EDUCATION
1980s
Marilyn Bombac, B.S. Early Education '81, completed her M.Ed. at the University of Hawaii and is currently working on a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership at the University of Nebraska.Carolyn Kreiter Gomez-Foronda, M.A. English '79 and Ph.D. Education '83, has published a new book of poetry, Death Comes Riding, SCOP Publications, Inc., 1999; an article on poet laureate Rita Dove in LAURELS; five poems on O'Keeffe's art in Montserrat Review; and poetry in Virginia Writing and Blackwater Review.
Karen Jamison, M.Ed. Reading '83, earned Kentucky's Rank I in Education with 30 hours above master's (from George Mason). She is teaching reading and writing in Rutherford Elementary School, Jefferson County, Ky., and has received a collaborative grant from University of Louisville and Jefferson County Public Schools.
Teresa Kruczek, B.S. Physical Education '86, is a teacher on the Seminole County School Board in Florida.
1990s
Kara (Moore) Hagerman, B.S. Early Childhood Education '91, and husband, Ricky, have a baby boy, Troy Joshua, born October 25, 1998.
Charlotte Young, M.Ed. Administration and Supervision '92, was the assistant principal at Dominion Trail Elementary School in Ashburn, Va., but has taken time off to stay home with her baby daughter.
Joyce Evans, Graduate Certificate/Teaching English as a Second Language '96, a retired attorney, joined a team of North American volunteers who spent two weeks teaching English to children in the community of Dobcyzce in southern Poland.
Carolyn Vincent, Ph.D. Education '97, was awarded first place in the 1999 Outstanding Dissertation Competition of the National Association of Bilingual Education for her dissertation, Singing to a Star: The School Meanings of Second Generation Salvadoran Students.