A Few Minutes with Mrs. Cordry

By Madison Zvolanek

At the end of the year we are having a few teachers retire or move away. I interviewed one of the teachers leaving, Mrs. Cordry. She is an English teacher, speech coach, and is our play director. She is a big help with this school and always tries to make every day a good one. She makes people happy in the halls and jokes around with people. When you hear a teacher singing, you know it’s her. I will never forget the “I stumped you” song when I was in English my freshmen year. Mrs .Cordry also has a lot of nicknames for everyone. She always called my class girls and squirrels or a lovely bunch of coconuts, or she would say “zip it, zippies!”

My first interview question was what makes a “good day” at school? Mrs. Cordry said that a good day at school is when she can, “...make a connection either academically or personally with at least one student.” My personal opinion is that she does make this happen every day because she is a very wonderful and outgoing teacher who likes to help. I also asked her what other teacher’s class she would want to be in if she had to choose. Mrs. Cordry would want to enroll in either Mrs. Neverve’s class or Mrs. Clay’s class because, like English, they are an art form in which she’d love to expand. Also, knowing every person in school has a favorite dish from the cafeteria, I just had to ask Mrs. Cordry what her favorite is. She said, like I think most people say, the chili and cinnamon rolls, but close to that would have to be the raider pocket.

Mrs. Cordry plans on going back to teach at a middle school where she has already been teaching before. I also asked her if she has a quote or saying that she lives her life by. She believes she has several quotes: “To thine own self be true” and “Kindness is always right.” Mrs. Cordry also says this quote right after class on Fridays to all of her students, “Make wise choices.” I think every teacher has a hidden talent because we don’t really see them outside of school. Her hidden talent is that she can whip out a song and a batch of mashed potatoes. Mrs. Cordry will be greatly missed by a lot of people, and we wish her well at her new school and on the next chapter of her life.