Principal Dan Serrano calls him the “voice of Perry.” His colleagues call him inspirational; his students call him their favorite.

History teacher John Prothro loves his job. He teaches history classes throughout the day, runs the public address at home, sporting events at night, and was a part of an Emmy-award winning team.

After three years of production, the third part, “Summary of a Century” of the documentary, “The History of Chandler Schools” , was a finalist for six Emmy awards this October.

According to CUSD “Staff Reporter”, head of Chandler education television Michael Holland won in the category of director, for post production as well as an Emmy for editor program non-news. Tim Wong , a current staff member at Chandler High, also received an Emmy in the category of Graphic Arts, Art direction.

“There was an email sent out three years ago to every person in the district for auditions for this project,” says Prothro. “I said ‘I’ll give it a shot’ and I went and practiced all the male parts. They selected me to be the narrator.”

Once Prothro received the role of Narrator, he had to squeeze in studio time within his life as a teacher.

“When I went in for recording, I went after school, I teach all day then I would go record,” Prothro explains. “I ranged from 30 minutes to 90 minutes mainly because Mike Holland, he knew I [had] been teaching all day.”

Prothro talks about using the opportunities around him to expand on his passion for narrating and broadcasting, “I enjoyed that whole experience. [It was] something I will never ever forget, never ever ever forget.”

Being narrator for an Emmy-winning documentary is not all Prothro has been apart of. “He is the voice of Perry in most sports,” says Sorano.

Prothro covers football, mens and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s volleyball, softball, baseball [and] unified sports football. “Those are fun games but I love doing that ,” states Prothro on announcing at games.

His passion for broadcasting and narrating lead Prothro to opportunities starting  in college.

“I had a college radio show. I was a DJ on KLA Los Angeles. It was UCLA Radio Station.” Prothro states on his other involvements with broadcasting.

“[Now] I do some volunteer radio work, for Sun Sounds of Arizona. What that is, it’s a radio station for people who are visually impaired. They receive special radios and there is 24 hour programs. What I do is that I go in and go record a show every week.”

Wherever Prothro goes he is telling history. During the day he follows his career and teaches world history to his students, at night he is reporting Perry games play by play and letting his passion lead him to new opportunities towards his love of broadcasting and narrating.