TribLocal Libertyville - 19 2 September 2010
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Libertyville High graduate remembered as creative, caring
By Andrea L. Brown
SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE
Amy Snyder lived in this hut while working in Panama.
Photo submitted by Amy Snyder
Libertyville woman learns in Peace Corps
By Mike Helfgot
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Amy Snyder has been spending her days recently sitting in a classroom in North Carolina, where she’s pursuing her MBA at prestigious Duke University. Her mind is in the jungle, though, specifically the Panamanian village that stole her heart. Snyder, a 2001 Libertyville High School graduate, returned recently from a 27-month Peace Corps excursion to Embera Drua, Panama. As one of 378 Illinois residents serving in the Peace Corps, Snyder helped an indigenous group with a tourism business they started 10 years ago after the government turned the area surrounding their village
into a park. Snyder taught business development, accounting, marketing, administrative and English skills. She said she gained a new perspective on life in return. She lived without electricity in a hut she helped build, and the only way she could get a wireless signal was “to climb a big hill with a cell phone in one hand and a machete in the other. ”I really miss my village a lot,” said Snyder, who graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in finance in 2005. “I feel like a big part of me has been taken. “I felt like I was living in my village and was one of them. It was neat to reconnect when Americans came through,
PLEASE SEE WOMAN, PAGE 2
A 2007 Libertyville High School graduate, who has died from injuries suffered in a July car crash downstate, was a popular and well-liked young woman, her college counselor said. Margaret Chickey, 21, was an elementary education major who was about to enter her senior year at Eastern Illinois University in downstate Charleston. “She always had a smile on her face, a very cheerful, happy kind of person,” said Debbie Hershberger-Kidwell, who was Chickey’s academic advisor for three years. “We were talking about her career plans and what she was looking forward to,” Hersherger-Kidwell said. “She was very much interested in children.” Chickey was injured at about 12:30 a.m. on July 15 when, while driving west toward Charleston on Illinois Highway 16, the car crashed into an embankment, said Lt. Jim Fisher of the Coles County Sheriff ’s
Department. The cause of the accident is still under investigation. “We don’t know a whole lot. We never got to speak to her,” Fisher said. Chickey was taken to Sarah Bush-Lincoln Health Center in Mattoon, Ill., and eventually moved to Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, where she died Friday of her injuries. Chickey played soccer and softball at Libertyville High, Community High School District 128 spokeswoman Mary Todoric said in an e-mail. A tribute from her family in the 2007 yearbook described Chickey as creative, artistic, responsible, personable, caring and kind. “Most of the sentiments expressed by her family are the same words used by staff who knew her,” Todoric said. According to an online obituary, Chickey’s survivors include her mother Janet, of Libertyville; her brother John; sister Elizabeth; and twin sister Katherine. Chickey’s father Michael Chickey died in 2006.
OPEN HOUSE
9/11/10 10am-3pm
Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Modern, Lyrical, Hip-Hop, Dance Crew, Fitness, Ballroom 18 months to adult
Nutcracker Auditions Sept. 18 & 19 Age 4 & Up
Classes Begin September 2010
(located at the Deer Park Town Center)
21540 W. Field Pkwy – #620 Deer Park, IL 60010 Office: (847) 438-5901 Fax: (847) 438-5903
www.ballroomanddance.com
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