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Tireless Devotion

Award-winner Kathy Cooper’s dedication to her role and her state association have benefited colleagues and other operators in the region
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Tireless Devotion
The Rochelle team includes, from left, operators Andrew Cunningham, Shawn Mortenson and Gregory Stechschulte, lead operator Thomas Lampley, lab technicians Elaine Ahlberg and Sharon Hawkins, and water and water reclamation superintendent Kathy Cooper. Not Pictured: Operators Jim Moore and Jesse Jones.

When Kathy Cooper moved to Rochelle, Ill., she had to make a career change: She was a medical technologist, but there were no local jobs open in her field.

She hired on with the Rochelle Municipal Utilities in the wastewater treatment plant laboratory, where her previous lab...

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