Biography

I am a primary teacher for Denver Public Schools. I started with DPS in January 1980 as a para-professional working on my elementary education degree. I started teaching in the Fall of 1984 as a long term substitute teacher and got my contract January, 1985. I have taught kindergarten, first grade, second grade and third grade. I love animals and presently have three dogs. Over the years I have had a cat who came with my house, guinea pigs, fish, and an African hedgehog. One of my dogs, the hedgehog, and guinea pigs were animals I got from students because the animals needed a home. I love reading and wish I could afford to travel. When I was younger I lived for a short while in Greece, before the American Navy was asked to leave the country. I took one holiday with my then two year old daughter. We went to Italy because my husband and her father had ported in Italy. It was 1975 and we promised to return to Italy in 25 years. My husband was killed the next year, but I returned to Italy in 2000. I took my grown children with me on the Susie Fultz tour of Italy (my children refer to this trip as the McDonalds' trip since everywhere except for the American cemetery in Nettuno there was a McDonalds'). I hope that travel will be a part of my future.