Greg Kester
This year’s Trojan Hall of Fame inductee is the 2024 Missouri Teacher of the Year, Mr. Greg Kester. Mr. Kester was hired by the Potosi R-3 School District in 1995 and has served the Potosi community for 29 years.
Over the course of three decades as Mr. Kester taught Social Studies classes, he also led or sponsored numerous PHS extracurricular activities. He was the faculty sponsor of PHS Student Council (2006-2008) and Model United Nations (1999-2008). He has served as head senior sponsor, manager of the football concession stand, Scholar Bowl coach (since 1996), and sponsors the Future Teachers of America. He is also the current chair of the high school Social Studies Department.
In 2023, he was honored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars as the Missouri High School Teacher of the Year. That same year, the Missouri State Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution deemed him the Outstanding Teacher of American History for the state of Missouri. Later in 2023, it was announced by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education that he would be the 2024 Missouri Teacher of the Year. As the Missouri Teacher of the Year Mr. Kester is not only representing Missouri educators, he is also representing the state of Missouri as a nominee for the National teacher of the year.