HCNS Teachers

Meg O'Leary graduated from St. Joseph College in West Hartford Connecticut with a B.A. in Elementary Education. Meg’s past teaching experiences include Nursery School Teacher and Special educator at Bernice A. Ray School in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Meg grew up overseas, spending 17 years in Korea and short periods in Thailand and Nepal. She lives in Etna with her husband and three children and is finishing a masters in Early Childhood Education through the University of Phoenix.

Gill Billo received her teaching diploma from the university of Bristol, England. She taught for several years in England and Italy. Gill was a teacher for a cooperative school in Bethesda, Maryland prior to her move to Hanover. She has taught at the Ray School as a special assistant until there was an opening at the Hampshire Cooperative Nursery school. Gill has a love of literature, is conversant in French, German and Italian.

Gill has three grown children, who demonstrate the warmth and kindness that she so carefully teaches during her classes.

Linda Shemanske, our director since 1995, received her B.S. in education at SUNY Potsdam and her M.S. from Nazareth college. She has been with HCNS for the past two decades and uses her wealth of experience to lead the school and it’s program, making it what it is today.