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Mrs. Sue Tony

Mrs. Sue Tony

Job Title: Junior High Science Teacher & 7th Grade Homeroom

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Ext: 2330

Website: https://sites.google.com/a/stphils.com/junior-high-science-webpage/

Mrs. Tony has taught fourth through eighth grades since 1981.  She has taught junior high science at St. Philomena since 2008.  Mrs. Tony is from Peoria and earned a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education and a Masters of Science in Elementary Education from Bradley University.  She has two children, Stephen and Kelly.  Mrs. Tony enjoys running and sewing.

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Mrs. Andrea Whalen

Mrs. Andrea Whalen

Job Title: Junior High Language Arts & 6th Grade Homeroom

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Ext: 2335

Mrs. Andrea Whalen began her teaching journey in 2019, spending four years in fourth grade at Ridgeview. She joined the faculty of St. Philomena School in 2023-24 as an English Language Arts teacher in junior high. She says, "While I may not have taught middle school before, I'm so anxious for the opportunity to be at St. Philomena!" Andrea attended Bradley University, where she received a degree in Elementary Education with an ESL Endorsement. Currently she is working on her Masters from Western Illinois University in Curriculum & Instruction. Mrs. Whalen lives with her husband and three children: Lillian, Olivia, and Lincoln. They also have a German Shepherd dog, Oden and a black cat named Griz. In her spare time she loves to run and read. When asked about her hometown, Andrea had this to say, "This is a loaded question! I was born in Miles City, Montana but moved around a lot growing up. I spent a lot of my childhood in Seattle, Washington but came to Illinois from Texas." 

 

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Mrs. Jen Williams

Mrs. Jen Williams

Job Title: PK4 Classroom Teacher

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Ext: 2401

Mrs. Jen Williams transitioned to the PreK4 program in 2022-23, having been the first teacher for our parish's PreK3 program in 2017-18. She has been teaching since 2009 and has experience in kindergarten, first grade, and PreK3 in a variety of schools including in Lombard, Delavan and St. Jude. Mrs. Williams graduated from Bradley University with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and a minor in Spanish. She then attended Benedictine University where she completed her master’s degree in literacy and instruction. Jen is married to Michael and they have four kids Nora, Aidan, Emma and Benny, and a family dog, Bradley. Fun fact: Mrs. Williams was born in Cork, Ireland and moved to the United States in grade school settling in the Chicago suburbs.

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