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 October Volunteer of the Month:
Darcy Killigrew, Stuart R. Paddock PTA
With two children at Stuart R. Paddock School (and a 4-year-old waiting eagerly to be old enough to start school), Darcy Killigrew finds volunteering for the PTA and the school “a good way to be involved.” Darcy’s commitment to her children’s schools began when her son Patrick, now in fourth grade, attended pre-school at what was then The Learning Academy. When Patrick started kindergarten at Paddock, she volunteered there, and the PTA continues to find opportunities to put her talents to work.
Darcy, who has a background in accounting, is in her second year as PTA treasurer and her third year of working with the PTA’s Market Day program. In past years, she has been a room parent and a kindergarten center parent, and she willingly helps out on many assignments and committees, including vision and hearing screening, picture day, book fair, and teacher appreciation—“all those fun things,” she laughs. “I enjoy volunteering,” Darcy says. “I like getting to know the teachers and the other parents.”
Though she continues to be an active volunteer, there have been more demands on Darcy’s time for the past several months. In July 2005, Darcy and her husband Jim adopted two little girls from Poland. Grace is now in first grade at Paddock, and Angela attends preschool but can hardly wait to start “real” school. Helping the girls through their transition to a new family, new language, and new culture is a continuing challenge, along with helping Patrick adjust to having two little sisters after being an only child.
Darcy grew up in Glen Ellyn and attended Glenbard West High School. She went to Iowa State University, starting out in textiles and clothing merchandising, then transferred to North Central College in Naperville and switched to marketing, graduating with a B.S. in marketing. Despite her degree, she never worked in marketing but instead had accounting jobs with Merchandise Mart Properties and then as a controller for a real estate management/development company, where she worked until Patrick arrived. Darcy and Jim have lived in Palatine for 14 years. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, baking, crafts, reading, and family trips to visit Jim’s family in New York and her brother in Atlanta.
Darcy will be recognized at the October 11, 2006, Board of Education meeting, to be held at Walter R. Sundling Junior High School, at 7 p.m.
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