Gross-Rhode graduates from NBC againby Mary Le Arneal Chris Minarick graduated from North Bend Central High School in 1976. Now as Chris Gross-Rhode, she is ‘graduating’ again after 30 years at NBC. But this time she will be taking a different path.
After her first graduation, Gross-Rhode attended University of Nebraska–Lincoln as a business major, with no intention of being a teacher. Halfway through she added education endorsements. She graduated in 1980, and her first job was at Tekamaha-Herman High School teaching typing with manual and electric typewriters. After a year she went back to UNL to get the rest of the classes she needed for education endorsement. She then got married to Vaughn Gross-Rhode and moved back to the Webster area. Gross-Rhode substituted for a year, then taught junior high math and computers in Scribner as a long-term sub. The next eight years she taught part time computers and business classes at Metropolitan Community College. “After that, I decided to see what the corporate world had to offer,” Gross-Rhode said. “I worked for a software training company in Omaha training corporate employees on computers.” After a year she was offered a contract at NBC teaching computers and business. Gross-Rhode did this for 18 years. When Dan Watts and Cec Hall retired in 2010, their position were combined and Gross-Rhode became the K-12 school librarian. “I was ready for a change,” Gross-Rhode said. “I found I was as busy but not as stressed in the library.” Gross-Rhode did library classes and did some computer classes at the elementary school. She also did High Ability reading classes for about five years. “I really enjoyed that,” Gross-Rhode said. She continues as the HAL (High Ability Learner) Coordinator. “I liked doing prom, as it gave me a connection to older kids,” Gross-Rhode said.
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