After leaving Oak Park, Bill went on to receive his B.S. from Southwest Missouri State in Education, and his Master's in English. He taught at Nixa High School form 1972 to 1975, before coming to Oak Park where he taught until he retired in 2002. He also taught at Maple Woods C.C. While at Oak Park he sponsored the Northmen's Log and Cambia yearbook. He initiated the Heartland Photojournalism Project that allowed his photo classes to spend a day in some small town in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa.
He taught photojournalism workshops at UMC and Ball State for many years. Both the yearbook and newspaper have received many national awards for excellence. In 1992 Oak Park became only the third high school to have both media included in the National Scholastic Press Assn. Hall of Fame. Bill was named the Missouri Journalism Teacher of the Year in 1992, and received many other teaching awards. He was inducted into the Missouri Photojournalism Hall of Fame in 2008. He has published a book, Landmark People, Stories from Platte County, and is now a freelance photographer and writer for the Platte County Landmark newspaper. He is married to Marcia, lives in Platte Country and has 2 grown children and 6 grandkids.
