Walz is remembered as an influential teacher and coach who mentored students beyond the classroom and field and helped lead the football team to state championships.
As a teacher and coach at Mankato West High School, Tim Walz gave out hallway high-fives, was named “most inspiring teacher,” motivated students to become educators themselves and helped create a turnaround story for the football team.
Now governor of Minnesota and the vice presidential pick on the Democratic presidential ticket, Walz is still remembered fondly by his former students and players.
“He was probably one of the most well-liked teachers in the school while he taught there,” said Katie Heintz, 41, who had Walz as a teacher her junior year of high school and is now the director of a library in the area.
i can think of a couple of reasons why they didn’t.
cropping the image would have made it smaller -> appear larger to fit the frame. it’s already a low-quality image, and that would just have made it look worse. it may have already been cropped, and this might be as far as they felt was reasonable to crop the image.
layout can be tricky, and you don’t always get to make optimal choices. sometimes you’ve got to work with the assets you get.
Not to mention this appears to be from a year book and it was probably students doing the layout