Employee Profile

Name: Shari Robinson Lillestolen

Title: Program Coordinator/Assistant Professor, Early Childhood Education

Major responsibilities: Coordinating Early Childhood and teaching classes

Length of service at the College: In the fourth year

Place of birth: Loudon

Family members: Husband, Tom; children, Robert and Elizabeth Birkholz and Jon and Tim Lillestolen; grandchildren, Miriam and Jonathan Seeke

Something no one knows about you: I can make a great dinner in less than 20 minutes.

Greatest achievement or proudest moment: My grandchildren and, oh, yes, the recent Ph.D.

Favorite things outside work: Book club.



Most rewarding part of your job: Visiting students in their field placements.

Most influential person in your life and why: My Grandmother Quinn, because she instilled in me the enjoyment of hard work.

Favorite quote: “Misbehavior is an opportunity to teach other ways of responding.”—Unattributed