An educator from Illinois has been recognized with the inaugural LifeChanger of the Year Capstone Award.
The new award was launched this year to honor educators who are retiring from the profession after leaving a last impact on students and their community.
Anthony Manville was assistant superintendent in the Plainfield schools in Illinois, where he has worked for the past 20 years.
In addition to his job as an administrator, he also social studies and psychology at the high school and coached baseball. He was also dean of students and then was asked to open a new middle school as assistant principal and then principal. And, finally, he was also placed in charge of opening a new high school in the community.
“Mr. Manville had a slogan put on the walls that the students would see every day as they walked to the academic hallway,” his nomination profile says. “It read, ‘You came as boys and girls, and if you work and struggle, you will leave as men and women.’ These students put so much pride into this saying. They would put it in their commencement speeches and use it amongst themselves while talking with their friends.”
Manville was presented the award by agent Kathy Fetzer at a meeting of the district’s school board earlier this week.