Gary Campbell:
CLASS OF 1960
Glenfeliz Boulevard Elementary SchoolClass of 1960
Los angeles, CA
John Marshall High SchoolClass of 1966
Los angeles, CA
Washington Irving Junior High SchoolClass of 1963
Los angeles, CA
Gary's Story
Life
For over 16 years, my partner of over 38 years and I lived in San Diego and I loved it there. We lived in the College Area of San Diego where I was the president of our residents' association, the College View Estates Association and on the Board of the College Area Comminity Council and College Area Comminity Board. In late 2018 we moved to the Lakewood Village Area of Long Beach as my partner is now teaching at Long Beach City College.
School
Mrs. Wheaton, my 6th grade teacher at Glenfeliz Blvd School, inspired me to go into education.
College
BA in Elementary Education from Inter-American University of Puerto Rico (magna cum laude), MA in Elementary Education from Cal-State LA and MA in Education Administration from Cal-State LA
Workplace
I taught for 13 years in LA Unified as an English as a Second Language teacher for grades 1-6 and as a bilingual mentor teacher for grades 3-6. I also tutored middle school students at the USC Reading and Writing Center and Co-Directed a summer program for teachers at the USC-California Writing Project. I lead many teacher traini...Expand for more
ng classes for the LAUSD and was a guest presenter at several local colleges. I also became very active in the teachers union. I had just accepted an administrative position as an advisor for the LAUSD when I was offerred a position with UTLA, which I chose instead. For nine years I was on staff at United Teachers Los Angeles. For more than 25 years I worked as a union staff member, the last 16 years for the California Teachers Association in Orange, Fontana, La Mesa and last at the CTA San Diego Regional Resource Center in the Mission Valley area of San Diego. I retired in March of 2013 and then for 5 years was a part-time Emeritus Staff consultant for CTA.
Military
I served in the US Air Force for almost 4 years. I was stationed at Lackland AFB, Shepherd AFB and March AFB in the states and Ramey AFB in Puerto Rico as a Communications Center Specialist. I completed my BA in Elementary Education while stationed in Puerto Rico and did my student teaching on base. I applied for and received an early out to go back to Cal-State LA to get my California Teaching credential.
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