GULF HIGH SCHOOL
Administration
Photo taken Feb. 16, 2005. A larger version of this photo is here.
THOMAS E. IMERSON
became Principal on July 1, 2002. He had
been the Assistant Principal for Curriculum and Instruction at Gulf
High School
from 1991 to 2001, but left Gulf to become Principal of Hudson Middle
School on February 7, 2001.
He returned to Gulf upon the retirement of Cheryl Renneckar.
He was named the Pasco County High School Assistant
Principal of the Year in February 2000. He has given workshops to
SCATT students at USF and at various other meetings, including, most
recently, the American Vocational Association national conventions in
Cincinnati and Las Vegas. He serves on various district committees,
including High School Guidance, Staff Development, and High School
Design. Among his interests is improving student performance through
the development of Learning Communities.
Mr. Imerson was born in Michigan and attended a one-room schoolhouse in
grades one to five. He earned a B. S. degree in English
and an M. Ed. degree in Administration/Supervision, both from Xavier
University in Cincinnati.
He began his career in Ohio and worked in assistant principal and
principal positions in public
and private schools there from 1969 to 1982. He moved to Florida in
1982 and served as an assistant principal at Clearwater Central
Catholic High School for four years. He then came to Pasco County,
working as an assistant principal at Ridgewood High School from 1986 to
1991.
His wife is an elementary school teacher in Pinellas County.
THOMAS BROCHU
became the Assistant Principal for Administration in
1998. Mr. Brochu began his career in Education in 1986 as a Physical
Education Instructor, Coach and Athletic Director at Kingsbury School
K-8 in Oxford, Michigan. In 1987 he moved south to Darien, Georgia to
McIntosh County Academy Grades 6-12. At MCA he supervised the In School
Suspension Program and coached football, and girls basketball and
track. In 1989 he moved to Florida and taught at Largo High School. At
Largo, Mr. Brochu taught in their Dropout Prevention Program - GOALS
for one year then supervised the ISS program. In 1991 he moved to Largo
Middle School where he taught seventh grade science and Supervised the
ISS program. In 1993 he joined the North Ward Intensive Behavior
Improvement System Grades 6-12, in St. Petersburg. At the IBIS program
he taught health, drug free schools curriculum and physical education.
In October 1996, Mr. Brochu accepted a position as Assistant Principal
at the James Irvin Education Center in Dade City. Mr. Brochu received a
B. S. degree in physical education and an M. A. and Ed. S. degree in
Educational Administration from The University of Michigan. His wife,
Laura is an Instructional Assistant at Calusa Elementary. They have
two sons, Kris in the Air Force and Brett attending USF, and a daughter
attending MHS.
DR. JUDY B. GALLAGHER is the Assistant Principal
for Student Services. She began her career in Pasco County
in 1974 as a teacher at Cypress Elementary School. From 1977 until
1990, she was an owner and teacher of Genesis School. In 1990, she
was appointed as Assistant Principal of Richey Elementary School and
transferred with the staff to Cotee River Elementary School when it
opened in 1994. Dr. Gallagher transferred to Denham Oaks Elementary
School in 1995 and transferred to Gulf Middle School in 1996. Dr.
Gallagher received her bachelor's degree in elementary education and
business education from St. Leo College and her master's degree in
administration and supervision from American University. She received
her doctoral degree in early and middle childhood from Nova
University. She is certified in elementary education, business
education, administration/supervision and school principal. She has
served on numerous district committees such as Middle School Design
and High School Task Force.
FLORENCE BUONO is the Assistant Principal for Instruction.
She joined the Gulf administration in January 2005.
Before coming to Gulf, Mrs. Buono taught math at J. W. Mitchell High School.
She began teaching there when the school opened in 2000. She was also the girls track and cross country coach at Mitchell.
Before teaching at Mitchell, she was on the faculty of Bishop Larkin School in Port Richey
for two years and she taught math for four years at Ridgewood High School.
She has a B. A. degree in mathematics education from the University of South Florida and an M. Ed. degree in Educational Leadership from USF.
She was born in the Bronx, New York. For two years she attended Preston High School, a private
college-preparatory school for women established by the Sisters of the Divine Compassion in the
Throgs Neck section of the Bronx. Her last two years of high school were spent here in Pasco County at Hudson High School, from which she graduated.
Her husband, Frank Buono, teaches science at Hudson High School and coaches boys track and cross country.
They have two boys, one at Mitchell and one at Hudson High School.
Dr. DEBORAH J. LEPLEY became an Assistant Principal at
Gulf High School
in November 2004. She is in charge of the International Baccalaureate
Program at Gulf.
She had previously been at Ridgewood High School for eighteen years.
She began there as a visual arts teacher, teaching AP, Portfolio, and
Art History,
but became an Assistant Principal in 2000.
She was also an
Adjunct Professor at Florida State University.
Dr. Lepley was born in Coshocton, Ohio, and grew
up in Mount Vernon, Ohio. She attended River Valley High School in
Caledonia, Ohio.
She holds a Bachelor of Art Education degree and an M. A. degree in
Visual Arts Education,
both from The Ohio State University, and a Ph. D. from Pennsylvania
State University.
As a Fulbright recipient, she taught visual arts at
St. Cuthbert's High School in Newcastle upon Tyne, in England.
She also served in the U. S. Army, in the 101st Airborne Division.
While stationed in
Germany, she was an Adjunct Professor of Art at the University of
Maryland European Division.
ALFRED J.
PALMA is the Assistant Principal for Adult/Community
Education. He is responsible for the Adult Ed (night school) program
and community education programs. He has been at Gulf High School
since October 1992. Mr. Palma held various teaching positions in
Pasco County since he arrived here in 1986 from New York. He
formerly was the Director for Outdoor Environmental Education in a
state park on Long Island. Mr. Palma has done post master's degree
work in administration from New York University, and holds master's
and bachelor's degrees from the State University system in New York.
In 1996 Mr. Palma received recognition in Who's Who Among
America's Teachers. His wife Barbara teaches reading at
Richey Elementary School in Pasco County.
Both of his children graduated from Gulf High School before going onto
higher education in the Florida University system.
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