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Rollie’s Rolling On: Auto Tech Teacher Retiring After 33 years At WACC
Rollie Conkling taught automotive technology at Whiteside Area Career Center in Sterling, IL, for 33 years.
Rollie Conkling taught automotive technology at Whiteside Area Career Center in Sterling, IL, for 33 years.
From Christopher Heimerman’s article on the Sauk Valley Media website:
Rollie Conkling insists he isn’t a teacher or a relative of his students – even though it would be easy to mistake him for both.
A lifelong mechanic, the Rock Falls resident has been teaching automotive technology at Whiteside Area Career Center since 1974 – 33 years, because there are a couple of breaks in there.
At 69, he said he’s a couple of years away from teaching former students’ grandchildren. If it weren’t for the rock stars he’s taught this year, he wouldn’t have hemmed and hawed a bit over whether to retire after this year.
“If it was a terrible year, I really would’ve been ready to get out of here,” he said. “But the kids were just so good. I just happened to have a lot of true automotive students.”
Click HERE to read the entire article about Rollie Conkling on the Sauk Valley Media website.
