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Retirees 2024: Ingrid Vann finishes 29-year career at Serena Hills

After 29 years, teacher Ingrid Vann is leaving Serena Hills School in Chicago Heights for the last time this month.

Ingrid Vann, right.

“I have so many friends and teacher colleagues. It will be so bittersweet. That I will miss,” she said. “I’m unsure what life without Serena will look like. My whole adult life I’ve been here. It probably won’t sink in until the fall” when she will no longer be preparing class materials.

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