Roberta Varner:  

Life After high school graduation (4 days after) I left for Maryland to begin training for a year of church service. I spent 2 months in training, then 2 months at NIH as a nornal control patient and then I went to the Osceola Migrant Center in Belle Glade, Florida working in the Migrant day care center until June. I returned home and entered McPherson College that fall. I majored in Home Economics Education earing a Bachelor of Science with enough credit hours in Science and Social Studies to teach these subjects through the 9th grade. I graduated witin After college graduation, before I began teaching, I decided I wanted to join the Peace Corp. I spent 2 years in Brazil in the state of Bahia. I returned to the States in June of 1965 and entered Kansas State University earning a Masters of Science in Clothing and Textiles in the Spring of 1967. I started teaching at Wyandotte High School in KCK in the fall of 1967 teaching all areas at one time or the other, of Home Economics (FACS). l taught here until Wyandotte started the Small Learning Communities. The last five years I taught in the Opportunity Center-World History and Physical Science. I retired from Wyandotte in the Spring of 2003 but told them I would substitute and have been called in the past 3 springs (2005, 2006, 2007) to do a Long Term Subsitution in the FACS area in the Hospitality community at Wyandotte. I live in KCK and have kept active in Church, with my family. assignments in the Hospitality Center...Expand for more