TEACHERS OF THE YEAR–St. John the Baptist School teacher Angie Menard was recently named the Red Bud VFW Post 6632 Teacher of the Year in the fifth through eighth grade category. Pictured in the left photo is Post Quartermaster Larry Ehlers, Menard and some of her students. St. John’s Lutheran School teacher Betty Schmitz was recently named the Red Bud VFW Post 6632 Teacher of the Year in the kindergarten through fifth grade category. Pictured in the right photo presenting her the award are Post Quartermaster Larry Ehlers, at left, and VFW District 14 Junior Vice Commander Clyde Rowold.
Red Bud Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6632 Quartermaster/Chairman Larry Ehlers has announced the local post 2022 winners of this year’s Smart/Maher VFW National Citizenship Education Teacher Award at the post level.
In the kindergarten through fifth grade category, the award went to Betty Schmitz, a teacher at St. John’s Lutheran School. In the fifth through eighth grade category, the award was presented to Angie Menard, a teacher at St. John the Baptist Catholic School.
For more on the teachers, please see this week’s print edition.