Mrs. Joanne McGinnis

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Mrs. McGinnis was born in Toledo, Ohio. She attended St. Stephen

Grade School and St. Ursula Academy High School. She married Larry McGinnis

in 1980 in California, which is where Mr. McGinnis was stationed in the Navy.

Her hobbies include working in the yard, planting, and watching plants grow. She

also loves to care for her animals: two cats and two dogs. She and Larry enjoy

traveling in their motor home. They plan to travel in their motor home once retired.

Mrs. McGinnis would like her students to remember that she taught them that a

relationship with Jesus is the most important relationship to have. She would also like

students to remember her as a kind, fair, and truly loving person, who empowered

them to become all that they could be as young Christian students.

This is Mrs. McGinnis' 8th year at Calvert. Before she came to Calvert she

was a Director of Religious Education in the Dioceses of Lansing and Kalamazoo,

MI for 20 years. Previously she was a Director of Youth Ministry in Kalamazoo,

MI for 4 years and before that she taught both high school and elementary school in

the Toledo Diocese at: St Patrick of Healtherdowns of Toledo, St. Gerard's of Lima, St.

Mary's of Tiffin, Lima Central Catholic High School, and St. Ursula Academy of Toledo.

This gives her a total of 54 years in Catholic education! Also, when she lived in Lemoore,

California, she had the opportunity to teach English at West Hills Community College,

and later when they moved to Battle Creek, Michigan, she taught at

Kellogg Community College.

Mrs. McGinnis teaches Church History, Sacraments and Liturgy,

Creative Writing

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