A photo of Carolyn Waibel's AC unit after she said harassers tampered with it next to a picture of one of the dead rodents left in her driveway. Carolyn Waibel. An Illinois school board member resigned this month following months of "unrelenting harassment." Carolyn Waibel told Insider someone trespassed on her property and vandalized her home. She believes her aversion to extremism made her a target among angry community members. When the vitriolic emails began arriving in her inbox this summer, Carolyn Waibel hardly flinched.Unpleasant feedback has become "par for the course" for locally-elected school board officials in recent months, and members of the St.