Roz Gann:
CLASS OF 1965
James Madison High SchoolClass of 1965
Brooklyn, NY
Roz's Story
Life
After graduating from Madison, I attendend Brooklyn College,graduating in 1970. For a couple of years, I worked for the Brooklyn Bureau of Child Welfare, based in Bedford Stuyvesant, working with families where child abuse and neglect were an issue. Then I decided to do a Masters in Social Work, and Smith College gave me a scholarship. Smith sends you to one of two dozen cities for field work during its program. There, I met and married my husband, Reverend Joseph Gann, a United Methodist clergyman. I stayed in social work seventeen years, then switched to teaching.
I worked mostly in inner city schools. About 10 years ago, I went back to school for my doctorate in literacy and linguistics. I now teach in the College of Education at East Tennessee State University, in the Appalachian Mountains.
Joe and I have 3 children-- Emily, a CPA who lives in Cincinnati; Ben, a political fund raiser who works in Washington D.C.; and Mi...Expand for more
ke, a teacher in urban Philadelphia.
Joe and I have now been married 30 years. We have 3 grown children. I worked in social work for 17 years and then became more interested in literacy. I "retooled" in education, and worked as an English teacher and reading specialist in Cincinnati's inner city schools. About 10 years ago, I returned to school for my doctorate in literacy and linguistics on a part-time basis, finishing up in 2002.
The summer of 2002, I taught at Sabanci University in Istanbul. Returning to the states, I took a job as Assistant Professor of Reading Education and Reading Linguistics at East Tennessee State University. For two years, Joe and I had a commuter marriage, but he's moved here now, that's wonderful. East Tennessee is in the Appalachians-- gorgeous country. Apart from the fact that English is spoken here rather than Turkish, it's almost as different from Brooklyn culturally as it is from Istanbul!
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