Our Middle School Teachers

JoAnne Corey - 6th Grade Math, 7th & 8th Grade Social Studies

Mrs. Corey grew up in a little upstate New York town, Skaneateles. She graduated from the University of Colorado with a Bachelor of Arts in History and continued her education by obtaining her certification in Secondary Social Sciences at the University of Northern Colorado. She started her classroom teaching at the south rim of the Grand Canyon. She became interested in health education and became a consultant with the Colorado Department of Education.

Mrs. Corey continued her interest and worked 4 ½ years teaching health education classes at the Hall of Life at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. She is married to a wonderful gourmet chef and has two children. Her daughter recently graduated from UNC and her son is a sophomore at CU.

Christopher Roberts - 6th & 8th Grade Language Arts, 6th Grade Literature

Mr. Roberts was born and raised in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He also has an Associate of the Arts degree from Front Range Community College. Mr. Roberts is currently working on completion of his Masters of Education with an emphasis in Secondary Literature at C.U., Boulder, which he will complete in May 2009. Education has been a part of his life since infancy; both of his parents are teachers. On his own, he began to explore education through The Colorado Outward Bound School, now Outward Bound West, where he discovered his love of teaching and the outdoors. In addition to his outdoor education background, Mr. Roberts has also spent time working at Olde Columbine, and Longmont High Schools in Longmont; New Vista High School in Boulder; Casey and Manhattan Middle Schools in Boulder.

Mr. Roberts is an avid outdoors person; specifically he enjoys rock and ice climbing, and has climbed all over the western United States. His favorite spots to climb are Yosemite Valley and Smith Rock Oregon. He summited Mt. Rainer and Popocateptl in Mexico.

Mr. Roberts is enjoying his fourth year at Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Bonnie Martin - 7th Grade Language Arts, 7th & 8th Grade Literature

Ms. Martin was born in Syracuse, N.Y., educated at Jesuit schools – both undergraduate and graduate – and began her teaching career in the beautiful villages of Fayetteville and Manlius, N.Y. Having never lived in the West, but only in the East, she decided to come out to Colorado.

Although she was teaching in Boulder at that time, she was also volunteering evenings and weekends at Fitzsimons Army Hospital. Fitzsimons was an orthopedic hospital then, and the walls were bulging with Vietnam returnees. There was much work to be done there and she wanted to do it all. So she returned to Denver the second year both to teach and to continue working at Fitzsimons.

After eighteen years of teaching, Ms. Martin became a lobbyist representing poor and vulnerable people; first for the Archdiocese of Denver, then for the Office of Aging Advocacy (of the Colorado Catholic Conference), and ultimately for Legal Aid in Colorado. She then took a position with the Archdiocese once again as social ministry coordinator. Her charge was the Archdiocesan Legislative Network, a large group of volunteers from parishes throughout the entire Archdiocese. The network was the contact arm of the Colorado Catholic Conference to state legislators and Congresspeople. She also worked with social concerns committees and spoke to groups of parishioners explaining how the position the Bishops had taken on any given piece of legislation was predicated upon our Faith’s social teaching.

Susan R. Weinzapfel - 7th & 8th Grade Religion, 6th Grade Social Studies

Mrs.Weinzapfel began teaching as a volunteer catechist in parish religious education programs. She taught all grades over twelve years, however 5th, 6th, and 7th grades were her favorite.

In 1983 Mrs. Weinzapfel was offered the job as Director of Religious Education in her home parish. She took the job and entered the RECEP Program at Regis University. Seven years later she graduated Magna cum Laude with a BA in Religious Studies and a minor in Religious Education. She was also awarded the John Henry Newman award for excellence in religious studies. While working as a DRE, she taught adult education religious education, RCIA and middle school confirmation.

In 1995, Mrs. Weinzapfel left parish work to enter into teaching full time. She started at Sacred Heart of Jesus in September of 1995 as a part-time junior high religion teacher. In September of 1998 she was offered a full-time teaching position teaching 7 th grade social studies and 7 th and 8 th grade religion. This year, she is teaching all the middle school religion classes.

Mrs. Weinzapfel loves teaching Middle School. It is like one long beautiful road trip, you never know what is around the next bend!

Susan Zimmer - 7th Grade Math, Pre-algebra, Algebra I, Geometry

Mrs. Zimmer grew up in Ohio and graduated from Wittenburg University, Springfield, Ohio with a Bachelor of Science in education majoring in math and minoring in music. She earned additional credits from universities in California, Virginia, Kentucky and Colorado. Mrs. Zimmer has taught junior high in California, high school in Virginia and Boulder and has been at Sacred Heart for 21 years.

In her spare time Mrs. Zimmer enjoys hiking in the foothills of Boulder with her border collie, Josie.

Thomas McCarthy-6th, 7th, & 8th Grade Science

Mr. Thomas McCarthy was born and raised in Plainfield, New Jersey. He graduated from Holy Trinity High School in Westfield, NJ in 1975. He immediately entered the United States Air Force Academy and graduated in 1979 with a BS in Aeronautical Engineering. Mr. McCarthy then trained as a pilot, and has nearly 4000 hours in Fighter Aircraft, mostly the F-15 Eagle. His tours of duty include numerous locations in the US, Europe, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. Col. McCarthy retired on June 1, 2009 after 30+ years in the US Air Force. Mr. McCarthy starts his second year teaching, his first year at Sacred Heart of Jesus. He has previously been an Instructor Pilot teaching at the primary and advanced levels. He was also a professor of Aerospace Science and ROTC Commander at Colorado State University. Mr. McCarthy presently lives in Boulder, has 4 children with his wife, Jody, and 6 grandchildren. He is an active member of Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish.