Toddy Glotz has been a Maywood School Room 47 "Grandma" for 14 years.
"Toddy presents a different and interesting lesson to my second-grade students for one half-hour each Friday. Then she stays to do research with them or helps with special projects for another half-hour.
She tells stories, presents information, shares things about her childhood, sings, makes puppets and kazoos, dresses as Raggedy Ann and makes each student a pillow with their name in block letters stitched on it.
The retired Lakewood Elementary School librarian loves each student as much as she would her own child and she enriches their lives immensely. She is the only grandma who some of them have contact with.
She also spent the last 13 years volunteering in the Maywood Library on Fridays, repairing books, shelving books, bar-coded books and updated the card catalogue.
She has also volunteered at the Bethel Lutheran Church library and the church's "Extra Years of Zest" group. Toddy and her husband drive neighbors to doctor appointments and assists them with other errands.
She is always full of positive energy -- and it's contagious. She truly makes a difference to everyone around her."
She was nominated by Barbara Trapp.
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"Toddy presents a different and interesting lesson to my second-grade students for one half-hour each Friday. Then she stays to do research with them or helps with special projects for another half-hour.
She tells stories, presents information, shares things about her childhood, sings, makes puppets and kazoos, dresses as Raggedy Ann and makes each student a pillow with their name in block letters stitched on it.
The retired Lakewood Elementary School librarian loves each student as much as she would her own child and she enriches their lives immensely. She is the only grandma who some of them have contact with.
She also spent the last 13 years volunteering in the Maywood Library on Fridays, repairing books, shelving books, bar-coded books and updated the card catalogue.
She has also volunteered at the Bethel Lutheran Church library and the church's "Extra Years of Zest" group. Toddy and her husband drive neighbors to doctor appointments and assists them with other errands.
She is always full of positive energy -- and it's contagious. She truly makes a difference to everyone around her."
She was nominated by Barbara Trapp.
If you have someone you would like to nominate, 
