Carolyn Wheat

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Trinity to Honor 17 San Antonio Area Teachers

March 13, 2000  -  Seventeen public school teachers have been named Distinguished Educators by their school districts and are nominees for the 2000 Trinity Prize for Excellence in Teaching.  The seventeen Distinguished Educators will be honored at a reception Tuesday, March 21, at 4 p.m. in the Chapman Center Great Hall on Trinity University's campus. Two of the 17 Distinguished Educators will be selected by a blue-ribbon committee to receive the Trinity Prize for Excellence in Teaching.  The 2000 Trinity Prize recipients will be announced during the University's annual H.E.B. Grocery Co. Kappa Delta Pi Lecture and Awards Ceremony, Friday, April 14.  The honors program begins at 4 p.m. with a lecture by Andy Baumgartner, the 1999 National Teacher of the Year.  The program will be held in Trinity's Margarite B. Parker Chapel.  A reception, sponsored by the San Antonio Express-News, will follow. The prize, initiated by Trinity's education department in 1981, recognizes truly outstanding public school teachers and honors teaching as a profession.  The University will provide $2,000 for the Trinity Prize winners and gifts for the 17 San Antonio area Distinguished Educators. The 17 Distinguished Educators are listed below in alphabetical order. Lydia Bosquez Mathematics Teacher Memorial High School Edgewood ISD Patricia Jane Buckley Secondary Language Arts ESL & Speech Teacher Southside Alternative Education Program Southside ISD Carla Campbell Spanish Teacher East Central High School East Central ISD Bonnye Cavazos Seventh Grade Language Arts Mark Twain Middle School San Antonio ISD Nancy Crockett History Department Head McCollum High School Harlendale ISD Linda Ann DeMino Preschool Program for Children with Disabilities Howard Early Child Center Alamo Heights ISD Lucinda Perez Elizondo Fourth Grade Teacher Neil Armstrong Elementary South San Antonio ISD Debbie Hayes PRIDE Teacher Intermediate School Somerset ISD Thelma Marichalar Math Educator 9-12 Academy of Creative Education North East ISD Linda Reed Fourth Grade Teacher Fort Sam Houston Elementary Fort Sam ISD Kay Richardson Special Education Teacher Elolf Elementary Judson ISD Kristy Saucier Second Grade Teacher Lackland Elementary Lackland ISD Shirley Schulze Technology Teacher Randolph High School Randolph Field ISD Elizabeth Ann Sherrod Third Grade Teacher Southwest Elementary Southwest ISD Ruth Maxine Stumberg Third Grade Teacher Curington Elementary Boerne ISD Arthur G. Sullivan III English III APH, English IV Dual, English IV, & Speech John Marshall High School Northside ISD Barbara Williams English Samuel Clemens High School Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City ISD A panel of San Antonio business and community leaders will select the Trinity Prize recipients after interviewing the nominees.  This year's selection committee includes Kenny Wilson, president, Bank of America-San Antonio; Janice Brazil, first lady, Trinity University; Barbara Gentry, senior vice president community affairs, USAA; Bert Pfiester, general manager external affairs, Southwestern Bell; and Brian Ferguson '01, Kappa Delta Pi Outstanding Senior in Education. The April 14 program is free and open to the public.  For more information, call Trinity's department of education at (210) 999-7501.

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