Faculty & Staff Photos

Mr. Lyter has a Bachelor's degree in Music, Spanish, and Philosophy from the University of Mary in Bismarck, ND. This is his fifth year teaching at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. He is married with two children.

Mr. Huston is a humanities teacher with an undergraduate degree in Philosophy & Letters from the University of Dallas. He is from a family of seven children and is originally from Orange County, California. He is currently working on his Master's in Theology and is in his second year of teaching humanities at OLSHA. In his spare time he enjoys sacred music, running, and swing dancing. 

Mrs. Wagner holds a B.A. in mathematics from Northern Illinois University. She has thirty years of teaching experience across all levels. A U.S. Navy veteran and a homebound minister at St. James Church in Belvidere, she enjoys family time and walking in God’s beautiful nature.

Mrs. Altham earned an AB in English at Yale in 1977; she also earned credits toward a master’s at Hillsdale (teaching American history) and at the University of Southern Connecticut (number theory and how people learn—or fail to learn—mathematics). After several years in the publishing and business worlds, Mrs. Altham moved to northern Illinois; she began teaching at the academy in the fall of 2000. She is now semi-retired, but enjoying this year’s classes in Algebra I and American/Modern History. Her three daughters are all grown and flown. Her recent novel, Death Comes to Wyandotte, is available from the publisher, Os Justi Press, and from Amazon.