Jackie Nienow is retiring this year from full-time teaching after a 37-year career, most of it spent in Addison Central Supervisory Union schools and primarily at Middlebury’s Mary Hogan Elementary.
Diana Raphael discover that her passion was working with children age 7 and younger, and 40 years later she is retiring after spending 28 of those years at Vergennes Union Elementary School.
Read their stories, plus those of some other area teachers who are ending long careers in education this month.
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Diana Raphael, a fixture in kindergarten classes, to leave VUES
Jackie Nienow, a favorite of students, retires from Mary Hogan School
Retiring Ferrisburgh Central teacher Barbara Buldoc was there at the start
Peter Jensen took industrial arts students into the computer age at career center
After 44 years, Doc Seubert ready to move on from Middlebury Union
Michele Forman, 2001 National Teacher of the Year, reflects on education
MUHS special educator Katharine Scribner experiences a world of changes in 40-year career