Flew is a bit of a renaissance man, a modern day renaissance man.
He serves on multiple committees, like the School Improvement Team.
He is the official scorer of our track and cross country meets.
He also serves as a department chair.
He fostered a student first mindset within the science department which has really helped
us increase our science offerings and our STEM offerings.
The reason I'm here is because of Flewelling.
He developed a physics program here that was so good that they had way too many sections
of physics and needed another teacher.
He is the assistant director for our theatrical productions.
Three shows a year, in the fall, spring and in the summer.
In the theatre department he is just kind of a, he's just a legend.
The kids love him.
Without Flew we would not be where we are in the theatre department.
His physics is what we needed.
It was the last push that we needed to get over that last little hump of not having the
best production.
I'm mean, there is such an engineering aspect to theatre.
Set pieces, everything that we needed, flying stuff in and out, all the counter weight,
he knew how to do that.
He's very much theatrical inclined, which is part of the beauty of Mr. Flewelling because
in the classroom, that is his stage.
Like, he brings some of his theatrics into the classroom.
My sophomore year I walked in and it was a completely different atmosphere from anything
I've ever had.
He teaches so well.
I've never had a better teacher.
Its so interactive and engaging and I totally understood what he was saying when he would
explain something.
His class teaching is amazing, but the one-on-one's with Mr. Flewelling, its almost like a different
learning experience because he goes step-by-step to make sure you're learning every aspect
and make sure that you are not getting lost.
He is very patient and he never gets overwhelmed.
He calmly works with each student and answers all their questions.
Flew has that relationship with students.
They're able to talk with him on many different levels.
He can build relationships but then be professional all at the same time.
You can tell that he wants to get to know you.
Like he really wants to know his students.
He'll talk about students that he's had 10 years ago, that he still keeps in contact
with because he just keeps those relationships.
He's more like a friend I'd say, than a teacher really, to a lot of students.
We really don't even need to say much to each other.
We just kind of have, like a frequency kind of thing.
He is a Super-Man of an educator.
He does so much and his range of abilities, and skills, and things that he's able to do
and things that he's willing to learn how to do, its above and beyond.
Its almost like there is five of him, I don't know how.
If you look at him he kinda looks a little laid back but Mr. Flewelling is so rambunctious
and very active.
He'll run across the room.
He'll literally jump... up.
He always jumps up on tables and reiterates concepts that you don't understand or he'll
teach from on top of a table.
Yeah, he's just all around a really good guy and if I were to know one person that would
be considered a hero, it would be Flew.
When I first met him junior year, I was like wow, this man has amazing hair.
I was like, how do I get some of this hair.
We use to call him Flow-elling because he has amazing hair.
I don't really know where it started but I just heard someone say it and I was like Flow-elling,
that makes sense.
Thats the only word that I can describe his hair as is Flow-elling.
His hair will grow a little bit longer and one time, it was like last year, I was like,
that hair is getting longer and longer and then the next time I saw him, it was in the
bun and I was just like, guess he can pull that off.
Obviously Flew's hair is a little bit longer and last year it was, I think longer than
it is now.
So every once in a while he would rock the man-bun.
Yeah, the man-bun, um geez, he reminds me of a beach dude.
Sometimes he'll like mess around, he has like a nice little flow going on so he always put
it in a bun.
The students love it because its like a trend now or something.
Oh, the man-bun, ah geez, it was something else.
Its its own entity.
I don't know how to describe it.
It is, because it is.
Nobody compares to the man-bun.
We just sorta left the man-bun alone and figured he'd get his hair cut eventually and he did,
he did.