Manschot is new principal at Central Catholic

With more than 30 years experience in education, Larry Manschot thought he was going to retire and visit his cousins in the Netherlands, but instead he moved to Corpus Christi and became the principal of Central Catholic Elementary School.

Manschot was born and raised in San Antonio where he attended catholic schools from first grade through the university. He began his career as a teacher in catholic schools and taught for 10 years in San Antonio at St. John Boscoe Elementary School and St. Francis Academy as a high school social studies teacher.

For the next 25 years, he was a bilingual English as a second language teacher at the Somerset Independent School District in San Antonio and the Alief Independent School District in Houston. He received his masters in curriculum instruction at then Corpus Christi State University.

His short-lived retirement occurred in May, but when his brother–who lives in Corpus Christi–told him about the opening at Central Catholic he jumped at the opportunity to be back in the catholic school system.

"I applied and now I feel like it was meant to be," Manschot said.