Science Department
Angela Akins
B.S. from Saint Vincent College in Chemistry
Sister Mary Helen Meyer
Bachelor of Education – Duquesne University
Master of Science – University of Notre Dame
Throughout the years of my teaching experience, my philosophy of education has been based on the fact that I teach the students, not a subject. This involves the development of the whole person: body, mind and spirit.
George Janik
Saint Vincent College – Bachelor of Science in Biology
I've been teaching here because I love to open the living world to my students. I love to get correspondence from my past students and see what they have done or are still doing. I love to work with the golf team and share their work and successes. I love my family, faculty and friends that the Lord has provided.
Judy Link - Department Head
Clarion University of Pennsylvania – Bachelor of Science in secondary education in biology and general science
My mission as a biology teacher is to provide a classroom environment in which my students can learn the basic unifying concepts of biology for all life on the earth and in which my students can discover an appreciation of our Lord’s guiding hand in the beauty and complexity of our natural world. I try to teach with enthusiasm and I try to make the content relevant to the student's life.
Patricia Pluck
Indiana University of Pennsylvania & California University of Pennsylvania – Bachelors of Science
Besides my love of God and family I value freedom, learning, and the ability to grow and change. These quotations reflect my philosophy of life.
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."
Albert Einstein
"I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing."
Thomas Alva Edison
"Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them."
Henry Steele Commager
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
Mark Twain