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player ready...Eight area residents and a volunteer doctor from a western suburb were honored by the Lincoln-Way High School Board last week in the eighth annual Extra Effort Awards. Each was praised for making special efforts to support the school.
“The persons selected for this districtwide honor have truly put forth that extra effort that makes Lincoln-Way High School the special school that it is today,” Supt. Lawrence Wyllie said.
Lincoln-Way alumna Barbara Hostert of Mokena carried on the athletic prowess she displayed as a student athlete in basketball and track by assisting girls’ basketball coach Don Hayes for three years.
Hostert was credited with helping young athletes by developing a reward system based on individual players’ accomplishments and goals.
Will County Sheriff Brendan Ward has helped maintain a safe school environment and helped in fundraising efforts as well, Wyllie said.
Band parent Cliff Janeliunas of Frankfort has logged thousands of volunteer hours, driving the Band Booster truck that carries the marching band’s uniforms and instruments. When the Lincoln-Way Marching Knights were scheduled to perform at the Tournament of Roses this year, Janeliunas and his wife, Peggy, spent their Christmas holiday transporting the uniforms and instruments to California.
Tireless work for Lincoln-Way’s Athletic Boosters resulted in an award for Mike Gabrione of New Lenox, who served as secretary for the group and worked on the steering committee for Lincoln-Way’s annual Roundtable Basketball Tournament. Gabrione also took an active part in the campaign to pass the 1998 referendum measure to finance the school’s expansion program.
Peggy Doyle of Manhattan was honored for her work coordinating park district programs using Lincoln-Way facilities, a program that will expand when swimming pools open on the New Lenox and Frankfort campuses.
Dedicated parenting has placed the children of Drs. Molly and Matthew Sadhu among Lincoln-Way’s most successful students. Two of the Sadhu children were valedictorians of their graduating classes and another child ranked third in his class. The Sadhus not only support their children’s activities, but they also backed the 1998 referendum measure and contributed to the fundraising efforts of the Lincoln-Way Foundation.
Cathy Hennings of New Lenox, human services coordinator at Provena St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, helped coordinate a program that gave anatomy and physiology students interested in medical careers a chance to go behind the scenes at the hospital to observe and even assist medical professionals at work.
Dr. Bruce Reider of Hinsdale, an orthopedic surgeon with the University of Chicago Physicians Group, has been the doctor on site at Lincoln-Way sporting events for six years.
Winners of the Extra Effort Awards illustrate the value of teamwork, board President Christine Glatz said. “The education business, like others, needs teamwork,” Glatz said.