Walt Dupre, Biology, Football (asst.)

St. Michael is pleased to announce it has hired Mr. Walt Dupre as its full time biology teacher for the 2019-2020 school year. He will replace Dr. Chris Altermatt, who is moving to Atlanta with her family over the summer. 

From 2015 until the present, Mr. Dupre has been the principal of John Paul II Catholic High School, a 7-12 school in Ridgeland, South Carolina, where he also teaches  A.P. Biology and coaches varsity football. From 2009 to 2015, he was a principal and biology teacher at St. Mary, a K-12 Catholic school in O'Neill, Nebraska. From 1999 to 2009, he taught science and was an assistant football coach at Vandebilt Catholic High School in Houma, Louisiana, and from 1989-1999, he taught biology,  honors biology and coached at Terrebonne High School in Houma. Mr. Dupre earned his B.A. and his M.Ed in Administration and Supervision from Nicholls State, while acquiring Louisiana certification to teach both physics and biology. 

“We're very happy to have a fella with such great experience join our faculty," principal Faustin Weber reflects. "Mr. Dupre has worked in Catholic high ischools on a variety of levels, and I think we'll find his wisdom invaluable.  Not only are we getting a first tier Biology and Honors Biology teacher, we’re also getting a football coach with over twenty-five years of experience who will help  in our program. He’ll prove to be, we think,  a living, breathing embodiment of our Renaissance model for our students.”

Returning to his first love as a full time teacher and coach, Mr. Dupre is equally excited about joining the St. Michael community: 

Having been born and raised in south Louisiana, I am excited to return home to the Gulf Coast after a decade in the Midwest and on the east coast. The people who live along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama have a genuineness, spirit, and warmth that no other area of our country can match.

John Paul II said “Become what you are!” The Holy Father says that we are each called to live our vocation according to our own special and unique gifts. In doing so we serve each other with the love instilled in us by our Creator in our home, in our Church, and in our world. After ten years in Catholic school administration it is again time for me to “become what I am.” It is clearly evident that God is calling me to be in the classroom and on the football field sharing the gifts He has given me.

I am humbled to join the excellent faculty and staff that Mr. Weber has assembled. I look forward to serving the school as a biology instructor and football coach - encouraging the young men and women of St. Michael to become who they are.  

Mr. Dupre will move to Fairhope in the summer and begin with us on August 1.