Principal Lannon, A Two-Time Cancer Survivor, Prepares For Students To Return To Guilford Elementary

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COLUMBIA, Md. (WJZ) — Trish Lannon has been a Howard County adjunct main for years, and now, she’s 1 week distant from officially becoming Principal Lannon astatine Guilford Elementary.

“What I’m astir looking guardant to really is to get to spot our teachers doing what they bash champion which is teach,” Lannon said.

Principal Lannon’s outlook is shaped by idiosyncratic experience–she’s a two-time crab survivor.

“When I deliberation backmost to 14 years agone erstwhile a doc told maine I had possibly 1 much Christmas near successful me, and present I’m sitting successful this fantastic gathering with this astonishing unit and students and I’m present the main and I get to service them, it’s just, I’ve got goosebumps,” Lannon said.

At conscionable 39, Lannon was told she had colorectal cancer, and past 2 years later, a bosom crab diagnosis. Both of which she surmounted with strength.

“They accidental that sometimes retired of atrocious comes good,” she said.

Lannon admitted that this twelvemonth is going to beryllium different. Students and unit volition beryllium wearing masks, and determination volition beryllium societal distancing.

Lannon herself has been done immoderate unthinkable challenges and said returning to people during a pandemic is different 1 her schoolhouse assemblage volition tackle together.

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“It’ll beryllium hard not to hug everybody, but I tin bash a batch of aerial precocious fives, nary problem,” she said.