Hug teacher writes book about school
Teacher Tamera Buzick wrote a book about Hug High School’s history. “Birth of a Hawk” is available at the school for $10. Proceeds will go toward the school.
Despite racial tension in the country and war overseas, Hug High School alumni remembered 1968 fondly as the year their school opened.
“A lot of world tension, but no tension here,” said Tamera Buzick, Hug math department leader. “Buddy Garfinkle (the first Hug principal) really wanted to create a little America to where it was possible that people could get along. So, where if it could happen here, it could happen anywhere in America.”
In celebration of the school’s 40th anniversary, Buzick wrote a book documenting Hug’s history, “Birth of a Hawk,” through its alumni and former staff.
“We decided that the original teachers and the original principal were getting a bit older so we wanted to get early history documented,” Buzick said.
Included in the book is a history of the school’s campus, biography of former Superintendent Procter R. Hug and a message from Hug’s first student body president, Reno Municipal Judge Ken Howard.
“My high school years were some of the best I had in my life,” Howard said. “I think it laid the foundation for my later years.”
Being the first student body president in 1968-69 is “something, obviously, I hold dear and have held dear my entire life,” Howard said. “No one can take that away.”
This article appeared originally in Reno Gazette-Journal.
