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Below you will find each of the house parents and senior house parents here at Summit Preparatory School.

 

Click on name or photo for more information on each staff member.

 

 

David Perisho

Residential Program Director

B.S. Recreation Resource Management - Lyndon State College

M.A. Secondary Education - University of Phoenix

"Nothing can change what has happened, but history is what

 we make of what happened, and that means trying to see not

 just how we came to be where we are, but also where we

 seem to be headed." – Nompehwehthe (Osage)

 
Sheila Michmerhuizen

Senior House Parent and Residential Shift Supervisor

B.A. Criminal Justice - Ferris State University-Michigan

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who

 mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

 
Clay Appleton
Night House Parent Supervisor
 
Chris Bishop

Senior House Parent

B.S. Sociology (Psychiatry minor) - Montana State University Billings

" If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane." - Jimmy Buffet

 
Jodi S. Clark

Night House Parent

A.A. Associate of Arts - North Idaho College

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters

 compared to what lies within us." - Oliver Wendell Holmes 

 
Pamela K. Greskowiak

Night House Parent

B.A. Psychology - University of Great Falls

"No man really becomes a fool until he stops

 asking questions." - Charles P. Steinmetz

 
Seth Dornbusch

Senior House Parent

B.A. Psychology - University of Kansas

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without

 losing your temper or self-confidence." - Robert Frost

 
Amanda Kirkpatrick

Senior House Parent

 

B.F.A. Art - Northwestern College

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

                                                    - Teddy Roosevelt

 
Spencer Wade

Night House Parent

 
Chuck Shields

Senior House Parent

B.A. Outdoor Education - Prairie Bible School

"Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and

 movements and changes in the world about him; then there comes

 a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into

 the sort of thing he wishes to be. ... Everyone has it within his power

 to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.” - Louis L'Amour

 
Rusty Cash

Senior House Parent

B.S. Broad-Field Social Science - University of Montana, Western

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could

 hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 

 twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven

 years.” - Mark Twain

 
Emily Long

Senior House Parent

B.A. Psychology - University of Redlands, California

"We are what we repeatedly do.

 Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle

 
Joel Ahles

Senior House Parent

B.A. Health and Physical Education - Concordia College Moorhead, MN

"Discipline is not the enemy of enthusiasm." - Joe Clark

 
Cody Fierro

Senior House Parent

B.A. History - Whitman College

"There is no use whatsoever trying to help people who do not

 help themselves.  You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless

 he is willing to climb himself." - Andrew Carnegie

 
Nic Hunter

Senior House Parent

"Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I'll remember;

 involve me and I'll understand." - Chinese Proverb

 
Becky Hughes

Senior House Parent

B.S. Education - University of Wisconsin - Eau Calire

"A different world cannot be built by indifferent people."

 - Horrace Mann

 
Gina Gonstad

Night House Parent

B.A. Social Work - University of Montana

"When we face our fears and let ourselves know our

 connection to the power that is in us and beyond us,

 we learn courage." - Anne Wilson Schaef

 
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