Mr. Pastore and Mr. Lincoln Lead Retirements in 2026

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A combined fifty-two years of teaching experience leaves the high school this June, as English teacher Mr. Doug Pastore and Personal Finance teacher Mr. Lincoln will retire.

Both teachers share a hire date of August 30th, 2000, as the start of their 26 year teaching careers at Avonworth.

Mr. Pastore taught courses at the 9th, 10th, and 11th grade academic and honors levels throughout his two decades at the high school. He worked at Steel Valley School District before heading north of the city to work at Avonworth to start the 21st century.

“I always tried to connect what the students were reading to their personal lives” said Pastore about his approach in the classroom, which included assignments like creating a “totem belt” similar to Chris McCandless’s belt in the novel Into the Wild and having students bring in related food and drink items for a “tailgate” before reading Romeo and Juliet.

What stands out to his students during and after taking classes with him? Often, it’s his beloved sense of humor. Senior Ally Hartman listed Mr. Pastore as influential on her Senior Slide, pictured below.

When the district construction plans in 2024 moved Pastore out of one of the number of classrooms throughout his career, he offered this response to an Avonews reporter.

A decade earlier, he posed for an Ugly Holiday Sweater day in the 2010’s, right before winter break.

Before his more recent phase teaching personal finance, Mr. Lincoln used his multiple certifications at the middle and high school levels: Tech Ed PK-12, Bus-Comp-Info Tech PK-12, Office Tech 7-12, Accounting 7-12, Coop Ed 7-12. Lincoln taught at Carrick High School from 1996-2000.

A highlight of Mr. Lincoln’s years as Personal Finance teacher was sponsoring a student finance team that reached a national round of competition. Lincoln had taught at the middle school level until 2020, when he stepped into the role after the COVID pandemic and the retirement for Mr. Jeffery Shirey.

https://avonewsonline.org/2024/04/student-finance-team-wins-states-heads-to-nationals-in-may/

Students here for the 24-25 school year would also know Mr. Lincoln as the sponsor for the AV club, where seniors Marshall McCall and Jase Klatzin brought back a version of morning announcements in their own style.

In the mid 2010’s, Lincoln split time between middle school and bringing professional-grade equipment and production value to the morning announcements.

Pictured below is the setup from the pre-construction TV studio room in fall 2017, now integrated into the College and Career Counseling office and a single stall bathroom facing the main HS entrance.