Count Ivan Stenbock-Fermor, born 1897, died later than 1979.  His family is from the old Russian aristocracy, and fled Russia/Soviet Union.  He has written his memoirs for Berkeley Press (Professor Ivan Stenbock-Fermor, Memoirs of Life in Old Russia, World War I. Revolution, and in Emigration. 1112 pages. Completed in Palo Alto, California, 1976; text transcription).  He describes coming to Gunn in its earliest years (pp 1083ff):

"Finally, after teaching at Stanford, - having obtained California teaching credentials - I taught for three years at Gunn Senior High School in Palo Alto. On my first day at that school, there were fifteen students in the class. It was an elective class - that means that it was not one of those classes that students had to take. So I said to them, 'My dear young friends, the age difference between me and you means that I could be your Grandpa. Therefore I will treat you accordingly. You are here because you want to learn Russian - otherwise you would not be here. And if there is the slightest disturbance in my class, I will not come the next day.  I have my social security, I have my pension, I can make ends meet. I do not need you. Friends tell me that I am crazy, after teaching at Stanford, to come here and teach at a high school, where usually and unfortun ately there is bedlam.'  Throughout the next three years, there was not a single disturbance in my class, not a single trouble. Younger teachers in the high school there came to me and met me on the premises there, and said to me, 'Mr. Stenbock, how do you do it?' I stared at them and said, 'Do what? What are you asking?'

One of my Stanford students mentioned to me that a new high school would be opened in the fall of 1964 in Palo Alto. They decided to offer Russian and to have a Russian native teacher. I went to the offices of the Palo Alto school district and talked to the personnel manager. I told them that I had taught at Stanford but that I have no California teaching credentials and had no intention of asking for one because there are so many licenses that I am all mixed up. If you want me as a teacher, it has to be your head ache to get me a license from Sacramento. The gentleman jumped and he said: 'That is quite a way to put it.' Ten days later I had a license and started teaching. 

I taught at Gunn High School, as I mentioned earlier, for three years and was then forced to retire at the age of seventy. In recognition of my contribution to the education of Palo Alto youth I was awarded a gold pin, signifying an honorary life membership by the district's P.T.A."