Education

Educated at Northern Illinois University with a bachelor of science in elementary education, Roberta Rempfer-Smith has led a varied and fruitful career spanning over 50 years. She began her teaching career in Wabash County, IL, in 1944. During an exclusive interview with Cambridge Who's Who, she shared, "I started in a one-room country school on a dirt road. This school was very similar to the one-room school I attended for the first eight years of my own education. I spent five years as a full-time classroom teacher there." Subsequent positions included 18 years as a public school substitute teacher for the DeKalb and Kankakee Counties, 11 years as acting pre-school child care director and eight years as a tutor at Northern Illinois University. She also worked at Kankakee Community College from 1980-1981, Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois as the director of their child care program.