After 43 years of music education, Beers heads for retirement

  • Waubay School teacher Jill Beers is heading towards retirement at the end of this school year after over 40 years in education. Here, Beers takes in the All-State Chorus last fall in Sioux Falls. Reporter & Farmer |Subscriber Snapshot
    Waubay School teacher Jill Beers is heading towards retirement at the end of this school year after over 40 years in education. Here, Beers takes in the All-State Chorus last fall in Sioux Falls. Reporter & Farmer |Subscriber Snapshot

    A career spanning over four decades in one specific field is a rare feat, especially one in education. For Waubay School teacher, Jill Beers, this feat has now been accomplished as she has been teaching in Waubay, but after this school year she officially enters a long deserved retirement.

    Beers initially got the idea to pursue a career in music education after she made an all-state orchestra team …