Meet the Teacher

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Meet the Teacher

Hi!  My name is Joanne Perich and I am a first grade teacher at

Peters Elementary.  I received a Bachelor's degree in Elementary

Education from Millersville University and a Master's in Education

from Lehigh University.  My first teaching assignment was at

Lehigh Parkway School in the Allentown School District.  While my

husband was stationed with the U.S. Army in Pirmasens, Germany,

I was a substitute teacher in the American school on the base.  Upon

returning  to the States, I taught fourth grade in the Parkland School

District for seven years.  After taking a long hiatus to raise my family

of four children, I returned to teaching in the Northern Lehigh School

District as a fifth grade teacher for one year and a first grade teacher

for twenty-one years and counting.

       As for my life away from Peters Elementary, I live in Lehigh

Furnace with my husband, Charles, who is a retired biology teacher

from Brandywine Area Heights School District.  My four children are

Daniel, a commercial real estate broker in the Poconos;  Andrew,

a physical therapist at the St. Luke's facility in Orefield; Jessica, an

actress/ theater educator in Baltimore; and Joshua, a former minor

league New York Mets/ chemical engineer at Air Products.  My

children have been a source of great joy and pride, but being a

grandmother to my six-year old grandson, Rafe, is the icing on the

cake.

      Besides teaching, music is my second vocation.  I am the organist/

choir director at St. John's Lutheran Church in Slatington.  In my

spare time I love to read, go for walks, watch baseball and basketball,

watch the Food Channel, and collect cookbooks.

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