
Mrs. Smith’s students have earned over $1 million in scholarship money from the San Antonio Stockshow and Rodeo. Typically, each year out of hundreds of entries in the contest, over 50% of the winners in the top 25 student artists are Mrs. Smith’s students. In addition, she trains and assists students in the development of a portfolio during their high school years to use in applying for college scholarships. Her students have earned anywhere from $6,000 per year to a full scholarship based on their high school portfolios. As you can tell, Mrs. Smith is all about helping her students earn money for college through the artwork that is done in her classes! Her strength is training students to draw and paint with no previous experience, interest or demonstrated talent. She teaches art from a biblical perspective and believes that drawing, painting and the creation of art in general are the direct result of learned skill and that anyone can learn to do it very well. Her explanation for this belief is that we are all created in the image of a creative God. Since He is creative, we are, too!
Collin Turner
(Music Theory)
Collin Turner, age 17, began his musical studies in violin at age 5 and piano at age 9. Collin was chosen as a member of the Texas All-State Orchestra for 3 years in a row (#4 in the state in 2010). Currently Concertmaster of the Hill Country Youth Orchestra (HCYO) in Kerrville, Texas and a member of the 1st violin section of Symphony of the Hills; Collin has performed as a violin soloist in both orchestras.
With an advanced chamber ensemble, Collin performed in San Antonio in a banquet honoring Texas Governor Rick Perry.
In the summer of 2005, Collin was chosen as one of thirteen advanced string students to perform concerts in China as a cultural exchange enrichment. The ensemble, “Strings in Motion”, received national attention and media coverage while in China.
For 3 summers, Collin has been named an Emerson Scholar allowing him to attend the 6 week prestigious Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan performing in the World Youth Symphony Orchestra and Advanced String Quartet Program.
Collin has performed as an invited soloist for master classes in the San Antonio area with violin soloist, Gil Shaham; Dean of Juilliard, Stephen Clapp; the musical trio, Time for Three; and San Francisco Symphony violinist, Daniel Kobialka.
Presently Collin is a violin student of Long Zhou and a piano student of Vickie Pautz and plans to attend a music conservatory to study Violin Performance in the fall of 2012.
Sarah Walston
(Academic/ Beginner Ballet)
Sarah Walston is a Qualified Associate Member of the Cecchetti Council of America (CCA). This certification is the equivalent of holding a Bachelor of Science in Ballet Pedagogy as the training in the CCA is thorough and exacting in its demands. The certification is recognized through the International Society for Teachers of Dancing (Professional Certifying Body in Europe) and she is the only Qualified Associate Member of the CCA in San Antonio. She is also an active part of the Southwest committee of the CCA and sits on the Committee Board. In the fall, she will be working with a local university to implement a professional teacher certification program into their Bachelor Fine Arts/ Dance Pedagogy Degree Plan. Mrs. Walston is the "Suzuki of ballet teachers!" She has been teaching ballet for over 10 years, including teaching homeschoolers and offering summer camp programs. She is currently working with a few advanced students and she has helped some of her students attend some prestigious summer camps around the country including the American Ballet Theatre, The Kirov Academy in Washington, The Rock School for Dance, The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in NYC, Point Park University and the Cecchetti Council's International Summer Camp in Michigan where she works as a counselor every other summer. In addition to teaching at HAAC Day, she also runs small classes in her home studio for students, professionals and teachers and she guest teaches at local studios. She invites you to visit her web site at http://www.pureballetstudios.com.
Cayce Yarbrough
(Middle School Writing, Middle School English and Great Books)
Mrs. Yarbrough graduated from Trinity University in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a certification to teach both English and History. She taught at Antonian College Prep for seven years and has now taught homeschoolers for several years. Her experience includes teaching English, History and Journalism classes. Cayce lives in Spring Branch with her husband and two daughters where they currently homeschool. | 
