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Exeter Township Senior High

201 East 37th Street | Reading, PA 19606
(610) 779-3060

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  • Office

    x2144 Tom Campbell, Principal
    x2146 Julie Davis, Assistant Principal
    x2147 Frank Vecchio, Assistant Principal
    x2157 Sarah Gibney, Secretary
    x2150 Deb Poznanski, Secretary
    x2156 Jodi Stech, Attendance Secretary

  • Athletics

    x2430 Tom Legath, Director
    x2080 Audrey Dickman, Trainer
    x2401 Cristina Schmehl, Secretary

  • Counseling & Guidance

    x2133 Nicole Daub, Counselor, A-Dough
    x2135 Owen Jones, Counselor, Doughl-Hun
    x2132 Bryan Lefever, Counselor, Hu-Mo
    x2131 Ashley Rosa, Counselor, Mu-She
    x2134 Andrea Freese, Counselor, Shi-Z
    x2015 Ted Isselmann, Intervention Specialist
    x2128 Alycia Lenart, Student Support Coordinator
    x2213 Mark Ricketts, Internship Coordinator
    x2138 Mary Matetich-Patton, Guidance Technician & Scholarship Coordinator
    x2136 Laurie Zeiber, Secretary

  • Nurses

    x2110 Lisa Delancey
    x2112 Therese Knabb

  • Psychologist

    x2153 Lauren Solazzo

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    x2333 Donna Suchomelly 

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    x2012 Danielle D'Aries
    x2010 Christina Pinkerton
    x2011 Jennifer Buchholtz

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    x2604 Sherri McGaffin

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    x2104 Julianne Bertin
    x2311 Christopher Farrell
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    x2803 Lisa McCoy
    x2804 Heather Mills
    x2802 Jordan Sharp
    x2502 Alura Shubeck
    x2302 Kaleigh Stewart
    x2801 Robert Wickstrom
    x2301 Mark Wisniewski

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    x2315 Marti Benson
    x2315 Trisha Master
    x2402 Courtney Preston
    x2403 Anne Thomas

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    x2036 Nick Beisker
    x2034 Kirsten Fleischman
    x2312 Amy Oestreich
    x2777 Kevan Schaeffer

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    x2331 Nancy Gajewski

  • Mathematics

    x2708 Jenna Anzelmo
    x2702 Thomas Craver
    x2705 Nathan Fidler
    x2704 Justin Freese
    x2703 Brandi Himmelreich
    x2706 Jesse Rocco
    x2602 Jennifer Seymour
    x2509 Denise Stine
    x2701 Timothy Walsh
    x2605 Gabriella Wegman
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    x2019 Robert Darrah
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    x2017 Terry Lorah
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    x2018 Jonathan Rugg

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Home » Exeter Alum & Award-Winning Author Holds Workshop at Exeter

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“You can make a living in the arts. I make my own hours and make my own rules and I’m here to tell you that you can make a living making art.” 

Exeter alum Amy Sarig King ‘88, known professionally as A.S. King, author of more than a dozen young adult books, such as “Switch,” “Dig,” and “Still Life With a Tornado;” recipient of many literary awards, including the Michael L. Printz Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and champion for teenagers everywhere, returned to her former high school on Thursday and her former junior high on Friday to inspire a new generation of Eagles to make characters, to make stories, to make art–and to push through some of the most difficult–yet foundational–years of their lives. “Teenagers are going through a lot. I survived (those years) because this is where I learned to write.” 

Describing herself as a student who was “weird, with an arty brain,” King pointed out the exact assignment that perhaps was the genesis for her entire career. In 9th grade, she was assigned to write about an inanimate object; she chose a can of succotash. Her teacher, Patti Vroman, was enthusiastic about King’s results and, “made me feel like I had done something right.” From there, she says, she started to find her voice and develop her confidence as a writer. 

During two days filled with presentations, workshops and discussions, it doesn’t take long to discover that King writes for teens because she deeply appreciates these formative years and the complicated journey they go through as they discover themselves. She also says that it was her own journey here in Exeter that deeply affects and influences her writing–with some of those events finding retold homes in her books. Today, she says that both her writing and teaching work is meant to lift up the generation who she describes as not being appreciated by the general public. “They’re hurtful toward them,” she says, her voice softening. “I want to give them a place to express their feelings and give them an outlet… I want to be able to help teenagers understand that what they have to say and what they feel is actually important. I don’t think they’re given that message enough.” 

When she’s not writing novels, speeches or teaching, King holds writing workshops and lectures all over the world for little kids to big kids to Ph.D. students–and everyone in between–as Exeter students were so lucky to have found out when she delivered two full days of presentations, workshops and discussions with students at both the Junior and Senior High this week. Exeter librarians Nancy Gajewski and Kate Sowers organized the event and invited King because of her ties to Exeter–and because “I love her novels,” said Junior High Librarian, Kate Sowers. Nancy Gajewski echoed the same sentiment, and added, "Her life experiences are also amazing and her honesty with the kids was refreshing." 

Interestingly, King’s writing workshop for dozens of 9th through 12th graders on Thursday afternoon mirrored her assignment back in Exeter during the 80s as she began the workshop asking students to develop a character by writing from the point of view of a relatable inanimate object. 

“Trust me,” she said, as if she knew the success of the assignment.

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  • 201 East 37th Street
    Reading, PA 19606

  • District Phone:
    610-779-3060

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    610-370-0518

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