Over the summer, Lyons Township High School brought some new faces to the administrative side of the high school staff. There are three new hires and three new assignments for the fall school year.

Among those receiving new assignments is Julia Brenson, who has moved from her position as a math teacher to be the new director of research and assessment. Brenson has been employed at Lyons Township High School since 1999 and has taught many math and science related classes, including AP statistics, AP computer science, Algebra II prep, trig/pre-calculus and physics prep. As part of her new job description, she will analyze testing data and work closely with the director of curriculum and instruction.

Adam Davis, a counselor of two years, will be working as a North Campus assistant principal with the class of 2009.

Ed Piotrowski will now serve as the North Campus associate principal. He held a South Campus assistant principal position for the past two years and was a math teacher at LT for five years before that.

New hires include Kelly Dostall, who will serve as a new South Campus assistant principal. She was the dean of students at Woodstock High School from 2002-04, and then assistant principal. Prior experience also includes serving as the director of student activities at Geneva High School and a Spanish teacher before that.

Bob Fritch has been hired as the new Applied Arts Division chairman, overseeing classes and teachers in subjects based in career, family and life-skills development. He has teaching and administrative experience at the high school level as the Applied Arts Department chairman at Plainfield North High School since 2005; he taught at Naperville North High School prior to that.

Tim Kilrea was hired as LTHS’ new director of human resources, replacing Attila Wenninger, who moved on to superintendent at Oak Park and River Forest High School. Kilrea has had extensive high school administration experience, working at both Lincoln-Way East High School and Thornton Fractional. His most recent positions at Thornton included serving as principal and assistant superintendent.

New face at GWMS

The board of education for the Lyons Elementary District 103, which serves Brookfield and four other communities, hired Catherine Eichhammer as the new assist principal at George Washington Middle School on Aug. 1. Eichhammer replaces Jim Calabrese, who recently became the principal of Freedom Middle School in Berwyn. She began her duties on Aug. 6.

Eichhammer was a product of District 103 schools and then attended Morton West High School. After receiving her Bachelor of Social Work degree at Valparaiso University, she worked as a social worker for Cicero public schools. She became a dean of students at Morton East High School in 2003 and an assistant principal at Flinn Middle School in Rockford in 2005.

Eichhammer joins George Washington Middle School’s administrative team of Bob Hildreth, principal, and Katie Schumann, assistant principal.

Elected

The Infant Welfare Society of Chicago has elected Anna Igoe of Riverside to a third one-year term as president of its board of directors.

Long active in Infant Welfare, Igoe chaired the “Opening New Doors to Community Health” capital campaign that raised the funding for the agency’s new Angel Harvey Infant Welfare Society of Chicago Community Health Center. Igoe is also a past president of the agency’s Auxiliary and of the Riverside Auxiliary Chapter.

Working in close partnership with the Auxiliary and the staff, the 27-member board lays the groundwork for Infant Welfare’s mission of providing Chicago’s most comprehensive healthcare for children and women from under- and uninsured communities.

The Infant Welfare Society was founded in 1911 to provide services for the healthy physical and mental development of disadvantaged children to provide the foundation for a future productive and wholesome life.

Certified

Former Triton College Trustee Steve Kubiczky was awarded a Certificate of Merit from the Illinois Community College Trustees Association (ICCTA) at the organization’s annual convention.

The Certificate of Merit is presented to persons (usually former trustees or presidents) who have made a significant contribution to ICCTA, the Illinois community college system or an individual member college.

Kubiczky, a Riverside resident, also was nominated for the Gary W. Davis Ethical Leadership Award which honors individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the pursuit and support of ethical leadership and decision-making in their fields of work and volunteer service.

Kubiczky served as a trustee at Triton from 1995-2007. He completed his last term in April. He was awarded an honorary degree from Triton College for his commitment and work promoting higher education at commencement this past May.

Stephanie Bullwinkle of Imperial Kitchens and Baths Inc. of Brookfield earned certification as a certified bathroom designer from the National Kitchen and Bath Association in July. To be certified, designers must demonstrate a set number of years of experience in the industry, pass an examination, adhere to a code of conduct and further their education with continuing education.

At your command

Riverside Police Sgt. Bill Gutschick and Brookfield Police Sgt. Kent Kross recently graduated from the Northwestern University Center for Public Safety’s School of Police Staff and Command.

Both men were among 46 police officers who completed the 10-week course from January through May of this year. The Staff and Command School holds several sessions per year and is designed to prepare top- and mid-level law enforcement mangers and supervisors for senior agency positions. More than 7,500 officers from state, county, and municipal agencies have taken advantage of this program since its first session in 1983.

