Former University of San Diego High School (Uni) teacher (1987), Mrs. Kathy Bryan, has rejoined the Cathedral Catholic teaching community as an instructor in the religion department.

After twenty-five years of raising her three children and sending two of them off to college, Mrs. Bryan has come back to the school and community she fell in love with many years ago.

The experienced educator, Mrs. Bryan, got the idea of rejoining the Cathedral Catholic community two summers ago. The year before she had been substituting in the public school district.  However, when she came onto the campus the summer of 2012, she knew she wanted to reunite with the family.

During the summer of 2012, Mrs. Bryan’s daughter was training for soccer with Dawn Lee, Cathedral’s Head Women’s Soccer coach. Immediately after she came onto the campus and started talking to the students, she got the idea of substitute teaching for Cathedral Catholic.

Who would have thought that one year later she would be a new teacher on campus?

According to Mrs. Bryan, the way the students greeted her and welcomed her on the campus made her want to work at Cathedral Catholic. Mrs. Bryan recalls that when she was chatting with those Cathedral students that summer, she was reminded of what she used to love so much about Uni.

The student’s community spirit and genuinely good heartedness made her instantly love the school’s environment.

Mrs. Bryan graduated from Loyola Marymount University with her bachelors in English and Philosophy and  then attended the University of San Diego, receiving her masters in English and American Literature.

Her favorite part about Loyola Marymount was the spiritual community. She loved how close the masses and retreats made all the students.

That spiritual community, established at LMU, was the exact thing she hoped for at Uni. While teaching the Liturgy and Worlds Religion Class to Uni juniors and seniors, she was all about establishing a community within the religion department.

Although course titles have changed over the past twenty-five years, Mrs. Bryan’s junior  Sacrament class focuses, too, on building bonds with God and ones peers through the Sacraments. She feels blessed to teach this year’s junior class and recognizes them as  a cohesive and compassionate group of kids.

Mrs. Bryan said she is most excited to see,”how the juniors will grow through their experiences doing service as a community and a class, and how that will help them grow in their faith.”

In her free time Mrs. Bryan enjoys surfing. She says not to be startled if a student sees her out shredding waves in Torrey Pines. Surfing has always been something fun for her family to do together, and now even though two of her children are well out of the house, it is still something she has continued to do over the years

As an alumni teacher and mother of three, Mrs. Bryan is no stranger to the teenage ways; when asked what her favorite part of being a teacher she simply said, “The humor.”

She loves the humor in everyday activities that she and her students share and how her students are always there to remind her not to take life too seriously.