Franklin Eugene Gist

Mr. Gist was truly a great teacher and role model. The Readers Digest stories were learning tools and structured foundation for a great many of us. Thanks well done. Class of 83.

My Condolences to The Gist Family. He was a great teacher and will be missed. "Class of 84"

Mr. Gist was my Government teacher at Trimble Tech. His daughter Cheryl and I were friends and graduated together in 1982. Mr. Gist was one of my favorite teachers while at Tech. As so many before me have already mentioned, I loved the stories that he read to us from Reader's Digest. Those stories inspired kindness, hope, and love in our young hearts. I still smile today thinking about the fact that Mr. Gist never called me by my correct name. Even though I know he knew my name, he...

I am so sorry to hear the loss of my great teacher at TTHS. I met his wife and daughter at his home and chatted. He was a great history teacher. He was so funny and humor in class. It was hard for me without an interpreter and I have to watch what he said and write on chalkboard. He decided to give me the note to save my time after class. That was really nice of him.

Class of (supposed to be 1977) 1978.

A wonderful mentor. One of my favorite memories was his reading of Reader's Digest stories aloud to students while they were taking tests. In 84 they outlawed school prayer, he always read the stories where God saved people from near death...He was planting seeds in the hearts of young people of hope and that God loved them. An amazingly humble man with a heart to reach kids...what an amazing legacy! If the only riches we take to Heaven with us are people we led to Christ..He will have...

i am so sorry about Mr. Gist. He taught me at Trimble Tech High School when I attended. He was a great teacher. Class of 1977.

Condolences to The Gist Family. Thank you for loaning him to his students. May GOD BLESS his family and help their hearts feel proud for the work he did. He shall be truly missed

Mr. Gist was a great teacher who made learning fun. I wish I had told him how much easier he made high school for me. Class of 88

A very fine Christian man who touched many teaching and molding his student's lives. I enjoyed his fellowship while on the faculty of Trimble Tech High School.