Local Principal Retiring After 41 Years As Educator
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Tim [email protected]
Landrigan's career involved work at the elementary, junior high and high school levels. He began as a teacher at Central Catholic High School, in Fort Wayne. He also taught for three years at Bristol High School.
In 1963, Landrigan accepted a teaching job with the Warsaw Community School Corporation. He stayed with the corporation for 33 years before stepping down from his position as an assistant principal at Warsaw Community High School in 1996. Eight years later, Landrigan came out of retirement to take a job as principal at Sacred Heart.
Now, he said, he is ready for retirement.
"In the book of Ecclesiastes, it says there's a time for everything," said Landrigan, "There is a time to begin something and a time to end."
Looking back over the years he spent teaching, counseling and mentoring students, Landrigan said the length of his career has enabled him to see some of the fruits of his labor.
"Some days when I taught, I'd leave the classroom at the end of the day and I would say, 'God, what happened in here today?' An awful lot happens in the classroom besides the curriculum. Many that they called 'troubled' children at the middle school level have become good productive citizens," Landrigan said. "Quite a few of them have gone out of their way to talk to me after they become stable adults. That has been very, very, very rewarding."
Landrigan said he plans to stay in Warsaw after he retires.
"Warsaw has satisfied all my expectations and has been super good to me and my family," he said. "I wouldn't want to live anywhere else."
Retirement, Landrigan said, will give him the opportunity to spend more time with his four children and 14 grandchildren and to become more active in the community than he already is. He said he plans to attend more morning Optimists Breakfasts and also spend more time working with Kosciusko Right to Life, of which he is president.
"There will be plenty of things to do," said Landrigan. "Basically, the big task is over."[[In-content Ad]]
Landrigan's career involved work at the elementary, junior high and high school levels. He began as a teacher at Central Catholic High School, in Fort Wayne. He also taught for three years at Bristol High School.
In 1963, Landrigan accepted a teaching job with the Warsaw Community School Corporation. He stayed with the corporation for 33 years before stepping down from his position as an assistant principal at Warsaw Community High School in 1996. Eight years later, Landrigan came out of retirement to take a job as principal at Sacred Heart.
Now, he said, he is ready for retirement.
"In the book of Ecclesiastes, it says there's a time for everything," said Landrigan, "There is a time to begin something and a time to end."
Looking back over the years he spent teaching, counseling and mentoring students, Landrigan said the length of his career has enabled him to see some of the fruits of his labor.
"Some days when I taught, I'd leave the classroom at the end of the day and I would say, 'God, what happened in here today?' An awful lot happens in the classroom besides the curriculum. Many that they called 'troubled' children at the middle school level have become good productive citizens," Landrigan said. "Quite a few of them have gone out of their way to talk to me after they become stable adults. That has been very, very, very rewarding."
Landrigan said he plans to stay in Warsaw after he retires.
"Warsaw has satisfied all my expectations and has been super good to me and my family," he said. "I wouldn't want to live anywhere else."
Retirement, Landrigan said, will give him the opportunity to spend more time with his four children and 14 grandchildren and to become more active in the community than he already is. He said he plans to attend more morning Optimists Breakfasts and also spend more time working with Kosciusko Right to Life, of which he is president.
"There will be plenty of things to do," said Landrigan. "Basically, the big task is over."[[In-content Ad]]
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