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Mr. Cordray's English Pages

Whitewater rafting in Browns Canyon on the Arkansas River - July 2008.

About the Instructor

Gary Cordray has been teaching high school English in Colorado for 17 years. He began his career in 1988 at Grand Junction High School where he taught for five years before leaving the teaching profession to be a publishing representative for Jostens, Inc. After returning to teaching in 1996, Gary taught at Dakota Ridge High School for seven years before taking his current position at Ponderosa in 2003 as an Advanced Placement Language and Composition and English II teacher.

Christia and Katie in the Lost Creek Wilderness.

Mr. Cordray has lived in Parker since 1993 with his wife, Christia, and his daughter, Katie. He was born in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1965, and graduated from Grand Junction High School in 1983. He attended Simpson College in Iowa on a basketball scholarship, but after a short time there, transfered to the University of Northern Colorado where he studied English and Journalism.

Mr. Cordray's English Springer Spaniel, Sky, goes for a swim.

In addition to being a teacher, Mr. Cordray is an avid fly fisherman, backpacker, and all around outdoor enthusiast. He loves to read modern novels as well as the classics, and write essays, short narratives, and fiction revolving around themes he finds in the tranquility of nature and the complexity of the modern human experience. He has written one novel, "Running Down Karma."