User:Rhea J. Welch

Rhea J. Welch (January 26, 1957) is a native of historic Jacksonville, Illinois in central Illinois.She is a 1975 graduate of Jacksonville High School and attended MacMurray College, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. She received her B.A. Degree in 1980 from William Woods University in Fulton, Missouri. She also received her Master's Degree from the same institution. She teaches in a Special Education alternative School in Jacksonville, the Ivan K. Garrison Alternative School and is Senior Staff at the facility. She pioneered School-Day Community Service Volunteerism for the Emotionally Disturbed population enrolled at this facility.She was the Volunteer of the Year at the Jacksonville Developmental Center in Jacksonville in 1994. Her classroom students had been one of two groups selected for a Distinguished Service Citation in 1993. She is included in Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in American Women. She joins a long line of excellent teachers, her father having been the Director of Music Education in Jacksonville School District #117 until his retirement in 1978.