Mira LaNasa, Print Editor-In-Chief
Mira LaNasa is a senior and a Print Editor-in-Chief of the Pony Express who manages the photography department. She was born in South Korea and now lives in Hugo. She is a member of Amnesty International, Youth for Sustainable Solutions, and Feminists of SAHS.
![Ing-Mari and Dennis Ryan share thoughts on current curriculum. “I still enjoy doing it [teaching]. If you’re going to leave teaching, you usually do it within the first five years,” Dennis expresses. “These last two years I’ve had really nice kids. I wish they’d work a little harder sometimes, but they’re nice kids.”](https://sahsponyexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Ryans-WS.jpg)
![Jeff Ranta strolls through the halls of SAHS on a visit. “For the first two three months [of retirement] it was probably travel across the United States and Canada. From the mountains for a few weeks to being with my daughter down in Indiana and Ohio for a week, to up in Duluth for a week with my daughter who moved up there. Just traveling, and extended weekend trips. Doing wild rice harvesting, and fishing which I hadn’t been able to do,” Ranta explains.](https://sahsponyexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Ranta4-900x675.jpg)
![Becky Mazzara, ASL teacher and NHS adviser, gets ready before an NHS meeting. "Just being part of the education community [is the best part], and…I’ve subbed in other districts and so far wherever else I’ve been this still feels like home," Mazzara says.](https://sahsponyexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG_1855-900x675.jpg)
![Camryn Davis, senior and NHS President, studies in class. "She definitely has [fulfilled the role], but we’re still kind of in transition mode. I still have to go to Mr. Engler sometimes because he’s kind of training her in right now, but the officers have met with her a couple times so far and she seems to know what’s going on, so that’s good," Davis says.](https://sahsponyexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/null-900x659.jpg)
![Jordan Eiselt, a ninth grader at SJHS makes it to the final round in an activity during advisory. "It [advisory] gives those kids a place where they can feel like it's home," Meyer says.](https://sahsponyexpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Close-Up-900x675.jpg)