Trautman retires after 45 years of teaching

When Victor Trautman graduated from Dickinson State University in North Dakota in the early 1970s, the biology major received some wise advice from his brother-in-law: people are always going to have kids, and people are always going to need schools. As a result, Trautman made the decision to become a teacher.

Forty-five years later, Trautman is retiring from Petersburg High School where he spent 29 years teaching science.

"I chose well," said Trautman. "I have never regretted being a science teacher."

After he graduated, his plans to be a teacher were put on hold, because he was drafted into...