SAYREVILLE – After more than a decade of service, a nurse in the Sayreville School District is retiring from her position.
On Nov. 20, the Board of Education honored the retirement of Joy Pollack, a school nurse at the Woodrow Wilson Elementary School. Her retirement will become effective by the start of the 2019-20 school year, July 1, 2019.
“It is with best wishes and sadness to announce the retirement of Mrs. Joy Pollack, the Wilson Elementary school nurse,” Superintendent of Schools Richard Labbe said. “Unfortunately for us, but fortunately for her, she will be leaving us in June.”
According to Labbe, Pollack joined the district as a nurse at the Wilson in 2005, a position she has held for the following 13 years.
“She is first an advocate for our students and a great support system to the faculty at the Wilson Elementary School,” the superintendent said. “She balances her professional life with a great family life. She is a fantastic mother of three beautiful daughters, a grandmother of three adorable grandchildren, and of course, a wife to her beloved husband Marty.
“We wish Joy all the happiness, good health and longevity of life as she transitions into another wonderful chapter in her life,” he continued. “Thank you, Joy, for all your hard work and dedication to the students and staff in Sayreville. We are very bittersweet and we congratulate Mrs. Pollack on her retirement. And naturally, we thank her from the bottom of our hearts for the outstanding service that she provided to this school district and, of course, to the students in Sayreville.
“We leave with a quote from Mrs. Pollack – I love the kids, I treat them as if they are my children.’”
Board President Kevin Ciak also thanked Pollack for her work in the district.
“I want to congratulate Joy Pollack on her retirement, as well as her many years of service here as a school nurse,” Ciak said. “Certainly being a school nurse is not an easy job. You get coughed on every day, you get sneezed on every day, and you have to be able to discern those children who are actually sick from those who are just sick of being in class and decide which is which. So I thank her contributions to Sayreville and wish her well in her retirement.”