Remembering Loved Ones

On October 24, 2025, we celebrated our fourth annual Remembering Loved Ones Event. It was a night filled with heartfelt sentiment and celebrations of life. Thank you to everyone who supported and attended!

• D34 Spanish Bilingual Parent Advisory Committee (BPAC)
• Penelope Hurtado & Family
• The Grace Network
• Glen Grove Kindness Club
• Willow House
• Glenview Public Library
• Family Service Center
• Attea Club Cultura members and their teachers, Norma Guerrero & Landon Hartfield
• Springman La Comunidad leaders Diana Torres & Joe Guzman
• Glenbrook South’s Chicano College Bowl club members
• Our very talented Gator dancer, who performed traditional dances
• PTA Members who volunteered at the event
• Our bilingual liaisons, teachers, and associates across District 34 who volunteered
• Our Glen Grove teachers who volunteered at the event - Val Hausman, Becky Vilmur, Mariia Novokreshchenova, Alyse Kowalke, Pam Leister, Jess Gonzalez, Kendall Bream, Libby Peschke, and Greg Aimaro
• Our GGCP student helpers who cut materials

Special thanks to the Title I Federal grant designated for the BPAC!

Here are just some of the many wonderful pictures taken at the event! To see all of the pictures, click on the button below!

This year, we partnered with the Glen Grove Kindness Club & The Grace Network for a Socktober Drive. The socks were collected and packaged with kind notes. The Grace Network will be distributing them to students in Chicago facing hygiene insufficiency. To learn more about the Grace Network and their work to support our community, click the logo below!

• Katherine Ellison, Glen Grove Principal
• Aurora Joaquin, Glen Grove Speech-Language Pathologist
• Hedy Helfand, Glen Grove English Language Learning Teacher
• Lisa Funke, Glen Grove Learning Resource Center Director
• Nicole Bright, Glen Grove 4th Grade Classroom Teacher
• Marie Chang-Pisano, Glen Grove Reading Intervention Associate
• Jill Burns, Glen Grove Science Coach
• Sylvia Gorski Duarte, District Title III Family Resource Teacher
• Lindsey Lurie, District Multilingual Instructional Coach

• Florrie Riera-Chapa, Hispanic Community Coordinator/Coordinadora de la Comunidad Hispana
• Zaya Gantumur, Mongolian Community Coordinator