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.
Christine Gregorash,
Lower School Counselor
Christine Gregorash is the Lower School counselor. “I love to see the ‘light’ go on when students realize that they are capable of working out the challenges that they face,” she says.
“I hope what students remember about me is that I believed in and accepted them unconditionally and that each of them has the capacity to change not only themselves, but the world,” says Gregorash.
Gregorash particularly enjoys sharing her travel adventures with students who are studying the many countries she has visited. After traveling through the Amazon Rainforest by boat with retired CWA teacher Susan Mihata, an experience in itself, Gregorash collaborated with Mihata to create and present a program for the Lower School on Peru and the rainforest.
Most recently, she has spent time in China, Malaysia and Cambodia. “I’ve been fortunate to have the opportunity to stray from the ‘tourist’ path and experience areas of these countries where a Westerner is seldom, if ever seen. My experience in Cambodia was life changing. I hope to return to Cambodia as a volunteer in the schools which are sorely in need of teachers.”
Gregorash has also hiked a “good piece” of the Appalachian trail and studied in a Buddhist monastery. She has a blended family of six children and delights in her seven grandchildren. She holds a bachelors degree from the University of Puget Sound and a masters from Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon.
Gregorash enjoys Asian culture, sculpting, interior design, cooking, and reading. She volunteers with Big Brothers, Big Sisters and in the past volunteered with the Domestic Abuse Women’s Network (DAWN), the WARM PLACE grief support center for children, and the Station House teen support center.
She isn’t entirely sure if she owns or is owned by an iggy (Italian Greyhound, to the uninformed). Milo came to her through a rescue organization. “I’m not sure who rescued who sometimes,” she says, “but the results are very good.”
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“I hope what students remember about me is that I believed in and accepted them unconditionally and that each of them has the capacity to change not only themselves, but the world,” says Gregorash.
Gregorash particularly enjoys sharing her travel adventures with students who are studying the many countries she has visited. After traveling through the Amazon Rainforest by boat with retired CWA teacher Susan Mihata, an experience in itself, Gregorash collaborated with Mihata to create and present a program for the Lower School on Peru and the rainforest.
Most recently, she has spent time in China, Malaysia and Cambodia. “I’ve been fortunate to have the opportunity to stray from the ‘tourist’ path and experience areas of these countries where a Westerner is seldom, if ever seen. My experience in Cambodia was life changing. I hope to return to Cambodia as a volunteer in the schools which are sorely in need of teachers.”
Gregorash has also hiked a “good piece” of the Appalachian trail and studied in a Buddhist monastery. She has a blended family of six children and delights in her seven grandchildren. She holds a bachelors degree from the University of Puget Sound and a masters from Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon.
Gregorash enjoys Asian culture, sculpting, interior design, cooking, and reading. She volunteers with Big Brothers, Big Sisters and in the past volunteered with the Domestic Abuse Women’s Network (DAWN), the WARM PLACE grief support center for children, and the Station House teen support center.
She isn’t entirely sure if she owns or is owned by an iggy (Italian Greyhound, to the uninformed). Milo came to her through a rescue organization. “I’m not sure who rescued who sometimes,” she says, “but the results are very good.”
Visit her web site
