November 8, 2012
Have you enjoyed our 14 Days of Fabulous Faculty so far? From Kindergarten to the Upper School, the faculty featured so far are fabulous themselves and represent over 60 additional fabulous faculty! As we learn more about other faculty members over the next seven days, we encourage you to see these stories as examples of what your gifts to the Annual Fund support. And of course, we hope you’ll continue to help us – on Facebook, email, letters, or phone calls – is tell us what makes these featured faculty fabulous! Send us your favorite memory or story of the featured faculty. We’ll pick one each day to win a prize – prizes for November 1-7 are announced below!
- Ms. Petersen – Jenn Walter – Mom to Eirwyn ’22
- Ms. Atchison – Suzie Doebler Haynes ’94
- Ms. Lage – Debbie LaChapelle (MPA Kindergarten Teacher)
- Ms. Kunze – Hannah Arsenault ’11
- Mr. Habermann – Jeanne Berget – Mom to Christina ’09 and Karl ’07
- Mr. McGaha – Dan Johnson ’88
- Mr. Thomsen – Jen Andrew ’96
Each of our “winners” above will receive a MPA Panther Paw Piggy Bank – a perfect place to save your pennies for our fabulous faculty!
Thank you so much for all the incredible stories and “likes” on Facebook. Your memories, stories, and excitement about our fabulous faculty have been such a gift to them.
And today’s faculty? Ms. Shardlow. Marilyn Shardlow taught in the very first year of Mounds Park Academy. She came from Breck School with a number of the founding faculty and Mr. Kreischer to create the kind of school they dreamed about – an experience driven education designed to help students achieve while balancing academics, arts, and athletics. At one time or another, she has taught every grade from sixth grade through seniors, and when questioned will admit that she helped to write the school song many years ago! One of the favorite parts of her job is the Inkslingers writing club she has advised since its inception in 2003.
We asked Ms. Shardlow what she thought was fabulous about MPA. As an English teacher, she gave us an eloquent reply: “The deep sense of connection I see wherever I look. Teachers, students, parents, alumni, administrators, staff members — they all come together in numerous complex ways to create one giant web of caring, concern, trust and energy. I love coming to work here because I can see myself in this web of interconnection and it’s HOME.”
