Debbie Brejcha, beloved former high school Spanish teacher, dies at 84 - Evanston RoundTable

He changed lives: Popular San Rafael High School teacher, Allan Barahal, dies at 105

Allan Barahal August 31, 1920 – May 18, 2025 San Rafael High School history and philosophy teacher, longshoreman, union organizer, world traveler and devoted husband and father. Allan Barahal was born in Toledo, Ohio to Barney and Ester Barahal (née Blitz), both Eastern European Jewish immigrants.  He grew up in a poor, working-class neighborhood in […]

Debbie Brejcha, beloved former high school Spanish teacher, dies at 84 - Evanston RoundTable

Deborah Ann Brejcha, née Dahms, age 84, a Chicago and Evanston resident for nearly fifty years, passed away peacefully at her Evanston home on Sunday, April 6, 2025. She suffered a sudden resurgence of the cancer she had defeated more than a decade earlier. She taught Spanish at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) for several years in addition to teaching at other nearby high schools, Everybody called her Debbie. She was born and raised in Ft. …