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An important part of any school is its staff. Meet the people behind Grace Episcopal Preschool.
We
have an experienced and dedicated group of teachers
and administrators. Each one strives to create a
supportive and challenging classroom atmosphere.
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Ms. Ginny Herbert
Head of School
Ginny Herbert
has been the Head of School at Grace for the
last eleven years. Ginny graduated Summa Cum
Laude from Southwest Texas State University
in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science degree in
elementary education. She taught elementary
school in Hutto for five years before the
birth of her son, Addison, in May 1996.
After staying home with him for a year,
Ginny returned to teaching in Hutto. She got
her mathematics certification for the upper
grades and began teaching middle school and
high school math courses at Hutto High. In
April 1999 she had her second son, Kaden.
After staying home a year with him, Ginny
began at Grace. Ginny continues to teach
math out of her home by tutoring in the
evenings.
Ginny and her husband, Chris,
will celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary in
June. They have three children: Addison,
age 14; Kaden, age
11; and Ainsley; age 4. Her family attends Grace Episcopal
Church, and they enjoy baseball, basketball,
football, camping,
and water activities. They live in
Georgetown with their cats, Penelope &
Sassafras. Ginny's hobbies include scrap
booking, reading, and shopping.
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Ms. Evelyn Vance
Music Teacher & Administrative Assistant
Evelyn
Vance graduated from Lamar University in
Beaumont, Texas with a degree in
Computer Programming. She worked in the
data processing field for 15 years
before she and her husband Donny moved
to Denver, Colorado. They lived in the
Denver area for 5 years where their
daughter Mackenzie was born in 1994. They moved to Georgetown in 1997 and
enrolled Mackenzie at Grace Episcopal
Preschool. In 1998 Evelyn was hired as
the music teacher for GEP when her
daughter was in the 4 year old class. Her dedication and experience has led to
more and more job responsibilities for
the preschool. She now serves as the
Administrative Assistant and bookkeeper
as well as teaching music. Evelyn’s
love for singing began with her own
preschool years and has continued
throughout her life. She has sung with
many church and civic choirs, including
the Beaumont Civic Opera.
Donny and Evelyn have been married for
23 years. They have one daughter,
Mackenzie, age 16, and 2 cats, Rusty and Zoey. Evelyn’s hobbies are singing,
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Ms. Lori
Two-Day Twos
Lori
Gegelman is very excited about
returning to Grace this year! Lori
and her husband, Justin, are
originally from North Dakota. They
moved to Austin 8 years ago for a
job opportunity for her husband and
have lived in Georgetown for the
past 5 years.
Lori has four wild and fun boys!
Braeden is 9, Kinden is 7, Logan is
5 and Mason is 3. All four of her
boys have attended preschool at
Grace.
Lori loves to spend her time
camping, scrapbooking, shopping and
going to activities with her boys. |
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Ms. Stephanie
Link
Three-Day Twos
Stephanie Link has lived in
Georgetown for 12 years. She started
teaching at Grace eleven years ago.
She took 4 years off to have her two
sons, Connor (9) and Colin (6). She
has been married to Sean for almost
14 years. She enjoys anything that
she can do with her two
boys...running, biking, scootering,
skating, soccer and basketball. She
also enjoys volunteering at her sons
school on her days off.
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Ms. Debra Mason
Three-Day Threes
Debra has been teaching
at Grace for the past 2
years, before that she
was a substitute parent
for 2 years. She has 2
beautiful boys Garrett
10 and Travis 6. She
loves seeing kids learn
through play and fun.
Born and raised in New
York, she moved to Texas
16 years ago and loves
calling Georgetown her
home. She enjoys
volunteering at Cooper
Elementary, where her
boys attend, spending
time with friends and
being a Mom.
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Ms. Mindy Davis
Three-Day Threes
This is Mindy’s first year of
teaching at GEP. She has been a
parent at GEP for the 3 years. Her
daughter Elena started at GEP as a 4
yr old and is now attending Gateway
Prep School as a first-grader. Her
daughter Alexandre (Lexie) started
at GEP last year is now attending as
a 4 yr old. Mindy grew up mostly
around Austin. She graduated from
Pflugerville High and attended ACC.
She is very excited about
incorporating her love for gardening
and recycling in her teaching. She
is amazed to see how much the kids
thrive on digging in the dirt.
Before becoming a teacher, Mindy did
substitute work and lots of
volunteer work at both of her girl’s
schools. Now in her free time she
loves spending time with her family,
gardening and sewing.
