Page 34 2024 Hometown HEROES Magazine LINCOLN DAILY NEWS June/July 2024 Our retiring heroes Kim Peterson Quinn closes the book on her legacy as a leader By Angela Reiners After thirty years of teaching music at Lincoln Community High School, Kim Peterson Quinn retired at the end of the 2023-2024 school year. Over those years, she directed many choir presentations, musicals and madrigals and touched the lives of many students. In November 2023, Peterson Quinn directed her 27th and final Madrigal at LCHS and those who had participated in past madrigals were encouraged to attend as special guests. The number of former students in attendance showed the impact she had on her students over the years. Though Peterson Quinn had many students over the years, a group of juniors made up of Presley Coale, Charlie McFadden, Emma Adams, and Kristina Morrow were in musicals Peterson Quinn directed the last few years grew especially close to Peterson Quinn and to one another. These students recently reflected on acting in Little Women, since it was the last one Peterson Quinn directed at LCHS. Having acted together so many times, the group felt like a family. Before playing Beth March in the recent production of Little Women, Presley Coale said, “It is definitely sad to think about the fact that this is PQ’s last production and that we will not have her next year, as she has always been an amazing director to work with.” Besides the fond memories Coale has of being in choir and musicals directed by Peterson Quinn, she felt like the cast could talk to her about almost anything. As Coale said, “I will definitely miss all the chats about random things that the cast often has with her, and overall, I hope that we can make this show worthy of being her last one. I do think it was pretty easy to play the part of a tight-knit family because I have been acting with the other girls for quite a bit and I am friends with them, so a lot of the chemistry was already there.” Charlie McFadden played the role of Jo March and said It is really special being able to act with such an amazing cast that is so close. Many of the people have been in the musical
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