Rousseau Elementary - About Our School

About Our School

Rousseau Elementary is located at 3701 S 33rd Street, Lincoln, Nebraska 68506 [map]. Our main office phone number is 402-436-1165.

Maude Rousseau Elementary School was named after C. Maude Rousseau who was a teacher and principal in Lincoln. She was born May 2, 1879 and died February 13, 1961. Miss Rousseau taught at Elliott from 1918-1922. She was an assistant principal and girls advisor at Whittier Junior High from 1922-1926, and was the first principal at Randolph School, where she served from 1926-1947.

Not much is known about Maude Rousseau. Research for Rousseau's 10th birthday celebration turned up the fact that Maude Rousseau liked to cook, so they baked brownies using Miss Rousseau's recipe for the 10th birthday party. The recipe was provided by Anna Zeman, Maude's friend, and a person for whom Zeman School was named.

On March 12, 1963, the board of education approved the name Maude Rousseau for the new school to be built at 33rd and Calvert. At that time, Calvert Street was not even paved all the way. Kingery Construction was low bidder, and thus got the job of building Rousseau School at a cost of under $500,000. The Clark Enersen Partners designed the building.

In 1964, Maude Rousseau School's boundaries started at 27th and Woodsdale, running east of Woodsdale and Melrose to 40th Street, south of 40th Street to the school district's limits, west to 27th Street and north back to Woodsdale.

Profile

Our school, in cooperation with Lincoln Public Schools, the Foundation for Lincoln Public Schools and the Realtors' Assocation of Lincoln has created a downloadable brochure that details some important information and statistics about Rousseau Elementary School. You may download it here. (The free Adobe Acrobat reader is required to view it)

Rousseau Staff Email Addresses 2008-2009

Grade/Subject
Name
Email Address
Website
 
Principal Sue Braun sbraun@lps.org    
Coordinator Dee Reifschneider dreifsc@lps.org    
Kindergarten Lisa Swiatek lswiate@lps.org  
Kindergarten Kristy Kennedy kkenned2@lps.org    
Kindergarten Lynn Chambers schamb@lps.org    
Kindergarten Kim Bowen kbowen@lps.org    
1st Grade Janis Hiatt jhiatt@lps.org  
1st Grade Mary Plageman mplage@lps.org  
1st Grade Janet Marcelino jmarcel@lps.org    
1st Grade Megan Fleischman mfleisc@lps.org    
2nd Grade Krista Carlson carlsonk@lps.org  
2nd Grade Nancy Coren ncoren@lps.org  
2nd Grade Dee Peterson dhaver@lps.org  
3rd Grade Shelley Mattson smatts@lps.org  
3rd Grade Wendi Mandl wmandl@lps.org  
3rd Grade Renet Tooley rtooley@lps.org  
3rd Grade Kristi Schirmer kschirm@lps.org  
4th Grade Annie Leaf aleaf@lps.org  
4th Grade Kelly Mitchell kmitche@lps.org  
4th Grade Lisa Trobee ltrobee@lps.org  
4th Grade Tracy Timmons ttimmon@lps.org  
5th Grade Shelley Clayburn sclaybu@lps.org  
5th Grade Diane McDonald dmcdona@lps.org  
5th Grade Kyla Hall khall2@lps.org  
5th Grade Carin Appleget cappleg@lps.org
 
PE Lana Peterson lpeters@lps.org
 
Art Scott Fischer sfischer@lps.org
 
Music Angie Berkebile arberke@lps.org
 
Media Carol Hughes chughes@lps.org
 
Lit./Math Supoort Debby Erickson derick@lps.org
 
Gifted Anne Walden awalden@lps.org
 
Instrumental Music Diane Lewis dlewis@lps.org
 
Strings Sam Packard spackar2@lps.org
 
Reading Recovery Janet Grantham jgranth@lps.org
 
  Michelle Longoria mlongor@lps.org
 
Resource/Special Education Matt Palmberg mpalmeb@lps.org    
  Stephanie Haddan shaddan@lps.org    
  Stephanie Schulz sschulz2@lps.org    
Speech Diane Grell-Kamler dkamler@lps.org    
Psychologist/Counselor Kelly Thieman kobrien@lps.org    
School Social Worker Leslie Andrew landrew@lps.org    
Para Educators Becky Gabriel rgabriea@lps.org    
  Nancy Sedlak nsedlak@lps.org    
  Wendy Rodney wrodney@lps.org    
  Karla Rien krien@lps.org    
  Tammy Wiebe twiebe@lps.org    
  Courtney Anderson canders4@lps.org    
  Mary Hill mhill@lps.org    
  Katherine Stewart kstewar3@lps.org    
  Kim Tussing ktussin@lps.org    
  Pam Magner pmagner@lps.org    
         
Office Mary Gourlay mgourla@lps.org
  Chris Grantham cgranth@lps.org
     
Food Nutrition Shannon Lynch slynch@lps.org
  Allison Bennett  
  Alana Dietz-Smith  
School Nurse Sheryl Woodward swood@lps.org
Health Tech Jody Rudd jrudd@lps.org
     
Custodial Supervisor Marv McKinnon  
Custodial Jim Niles jniles@lps.org
Custodial. John Wuethrich, Muir Cooper & Brian Grell