Joliet District 86 Honorary Principals for a Day
Joliet Public Schools District 86 welcomed community and business members into elementary and junior high schools for the District’s annual Principal for a Day Celebration. “Honorary” principals shadowed the school principals and helped with student arrival, morning announcements, visiting classrooms, lunchroom duty, and supervising outside recess.
Honorary Principals of the Day included: Alicia Morales, Joliet Township Government, M.J. Cunningham Elementary; Pastor Dwayne Barefield, All Nations Church, Dirksen Junior High; Deb Upshaw, National Hook-up of Black Women; Eisenhower Academy; Theresa Ward, Will County Regional Office of Education; Farragut Elementary; Karrie White, Rival5 Technologies Corporation, Forest Park Individual Education School; Bob DiLorenzo, Gompers Class of 1958 Alum, Gompers Junior High; Chris Parker, African American Business Association, Hufford Junior High; Tamra Bienemann, Will County Community Concerns, Thomas Jefferson Elementary; Envoy Scott Hurula, Salvation Army, Edna Keith Elementary; Al Vertin, Joliet Police Department, A.O. Marshall Elementary; Dr. Karla Guseman, Joliet Township High School District 204 Superintendent, Marycrest Early Childhood Center; Julie Bankes, MPSI Security, Pershing Elementary; Pastor Ricardo Alcala, Iglesia Camino al Cielo, Sator Sanchez Elementary; Erica McCullum, House of Valor, Carl Sandburg Elementary; Beth Beatty, City of Joliet, Isaac Singleton Elementary; Howard Wright, State Farm Insurance, Taft Elementary; Dr. Yolanda Farmer, Joliet Junior College, Lynne Thigpen Elementary; Colette Safford, Safford Law Office, Thompson Instructional Center; Caroline Portlock, Workforce of Will County, Washington Junior High; and Terri Purcell, Joliet Public Library; Woodland Elementary.