Shannon Dunk

I attended Northern Montana College in Havre, MT. after high school graduation. I majored in Broadfield Social Sciences and graduated from Northern(which is now MSU-Northern) in May of 1992. I coached junior high girl's basketball in the fall of 1992 in Sunburst ,and went to work at Americana Custom's Brokerage in Sweet Grass, MT in the fall of 1992 as well. I also was farming with my parents Richard (class of 1963) and Artha (class of 1965) at that time. I worked for the brokerage for about 1 and one half years, and it was during this time that I started dating my wife Annie. We married in July of 1993. After our honeymoon, I went into farming with my parents for the next 9 years. We have been living east of Sunburst the past 30 years. I have been teaching at NTCHS since the fall of 2002. I teach all of the high school social studies classes as well as 9-10 health and P.E. I also coached for several years in the Sunburst school district, both as a jr. high football coach for 10 years, jr. high basketball for 8 years, & high school head volleyball coach for 6 years. I currently am not coaching anything. I have been a member of the MOA (Montana Officials Association) for several years too. I currently am no longer involved in the officiating, but have since gone into broadcasting the Sunburst football games along with former Sunburst student and current elementary principal, Dan Nau. We enjoy calling the action. My wife, Annie has retired from teaching and has gone back into the elementary school as a paraprofessional. Our daughter Hayley recently got married this September of 2022 to former classmate Tyler Tharp and they reside in Sunburst. Braydon, our son works for John Horgus and loves farming. Both Annie and I enjoy our family and spending time with them.

I remember all of the great times that I had going to school in Sunburst. I thank the teachers that I had for the education that I received. I have many fond memories of high school, and I would rank breaking my collarbone during my Sophomore year of football as my most memorable. The break kept me out the entire season and limited me to the roll of "cameraman." I also remember band with Mr. Haugen, and how we would make him so mad that he would make us put our horns away and he would glare at us for the next 30 minutes or so. I have a lot of great memories of Mr. Swanson (Boss) and Mechanical Drawing as a Freshman. Every Friday he would come into the classroom and tell to "grab an end," it's Friday and you're going to have the big HURT!!" His meaning behind this was that it was Friday which meant a test and that each individual student should get to the end of the table because it was test time. The big hurt part of the story meant that there would be several D's or F's because his tests were tough. Another fun time was when Jeff Fauque, Dave Ryan and myself created a movie called Kung Fu Yu in Mr. Haugen's Audio/Visual class. This was a project that we spent creating commercials as well as some quality acting. Several of the people in the high school at the time had minor acting roles in the movie or in commercials. I also have a lot of football and basketball memories and thank my teammates for helping build these memories.