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(LAKE ZURICH, IL)—Lake Zurich Middle School South teacher Jean Bush and parent and Seth Paine School parent volunteer Mary Beth Euker will receive the Award of Excellence and five other individuals will be honored with the Award of Merit in the 2007 Distinguished Service Awards (DSA) program luncheon on May 18, at the Bolingbrook Golf Club in Bolingbrook, IL. The seven awards for District 95 are the most won by any one school district in this year’s INSPRA statewide awards program, and set a record for the most INSPRA Distinguished Service Awards ever won by District 95.

Award winners, by category, are:

• Community Member – Mary Beth Euker, Seth Paine School Volunteer, Award of Excellence
• Faculty/Certified Staff – Jean Bush, Middle School South, Award of Excellence
• Board of Education Member – Kathy Brown, Vice President, Award of Merit
• Administrator – Dr. Deb Bruemmer, Principal – May Whitney School, Award of Merit
• Parent – Lori Smith, Middle School North PTO President/Dist. 95 Educational Foundation, Award of Merit
• Support Staff – Marcel Graham, PAC Manager, Award of Merit
• Public Relations Professional of the Year – Jim Jennings, Office of Communications & Community Relations, Award of Merit

“These award winners have gone above and beyond to help ensure a high quality education for all of our students,” said Superintendent Dr. Brian Knutson. “They truly reflect our district’s core value that ‘successful communities are the result of people working in partnership toward common goals’.”

Emceed each year by NBC Channel 5 news anchor Dick Johnson, the annual DSA program is sponsored by the Illinois Chapter of the National School Public Relations Association (INSPRA). The seven will be joined at the luncheon by Superintendent Dr. Brian Knutson, other school and district administrators, as well as family members and friends of the award winners.

According to INSPRA president Terry Ryan, the statewide DSA program honors individuals who have consistently “gone the extra mile” on behalf of their schools and school districts, and whose efforts have enhanced education and conveyed its importance to the community at large.

For more information, contact the Office of Communications, (847) 540-5489.  

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