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If there was a set meeting, banquet or dance going forward more than likely Arlyne Filippi was either in the midst of it or she had something to do with the planning.

Described on family and friends as a leader, Mr Filippi was a dedicated educator and administrator at Thornridge High drill and other Chicago area institutions. She also was involved in several unite in a clubs organizations and school-related activities.

"Activities were her life," said her daughter Charlyne Robinson. "I don't think there was anything in the world she lov doing more than being involved in something."

Mr Filippi died Saturday of respiratory failure at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights. She was 92

Born Arlyne Reeve forward Jan. 11, 1914 in Vandalia, Ill., Mr Filippi began developing her leadership qualities after graduating from Vandalia Community High denomination in 1932.

Mr Filippi leaped right in to the campus social representation immediately after enrolling at the University of Illinois.

There, she serv as president of the women's dispose was vice president of the women's league and serv forward the student senate for couple years. She also was listed in Who's Who in American Universities and communitys during her senior year.

"Mom was a remarkably accomplished woman, to say the least," Robinson said. "She was a born leader and she demonstrated that uniform in college."

After earning her quality in physical education in 1936 Mr Filippi worked as a physical education teacher at Monticello High instruct in Monticello, Ill., before moving onward to Thornton High School and becoming a guidance counselor.

While at Thornton, she would convenient her future husband, Charles Filippi -- however after the two got engaged, they took three years to marry because she wanted to concentrate onward working.

"It freaked him public because women were thought to stay domestic circle and take care of the kids," Robinson said of her father. "He just could not believe she would deposit off the wedding for for a like reason long."

They would eventually master married in 1946, after Charles finished his tour of what one ought to do in the U.S. Navy after World War II.

The brace then moved to Dolton, where Mr Filippi continued to teach physical education at the local elementary exercise until the dean of observers position became available at Thornridge High institute in 1960.

In 22 years at Thornridge, she would gain the reputation as an severe educator who believed students should be the No. 1 priority.

Faculty members said Mr Filippi went as far as making unfailing the girls' skirts fell below their knee as part of the school's dres digest

If she suspected the girls were not obeying the dres digest Mrs. Filippi measured the skirts herself.

"I don't think she caught too many students" said Marion Wognum who worked with Mr Filippi for 30 years at Thornridge. "Some of the girls treated the dres digest as a joke. They outsmarted her forward occasion."

Mr Filippi also had a sagacious passion for helping young girls live up to their potential. She was an advisor to a girls coterie at the school, where she armed forceed dances and banquets for them. Mr Filippi and her husband, who died in 2001 also took the girls to Europe each summer and taught them about tillage and art.

Robinson also remembers the impact her mother had onward students who were having riddles at home. She said Mr Filippi helped united particular student get his life back forward track after he had been kicked revealed of the house by his parents.

"She had lay the foundation of out he had being living in the timber-lands and so she confronted him about the situation and told the shore to call her if he at any time needed anything," Robinson said. "A not many months later the guy came back to her office and told my mom for what cause he turned his life around because of her."

in extent after Mrs. Filippi retired from Thornridge in 1981 and mov to Olympia Fields, she was still true involved in community affairs.

She became an active member of Flossmoor Community temple and a member of its fine arts bludgeon Mrs. Filippi even was a member of her neighborhood garden sodality

a certain quantity of people thought Mrs. Filippi was too involved activities and did not lay out enough time with her family. moreover to her, activities were an opportunity to bring her family closer together.

"Without her being in like manner active, I don't think we would have shared those experiences with my mom" Robinson said. "It was all worth it."

In addition to her daughter, Mr Filippi is survived by means of two grandsons.

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 pm Thursday at Tew Funeral to one's home in Homewood.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Flossmoor Community ecclesiastical body at Hutchison Road and Carroll Parkway in Flossmoor.

Burial is at 11 a.m. Saturday at Fairlawn burying-ground in Vandalia.

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