email: Jay Mikes
Updated: 11/07/08
School District 54
Schaumburg, Il

Mr. Mikes has been around District 54 a long time and has witnessed a lot of American history. He was conceived during the Truman administration and born during the Eisenhower administration. He grew up in Bloomingdale, Illinois with his eight brothers and sisters during the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations. During the Nixon administration prior to Watergate, he graduated from Lake Park High School in Roselle, Illinois. Four years later, in the midst of the Ford administration, Mr. Mikes graduated from Northland College, Ashland, Wisconsin. He began teaching 7th and 8th Grade Social Studies in District 54 during the Carter administration. During the Reagan administration he earned a master's degree in education from Northern Illinois University. His tenure in District 54 has included stops at Addams, Mead, and Eisenhower Junior Highs before coming to Keller during the Clinton administration. Mr. Mikes also taught 6th Grade at Lakeview Elementary for two years during the first Bush administration. After his retirement from District 54, Mr. Mikes plans to work for the federal government during the Mikes administration.