High school is a time and a place of memories. For some Trinity teachers, memories of their alma mater are still being made.

Teachers Mr. Mike Chancellor and Mr. Joe Bryant graduated in Trinity’s Class of 1975 and expressed similar reasons for coming back to teach at Trinity.

Did he plan to teach at Trinity? Chancellor said, “At graduation, no. Even though I was undecided going into college, coach (and teacher Rich) Rostel influenced me to come back. Along with coach Rostel was Fr. Ron Domhoff.”

Bryant said, “At graduation, I couldn’t see myself teaching. As a (college) sophomore, I decided I wanted to teach and coach. I got the opportunity to come back when Trinity needed a freshman football coach, and that got my foot in the door.”

Both came back to Trinity for the 1980-1981 school year, and they said not much has changed—other than the campus.

Chancellor, a math teacher, said, “The changes are all visual, but the vision here is the same as when I went here.”

Bryant, who teaches health and P.E., agreed: “The core is still the same. The buildings have changed Trinity into a small-college atmosphere.”

Each has his own teaching philosophy.

Chancellor said to reach the students he tries to “do whatever it takes. No two people learn the same way. You have to do different things for different people. If redoing the lesson is necessary, then you do it.”

Bryant strives to “make teaching and learning fun, and with health and P.E. you do that because you’re teaching everything that is real life and how it affects you personally.”

As teachers, coaches and moderators, Chancellor and Bryant have influenced thousands of students during the past 30 years. Among them is 2005 graduate Patrick Crush.

Crush said, “Both of those teachers not only made me a better student, but a better person as well.”