1996

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Thompson Realizes Accomplishment of Dream

Kay and ~e Thompson

Still living in Union and rom– muting to the Meridian Campus she was able to work her academic needs into her busy schedule and graduated Summa Cum Laude in December. In August she will earn a Master of Science in Elementary Education degree and hav.e the distinction of 1995-96 Outstanding Graduate Educatioin Student. Sharing honors. with her will be her daughter, Carrie, a recent high school graduate, and her husband of twenty-five years, and Beth, a friend, who lives with them. Kay is still in the classroom, now as a second grade teacher at Newton Elementary SchooL .. '

Kay Thompson's dream began 13 years ago when, as a teachers assistant, she first fell in love with the smell of books and the feel of the classroom. Having dropped out of college to get married and with a child in the first grade, she loved being there. Her husband became ill and faced with uncertainties, he convinced her to go back to school to prepare for her future. At 40-plus, she was scared but credits East Central Community College and Carol Vickers boost– mg her confidence and making her feel confidant that she could, that she became well on her way toward earning her education degree.

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