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Gordon F. Voght Is Named Science Teacher Of 1966 (Buffalo News, 11 Nov 1966, page 18)

Gordon F. Voght Is Named Science Teacher of 1966
WNY Section of American Chemical Society Selects Kenmore West Man for Honor

Gordon F. Voght, a physics teacher at Kenmore West Senior High School, has been chosen for the 1966 Distinguished Science Teacher Award of the Western New York Section, American Chemical Society.
The award, an engrossed citation and a check for $250, is presented annually for distinguished service in the teaching of high school science. It will be presented at a meeting of the section at 8:15 PM Tuesday in the Continental Inn, Town of Tonawanda.
Mr. Voght, whose first teaching job was in a one-room school in the Town of Wheatfield in 1938, has taught physics at Kenmore West Senior High School for seven years.
A graduate of Buffalo State Teachers College in 1938, he received his master of education degree from the University of Buffalo in 1956 and has taken advanced work in a series of special summer institutes and seminars.
His students have won awards consistently in the Western New York Science Congress and he also leads a student physics club.
He lives at 57 Greenfield Ave. [sic], Town of Tonawanda, and has a daughter teaching in Clarence,
two daughters in college and a son attending Kenmore East.
The speaker at Tuesday's meeting will be Howard D. Philipp, chief nuclear engineer of the Niagara Mohawk Power Corp., who will discuss "Atomic Power for Niagara Mohawk."

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