The Aurora Area Retired Teachers’ Association (AARTA) has been working for retired teachers in Kane County for over fifty years.
Due to their continued interest in education, members of the AARTA created the Aurora Area Retired Teachers’ Association Scholarship Fund in 2010 to assist students attending a two-year college, or a professional, trade or vocational school. In 2016, the fund was established as an endowment.
Eligibility is restricted to students who reside within the Community Foundation service area and within the boundaries of the following school districts: East Aurora 131, West Aurora 129, Kaneland 302, Batavia 101, Geneva 304 or St. Charles 303.
This fund also provides a meaningful way to honor the lives of former members of the Aurora Area Retired Teachers’ Association who have passed away.
Following are the names of those who are being so honored.
- Barbara Adkins
- Lawrence “Stan” Adolph
- Marion Keeley Anderson
- Identa Austin
- Mary Barbee
- Bruno Bartoszek
- Hershel Benberry
- Martha “Marti” Berg
- Richard “Buck” Bolen
- Norma Jean Bowers
- Rosemary Brewick
- Diane Brown
- Renee Bulatek
- Mary Cassidy
- Marjorie Chadwell
- Virginia Cotter
- Florence Covelli
- Joanne Cryer
- Virginia Cyr
- John Daraban
- Hubert Davis
- Susan Davis
- Lowell Dehart
- Donald Dillenburg
- Mary Jean Earl
- Marlisa Ebeling
- Nell Evans
- Isla “Tish” Evers
- Wilman Favero
- Richard Fisher
- Wilma Fitzpatrick
- Steve Fitzsimons
- Russ Forrer
- Lloyd Gannegan
- Thomas Garrey
- John Graham
- Kirk Harding, Jr.
- Richard Harrison
- Carol Hatcher
- Grace Hines
- Thomas Holak
- LaRee Jacobson
- Roger Jacobson
- Anne Janicene
- Florence Johnson
- Lloyd Jones
- Marjorie Jordan
- Thomas Karich
- Beverly King
- Laura “Eileen” King
- Anne Langan
- Patricia Lee
- Dorothy Libner
- Raymond Libner
- Esther Lindahl
- Mary C. Mahoney
- Eleanor Main
- Yvonne McElroy
- Lorraine McKnight
- Lorna Springer Morrison
- Barbara Morrow
- Jane Myers
- Allan W. Neitzel
- Ed Nelson
- Robert Nelson
- Donald Nylin
- Gregory Oakes
- Evelyn Oncken
- Anne Padavic
- Susan Paddock
- Nancy Parkin
- Elnora “Beth” Pettit-Conover
- Barbara Pielet
- Lawrence Pinnow
- James Pittman
- Richard Phillips
- David “Dusty” Rhoads
- Mary Robinson
- Sam Rotolo
- Anna Sanford
- Lois Scott
- Clarence William Spence, Jr.
- Geraldine Stanford
- Donald Straughn
- Margaret “Peg” Steinhebel
- William Sweeney
- Bernice Thomas
- Evelyn Thompson
- Karen Towers
- James Valesano
- Arnold Verbic
- Janice Vernol
- John Williams
- Carol Winkley
- Marilyn Wolf
- John Wrendling
- Barbara Yusunas
- Bella Zidell
- Douglas Zolper
