Dee Benton:
CLASS OF 1973
Kermit High SchoolClass of 1973
Kermit, TX
University of Texas at Arlington - BusinessClass of 1981
Arlington, TX
Iliff School of TheologyClass of 1978
Denver, CO
West Texas A&M UniversityClass of 1976
Canyon, TX
Dee's Story
Life
I've had a zig zag life but am where God wants me to be now.
I went to WT 73-76 and Iliff Grad School-Denver with the thought of becoming a minister or counselor. But, I was not called.
I moved back to Texas & started to get a teaching certificate,
but back then I could get an MBA quicker, so I did at UT Arlington
in 1981.
I worked for AT&T as a Project Mgr-Systems Consultant for
20 yrs, but then the Telecom industry consolidated and my division was sold off twice in a 5 yr period. In 2001, all West Texas offices
of the latest spinoff were closed and I was unemployed at 47!
(3 yrs before early retirement-sucks, huh?)
I did some telecom consulting and worked for United Way for
2 yrs while I went back to UT Permian Basin to get my teaching certificate.
I am now teaching Honors Engl...Expand for more
ish at San Jacinto Jr High in
Midland, Texas and loving it. I wrote over 500 poems and songs while sitting in Algebra and Science, so the love for the word was always there. But it wasn't until I took a course from Dr Buice
at Odessa College that English and writing 'clicked'
(Maybe I should have followed my instincts when I was in FTA-Future Teachers of America at good old Kermit High!!) I even had as one of my students a relative of G.T. Gilligan. Circle of life, huh?
I am blessed!
Dee
College
B.S.(Psych & English)-West Texas State '76
M.A.-Iliff School of Theology, '78
M.B.A.-Univ of Texas-Arlington,'81
Grad Work- U.T. Permian Basin, 2004
Certified Texas Teacher
-English & Reading, gr 4-8 & 8-12
Secondary Teacher of the year award-2007-MISD
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