When Mark came to Northwest University, he knew he wouldn’t be staying long. He felt that God was calling him into higher education and Northwest had not yet developed a program that would help him accomplish this goal. So Mark did what he thought was the next best thing – he came to Northwest and graduated with his Associate of Arts degree and transferred to another school for further educational training.
But don’t get me wrong, Mark is an Eagle through and through. He wanted to start his college career off right; full of spiritual growth and surrounded by friends that wanted only to honor God with their lives. Mark found that and more at Northwest.
Mark was one of the 400 floor “Red Dogs” with Rick Enloe and Jim Heugel, played on the basketball team with John Brown and under Assistant Coach LeRoy Johnson at the national tournament, and served as the sophomore class president. He somehow found time to meet and marry Gayle (maiden name Baltrusch), who is also an NU grad from the LEAP program in 2003 with a degree in Organizational Management.
Today, Mark continues to serve in leadership as the Superintendent for the Cle Elum / Roslyn School District, where he impacts students, teachers, and parents on a daily basis. The advice that he gives to his teachers, that he would also like to share with NU students seeking to get into education is, “Never lose sight of the impact that you can have in the lives of kids as their teacher.” As a father of three, school-aged children, I couldn’t agree more.
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