Maine is fortunate to have such marvelous educators!
We know that what a teacher offers can have an enormous impact on student development day to day AND over their lifetime. As educators retire at the close of another school year, 2017-18, I know that you join me in THANKING them for their years of service and dedication to students across the state.
I certainly appreciate your commitment and I wish each of you a healthy retirement and many, many years of laughter and love!
The following have contributed a combined 483+ years to teaching visual or performing arts education!
- VICKI BOVE, Gorham Middle School, Visual Arts, 40 years
- FLO ESINGER, SAD l5, Visual Arts, ? years
- ALLEN GRAFFAM, Mt. Ararat High School, Music, 42 years
- KATIE HALL, Falmouth Elementary School, Visual Arts, 24 years
- PHIL HAMMET, Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School, Visual Arts, 16 years
- JULIE KLEHN, Waterboro Elementary School, Visual Arts, 31 years
- STEPHANIE LEONARD, Fairmount School, Bangor, Visual Arts, 25 years
- ANNE MACEACHERN, Sanford Junior High School, Visual Arts, 40 years
- JENNI NULL, Songo Locks Elementary School, Music, 40 years
- SAM MOORE-YOUNG, Carrie Ricker School, Litchfield, Music, 32 years
- BEVERLY PACHECO, South School, Rockland, Music, 36 years
- CANDACE PARKER, Lee Academy, Theatre Arts, 22 years
- MARYELLEN SCHAPER, Bonny Eagle Middle School, Dance and PE, 42 years
- CAROL SHUTT, Mount Desert Island Elementary School, Visual Arts, 22 years
- KATHI SUSI, Pittston Consolidated School, Gardiner, Visual Arts, 28 years
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THEO VAN DEVENTER, Mt. View Middle School, Thorndike, Music, 43 years
- Flo Eslinger, who is retiring from elementary visual art after serving SAD
A wonderful note from Ann MacEachern on her retirement from Sanford Junior High School after 40 years:
“I’ll miss the chance to interact with kids as they discover talents they didn’t know they had. The outliers, the experimenters and the endearingly quirky denizens of the art room have made most days a joy.
Retirement will give me a chance to reorder my priorities: more family time (I have 5 grandchildren), my OWN art projects need attention, traveling adventures, live music venues, environmental concerns, sorting years of accumulation to make space for new blessings… the list goes on.
To ARTS teachers everywhere: Keep pushing for expansion ARTS time in school schedules, physical space in school buildings and fewer students per art teacher. The world needs creative problem solving now more than ever!”
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