Transfer Student Feels at Home Senior Year
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“It hasn’t been a tough transition,” said Burr.
Burr transferred from Cheylin. When he was talking with some SFCHS students he worked with at the pool during the summer, he learned about the differences in the two schools and how hands-on St. Francis is. After those discussions, Burr decided he would like to switch schools.
“He is happy and seems to have adjusted really well with our school,” said Lindsey Johnson, senior at St. Francis Community High School. “It was really fun getting to know him over the summer at work.”
Burr loves to play video games and cook in his free time. And his older sister Forrest Zweygardt, who was recently married, is one of his biggest role models in his life.
“She was the one that would babysit us and teach us a lot when mom was working,” said Burr.
He is a middle child in his family. Burr has two older siblings and two younger siblings. Forrest Zweygardt, the oldest of the five, teaches third grade in Bird City. Elsa Burr, the second oldest, is studying early childhood development in Lincoln. Guienevere Burr is a junior in Bird City. Tucker Burr, an eighth grader in Bird City, is the youngest of the siblings.
After high school, Burr wants to go to Colby Community College. While he is studying, he wants to get his certificate in sustainable and renewable energy. Burr wants to work on building and maintaining solar wind farms. Burr was inspired when he saw a project that a different school worked on. They had made a golf cart big enough to hold 16 people and made it solar powered.
Brandon Seger, industrial arts teacher at St. Francis Community High School, said “Gregor is a good listener and very teachable.”
Burr works around the school with Seger, repairing walls, and remodeling one of the rooms upstairs. Seger said Burr is a great help.
Burr’s advice for incoming high schoolers include: “I would like to encourage to go where you are happy not where you’re miserable. Math is going to get a lot harder than it already is, especially proofs. Don’t be afraid to do something out of the ordinary. It’ll be weird, but oh well.”
