Advice for Upcoming Graduates from Lisle Residents, Leaders

A number of Lisle adult leaders and residents, ranging from local high school authorities to the Village’s business owners and writers, offered their advice to students who will graduate this month in a Daily Herald article published on Monday. 

"When you consider careers, make sure that whatever you decide to do is something you think is more important than anything else,” Lisle High School principal Peter Sullivan told the paper. “My parents talked to me on the occasions of my graduations about working to find things that were important to me in my life.” 

Benet Academy Dean of Students Marty Wiora told the paper that his academic adviser at Northern Illinois University “simply looked across the desk at me and said, 'Work; don't worry…’ It didn't completely calm my fears, but it certainly was nice to hear that if I applied myself to the best of my ability, I would have done all I could."

"The best I can say to others now is to repeat what a stranger in an employment agency said to me (a long time ago), 'Don't treat the next thing in your life like an obstacle to fight, ever; rather treat it like a challenge,’” Lisle resident and Fifth Wednesday Journal editor Vern Miller offered the paper.

Several other locals are quoted in the article; read the full story at the Daily Herald website.

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