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KELSEY BOUDIN, Olean Times Herald

January 3, 2016

Olean Middle School teacher ‘Birdie’ Skrobacz never stopped believing after 35 years of teaching

OLEAN — Eileen Skrobacz has always been a teacher at heart.

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