Whelan is VFW Teacher of the Year

TEACHER OF THE YEAR–Recognized as this year’s Smart/Maher VFW National Citizenship Education Teacher of the Year at the local level by the Red Bud VFW Post was Nancy Whelan of St. John’s Lutheran School. Pictured are Red Bud VFW Commander Clarence Nail, Post Quartermaster Larry Ehlers, Whelan and VFW District 14 Junior Vice Commander Clyde Rowold.

Red Bud Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6632 Quartermaster/Chairman Larry Ehlers has announced the local post 2021 winner of this year’s Smart/Maher VFW National Citizenship Education Teacher Award at the post level. The award went to Nancy Whelan, middle school teacher at St. John’s Lutheran School in Red Bud.

For more on Whelan, please see this week’s print edition.