Meet the School Staff
Former School Was Used as Indian Dormitory

Superintendent Jack Dehring (left) has the longest ongoing tenure at the school, serving 32 years thus far. Secretary Barb Fisher has been with the school 17 years. With paint covered fingers, Pam Finkel, the school’s art instructor, stops by the library where Librarian Cindy Kmoblevitz reviews a book. Old school: The Mackinac Island Public School teaching staff in front of the Island’s former school, the Thomas Ferry School, which housed classrooms for students up to the 10th grade until 1960, when it was closed. The building was an Indian dormitory during the fur trade era. Pictured are (at left, front row) high school social studies teacher Jessica Clark, special education teacher Andrea McClintock, kindergarten teacher Vicki Urman, mathematics and science teacher Liz Staats-Burt, and 2nd and 3rd grade teacher Laura Eiseler; (back row) 4th-7th grade language and arts teacher Karen Allen, physical education teacher Sarah Dehring, high school language arts teacher Lance Greenlee, high school mathematics teacher Susan Bennett, and science teacher Jeffrey Ferguson.