Retirees Roy Schwab and Bob Mueller with retiring Superintendent Dan Mella
Posted June 10, 2024
Updated June 14, 2024
The Plymouth School District bids farewell to nine members of our faculty and staff who are retiring. Together they have 206½ years of service to the district!
Head Custodian at Plymouth High School
Years with the Plymouth School District: 41
Career: Started in the kitchen in August 1983, became a night custodian in November. Worked two different day shift positions before moving to Head Custodian of Fairview in 1998. In 2003 became Head Custodian of High School.
What will you miss most? Seeing a frown turned upside down from someone having a rough day. THE STUDENTS!
Plans for retirement: Start fishing again, golf, see Alaska, walk on a glacier, visit as many national parks as possible, eat lobster in Maine, spending time with grandkids and my wife.
Bob Mueller
Building Secretary at Riverview Middle School
Years with the Plymouth School District: 32
Career: Started as a regular ed aide at Parkview in 1992 and ended up as a secretary at Riverview for the last 23 years.
What will you miss most? My Riverview Family!
Plans for retirement: Enjoy life without an alarm clock! Travel, reconnect with old friends, art and fitness classes, rest and relaxation, more family time.
Special Education Teacher at Riverview Middle School
Years with the Plymouth School District: 24
Speech Language Pathologist at Parkview Elementary School
Years with the Plymouth School District: 24
Career: Started my career working in the hospital setting as a Speech Language Pathologist and 24 years ago made the transition to the educational setting and never looked back.
What will you miss most? My colleagues and the students
Plans for retirement: Since I have such a passion for Speech and Language therapy, I started my own private practice (Words in Motion LLC). I will be doing what I love to do on my schedule.
Victoria Lamb
Interventionist at Riverview Middle School
Years with the Plymouth School District: 24
Early childhood teacher at Horizon Elementary School
Years with the Plymouth School District: 20
Years with the Plymouth School District: 17½ (retired in December 2023)
Career: Worked at the University Bookstore in Madison for 3 years and then worked for the M & I Corporation in Milwaukee for 21 years. I came to the district the same year my eldest son entered high school. There is nothing better than being here while your kids are students.
What will you miss most? The awesome people in the Community Ed & Rec office – and the kids from childcare and the high school kids that I loved joking around with.
Plans for retirement: Reading, water aerobics, some traveling. Frequent trips to Minneapolis to see my sons. I have been doing this since January and it is a wonderful gig!
Kathryn Murray
Head Custodian at Riverview Middle School
Years with the Plymouth School District: 16
Career: With the district I was a custodian on 2nd shift at the High School for 6 years, 5 years as a custodian during the day at Riverview and the last 5 years as the head custodian at Riverview.
What will you miss most? I will miss a lot of the everyday camaraderie among staff and students.
Plans for retirement: Get up when I want, do what I want, when I want, projects at home and a lot of up north time relaxing.
Gifted and Talented Coordinator at the elementary and high school levels; district Health & Wellness Coordinator
Years with the Plymouth School District: 8
Career: Following my retirement from teaching in Sheboygan Falls for 23 years in June of 2016, I started at PJSD the fall of 2016, long term subbing at Fairview. In March of 2018, I "unretired" and started my full-time position as Gifted and Talented Coordinator for elementary and high school. I have held that position for the past 6 and 1/4 years. I also joined the Health and Wellness Team in 2017, and have been the PJSD Health and Wellness Coordinator for the past 5 years. I taught a 1st-2nd grade loop class for 15 years and an elementary multi-age class for 8 years at Sheboygan Falls Elementary, as well as directed the high school musicals for a number of years. Starting in 2003, I have taught a variety of graduate and master’s degree courses for UW-Green Bay, Marian University, and Viterbo University as an adjunct professor. Prior to my teaching career, I used my animal science degree to work in genetics for 6 years.
What will you miss most? I will miss the daily interactions with the amazing students and staff at PJSD!
Plans for retirement: I plan to spend lots of time with my grandson and family. I plan to travel and will continue my work as an announcer at national level horse shows across the country. I will also continue singing/performing around the area with Celtic Folk. I live just a few miles south of PHS and will always be a Panther! I hope to still help out at PHS from time to time!
Roy Schwab
