Diane Lewis was a mother of eleven(11) children who
earned a Bachelor Of Science(BS) degree in Education with an endorsement in Special Education from Purdue Calumet(now Purdue Northwest). She went to college after having been a full-time mother for decades. However, she always had a passion for teaching. She filled her home with educational aids to encourage, motivate, and increase her children's knowledge. Objects in the home were spelled on index cards and every task ended with an educational objective or outcome. Before Mrs. Lewis entered the post-secondary learning arena, she had already grasped the tool of a practitioner and was an expert in learning techniques. If she were in the kitchen baking, she would teach fraction. If she was entertaining her children's teenage friends, she would teach about sex education. Mrs. Lewis never failed to use life as its own teaching laboratory. Mrs. Lewis was raised in foster care and knew the hardships of feeling abandoned and alone. Her dream was to have children and provide the love and care that she never experienced ad a child. Her successful parenting techniques were examined and even questioned. But, she patiently and lovingly gave of herself not just to her own children, but to anyone in need. As a former pastor's wife and a teacher of religious instruction, Mrs. Lewis worked fervently in education in both secular and sacred arenas even while she battled stage-4 breast cancer. After a long, courageous battle, she succumbed on December 29, 2011. |
2021 Diane Lewis
Scholarship Dinner |
2022 Diane Lewis
Scholarship Dinner |
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