Board Members

Linda Zirzow was raised on a farm and is a retired teacher. She taught the Neglected and Delinquent Title I Program for adult, male felons in the Illinois Department of Corrections, where she instructed inmate students to obtain GEDs. She has also taught in public, private, and college settings and holds special education supervisory endorsements for learning disabilities, social/emotional disorders, and physical challenges, as well as reading and language arts. Her interests include participating in organic crop improvement, and practicing horticulture, apiculture, Reiki, hypnosis, reflexology, and therapeutic touch. Linda is the author of Wilbur, the Miracle Pig- a true, inspirational story for children in need of physical therapy.

Linda is honoring her father, who served “for the duration” of WWII in the Navy on a sub-chaser; her daughter’s father, who served during the Vietnam War in the Air Force as a weather observer; and deceased board member Herschel Luckinbill who served during the Vietnam War in the Navy. Linda wants to give back to those who have given SO much to their country. May God bless all the veterans.