After a job recruiting students for a college in Kansas, I decided that the classroom was where I wanted to be.  After finishing my teaching certification in Pennsylvania I began teaching 3 and 4yr olds in the Head Start Program in New Florence, PA.  After my husband, Brent, took an Associate Professor postition at Texas Tech University, we moved ourselves and our 2 children to Lubbock Texas where I taught Kindergarten for 7 years.  When the opportunity for Brent to teach at UNL came up, we jumped at it seeing as it was coming home for me and close to home for him.  I spent the majority of my childhood in Lincoln and attended Raymond Central High School and Brent is from Scott City, KS.  I began teaching Kindergarten and 1st grade at McPhee Elementary before the opportuity to study to become a school librarian came up.  I have served as the librarian for McPhee Elementary, Randolph and Pyrtle Elementary and I am now entering my 8th year here at Irving. 

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