After 38 years, Verndale Teacher Lisa Wickett begins her next adventure
by Trinity Gruenberg
Long-time Verndale Teacher Lisa Wickett has retired after 38 years of teaching.
She is already enjoying some of her retirement after catching a 28-inch walleye in Baudette while hanging out with friends.
Wickett looks back on her time at Verndale with fondness, as she truly loved her job, her co-workers, and especially the children.
The Anoka native was influenced by her first grade teacher, Mrs. Berry, whose lasting impression made her wish to pursue teaching.
She later found out her mother was training to be a teacher, but she married her father and did not finish the training so she could raise the family instead.
“It always felt like it was where I’m meant to be,” said Wickett.
She attended Moorhead State and received her master’s degree through one of the first online programs in the late 1990s from St. Scholastica, having to send in video cassette tapes of discussions and her thesis on a floppy disk.
She moved to Verndale after she married.
She didn’t know there were K-12 schools in one building or a town that small....
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