Quick has been at Holy Family School for most of six decades

from Putnam County Record_05032023

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By TOM COLLINS | tcollins@shawmedia.com

Lynn Quick first walked into Holy Family School when she was 4 – parents then could enroll their kindergartners before age 5 – and she’s still at the Oglesby school more than 60 years later.

Quick, 64, is an Oglesby native who settled on a teaching career even before she graduated from Holy Family, thanks mainly to an always-smiling Felician sister who inspired her to teach, if not to take up the habit herself.

Quick loved Holy Family School as a child and, except for her years in high school and at college, she’s remained there most of six decades, with 43 years teaching.

“I’ve actually loved every single year I’ve ever taught,” Quick said. “I’ve never thought of going anywhere else.”

A love of Oglesby and its parish runs in the family. George and Marilyn Argubright were Oglesby natives who sent all four of their daughters (Lynn is second born) to Holy Family. When the Argubright girls were students, the

Holy Family faculty was largely comprised of Felician sisters who weren’t above corporal punishment.

“Some of my favorite teachers were the sisters, and some of them were genuinely wonderful,” Quick said. “Some of them, yeah, you’d get a rap on the knuckles if you had sloppy handwriting or if you were turned around talking to someone.

“But at least for me, I didn’t see a lot of that.”

One of the nuns left a particularly lasting impression. Her seventh grade teacher, Sister Mary Andrene, was especially kind and “smiled every day, no matter what happened.”

“I remember saying to my mom at the end of seventh grade, ‘I’d love to be

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