Landmarks: Andrew High School renames media center for pioneering Orland Park educator

From left, former Andrew High School students Ryan Kolacki, Serena Naji, and Bozana Blagojevic; Andrew teacher Sheila Furey Sullivan; Dorothy Davis Turner’s great-granddaughter Elizabeth Bernhardt and granddaughter Laura Johnson; and former students Charlianne Johnson and Jake Drucker gather in front of the sign denoting the Dorothy Davis Turner Media Center at the school in Tinley Park. She came to Orland Township to shake things up.

Enter Dorothy Davis Turner, a 1917 graduate of the University of Chicago, who “was given the task of bringing secondary education to this area,” said Sheila Furey Sullivan, an English teacher at Andrew. But the recognition represented by the sign was worth the work, she said. Her students felt the same, and continued working on the project well past their graduation last May.

By early October, he was among seven girls and six boys from Orland and Palos townships and Will County who gathered on the second floor of the one-and-a-half story Orland Park Village Hall. “We got some inkling of the devastation of war when she talked about her brother, a shell-shocked veteran of World War I,” Agate recalled.

Beyond just having knowledge and the ability to impart it to her charges, she was able to connect with people young and old, Sullivan said. Turner spent about five years getting a high school off the ground in the Orland area before moving on to other educational pursuits. She eventually moved to Evanston, where she was a school board member for years.

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