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Education and Employment History

q In 1949, I graduated from O’Keefe High School in Atlanta, Georgia.

q During high school, I worked in a flower shop on holidays to make a little spending money.

q For my first full-time job, I worked as a sales clerk at Kimball Dental Manufacturing Company in Chicago.

q After I returned to Atlanta and married, I worked at Robert and Company, where I typed the specifications for the interstate connector system in Atlanta and the first major expansion of Grady Hospital. Between having children and raising them, I worked off and on doing clerical work at the Avon office on Spring Street in Atlanta. I became a stay-at-home mother for about eight years. Shortly after my fifth child was born, I worked for one year in the Shipping Department for Magnavox, taking orders, typing invoices, and actually packing merchandise for shipment. At that point, I decided that it was probably time for me to get an education.

q I entered Kennesaw Junior College (now KSU). My first degree was a two-year diploma in Recreation Leadership.

q While I was a student at Kennesaw, the institution became accredited as a four-year college.

q I decided to continue my education while that was in the works and studied a variety of subjects.

q I declared my major when the college was granted four-year status and graduated in 1980, with a BA in English and Education.

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY AS AN EDUCATOR

Education
	1992 Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia Master of Arts for Teachers of English with an add-on certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language 1980 Kennesaw College (now KSU) Kennesaw, Georgia Bachelor of Arts with majors in English and Education
Professional experience
	2002 - present Kennesaw State University Early Childhood Education Instructor (part-time) EDUC 3302 Curriculum and Assessment 1980 - 1997 Etowah High School Cherokee County School System 1. Teacher of Senior Composition, American Literature, World Literature, Introduction to Literature, Grammar and Composition I, II, and III, Journalism, English as a Second Language, and Debate.
Additional professional activities
	Developed English as a Second Language Curriculum Served on English Curriculum Development Committee, a committee to develop guidelines for student publications, and the Library Selection Committee Advised the newspaper, established the Quill and Scroll Honor Society, and sponsored the Chess Club Coached Debate and established a chapter of the National Forensic League
Professional memberships
	National Council of Teachers of English Georgia and Cobb/Marietta Retired Teachers Association

VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

Taught 7-year-old Sunday School Class

Taught teenagers in VBS and Sunday School Classes

Established a Church Language Ministry, which included classes in Reading, English as a Second Language, and American Sign Language, and which also included Interpreting services for the Deaf.

Project RESPECT (Retired Educators Supporting Professional Excellence in Classroom Teaching )

Summer Honors Program for High School Students (1997)

Presenter at the NCTE convention Chicago The Slave Narrative 1996

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship 1995 Summer Institute “Domesticating the Canon”

Received an Outstanding Teacher Award from the University of Chicago in 1993