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Jill Cocking, a librarian at Whitman County Library in Colfax from 2002 to 2010, has moved to the elementary classroom. Jill graduated in 2002 from Whitworth University, where she met Travis Cocking in her sophomore year. A history major, she worked in libraries at her high school and Whitworth.

Jill returned to Whitworth to work on a master’s degree in education, which she is scheduled to finish next spring. She was a student teacher at Steptoe School and was a substitute teacher in Endicott Elementary for Megan Dorman during her maternity leave.

Now Jill is teaching kindergarten at Jennings...