Late LTHS Teacher Leaves $250K For Scholarships

LA GRANGE, IL – A retired Lyons Township High School teacher who died in March bequeathed $250,000 from her estate for scholarships for the high school's students, the school said.

Marilynn Pavlik, who retired in 1992, is making the scholarships available for students who have completed four years of a high school world language program, Superintendent Brian Waterman said this week.

Recipients must be a member of a high school language honor society and intend to major in world language education at a four-year university in Illinois, Waterman said.

"We want to posthumously thank Marilynn Pavlik for her generosity and for the positive impact she will have on so many students through this scholarship here at LT," Waterman said at a school board meeting. "It's just another amazing example of our alums doing amazing work, our retired staff giving back all the time."

Board member Michael Thomas said he was one of Pavlik's students.

"She was an outstanding teacher and very encouraging and supportive of her students," Thomas said. "She was just very positive."

Pavlik was in her early 90s when she died.