From Math Teacher to Color Guard Sponsor

By: Katherine T.

“I love color guard and band; it ranks right up with teaching” said Miss Lindauer. Miss Lindauer is a high school math teacher and sponsor for the OHS color guard. For four years she’s been a sponsor for the color guard and apart of the band. She started out the same time that Mr. Schlake, the OHS band director, started teaching at the high school.

When she first started out helping the color guard, she told the co-captains that if they wanted help with anything, she would help since she had experience with color guard. The year before, the captain of the color guard approached her and asked her for help and to be the sponsor and she agreed to.

She helps with the color guard by ordering and gathering all the supplies that the color guard would need for that season like, flags, rifles, uniforms, and writing routines. She had help writing routines from Niki, a color guard sponsor, and Abby, one of the co-captains. By writing routines and getting together with the color guard during the summer and school year, Miss Lindauer has put in close to 170-180 hours to the color guard.

She is very active in the community. She helps out with her church, and attends most of the band and show choir concerts, the volleyball, basketball, and of course the football games. She is a member of two scholarship committees. She’s also a member of the united Methodist District Superintendence Committee. She has done a lot of community service and use to help with Kiwanis. She enjoys helping others and being part of the community. “It’s part of my personality,” says Miss Lindauer. She likes to make people better than what she is.