Aurora alumni find education to be a small world

Three former students reunited in Essex, Iowa

  • Ian Boerkircher (left) visited his sister Abbie Woodward along with other brother Nate Boerkircher. Stopping by to snap a picture with the Husker players were fellow Aurora alumni Kerry McBride and John Leininger.
    Ian Boerkircher (left) visited his sister Abbie Woodward along with other brother Nate Boerkircher. Stopping by to snap a picture with the Husker players were fellow Aurora alumni Kerry McBride and John Leininger.
Many say that it’s a small world, even in America and for three Aurora alumni this saying rang true as they discovered that all of them took teaching positions in the same small town of Essex, Iowa. John Leininger, a 1979 graduate; Kerry McBride, a 1983 graduate; and Abby Woodward, a 2013 graduate found themselves closer to home than they thought when realizing they all work in a town of only 723…

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