Steven Latzke:  

Life Time goes quickly, the number of years not really seeming so long but an awful lot has happened. School has always seemed to be a big portion of my life. With my mother teaching at my grade school I was often at school early and then stayed after, for sports and waiting for a ride home. After graduating (1972) from St. Paul Lutheran School, Melrose Park, IL I attended Walther Lutheran High School, which was right across the street from St. Paul. Most days found me spending extra time at school, involved in sports (footbal, basketball, tennis) each season and school plays. Singing in the Acapella choir and Christian Minstrels extended school involvement to evenings and weekends. I graduated from Walther in 1976 and continued with college at Concordia, River Forest, IL. During my time there I played on the tennis team (1977), acted in a few plays and worked on the lighting crew for others. I worked on campus for the audio visual department and ran the student photo lab, doing pictures for the yearbook and Spectator. I met and married (1979) my wife Kathie and graduated with a B.A. in elementary and secondary education (1980). Ten years later (1990) I completed an M.A. in theology and education. For seventeen more years I stayed close to school as a Lutheran elementary school teacher, serving at St. John's, Wheaton, Grace English and Nazareth in Chicago, and St. Paul, Rochelle, all in Illinois. Every year saw me involved in coaching after school, with my most insane years coaching nine teams. During these teaching years, Kathie and I were blessed with three children, Jeremy (now a pastor himself in Quincy, IL), Amanda (working in Indianapolis), and Jonathan (a sophomore at Purdue). Their events once added to my time around scho...Expand for more