• "Their background is not as strong as it used to be. I don't feel like I'm accomplishing as much as I used to."
• "They don't want to hold themselves responsible. In math, if you don't learn it one day, you'll have to learn it the next day. You can't say, 'I'll skip this and go onto the next thing. I'll pay attention tomorrow.' It doesn't work that way."

As with most teachers, certain students from the past stick out in her mind.

• She recalls two students who were failing - not just a week or two but for the entire first semester - and started making A's, which is unusual in math.
• One of her students last year started taking medication that helped him to concentrate. "Then he started making 100s and 99s on everything. Sometimes medication does work."
• "You feel good when you see them succeed. 'Yay! You can get it!'"

Jeanne also interacts with students in two other areas of the school besides her classroom.

• For over a decade she has volunteered to run a cash register before school in the mall.
• Instead of proctoring the Resource Center or the Mall, her assigned duty is to replace Debbie Dixon in the Discipline Office at 4th period so that Debbie can eat lunch.
• "That's fun. I enjoy doing that. I like the interaction there."
• "I definitely have to be there the whole period. Debbie should have more than one period off because that's a lot of work."
• Because of the importance of her fourth period duty, she rarely substitutes for other teachers in the classroom.
• Jeanne has missed very few days of school, but what happens if she's absent? Then Mr. Fleetwood or Mr. Corrente mans Mrs. Dixon's desk at fourth.

Jeanne's all-around service to the school culminated in winning the 2007 Brother More Schaefer Award for "outstanding efforts to evangelize students through education."

Her three children are all doing well.

• Her older daughter, Michelle, an engineering graduate, runs a computer company in Covington. They have four children.
• Daniel ('91) is an Accountant in Houston. He is the father of a little girl.
• Colleen, mother of two, is a store manager for Banana Republic in Chicago.

She has no retirement plans at the moment.

• She hopes to teach "as long as I can make it." Her retirement benefits kick in in November 2013 but that doesn't mean she'll stop then. "If I can work longer, I would work longer."
• Does she see herself as easing out? "I would like to do that. That would be awesome. 'I'll just take the Honors first period. OK?'"