Palouse Supt. Bev Fox will retire

It began with an interview in front of the Palouse school board.

They liked her, and she stayed for 38 years.

In 1974, Bev Fox was a new graduate of WSU trying for her first teaching job. The Rosalia native and daughter of the Buchholtz farm family got a call for an opening in Palouse.

She drove to the interview in a Ford Maverick her dad bought her and had to face the whole school board.

Since then she has stood in front of classes, teams, administrators and students in a 38-year career spanning teaching, coaching, principal and superintendent positions, all in Palouse/Garfield.

On June 29, s...