Esteemed 6th-Grade Teacher Retires

The Southern Lehigh School Board Monday night approved the retirements of three district staff members:

•Robert Shaffer, Grade 6 Teacher, Joseph P. Liberati Intermediate School, who has been an employee of the district for 34 years. 

School board member James Lindsay says he has sent two children through the intermediate school who had the good fortune to experience Shaffer as a teacher, and regrets that his third child will not get the opportunity to be in Shaffer’s class.

“Every time we go back to the school to visit,” Lindsay said, “there are always students and parents waiting in line to see Shaffer and we are always among them. 

“I am proud we have so many teachers like this in Southern Lehigh who are first class in everything,” he said.

Shaffer’s retirement is effective the last teacher day of 2012-2013 school year.  

•Patricia Brown, Instructional Assistant, Hopewell Elementary School, who has been an employee of the district for 5 ½ years. Brown’s retirement is effective June 16.

•Sharon Mitchell, Child Accounting Secretary, Administration Building, who has been an employee of the district for 34 years. Mitchell’s retirement is effective July 1.