For her outstanding contributions as a teacher, Pearl is recognized on the Donors’ Wall of Fame by J.A. Ekenberg of Richfield, Minnesota.
It’s been two and half years since my mother passed away. I said to myself, “God must have needed a great teacher up there.” I miss her every single day. I didn’t know one single person who didn’t like my parents. My mother taught me many things throughout my life. The most important is honest and caring. My mother used to always say, “I wish I could help ever single person in the world somehow.” My father really misses her also. They were married sixty-eight and one half years. He just turned ninety-five on September 5, 2005. I’m sure you’d agree that’s pretty amazing. Here is what is really amazing: In all those years of marriage, I never, ever heard them argue or raise their voices. When it’s all said and done, I hope I can tough someone’s life like my mother did mine. I have a lot to live up to, but I’ll never quit trying. She was the best.
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For her outstanding contributions as a teacher, Nadine is recognized on the Donors’ Wall of Fame by Larry Statler and Carolyn Makin of San Jose, California.
Mrs. White’s thirty-five years were filled with boundless love for children of all abilities. From providing “brain food treats” for a hungry child to giving her entire salary to a needy family, Mrs. White always placed her students first. Nadine White was a teacher and advocate of children in the California school system for thirty-five years. For her outstanding contributions as an elementary and kindergarten teacher, Laura is recognized on the Donors’ Wall of Fame by Southwest Elementary School in Lakeland, Florida.
Laura Verplanck, career educator with 39 and a half years and counting, graduated with her elementary education degree from Michigan State in 1962. She received a masters in “Teaching the Emotionally Disturbed” from the same university in 1966. Mrs. Verplanck’s earliest teaching years began in Arlington Heights, Illinois and East Lansing, Michigan. She notes that after she moved to Florida with her family, she helped integrate Gainesville schools in 1967. She was selected as one of the first white teachers to teach in an all-black school, before settling in the Lakeland area in 1970 and teaching five years in Mulberry. Mrs. Verplanck experienced first and second grades prior to nesting in kindergarten in 1973, the very first year that half-day kindergartens were implemented in Polk County. Mrs. Verplanck transferred to Southwest Elementary in 1975, dedicating all 28 of her 30 kindergarten years (and counting) to South Lakeland community’s youngest learners. She was recognized as Southwest Elementary Teacher of the Year in 1989-1990. She has lovingly educated over 600 five year olds, building learning foundations, trying shoes, singing the “ABC song,” saying “it’s nap time,” and urging youngsters to be their very best. The Southwest kindergarten addition, built in 1990, is now dedicated in her name, to represent all that Mrs. Verplanck exemplifies as a master professional educator. All the hard work and care that goes into connecting with each child to help build successful adults, and the collegiality required to promote a quality school environment for our growing children! For her outstanding contributions as a middle school Social Studies and University Teacher Education Methods teacher, Jeanette is recognized on the Donors’ Wall of Fame by J.T. and Martha Sandefur of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Miss Bigge began teaching in a one-room school in the middle of a Kansas wheat field. The four students in that school were privileged to be the first of many hundreds to be influenced by a dynamic and dedicated teacher. In her forty-two years of teaching, Jeanette taught grades kindergarten through high school. The last thirty years of her career were spent at Kansas State Teachers College, which later became Emporia State University. There she taught in the campus laboratory school and university methods classes. Miss Bigge has been recognized for her outstanding teaching, writing, and research. Her most important contribution may well have been the sincere affection and care that she bestowed on her students. That affection has been returned by hundreds of students and colleagues who remember her as the best teacher they have ever known. Jeanette Bigge’s students and colleagues remember her as the best teacher they have ever known, and she truly deserves that accolade. For her outstanding contributions as a tenth and eleventh grade language arts teacher, Heather is recognized on the Donors’ Wall of Fame by Ken and Kay Schallenkamp, of Emporia, Kansas.
As a young career teacher, Heather is concerned about each of her students. She takes a personal interest in each one and encourages them to excel. Heather Newbury will complete her masters degree this year while working full time and while raising two children. |
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