Castor High School would like to extend its deepest sympathy to the family of Mr. Vernon Hough.

To say that Mr. Hough is a legend at Castor High is an understatement. For 40 years, Mr. Hough was the high school science department at CHS until his retirement. He taught physics, chemistry, physical science, and biology, as well as serving as an assistant principal for many years. Beyond the lab lessons that involved goggles, beakers, and Bunsen burners, Mr. Hough taught hundreds of Tigers how to be better people, mainly by how he lived his own life with his unwavering faith, his devotion to his family, and his service to his community and country. His love for science lives on today on the CHS campus through Hough House, a greenhouse project started by one of his former students who now teaches science at CHS. If you were a Tiger who got to join Mr. Hough on a Briarwood field trip, you know the greenhouse name is especially fitting.

At CHS, he was also passionate about being the yearbook advisor for The Tiger, a role in which he was able to share his love of photography. Tigers will also fondly remember Mr. Hough competing fiercely in the faculty vs. student volleyball game each year, bringing his world-famous peanut butter fudge, and telling unexpected corny jokes in class, and giving them Mrs. Cheryl when he married her. As deeply loved as Mr. Hough was by Castor High, they know he was even more beloved at home by his wife, children, and grandchildren. The Tigers are in prayer for his family. Once a Tiger, Always a Tiger.