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EDUCATION:

B.A. Magna Cum Laude from Carroll College; Waukesha, WI.   
Major: English.  Minor: Secondary Education

UW Washington County
1999 English Department Award

PERSONAL:

*I like dogs, squirrels, Led Zeppelin, Chucks, coffee, playing The Sims, and 
singing loudly.

*Before coming to Trevor in 2005, I taught at Random Lake H.S.  Half of my   
 day was spent teaching 9th grade English; the other part of my day, I  
 taught in the homes of district students who couldn’t come to school for 
 medical reasons.

*My husband and I live in Hartford. We have three children; the youngest is 
 17!

MY FAVORITE BOOKS

1) TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD;  Harper Lee
This story is the narrator's memories of growing up in the Deep South in the 
1930s with her brother Jem. Their father is a lawyer who has been assigned 
to defend a black man against a white woman. Spooky Boo Radley, who lives 
next door, fuels the kids' imaginations--he stabbed his father in the leg 
with a scissors? He comes out at night and eats stray cats? They spend 
summers acting out such scenarios with their friend Dill. Over the course of 
three years, Scout learns a lot about prejudice and courage.

2) THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING;   T.H. White
If you like the movie "Excalibur," the old Disney animated "The Sword in the 
Stone," or the musical "Camelot," you'll like this book. It's the story of 
King Arthur, who learns from the wizard Merlyn, is changed into animals in 
his childhood, pulls the sword from the stone, becomes king, and creates a 
round table of knights to further the cause of right in the world.

3) LIFE OF PI;   Yann Martel
Pi is a boy from India whose parents own a zoo. When they decide to move to 
Canada, they load animals and all on a freighter ship and head across the 
ocean. In a horrible shipwreck, Pi is tossed into a lifeboat with a hyena, 
orangutan, and a huge Bengal tiger. This is the story of Pi's survival for 
227 days at sea, at times near death, and an encounter with a bizarre island.

4) OUT OF AFRICA;  Isak Dinesen
The movie is a great love story, but as we know, the book is always better! 
The Danish author writes this book as a lyrical and melancholy memoir of her 
life on a coffee farm in Kenya.

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