teachers nationally who achieved National Board Certification in 2006. Dr. David Stodden, an assistant professor in the School of Human Movement, Sport and Leisure Studies at Bowling Green (Ohio) University, is the recipient of the 2006 National Association of Sport and Physical Education, Lolas Halverson Outstanding Young Investigator Award. Jenny Galimore of Auburn, Ala., was selected as 2007 Teacher of the Year by Yarbrough Elementary School (Auburn), where she teaches third grade.
2003 Rachel Adams is a K-12 vocational education teacher in the Manatee County school system in Bradenton, Fla. Kristen Britton is a teacher in the Huntsville (Ala.) City Schools system. Brian Burrows is the assistant director of Local Transition Partnerships for the Auburn and Opelika High Schools. Burrows also serves on Alabama’s Special Education Advisory Panel (SEAP) and the Youth Leadership Forum for Students with Disabilities (YLF) Steering Committee. Joshua Harry is a teacher in the Lee County (Ala.) Schools system. He resides in Valley, Ala. Dr. Candice H. Howard, an assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Promotions at Troy University
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(Ala.), is the 2005-2006 recipient of the Ingalls Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching, the university’s most prestigious honor for faculty members. Kathryn Gwaltney Lemack is the director of operations for the National Center for Sports Safety in Birmingham, Ala. The nonprofit organization educates coaches on sports safety and how to stabilize an injured athlete until a medical professional arrives.
2004 Dr. Regina Bentley is an assistant professor in Auburn University’s College of Nursing. Also a registered nurse, her current teaching areas include obstetrical nursing, women’s health, fundamentals of nursing, fundamentals skill laboratory, and spiritual and cultural nursing. Tanya Ison Boone is a teacher in the Elemore County (Ala.) School System. She and her husband, Kevin ’02 (Engineering), reside in Wetumpka, Ala. Lyndsey Estes of Tifton, Ga., is currently an occupational therapist. She completed her master’s in occupational therapy at the University of Alabama Birmingham in 2006. Her interests include pediatrics and rehabilitation. Mary “Jan” Patterson Burkhalter is a teacher at Ogletree Elementary School in Auburn, Ala. She and her husband, Andrew ’03 (Business), reside in Auburn.
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Dr. LaLanya Ramsey of Phenix City, Ala., is principal of Russell County Middle School in Seale, Ala. Amberlyn Frances Scott is a kindergarten teacher at Springville Elementary School in Springville, Ala. She and her husband, Chase, reside in Remlap, Ala. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in early childhood education at the University of Alabama Birmingham.
2005 Dr. Mandy Godfrey Condit is a school psychologist with Clayton County Public Schools in Morrow, Ga. She married Paul ’00 (Forestry) in April 2005. Dr. Deirdre Cosper Greer is an assistant professor and Early Childhood Education Program coordinator in Columbus State University’s College of Education, Department of Teacher Education. Dr. Necola “Nicole” Holiday of Montgomery, Ala., is an associate professor in the Counselor Education program at Alabama State University. As an active member of the American Counseling Association, she is currently the division president and national membership co-chair of Specialist in Group Work Division, the newsletter editor for the Marriage and Family Division, and the awards chair for the Multicultural Counseling and Development Division.
2006 Dr. Mary Bartlett of Montgomery, Ala., received both the Individual Publication Award and the Research Award at the 2006 annual fall conference of the Alabama Counseling Association (ALCA). She works part time at GrandView Behavioral Health Centers, and is an adjunction instructor at both Troy University Montgomery and Auburn University Montgomery. A member of the Alabama suicide Prevention Task Force, Bartlett travels nationally and internationally as a speaker/trainer on suicide prevention for the American Association of Suicidology. William Blake Busbin of Alpharetta, Ga., received one of 50 James Madison Fellowship awarded nationally by the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation of Washington, D.C. The competitively awarded fellowship, directed toward current and prospective teachers of American history and social studies, supports graduate study of history and principles of the U.S. Constitution. Busbin is currently pursuing a master’s in secondary social sciences in the AU College of Education. Edward C. “Ted” Hoffman III is the director of bands for the Madison County (Miss.) Schools system. He and his wife Nicole, a teacher also in the Madison County Schools system, live in Brandon, Miss.
Angela Homan is pursuing graduate studies at Duke University. Andra Danielle Parrott, who currently teaches at Bob Jones High School in Madison, Ala., is the recipient of a $1,000 New Teacher Grant from the Alabama Power Company Service Organization. The selection committee included educators and Service Organization members. Jennifer Strekas is a seventh-grade enrichment teacher at Samford Middle School in Opelika, Ala., where she and her husband, Joshua, reside. She has been employed by eLearning Online, an initiative of the Alabama State Department of Education and Alabama Public Television, to provide quality professional development to teachers online. She was part of the second cohort of Alabama teachers taking part in the training offered through EdTech Leaders Online.
F RIENDS In Memoriam: Charles M. Reeves Jr., husband of Dr. Frances Skinner Reeves ’71, passed away in November 2006. Reeves, a 1949 College of Business graduate who, along with his wife, was an avid supporter of the College of Education. The couple, long-time members of the Patrons of the Keystone/ Dean’s Circle, established an endowed scholarship in 2004 to honor Charles’ mother and father—both of whom were College of Education graduates.
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