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NOVEMBER STAFF SPOTLIGHT
Mrs. Bonnie White & Mrs. Tanya McFadyen
Our Staff Spotlight shines this month on two amazing administrative assistants, Mrs. Bonnie White at Garret Schenck Elementary School and Mrs. Tanya McFadyen at Solon Elementary School. Both of these ladies do a great job supporting the students, staff, and families at their schools on a daily basis all year long. But this fall presented an extra challenging situation when their schools were without a principal for three weeks. Both Mrs. White and Mrs. McFadyen rose to the challenge to support other district administrators who were helping out at the two schools, going above and beyond to keep their schools running smoothly.
Mrs. Bonnie White has had a long tenure as an administrative assistant in RSU #74. She worked at Carrabec High School, Embden Elementary School and Carrabec Community School before coming to Garret Schenck Elementary School in 2021. For some of those years she also filled the role of the district’s Adult Education secretary. Other jobs she held in the field of education were a Special Education educational technician at the Embden School and a Title I ed tech at Madison Junior High School. Mrs. White earned an Associate’s Degree in business administration from Casco Bay College and lives in Embden, where she and her husband raised their family and now enjoy frequent visits from their grandchildren.
Mrs. Tanya McFadyen grew up in New Jersey and graduated from the Stuart School of Business there. She worked as a secretary and bookkeeper at Ward Realty in Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey for six years. When she, her husband, and their daughter Haley moved to Maine, they put down roots on a farm in North Anson. Besides farm chores, Mrs. McFadyen did some substitute teaching in the schools in RSU #74 before taking a fulltime job as the administrative assistant at Solon Elementary School in 2019. Mrs. McFadyen has also worked in the district’s Camp Carrabec Summer School Program and the Town of Solon’s After-School Program.
Mrs. White and Mrs. McFadyen have become essential to the smooth operation of their schools. Because the Garret Schenck and Solon Schools share a principal, these ladies play a vital role in assisting that principal to effectively manage the schools despite being in person at each school only half of the time. In addition to assisting the principal, they support staff members, students, and families in a variety of ways every day. Both Mrs. White and Mrs. McFadyen possess organizational and technology skills as well as talents in interpersonal relations and problem solving. They work in a world of constantly changing demands and complete a multitude of daily tasks such as completing mountains of paperwork, lining up substitute teachers (who are in very short supply), tending to students’ seemingly constant need for bandages and ice packs, organizing special school events and activities. and providing wise counsel and advice to students and staff. They are professional, personable, hard working, and indispensable.
We congratulate Mrs. Bonnie White and Mrs. Tanya McFadyen for being selected to be the focus of this month’s Staff Spotlight, and we thank them for everything they do every day for all of us. They truly are the heart of their schools!
