Ms. Lauren Owen has been a prominent member of the English department for 23 years and has shaped this school throughout each year, preparing underclassmen freshmen for their next step into high school.
Owen has taught freshman English, English 9 Honors, and Gibbons Freshman Seminar, but after the 2025-26 school year is stepping away from Gibbons to work at St. John Paul Preparatory School, which is still in the Diocese but is much closer to her home in Pinehurst.
“It takes like an hour and a half to get to school, and that’s not even both ways,” Owen said. St John Paul School is just five minutes from her house.
“I’ve been here so long, and I felt like this was my opportunity to be closer to home,” Owen said. The Gibbons community will miss Owen deeply, and her presence in the English and GFS Classrooms will be remembered.
