Familiar faces: 8 honored for 25 years at Wellesley Public Schools

Eight faculty and staff were honored earlier this month for their 25 years of service with the Wellesley Public School System at the Campus Center at Tishman Commons at Wellesley College. Each Spring, Wellesley Education Foundation, Wellesley College and the Wellesley School Committee come together to honor longtime faculty and staff in what’s called the Chair Ceremony. And yes, the honorees do get actual classic “college-like” chairs that feature the town of Wellesley seal and their names on a brass plate. You’d no doubt see the honorees below in wacky poses standing or sitting on the chairs, but alas, they pick up the chairs from a different location after the actual ceremony…

Shown here left to right:

Jean Mahony: Schofield Grade 1 Teacher
Donna McFarlane: Hunnewell Kindergarten Teacher
Terry Weksel: PAWS Psychologist
Lennie Becker: Sprague Secretary
Mary Fitzgerald: WMS 6th Grade Math Teacher
May Hunnefeld: Production Center Coordinator
Rosanne Sannicandro: HS Guidance Counselor
(not pictured: Adrene Gorman: WHS Family and Consumer Science Teacher)