Jan Crawford

Jan Crawford began her career at AHS in 1980. At the time, Crawford thought that she would only be teaching at the school for a semester; however, she ended up teaching for over three decades.

Crawford choreographed practically her whole life. As a fifth grader, she had already started teaching a baton routine to second graders. Growing up, Crawford learned a lot of her skills from her mother, who was also a former dance teacher.

Her drill team’s accomplishments range from going to Japan twice with all-expense paid tickets, to appearing on Time magazine, to performing at the World Cup and the 1984 Olympics and even appearing on Dick Clark’s Special during primetime.

Crawford wants to retire so that she could have more time to focus on everything else. She lives by the motto—”I’m too busy to tell you how busy I am.”

Upon retiring, she has a few words of encouragement for the graduating seniors, “No matter how bad you’re feeling, the show always goes on and tomorrow will be better.”

By Features Editor Cynthia Luong