Seven new staff members welcomed to the district

Seven new employees were welcomed to the Yosemite Joint Union High School District at the staff in-service in August.

Randy Hyatt is the new assistant principal and also serves as the band director. He comes to YHS from Fresno Unified School District where he was most recently music coordinator for the district, overseeing all of the music programs, preparing the music budget, taking care of repair and maintenance of instruments and overseeing staffing.

He worked for Fresno Unified for 22 years, teaching everything from kindergarten to marching band.

Activities are the key to student success, he believes.

He has lived in the mountain area for four years. He says it is a great place to raise his children.

Hyatt plays the saxophone and French horn. He plays in the Community Band.

Sonia Garnica is a new Spanish teacher. She is a graduate of Madera High School and California State University, Fresno. She says she is loving her job at YHS. “It’s what I expected, the kids are really great.”

Li Harmon teaches two periods of Regional Occupational program (ROP) multi media communications and she also substitutes. She has been a substitute for the school for two years.

Prior to moving to the mountain area, she worked in the entertainment industry coloring the morning television cartoons. She worked on the Real Ghostbusters, the first season of Rugrats and the movie Prince of Egypt.

Greg Hill, a 1989 YHS graduate, is back at the school as a temporary counseling technician. He is filling the position for an employee who is on leave.

Hill will receive his Masters in Counseling and his Pupil Personnel Services credential from Fresno State in December. His long-term goal is to be a counselor at YHS.

He says coming back as an employee has been great. “I love coming to work and working with such great students and staff,” he said.

Another YHS graduate, Jerilyn Williamson, class of 1984, has returned as a part-time campus supervisor. She said she had a really great four years here as a student and it is good to be back. Her husband, Jack William-son, is a 1982 graduate.

Jessica Carsrud is a para-educator in the resource program at YHS. She helps special education students with their math and she helps with notes in some of their classes.
She previously taught for two years in a private elementary school.

Ricardo Davila is a utility worker and bus driver for YHS. He is also a certified pool operator and has taken care of waste water facilities.
He is retired from the US Postal Service.

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