Ms. Hytinen is our Kindergarten teacher at Dollar Bay.  She is from Ishpeming Michigan and gradutated from Nothern Michigan University in 2003.  This is in her third year at Dollar Bay.  She loves teaching kindergarten because she never knows what they're going to say and they always hug her.  She feels that kindergaten is where the kids start actually learning something and she likes to watch the progress they make.     

     Ms. Peters is teaching the second grade in the afternoon.  This is her third year at Dollar Bay.  Ms. Peters has lived in the U.P. since she was about four.  She graduated from Northern Michigan University in December of 2003.  Mrs. Peters likes to teach at Dollar Bay because she likes the family atmosphere and she likes the kids.
     Mrs.  Peters loves watching the seasons change from one to the next.  She especially loves watching the leaves change colors in the fall.  Outside of school her favorite things are to spend time with her family and play with her dog.  She also loves the travel, hike, and snowboard. 

      Mrs. Joanne Grueb received her degree majoring in Elementary Education, and minoring in English and Social Studies at Northern Michigan University.  She has been at Dollar Bay since 1988 and currently teaches 3rd grade.  In school, she enjoys working with the students and out of school she enjoys reading, gardening, baking, and spending time with her family.

      Mrs. Boutin received her major in Elementary Education at Suomi (2 years), University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (2 years), Northern Michigan University (1 year) and Michigan Tech (1 year).  She has been here at Dollar Bay since 1978 and teaches the 4th grade, along with 5 & 6th grade math.  She has one more year to teach here and then she's retiring in 2007.
    Mrs. Boutin has two children, Stacy and Joel.  Stacy is a veteranirian technition at MTU.  Joel is an electrical engineer.  He works for Nextel in EauClare Wisconsin 

      Mrs. Kristen Kariainen graduated from Eastern Michigan University.  She has been at Dollar Bay since 1994.  She currently is the title one director and teacher, she's the elementary special ed teacher and the elementary cordinater.  She enjoys knowing all the students at Dollar Bay and watching them mature as they go on to other grades.  Outside of school she enjoys reading, cooking and being with her family.  .

     Mr. Butler attended Michigan State University for five years, and also went to University Feiburg in Germany for one year. He teaches the fifth grade and has been at Dollar Bay since 1999. 
    Mr. Bulter is very active in his free time he likes to go canoeing, hunting, fishing, camping, he likes to building things, and his favorite thing to do is to be with his wife and play with his son Angus. 
    His favorite quote is " The person who thinks he can and the one who thinks he can't are both right."

      Miss Amy Kangas graduated from Grand Valley State University.  She has been at Dollar Bay since 2002.  She is teaching the 6th grade class.  She enjoys the small class sizes and the personal setting at Dollar Bay.  Outside of school she enjoys skiing, snow boarding, skating and reading.