The great-niece of the naval photographer who produced the infamous raising the flag picture at Iwo Jima brings her science expertise to Trinity Prep.
Laura Oswald grew up and lived most of her life near Baltimore, Maryland and she received her education at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
Oswald majored in biology at St. Mary’s College and did her first graduate program at Johns Hopkins in education. She is also in her last class of the graduate program at Clemson University in biological sciences.
Although she has now been teaching for 24 years, education wasn’t her original career path.
“I never really made the decision to teach, as a career, I just thought I’ll do it for a while,” Oswald said. Oswald’s mom was a teacher and always told her not to be a teacher. She was going to go to med school, but didn’t have the time and needed a break from school. She decided to start teaching for a while and never stopped.
Oswald previously lived in Maryland and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania before moving to Orlando eight years ago. She has also taught at Orangewood and The First Academy.
Here at Trinity, she teaches sixth-grade science but has also previously taught AP biology, physics, and marine science.
“It’s science,” Oswald said. “I think science is just amazing and I really like to be able to show kids that it’s amazing and not just boring stuff that you memorize, but it really is a lot of really interesting stuff.”
Outside of teaching, Oswald loves watching baseball as a Baltimore Orioles fan and spending time with her two dogs, Scout and Camden.
“You walk in the door and the pack just greets you, they make the house lively,” Oswald said.
Oswald also shared an interesting story about her great-uncle who was a naval photographer that developed one of the most iconic pictures in American history.
“He was on a ship in Guam and his buddy radioed him and said Joe, I think I have a really good one,” Oswald said. “And he was the first person to ever see it.”
Oswald said what she is most looking forward to at Trinity is finding a place to stay.
“Since I’ve moved to Florida, I’ve been in a couple of places and Trinity seems like a place where I can stay,” said Oswald.
