• I grew up in Topeka and graduated from Topeka West High School.  I played basketball at Trinity University in Texas before returning to KU to finish my education.  I started teaching in Shawnee Mission Schools in Kansas City.  I moved on to Pembroke Hill School, where I taught and was the Varsity Head Coach for Boys Basketball.  We left Kansas City and moved across the country to New Jersey for a year, where I taught and coached.  We moved back to the Midwest and landed in Racine, Wisconsin.  I taught in Racine for 18 years.  Once my children had all graduated high school, we decided to return to Kansas and made Lawrence our home.  I taught for 3 years at Washburn Rural Middle School in Topeka.  Now, finally, I am teaching where I live. 

     

    My wife is a 1st grade teacher at Corpus Christi.  We have 4 children, ages 22 to 38.  They live in Kansas City and Lawrence, so we get to see them often.  We have a little dog named Reggie, and our youngest son has a Pug named Frank (from the movie Men In Black).  I am a huge KU fan - Rock Chalk!  And, I play as much golf as I can, almost everyday in the summer.  I'm excited about West and this year.
The Mills