Introduction Blog

Hello Lenoir-Rhyne class, my name is Bill Osterholt.

I returned to school in 2010. Last year I graduated from GTCC and Guilford College. My major was history with minors in Education and Religious Studies. I am a MAT student. After graduation I plan on teaching History to six graders.

This picture is from 1904 in Waterloo Illinois. My father is not in the picture because he was born in 1903. My Aunt Becky is fifth from the left on the top row. Four of my uncles are in the picture, Gus, Herman, Henry is holding the chalk board.

My family has been blessed with four healthy beautiful children.
Crystal 35, Cheri 33, William 22, and Brittany 21.

                                                       Brittany with my 3 grand kids

My oldest Crystal - Gulf War vet. This is high school picture from Oak Ridge Military Academy. Crystal holds a Masters degree in bio-engineering and is pursuing her doctorate at VT. Cheri has owned her own salon in Greensboro for the past 13 years. William and Brittany are both attending Guilford College.

The whole family with grandma at Disney twenty years ago

 

A very interesting thing happened last June when I started classes at LR.

I met my second cousin Cassie Smatana in class

Cassie is from Albuquerque and is the Great Granddaughter of my dad's sister.

I lived in Albuquerque for a few years in my teens and hung out with Cassie's Uncle Gus who is my cousins child. His brother Bernard is Cassie's dad. He was about six when I left Albuquerque.

Bernard and Gus came to Brevard to visit so we were able to get together in August.

Cassie now and with her Dad and brother Chris twenty one years ago.

My sister took this picture on a visit to Albuquerque.

This is me with my elbow on Cassie's dad Bernard's head in 1971.

 Family picture - sitting in chair from right: Bernard holding Cassie - My mother Jessie - My Aunt Sissie who is Cassie's Great Grandmother.

A long time ago

 

 I am sixty years old and have been teaching the martial arts for the last 40 years. The martial arts are studies of concentration, focus and confidence built through achievement. I have taught students from 4 to 84. Since 1976, 102 students have achieved black belt level. This includes 12 families where more than one member made black belt. Fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, and husbands and wives. The family that kicks together sticks together. That is a humorous take on our real motto which is Family Fitness for a Purpose.

Students of all ages work together. Leadership and collaborative learning is stressed in this art which uses a system of individual progression through a standard base grading system.

Annual Holiday party and the "reading of Grinch." It is always a joy to see the kids react to mean old Mr. Bill reading the Grinch stole Christmas.