Mary Apodaca-Tucker:  

Mary is from El Paso, Texas. Mary's schools include Ysleta High School and UTEP. Mary was Self Employed and now is Retired. That's right, I am now retired or redirected. Aubrey Tucker is my husband & we have lived in El Paso all of our days and school careers. I left the Socorro school district as a principal of Benito Martinez School and was soon called to the Austin School District as an Area Supt. running over 19 schools. After a few years, my husband & decided to retire for the first time. I returned to El Paso and began to work toward my doctorate degree at UTEP. From there, I became a college professor at New Mexico State University teaching the Principalship in the Educational Leadershp Dept. A few years later we left El Paso and moved to the Hill Country outside of Austin & settled at Wimberley. I then return to university teaching at Texas State University working in the C&I department. I really enjoyed those years teaching and my time as a school board member for a private school in Wimberley. I also participated in various volunteer positions and worked with numerous community organizations. On the side, I started a small support group to help students with tutoring and study skills with the Wimberley schools where I gathered a team of retired teachers to provide support at-risk students in the community. The second time I retired, we decided we needed to act retired so we started to travel and see the world. That was fun! We traveled to Spain. Italy, Mexic...Expand for more