About our Guidance Staff


Name: Lois Jordan 
Title: Guidance Director and Counselor
Job Description: D.H.S. Director of Guidance Services/Dual Enrollment/Early College, ESOL. 
Hobbies: Antique collecting, Decorating, Reading, Boating, Hospitality, and Celebrating
special occasions and people.
High School Highlights: Head cheerleader, Drama, Student Government.
Quote: "To affect the quality of a day - that is the art of life.  To affect the quality of a life -   is our Purpose and Joy."


Name: Dorothy Adams 
Title: Guidance Counselor
Job Description:  10th-12th Grades (A-C)
Hobbies: Golf, Dance, Hiking, Swimming, Skiing, Surfing, White Water Rafting, and Sailing. 
High School Highlights:  National Forensic League, Representative to the Rural Oahu Student Government Association, State of Hawaii Extemporaneous Speech Champion, Drama, Student Government.
Quote: "Nobody wins unless everybody wins!"


Name: Monica Bates 
Title: Guidance Counselor 
Job Description: Peer Mediation, AVID, NCAA Clearinghouse/Keeper of Dreams
Hobbies: Horseback riding, Reading, Watching a good movie on a rainy afternoon. 
Quote: "Do what needs to be done today!  Those challenges that we will face tomorrow require the skills we gained today, if we are to be successful."



Name: Valerie A. Boughner
Title: Guidance Counselor
Job Description: 10th-12th Grades (He-Ma), Technology, Scholarships.
Hobbies: Camping, Bird Watching, Swimming, Hiking, Bike Riding.
GO FSU!

High School Highlights: Girl's State, Sports.
Quote: "We didn't save ourselves. We tried to save each other." A survivor, World Trade Center, Sept.11, 2001. - Life is too short to be selfish.
 


Name: Lisa Carter
Title: IB Guidance Counselor
Job Description: IB A-L
Hobbies: Going to my son's basketball games, reading, aerobics, traveling, shopping.
High School Highlights: JV and Varsity Cheerleader, French Club, National Honor Society, Sigma Lambda Chi, and Girl's State.
Quote: "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."  Abraham Lincoln



Name: Dana Copes
Title: IB Coordinator
Job Description: IB Coordinator and counselor for students w/ last names M-Z

Hobbies
: Spending time with my family, crafts, traveling.
High School Highlights: Cheerleader, National Champion Pom-Pom Team, Jr. Civitan, spending time with my friends (who I still try and see once a year with their families).
Quote: "We make a living by what we get.  We make a life by what we give."


Name: Sue Deskins
Title: 9th. grade counselor
Job Description:
Letters L-Z
Hobbies:
Playing piano and organ and singing, golf, bike riding
High School Highlights:
Head cheerleader, Student Government, National Honor Society
Quote:
Knowledge is power

Name: Cindy McConkey
Title: Guidance Counselor S-Z, 504 Contact
Job Description: Guidance Counselor, Scheduling, Parent/student/teacher conferences. 504 Plans Contact.
Hobbies:  Outdoors: canoeing, water skiing, camping and motorcycles. Indoors: Music, dancing, movies, Broadway plays, trivia games. Most of all, I love animals!
High School Highlights:  American Government classes during the Viet Nam War. My English teacher's trivia questions, P.E. and Dance Classes.
Quote: My Best is Good Enough!


Name: Steve Michaels 
Title: Guidance Counselor 
Job Description: 10th-12th Grades (Mc-R). Testing/College/Career Day/College Visits
Hobbies: Hunting, Reading, Camping, Animals 
High School Highlights: Football, Drama, Photography, Fencing 
Quote: "Education is not life, life is education."


Name: Kathy Quackenbush
Title:
Guidance Receptionist
Job Description:
Managing the Guidance Office
Hobbies:
Gardening and Motorcycling
High School Highlights:
Member of the National Honor Society, Cheerleading
Quote:
Don’t harbor ill feelings ………..life is too short !


Name: Diana Tompkins
Title: School Counselor
Job Description: School Counselor for special diploma students
Hobbies: Mountain climbing, baking, cross-stitch, reading, walking, bike riding, playing with my son.
High School Highlights: Band, Health careers academy, HOSA, Quiz bowl
Quote: "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence" -Helen Keller


Name: Mary Ann Watkins
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