At the end of this semester, Ed Larios and Sherry Barbour will be retiring. Both have contributed immensely to Aragon for many years and will be missed by the Aragon community.
Ed Larios
Ed Larios is currently a health and physical education teacher, but he has held many positions during the past eight years. In previous years, Larios has taught algebra, geometry, physical education, health and U.S. history. Larios comments, “I’ve been a teacher, a girls basketball coach, a varsity football coach, a frosh-soph football coach, and a track coach.”
Larios says, “I’ve always admired my teachers in high school.” Fundamentally, that admiration served as the basis of his teaching career. Larios started teaching in 1969 at Burlingame High School, and it was not until 2004 that he became a part of the Aragon community.
About his retirement, Larios remarks, “I’m at the age where you can. Ironically, I’ll probably still be teaching here for a couple of periods because they still need me to teach. Even though I’ll be retired, I’ll be teaching as a retired teacher.”
As for his retirement plans, Larios states, “I’m going to go spend a weekend at the inauguration in January. That’s my first retirement trip. And then I’ll just play it by ear.”
Sophomore Rachel Leung comments, “Mr. Larios was my health teacher freshman year, so I have him to thank for educating me on all aspects of health. He is currently my PE teacher as well, and he has taught me to try my best. He’s super encouraging and a great teacher.”
Leung adds, “I’m really sad to hear that Mr. Larios is retiring. However, I hope he has a wonderful retirement and visits often.”
PE teacher Annette Gennaro, comments, “He’s still coming back, he’s still going to be here. I’m not sure the guy’s ever going to ‘retire,’ but when he does, I hope he enjoys his golf and his grandchildren. I have a strange feeling he will be around Aragon for many more years.”
Sherry Barbour
Sherry Barbour has been part of the Aragon community for 22 and a half years as the health aide. Additionally, Barbour has done supervision and security for dances and games.
Regarding how she became interested in becoming a school health aide, Barbour explains, “When I first saw the ad on the paper, I wasn’t working. I was still home raising my kids. They were in eighth grade and tenth grade. They didn’t really need me at home as much, but I really liked the age level—the high school kids. I just randomly saw this ad, and I’ve always been interested in the medical field. It was only part time to start with. I could get my kids off to school and still be home when they came home from school, which is really important to me. So, I applied for it and got it.”
Barbour adds, “I’ve been an administrative assistant for a couple of different companies before joining Aragon. I worked at See’s Candy for a couple of years too.”
Barbour hopes to engage in her hobbies more after retiring. “I really want to spend some more time with crafts. I sew, I make jewelry, and I crochet.”
Furthermore, Barbour says, “My husband is already retired. I have a new granddaughter. My husband and I want to do some traveling and we like to travel in the off season.”
Like Larios, Barbour will be travelling in the upcoming semester. She states, “My husband and I are going to take a trip in our motor home. We are going to go down into Southern California and then cross over into Arizona. That’s the first trip we’re going to make.”
Freshman Kristen Tamsil says, “Whenever I felt sick, Mrs. Barbour was really eager to help. The Aragon community will miss Mrs. Barbour a lot. She has contributed so much and I want to thank her for all she has done.”
Grade adviser Patricia Bruce comments, “Everyone is very happy for her. We’re very happy, but we’re very much going to miss her.”
