DID YOU KNOW?
Tacoma’s story spans more than two centuries from the time Captain George Vancouver anchored off Tacoma’s north shore in 1792.
In 1870, Tacoma’s natural deep-water port became an attraction that the Northern Pacific Railroad couldn’t pass up, when it made Tacoma a stop on its transcontinental line.
Old Tacoma and New Tacoma merged in 1884 and incorporated as Tacoma. By 1890, the population reached 36,000 people.
Tacoma is home to the Port of Tacoma, the seventh-largest container port in the United States, and it is within 20 miles of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and 36 miles of the city of Seattle.
Anna Senner,
MS/US Spanish, Outdoor Ed Co-Coordinator
Annie Senner teaches Spanish in the Middle and Upper Schools. She graduated from the University of San Diego. She completed her masters degree at Middlebury College in Vermont.
Senner joined the Charles Wright faculty in 2004. In addition to teaching, she coaches soccer, helps coordinate the outdoor education program, and leads sophomore and eighth grade backpacking groups.
“I love the opportunities at Charles Wright to spend time with students outside the classroom,” she says. “As coaches, teachers, trip leaders, advisors and mentors, we come to understand the whole kid. This helps us be more effective educators inside the classroom and out.”
Senner fills her spare time running, hiking, skiing, boating, kayaking, and backpacking. She is a vegetarian for both health and environmental reasons. She often craves good coffee, mangos, pineapples and chocolate. Her favorite authors are Gabriel GarciÌa MaÌrquez, Ken Kesey, J.K. Rowling, and Miguel de Cervantes. She’s a big fan of Shakira and she has three kidneys.
“I live to travel, experience other cultures, and learn through the stories shared along the way,” says Senner. “I have lived abroad in Spain, Chile, Mexico and the Philippines, and traveled to Thailand, Costa Rica, Peru, Italy, Sicily, France, Germany, Switzerland, England and Morocco.”
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Senner joined the Charles Wright faculty in 2004. In addition to teaching, she coaches soccer, helps coordinate the outdoor education program, and leads sophomore and eighth grade backpacking groups.
“I love the opportunities at Charles Wright to spend time with students outside the classroom,” she says. “As coaches, teachers, trip leaders, advisors and mentors, we come to understand the whole kid. This helps us be more effective educators inside the classroom and out.”
Senner fills her spare time running, hiking, skiing, boating, kayaking, and backpacking. She is a vegetarian for both health and environmental reasons. She often craves good coffee, mangos, pineapples and chocolate. Her favorite authors are Gabriel GarciÌa MaÌrquez, Ken Kesey, J.K. Rowling, and Miguel de Cervantes. She’s a big fan of Shakira and she has three kidneys.
“I live to travel, experience other cultures, and learn through the stories shared along the way,” says Senner. “I have lived abroad in Spain, Chile, Mexico and the Philippines, and traveled to Thailand, Costa Rica, Peru, Italy, Sicily, France, Germany, Switzerland, England and Morocco.”
Visit her web site
