Terisa Cameron:  

Hi, Some might remember me as Teri Schaefer. I can't remember if I went by Fowler or Schaefer in high school,(but it was definitely a time of being dazed,confused, and lost without proper guidance.) I went to both Saguaro and Chaparral as many of us did and then they brought us over to be the first class of 1974. My favorite memories from school were choir and theater. Although I loved being in choir in both schools, drama fueled my love for literature and writing. I loved going to state competition with the play, "Riders To The Sea", with Kate McReynolds and the rest of the cast, (although I can't remember them all.) After graduation, I left Arizona and landed with a Christian family in Kansas who turned my life around and showed me the guidance and love I never had with my biological family in Scottsdale. Maybe that's why I felt like such an outcast in high school. They sent me to Trinity Bible College in Texas,(where I discovered that I had enormous potential and it changed my life). From there I have lived in Alaska, Kansas, Prescott, and even Flagstaff, but after 22 years decided to move back to the Valley in 2000. It seems very surreal to be living only a few miles from where I went to high school. I received a dual B.A. and an M.A. from NAU, and went on to get my first Masters in English. Now I am working on my second Masters in Education with an emphasis in Instructional Design. During my years of absence, I traveled doing theater, sang in New York (Mozart's Requiem) at Carnegie Hall (where Kate McReynolds once said, we could have visited if only we had known the other was there!) I also owned my own restaurant at one time. Later I became a Grants Manager for an Educational Management Company and served as a District Development and Services Administrator taking care of grants,AIMS Testing,and HR policies for a short while, for a charter district, but then decided to go into teaching full time. I love teaching and have been teaching English and Literature at both the high school and college level. Since music is my first passion I married a wonderful guy who is a musician and used to play monster concerts (piano). He loves playing piano, (we have to have a separate music room jus...Expand for more