LOCAL SCHOOLS ADD NEW TEACHERS; IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ADDS THREE NEW TEACHERS

Three new faculty members were on the job to greet returning students at Immaculate Conception School last week.

Karen Engelen has joined the school as a fourth grade teacher, while Kathryn Mazzanti is teaching seventh grade and Gina Herzog sixth grade.

Engelen, a Jackson native, is an Immaculate Conception alumnae herself. She has taught previously at St. Vincent's in Perryville.

"I love being here," she said. "It's nice to be back where I went to school."

Mazzanti, who has lived in Arkansas and Mississippi, said she "loves" the school and community.

Herzog, a Ste. Genevieve native who lives in Cape Girardeau, is new to sixth grade teaching. Her previous experience has been in preschool work.

"It's a very family-oriented school," she said. "It should be very nice working here."