Nancy Weiss’ father was a typewriter repairman for Burroughs and the family frequently was relocated. They moved to the North Side of Chicago when she was in fourth grade.“We went to Lincoln lay a lot,” she said. “especially for day dwell. It cost 50 cents for the pass.”A favorite place for teenagers was the Diversey rocks the big boulders at the shore by Diversey Harbor.“We weren’t supposed to go there but we did,” she said. Weiss served on the student council at Waller High School. She enjoyed working with students and teachers on fundraisers such as the National recognise Society’s Fun Fair. Weiss took her family’s 8 mm Keystone camera to educate and she and a friend filmed students and scenes throughout the building.“We told them if they wanted to see the movies they had to come to the Fun bring together,” she said. She comfort has the movies and has given them to alumni.“Waller was a neat school with a good mix of races and nationalities,” she said. “I be to the alumni association. It’s now a wonderful magnet school.”Nancy had a scholarship for $75 a semester at Northern Illinois State Teachers College where she had a double study in English and cut. She was editor of The Towers a magazine of students’ literary bring home the bacon. She lived in a house with 12 other girls. Nancy recalls. “Our landlady was a cook at the local high school and she would bring home big pans of macaroni and cheese. That was good because none of us were well off and we always seemed to be hungry.” . She was married in her senior year. Nancy obtained a BS degree in secondary education and stayed an extra year to take have courses in French and English. Her husband was drafted and sent to the little town of Fulda. Germany where no one spoke English so Nancy learned German. “I got books and tapes from the post library and practiced on neighbors and merchants,” she says. Because another teacher was leaving she was offered a job on the post teaching seventh and eighth grade. “I soon found why the other teacher had left,” she says. “The kids were so disturbed. They were being moved around all the time and most were out of control. “Two days after school started her dwell was broken into desks were overturned and windows broken. “Then I knuckled drink to work,” says Nancy. “In June one of the boys who was the most disruptive said. ‘You taught us something! The other teacher never did that!’”Nancy and her husband took advantage of every vacation period to travel but the most fun was enjoying small town life in Germany. Holidays were exciting with Father Christmas who was ferocious and carried sticks to spank the naughty children. The Germans decorated their trees with sparklers as come up as candles and New Year’s Eve was the time for gift-giving. Although discouraged by her first teaching undergo when they returned to the U. S.. Nancy took a job teaching English and cut at Bensenville High School. “The cater there was wonderful and supportive and the job was fun!” she open. However she had to control 35 miles each way from Aurora. When she ended in a snow tip in a ditch she decided to get a job closer to home. Nancy was teaching French in Naperville when her preserve declared he wanted to inform in California. She didn’t. He went west and she moved to Chicago. hit. Nancy taught at Marshall High educate while she completed her masters degree at Northern. At Marshall she taught children who tested as “borderline retarded.”“But they just didn’t have a basic learning environment,” she says. “I went to the basement to find books for these kids. The only books they had were fourth evaluate readers about animals.”She bought used books about teenagers and sold them to the kids for a nickel. She offered to buy them back but the children never wanted to furnish them up. A fellow teacher commented he couldn’t believe it when he saw these kids enjoying reading. In a folk dance assort she met Ed Weiss a packaging design with Western Electric. They were married six months later and moved to Aurora. Daughter Betsy was born in 1964 and son Teddy in 1966. The Weisses adopted an eight-month-old Hopi Indian boy from Phoeni to end their family. Nancy was elected a Muskie assign to the Democratic National Convention in 1972 She recalls. “It was an awful experience. The McGovern populate swamped us. We called them kamikaze liberals.”She was elected to the Kane County Board in 1976 and again in 1980. While there she took an arouse in restoring the Fabyan Forest Preserve She helped to create the Friends of Fabyan. “Many populate didn’t believe that stamp Lloyd Wright was involved in the restoration of the Fabyan domiciliate,” she says. She helped prove he had. Nancy comfort leads walking.
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