Troy 30-C Transportation Director Lucy Feeney Retires

Photos:

1. Retiring Troy Transportation Director Lucy Feeney with new Transportation Director Mark Baumann.

2. Retiring Troy Transportation Director Lucy Feeney at a parade in her honor. Here, with bus driver Barb Gray.

3. Lucy Feeney.

Troy School District 30-C Transportation Director Lucy Feeney was celebrated with a drive-by parade this spring, as she retired after more than 32 years in education.

Prior to her positions at Troy, she was a substitute teacher, media aide, reading aide, track coach, summer school teacher and industrial technology teacher at Channahon and Minooka schools.

She later taught family and consumer science at the Plainfield School District and earned her Master of Science degree from the University of St. Francis in education leadership.

Troy began at Troy in 2004, first serving as Assistant Principal at Troy Middle School, then as Assistant Principal of William B. Orenic Intermediate School, where she helped organize and open the new school. In 2012, she was appointed Transportation Director with a staff of 82.

That position, she said, was quite different from any other she had held. Feeney joked that her knowledge of student transportation prior to that was that buses were yellow, had students on them and smelled of diesel.

“My world shifted,” she said. “I now had to learn about buses, drivers, monitors, diesel, safety inspections, management of students in a confined mobile space, how IEPs worked in a special environment, and why Bus #121 was in #140, and #140 was in #123.”

“The Troy community has long received the benefit of the incredible work ethic, wisdom, and compassion of Lucy Feeney,” said Troy Superintendent Dr. Todd Koehl. “It is difficult to just say thank you to one whose impact has been so broad. So, instead, we humbly bow and say simply, ‘Job well done, Mrs. Feeney.’”

Feeney said she leaves Troy with staff who “come together on a daily basis to form a collective group of caring, collaborative, positive, professional, student-oriented and safety-conscious people.”

Former Assistant Director Mark Baumann will be Troy’s new Transportation Director, and Dawn Malleris is Troy’s new Assistant Director of Transportation.

Feeney said the thing she most expected from her drivers and staff over the years was heart.

“And I will be leaving a large piece of my heart in the Transportation Department of Troy,” she added.

Feeney said during her retirement, she and her husband Jim plan on enjoying their family and a “wide-open” agenda.