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Teacher Profile: Hannah Magnan

Emilie Kushner & Casey Manzella

Senior Editor & Reporter

For new students and freshman alike, getting your schedule can look like a bunch of names that mean nothing. Even seniors haven’t met all of the 113 teachers in their four years at NCHS… and even if you know a teacher’s name or what they look like, do you really know them? Hannah Magnan may be a name you have never heard. She was born with the Amish in Lancaster, PA and has now been teaching English at NCHS for two years. She lives in Stamford and she is one of my favorite teachers.

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Teachers then and now reminisce

Elliott Cottington
Reporter

Although students spend hours in classrooms every day, the personal backgrounds of their teachers often remain a mystery. The truth is that students don’t really know their teachers very well; no one ever stops to wonder where the people that are employed to educate them were educated themselves. It may come as a surprise that there is a number of teachers who both attended and now teach at NCHS and have just as much New Canaan Pride as any alum.

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Heading into harm’s way

Tyler Kendall
Features Editor

The loud sirens of a fire engine may tell you when junior Mike Donnelly is coming from miles away. Whenever Mike gets the chance, he hangs out at the Pound Ridge Fire Department or suits up for a ride in a roaring engine. “When I’m getting ready I think of anything that can happen, anything that can go wrong,” he said. “You’re preparing for the worst, but hoping for the best.”

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