Dear WAHS Scholars,
I am Elizabeth Mulcahy and 2022-23 is my 17th year teaching at WAHS. This coming year I will be teaching AVID 9/10, Sociology, World History I and World Geography. Of course I love history and geography, but I also like to be active outside the classroom here at WAHS. I am currently the Social Studies Honor Society sponsor. I have also coached basketball and softball, and taken students on European adventures.
Outside of school my world revolves around my family and the numerous sports that we support. My son Ethan is 14 and besides his 9th grade classes he plays basketball, football, and baseball. My daughter Abigail is starting 6th grade after a busy 5th grade of the school musical, math club, library helper, and chorus. She spends her time outside of school playing soccer, softball, and basketball. The Virginia Cavaliers, Buffalo Bills, and Washington Nationals. take up a great deal of our leisure time as we are avid fans and try to attend as many games possible. For leisure time, I mainly read historical fiction and non-fiction (what a surprise) and do a jigsaw puzzle here and there. Probably my top three TV shows are Sports Center, Jeopardy, and the Amazing Race, but I do pick a different series to binge watch each summer.
The periods of history that fascinate me change on a daily basis. When I was in middle and high school it was the American Civil War. I begged my parents to go on vacation in Gettysburg. When I was in college it was ‘60s American history (especially the space program) so I got my parents to take us to the Kennedy Space Center. When I started teaching I was thrown into a more international realm of study especially after working in an American school in Switzerland for a summer. I have traveled throughout Europe with students and with other teachers to Hungary and China. In 2018, I had the opportunity to study the history of the Caribbean and role of slavery in Barbados with the Virginia Geographic Alliance, which was by far the best professional learning ever, but it was topped in June 2021 when a WAHS student and I memorialized a WWII soldier from Albemarle Country killed in the Pacific at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
I hope everyone has a school year filled with academic growth and positive memories!
Mrs. Mulcahy
I am Elizabeth Mulcahy and 2022-23 is my 17th year teaching at WAHS. This coming year I will be teaching AVID 9/10, Sociology, World History I and World Geography. Of course I love history and geography, but I also like to be active outside the classroom here at WAHS. I am currently the Social Studies Honor Society sponsor. I have also coached basketball and softball, and taken students on European adventures.
Outside of school my world revolves around my family and the numerous sports that we support. My son Ethan is 14 and besides his 9th grade classes he plays basketball, football, and baseball. My daughter Abigail is starting 6th grade after a busy 5th grade of the school musical, math club, library helper, and chorus. She spends her time outside of school playing soccer, softball, and basketball. The Virginia Cavaliers, Buffalo Bills, and Washington Nationals. take up a great deal of our leisure time as we are avid fans and try to attend as many games possible. For leisure time, I mainly read historical fiction and non-fiction (what a surprise) and do a jigsaw puzzle here and there. Probably my top three TV shows are Sports Center, Jeopardy, and the Amazing Race, but I do pick a different series to binge watch each summer.
The periods of history that fascinate me change on a daily basis. When I was in middle and high school it was the American Civil War. I begged my parents to go on vacation in Gettysburg. When I was in college it was ‘60s American history (especially the space program) so I got my parents to take us to the Kennedy Space Center. When I started teaching I was thrown into a more international realm of study especially after working in an American school in Switzerland for a summer. I have traveled throughout Europe with students and with other teachers to Hungary and China. In 2018, I had the opportunity to study the history of the Caribbean and role of slavery in Barbados with the Virginia Geographic Alliance, which was by far the best professional learning ever, but it was topped in June 2021 when a WAHS student and I memorialized a WWII soldier from Albemarle Country killed in the Pacific at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
I hope everyone has a school year filled with academic growth and positive memories!
Mrs. Mulcahy