Mrs. Victoria Rutkowski, 4-8

Mrs.  Rutkowski was born and raised in the Raleigh area. She is a graduate of East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, where she earned a BA degree in Hispanic Studies. Mrs. Rutkowski also attended both Sacred Heart Cathedral School and Cardinal Gibbons High School in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is very happy to be a part of the Catholic school system again.

Mrs. Rutkowski was also very fortunate to have the opportunity of spending six months studying abroad in Quito, Ecuador, where she attended the Universidad San Fransisco de Quito. In Quito she learned the conversational and cultural aspects of the Latin American culture while living and interacting on an everyday basis with a local family.

Her interests include traveling and spending time with her family and friends. She currently resides in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband, Richard, and their daughter, Claudia.

Ms. Joann Hoye, K-3
 

Mrs. Hoye, originally from Nashville, Tennessee, did her undergraduate studies at Vanderbilt University, where she double majored in Spanish language and English literature. From there, she came to North Carolina, and received a Master's degree in Comparative Literature (Spanish and English) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She lived in Spain two different times, for one semester during her junior year of college and for a year during graduate school. Her teaching experience includes teaching English at the high school level and teaching Spanish at both the college and high school levels, including four years at Cardinal Gibbons High School here in Raleigh. In addition to teaching K-3 Spanish here at Lourdes, she teaches Spanish to grades 1-6 in a local, Catholic, home school program; to four-and five-year olds at St. Philip's Lutheran Preschool; and occasionally to college students at Durham Technical Community College. She also works with students of all ages as an independent Spanish tutor.

Mrs. Hoye lives in Raleigh with her husband, and she enjoys cooking, singing, hiking, birding, and spending time with family and friends.