If you haven’t stopped by the Webster Public Library yet to check out the We All Have a Story: The Stories Continue photography exhibit, I highly recommend you take the time to do so in the next few weeks.
The exhibit, created by local portrait photographer and Webster Central School District employee Linda Hayes, takes a closer look at the lives and stories of 21 WCSD staff members to help illuminate the people inside the classrooms and offices who work with our children every day. The stories are thought provoking, happy and sad. But more than anything else, they’ll probably make you think, “Wow, I never realized that.”
My story is among them. I tell my story about how three simple — but powerful — words a teacher spoke to me many years ago changed my life and inspired me to become a writer.
You will probably know at least one other of the participants, which also include:
- Joe Montemaro, WCSD Director of Technology
- Elizabeth Livorsi, Spry math teacher
- Elizabeth Ristow-Klem, Klem South music teacher
- Sandy McCormack, retired Wilink special education teacher
- Ashley Yang, Webster Thomas Social Studies teacher
- Karen Murray, Webster Thomas administrator and Chester French, retired Buildings and Grounds
- Kyle Suffoletto, Webster Thomas English teacher and his father Mike Suffoletto, current school board member
- Diane Huot, Plank South literacy teacher
- Marnie Weinmann, Plank North kindergarten teacher
- Leslie Jones, Klem South literacy teacher
- Julie Provenzano, Schlegel speech pathology teacher
- Krista Lawton, Webster Schroeder English teacher
- Hannah Formella, Webster Schroeder speech pathology teacher, with Julius, her therapy dog
- Kelly Stevens, State Rd. art teacher
- Leslie Hall, Webster Schroeder foreign language teacher
- Martha Sullivan, Webster Thomas English teacher
- Patty Cooke, Webster Schroeder guidance counselor
- Sarah Harding, Klem North PE teacher
It’s worth a few minutes to check them all out, so next time you’re at the library, take the time to do so. Or make a point to stop by before the exhibit closes.
The exhibit runs the entire month of December, and is open to the public during the library’s normal business hours, Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday from 10 to 6, Saturday from 10 to 5 and Sunday from 1 to 4. (The library will be closed for the holidays on December 24, 25, and 31.)
The library is located at 980 Ridge Rd., its main entrance on Van Ingen Drive at the back of the plaza.
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