LOMBARD – The 2015-16 school year will bring some new faces to Trinity Lutheran School in Lombard, according to a school news release.
Principal Kenneth Krohse is retiring after serving as head administrator at the school since September 1983. His wife, Marlene, who has been a kindergarten teacher at the school, also is retiring.
Together, the Krohses have been teaching on the Trinity faculty for 38 years, having both come to the Lombard school in 1977.
The shoes of this couple will soon be filled by another pair of teaching spouses.
On June 21, Trinity Lutheran Church, which operates the preschool through eighth-grade school, will install Andrew DeWitt as principal and seventh- and eighth-grade teacher and Leann DeWitt as kindergarten teacher.
The DeWitts, both graduates of Concordia University Chicago, come to Lombard from St. Paul Lutheran School in Rochelle.
Another big change at Trinity is the stepping back of preschool Director Arlene Solyom, who will continue working in the early childhood program as needed, but will be replaced in her full-time post by her granddaughter and Trinity alumna Rachel Solyom.
The younger Solyom, who received her early childhood education degree from Concordia University Chicago, was a part-time member of the preschool faculty this past year and previously served at Grace Lutheran School in River Forest and Shining Stars Preschool in Elmwood Park.
Trinity Lutheran Church also recently welcomed a new associate pastor, Rev. Steven E. Wagner, to serve alongside senior pastor Rev. Patrick J. Boomhower, who has been at the Lombard congregation since 2008.
Originally from Texas and having most recently worked with two Lutheran congregations in South Dakota, Wagner has relocated to Lombard, which will now be home to his wife, Barbara, and son, Steven. The couple also has two grown children, Brian and Megan.
Trinity Lutheran School still is accepting registrations for the 2015-16 school year for children age 3 to those entering eighth grade. Details are available by calling the school office at 630-627-5601 or emailing schoolinfo@trinitylombard.org.