The Everhart File
Name: Steve Everhart
Born: 1963
Status: Married since 1988, to beautiful wife Faith
Fatherhood: son Rhett and daughter Scotti
Education:
 Penn State, Liberal Arts English Literature ‘87
 Tyrone High ‘82
Number of years teaching: 30
What I Was Doing at Your Age:
 Quarterbacking the Golden Eagles to consecutive shut-outs of the
Bellwood Blue Devils in ‘81 and ‘82
 Reading everything controversial or comical I could
 Slinking in the back row sketching caricatures of the teachers
who despised students
 Listening to Van Halen, Tom Petty, and Boston
 Wishing summer would last forever
Stuff I’m doing when I’m not teaching:
 Freelancing as a ghost writer and manuscript editor
 Doing night gigs as supervisor @ ACCO Brands in Alexandria
 Being a fitness fanatic: weightlifting, biking, running
 Getting into Penn State and Pittsburgh sports
 Looking for the Meaning of the Universe (Sometimes, when I
think there is none, I usually find it in my classroom.)
Pets: 3 cats, a dog, a rabbit, a goat, a horse, and a dozen chickens
Vital Stats:
 Dimensions: 5’-8”, 165 lbs.
 Max Bench Press: 385 lb. (At age 39…I wouldn’t try this now.)
 Longest Work-Day Ever: 22 hours straight at age 21
 Wheels: 2015 Subaru Impreza
 Speeding Tickets: More than I care to admit
Favorites:
 Music: Foo-Fighters
 Foods: hot wings with weird beers
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Animated Character: Butters on South Park
Authors: Joyce Carol Oates and Ernest Hemingway
Short Stories: “Where are you Going, Where Have you Been?” and
“The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber”
Novel: Brave New World
Movie: Psycho or Blade Runner
Dramatic Movie Scene: The hanging of John Proctor in The
Crucible.
Artist: my daughter
Most Likely to Make Me Laugh: Impractical Jokers
Quotes I Try to Live By: “What shall it profit a man if he gains
the world but loses his soul?” and “There’s no smaller package
than a person all wrapped up in himself.”
Accomplishments:
 Teaching at TAHS, Blair County’s only Blue Ribbon High School,
where my juniors ranked #1 in the state in 2012 in Literature
growth and #1 in 2013 in both Composition growth and
achievement, with 100% proficiency.
 First in my class at both Penn State and Tyrone High
 Tyrone High’s 1982 Wilson Award, Outstanding Scholar-Athlete
(Keeping good company with Mr. Owens, Mrs. Cannistraci, and Mr.
Rhoades.)
Three Truths and a Lie
1. In the 145 pound class at PSU, I finished 2nd in the Bench Press
at the NCAA Power-Lifting Competition with a 345 lb. lift.
2. Though we look, think, act, and walk alike, and despite the fact
that at least two students a week inadvertently call me “Mr.
Rutter”, we’re not related.
3. In 1980, I shook hands with PSU coach Jerry Sandusky (convicted
child rapist), who delivered a speech in the TAHS cafeteria
titled “Why Athletes Must Serve as Role Models”.
4. I drank a birch-beer and chatted about the Iranian hostage
crisis with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter at a Memorial Day
picnic.