Mrs. Novogurski spent her childhood growing up in Massachusetts.  After high school she attended Haverhill Community College where she earned an Associates in Arts degree.  She married Mr. Novogurski after graduating from the two year college.  They moved to Ohio where she studied for her Bachelor of Science degree in education at Cleveland State University.  With her teaching certificate she worked for Wickliffe City Schools as a substitute teacher and a tutor. She also worked with handicapped children in Euclid.

In 1979, the Novogurski’s had their first child, John, and had to move to the Philadelphia area.  In 1983, their second child , Anne, was born.  The family moved back to Ohio during the summer of 1986 and in the fall of 1986 John started second grade at St Mary.  Mrs. Novogurski spent the next eleven years as a parent volunteer while John and Anne attended St. Mary. 

Mrs. Novogurski was also active in other parish activities; volunteering at the festival,and being a Confirmation group leader.  Girl Scouts was also one of her volunteer positions.  She took care a very active role as unit registrar, St Mary organizer, troop leader, and coordinator of summer camp crafts.

In 1997, Mrs. Novogurski renewed her teaching license so she could substitute teach at St. Mary – Mentor, St. Mary – Painesville, and St Anselm – Chesterland.  She took the position of second grade reading teacher in the fall of 1999 at St. Mary.  She took graduate level classes at Lake Erie College while holding the reading teacher position for two years.  The Jr. High Language Arts teaching position became available in 2001 and Mrs. Novogurski took the job of teaching the older students.

Mrs. Novogurski has been in Room 21 teaching Reading and English to the sixth grade since 2001.  There have been changes in the seventh grade Language Arts program.  She taught one of the seventh grade classes Reading and English for five years.  In 2006, the seventh grade language arts program changed and Mrs. Novogurski teaches taught both seventh grade classes English through June 2008.