The renovation of the old Dixon High School has been completed and the new school has been named the John Knight Middle School

DIXON, CA (MPG) - John Knight will be speaking to the members of the Dixon Women’s Improvement Club at their May 19 meeting via Zoom.us. This is the club’s last official meeting for the year and they are looking forward to September when the club hopes to return to in-person monthly membership meetings held at the United Methodist Church.

John Knight was born in 1948 in Sacramento, California, just one week to the day before Dan Rott, a childhood classmate, long-time friend, and fellow educator!

His father and mother married in 1946. His father, Virgil Knight, was the local dentist and his mother was a stay-at-home mom. John was their first born, followed by brother Jim in 1951, and sister Anne three years later. John attended Dixon schools, graduating from Dixon High School and lettering all four years in the sport of baseball.

Following graduation, he went to Stanford, where he met his wonderful wife, Sharon Sisk, at Stanford’s exchange program in England during their sophomore year. John joined the USAF Reserves at Hamilton AFB in Marin in 1971. He married Sharon that same year, and they have two beautiful daughters, Heather, a columnist for the S.F Chronicle and Beth, a teacher in San Rafael.

When John accepted his first teaching position in Dixon, he told his father it would be for one year…37 years later he retired from Dixon Unified School District. He spent his first five years teaching English at the Dixon High School; was Vice-Principal for three years; then principal for 12 years. After DHS he was the Maine Prairie High School principal for 13 years; then district personnel director before he retired in 2006.

John has had a wonderful career in education and has touched the lives of countless individuals. The renovation of the old Dixon High School has been completed and the new school has been named the John Knight Middle School. We invite you to join us on Zoom to listen to John Knight share his journey on May 19^t at 1 pm

Contact Membership Chair, Mary Kay Callaway at (916) 541-0417 to be included in the Zoom presentation or if you are interested in joining the organization. Following the presentation, President Jewel Fink will call the May business meeting to order.

Reminder: Membership dues for 2021-2022 can be mailed to Treasurer, Cindy Heeney at PO Box 25, Dixon, California, 95620. The dues are $35 annually; payment is due by the May 19 meeting.