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This is Kelly Armstrong's first year here at
Grace Preschool. Her three children (Keilah,
Kenzie, and Jake) also attend Grace.
Teaching three year olds is a new adventure
for Kelly. She comes to Grace after teaching
first and second grade in GISD for 7 years.
She grew up in Lubbock and moved to
Georgetown 15 years ago to attend
Southwestern University. She graduated with
a degree in Child Study and Language
Development (Education). She played tennis
all through high school and college and is
slowly getting back into playing. A few
years after college she met and married her
husband, Joe. Her joy comes from spending
time with her family. Some of their favorite
activities include: tent camping, jumping on
the trampoline, reading, and prayer time.
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Ms. Micki
Llewellyn
Four Year Olds
Micki
Llewellyn lives with her husband
and children in Round Rock.
Her
oldest child is Ian who is 14
and the youngest is Claire who
is 11. This is her 6th year
teaching at Grace. She really
enjoys working with children.
She and her husband teach Sunday
School classes for elementary
children and Micki also leads a
brownie troop.
Micki grew up in
East Tennessee and graduated
from the University of Tennessee
with a major in history. In
2001, she began working at a
preschool in Round Rock. In the
second year she began teaching in
the four year old class. She loves
working with children the year
before they begin kindergarten.
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Ms. Margaret Cromwell
Four Year Olds
Margaret
Cromwell is in her 2nd year at Grace
Episcopal Preschool and this year and
will be teaching the four
year olds class. Margaret and her
husband Jerry have been married for
38 years and have one daughter, Amy Heil,
and two beautiful granddaughters Madison and
Allyson. After being born and raised
in El Paso she decided to move
to Georgetown to be closer to
family and to also enjoy the
beautiful central Texas
countryside.
Margaret graduated
from the University of Texas at El
Paso and taught 3rd grade for many
years and kindergarten. Margaret
loves being with her family and
doing things together. She enjoys
reading, crocheting, shopping, and
going to family gatherings and
being with friends. Margaret and
Jerry have two little puppies
called Sugar and Spice and love
watching their granddaughters run
and play with them in the backyard.
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Ms. Andrea Borchgardt
Four Year Olds
Andrea Borchgardt graduated from
Texas State in 1998 with a
degree in Interdisciplinary
Studies (Education). She taught
first grade in PISD for several
years before having her children
and becoming a stay at home mom.
She has 2 children: a daughter,
Kaci who is 8 and a son, Bailey
who is 6 and has been married to
her husband, Clint for 11
years.They have made Round Rock
their home along with 2 dogs, a
cat and a turtle.
Andrea was a teacher at Grace in
2008 until her daughter was
diagnosed with Juvenile
Diabetes. She took a year off to
ensure that her daughter and
family were able to adjust to
this new lifestyle.
In her free time Andrea enjoys
spending time with her family,
volunteering at her children's
school, scrapbooking and
photography. She is also the
troop leader for her daughter's
Brownie Troop and an active
volunteer with the JDRF Austin
Chapter.
Andrea is looking forward to
working with the 4 year olds and
getting them ready to tackle
Kindergarten. She is very glad
to be back as a part of the
Grace preschool family!
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Ms. Barbara
Kendrick
Teacher's Aide
Barbara Kendrick has been employed at Grace
Preschool for 9 years now, and she
loves it here. She was a
teacher for two years, and now she
is the three day teacher’s aide.
Barbara has two children of her own
at home. The oldest is Mandy
and she is 22 years old, and
the youngest is Jon and he is 16
years old. She and her husband, Allan,
have been married now for 23 years.
She was born in Georgetown and has
lived here for 22 years.
Barbara loves to read, sew,
cook and work on the computer.
She
plans to be with Grace Preschool for
a long time.
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Ms. Amy Nortom
Teacher's Aide
Amy
Norton is very excited to be
starting her first year as part of
the Grace Staff Family. She and her
family moved to Georgetown in
January 2009. Amy has been married
to Erik for 12 years, and they have
a boy Kire (5), a girl Mya (3), and
a girl dog Appa (1). Before coming
to Georgetown they lived in a suburb
of Sydney, Australia for nearly 8
years. Kire and Mya were born there.
Amy loves to cook, go to the movies
with Erik, play fetch with Appa, and
having a cuddle on the couch with
Kire and Mya. |
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Contact us
to meet any one of our exceptional teachers.
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