Kathy House retires after 34 years of teaching
By Gabrielle Gasser EBS STAFF
BIG SKY – Twenty years ago, Kathy House placed an ad in the paper inviting the Big Sky community to a meeting about creating a community library. About seven people showed up and by the end of the meeting, each participant had pitched in $20, marking the creation of the Big Sky Community Library.
House joined the team at Big Sky School District in 1991, initially as a combination classroom teacher. In the school’s early days, the library was a single small room with one bin of picture books and a couple shelves with books for older children.
Today, after House’s 30 years of hard work, a school library now occupies the Ophir Elementary School building, and the Big Sky Community Library lives in the middle and high school building.
“Kathy was the person that saw the…