Jazzed up

Riverside residents Emily Hejna and Lauren Vogel are members of a LaGrange-based dance group that competed in the Jazz Dance World Congress in Chicago on Aug. 1-5. The Jazz Dance World Congress is a week-long convention attended by dancers and choreographers from around the world, who share, teach and perform various styles of jazz.

Hejna and Vogel are part of the seven-member dance group from Impact Dance Studio in LaGrange that performed at the event on Aug. 2 at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance at Millennium Park. The dance, titled “Us,” was choreographed by Kate Jablonski. The dancers are all high school students and first performed the dance at Impact’s Company Showcase in the spring.

On campus

Meghann Elizabeth Smith of Riverside was awarded a Master of Business Administration degree by the Kogod School of Business at American University in Washington, D.C. this spring. While at American University, Smith was the student representative to the university’s audit committee. Smith is a 2002 graduate of Marquette University and will be joining the Deloitte accounting firm in McLean, Va. Previously, she was employed as an accountant by Equity Office Trust in Chicago.

Riverside resident Patrick J. White recently earned a Master of Laws (LL.M) degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law at the end of the spring semester.

Brookfield residents Viktoria Vasilic and Maggie Powers, both juniors, were among the Lyons Township High School students who placed sixth or higher in the state in an annual foreign language exam in Italian. The exam was developed, written and scored by a nationwide committee of high school teachers and college professors.

Powers placed third in the state competition in Italian II, while Vasilic placed sixth in the same category.

Matt Wulff, a 2007 graduate of Lyons Township High School and a resident of Brookfield, was awarded one of 30 nationwide scholarships from the Communication Workers of America. This $3,000 award will be provided to him this year with a second year contingent upon his continued excellent academic performance. To be considered, he needed to submit an essay and be an employee or child of an employee or an AT&T retiree. Matt will begin his college education this fall at College of DuPage, majoring in fire science.

Brookfield resident Sean M. Cawley was named to the spring semester dean’s list at Southern Illinois University. Cawley, a sophomore, achieved a 4.0 GPA, or straight A’s, during the semester.

Several Brookfield and North Riverside students were among those named to the spring 2007 dean’s list and academic honors list at Morton College in Cicero. To qualify for the dean’s list, students must earn a minimum GPA of 3.0 on a 4-point scale while taking a full-time course load. Part-time students may qualify for the academic honors list.

Named to the dean’s list were Brookfield resident Amy Marcinkiewicz and North Riverside residents Steven Demma and Javier Nunez.

Named to the academic honors list were Brookfield residents Loretta Gorecki, Stephanie Kramer, Gospa Maksimovic, Melissa Santiago and Dana Sharp and North Riverside resident Raul Vasquez.

Samantha Suranne of North Riverside was recognized as a member of the Sigma Alpha Lambda national leadership and honors organization at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. She was also named to the university’s spring semester dean’s list, which recognizes students whose grade-point averages rank in the upper 20 percent of the college.

Edvardas Kuprys and Catherine Skokna, both residents of Riverside, were named to the dean’s list for the spring 2007 semester at Dominican University in River Forest. Kuprys, a graduate of Northridge Preparatory School, is majoring in business administration. Skokna is a graduate of Lyons Township High School. To qualify for the dean’s list, students must achieve a semester GPA of 3.8 on a 4.0 scale.

North Riverside resident Yevgeniy Kalinin and Riverside resident Allison Blockwere named to the spring 2007 semester dean’s list at North Central College in Naperville. To qualify for the dean’s list, students must achieve a semester GPA of 3.6 on a 4.0 scale.

 

Agnello, Adams to wed
in September

 

Yvonne Agnello, a longtime member of the Brookfield Jaycees, and Daniel Adams have announced that they will, be married in September 2007 at St. Agnes of Bohemia Church in Chicago.

The pair were engaged on April 30, 2006 after meeting through the Jaycees, a not-for-profit organization that provides leadership training and personal development through community service. Agnello is a member of the Brookfield Jaycees and serves on the Northeast region Jaycees Executive Board and individual development program director. Adams is an associate member of the Lombard Jaycees and holds the position of Illinois Jaycee Chief Ambassador.

A Lyons resident, Agnello attended Immaculate Heart of Mary High School in Westchester, Columbia College in Chicago and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she earned an M.S. in integrated marketing communications. She’s employed as an account supervisor at Latham/SRM in Oakbrook Terrace.

Adams, a Lombard resident, attended Elmwood Park High School, Kishwaukee College and DeVry Institute of Technology. He is a technical consultant for Hewlett Packard in Downers Grove.