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Rock Valley Schools Foundation to award $500 Christmas Checks to graduates who make a difference by becoming teachers. First year teachers who are Rock Valley graduates will be awarded $500 to use as they wish. The money for this gift comes from a donation by the late Deanne Van Zee to the Rock Valley School Foundation.
The Rock Valley Community School Foundation has awarded over $100,000 in scholarships ($20,750 in 2018 to 18 different students) since incorporated as a Non-Profit 501(c)(3) in 1996. Donations to the Rock Valley Community School Foundation may be dropped off at school or sent to Anita Siestra, 1712 20th Ave., Rock Valley, Iowa 51247.
The foundation is very proud to recognize the following four graduates who are following in their teachers footsteps and helping students develop to their optimum potential!
Samantha VanderVelde Cliff is a graduate of Northwestern College. Her father Todd is a Rock Valley graduate too and is Rock Valley’s Industrial Technology Teacher, Her grandmother, Evelyn Vander Velde, was a Rock Valley Kindergarten teacher at Rock Valley. Samantha is teaching 2nd grade in the Whiting Community School District.
Levi DeRoon is a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa. He is teaching 7th and 8th grade Social Studies in Glendale, Arizona.
Isaiah Richter is a graduate of the University of South Dakota. He is a Junior High and High School English teacher at our brother/sister school Boyden Hull High School.
Brooklyn Simonsen Zeuntenhorst is a graduate of Buena Vista University. She is a 3rd grade teacher in Canton, South Dakota.
Pictured is the late Dick and Deanne Van Zee and their daughter Lynette, the amazing Family Consumer Science Teacher at Rock Valley CSD.
The Van Zees have left us an amazing legacy and we hope you will consider making a gift to the Rock Valley Community Schools Foundation too.
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