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Taft Middle's P.E. teacher, Rob Klinefelter, ran the 26.2-mile LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon on October 12. Rob entered with the San Diego Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Team in Training (TNT) - just seven days after he completed the Mission Bay Triathalon. The finishing times of both events are not important - what is important is that in October of '02, Rob finished two years of chemo treatments for leukemia diagnosed in October of '00. Thanks to Kroc's staff members, Rob's mom, Ann Klinefelter (Site Tech II) was on hand to witness his success. |
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At the IT open forum (monthly meetings) IT Stars are recognized and presented with an Acrylic STAR that is engraved with the district logo, their name and on the bottom it says "Making a difference for our students!" Two recent stars:
September - Julie Kapelczak - Software Systems Analyst III
Julie is responsible for all of the servers we have at school sites which run the current district applications (SIS, EFRA, Mainframe Client-Server, etc). Just before school started the district was hit with the Blaster Virus, which disrupted services to school sites. Julie took the lead in getting the virus off of the servers and workstations at school sites and central office. She would stay as late as 2:30am and be back at work at 7:30am to help the district get through this crisis. She is a very hard working person and has a great attitude. She brings an esprit de corp to the department that reminds all of us that we are here to make a difference for teachers and kids.
October - Max Layog - Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer
Max is a developer that works mainly on Student Information Systems projects. He is one of the lead developers for Zangle and is helping with the modifications that the district requires in this new SIS application. Max was a tremendous asset to the school sites during the opening of school. The Zangle pilot schools had to sync Zangle, Aeries and SIS and Max was instrumental with the rest of the SIS team in getting those pilot schools configured and in sync. Max also helped out with a number of other schools that were struggling with getting their enrollment counts correct for staffing at the beginning of the school year. He as well has spent many, many hours here late a night and into the wee hours of the morning making sure the schools had what they needed so that they could open school and enroll kids.
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The Hospital School Patch program was highlighted in a recent article in Medical Center News. The program, located at the Naval Medical Center, San Diego, is an accredited school and has students ranging from 3 years old to seniors in high school. It was started so children requiring long-term hospitalization could continue their education.
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