Twenty-One Area Graduates Named Educator of the Year

May 20, 2010

Averett University is proud to announce that 16 of its education graduates were named "Educator of the Year" in Danville/Pittsylvania County for 2009-2010. Three graduates teaching in the Caswell County, N.C. School System; one graduate from the Rockingham County, N.C. School System; and one from the Martinsville Public School System also garnered teacher of the year honors.

Area graduates who were named Educator of the Year are: John K. Barbour, '98, a mathematics teacher at W.W. Moore Jr. Juvenile Detention Home; Amy T. Baynes, '05, a sixth grade math teacher at Westwood Middle School; Ramona M. Booker, '85, a physical education teacher at Glenwood Elementary School; Judith M. Brown, '86, a kindergarten teacher at G.L.H. Johnson Elementary School; Michele L. Clark, '94, a kindergarten teacher at Schoolfield Elementary School; Robin L. Jackson, '97, a third grade teacher at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School; Joan H. Reynolds, '84, a Title I specialist at Irwin W. Taylor Elementary School; Leslie C. Barksdale, '02, a third grade teacher at Brosville Elementary School; Laverne R. Boykin, '73, a sixth grade history teacher at Chatham Middle School; Sally A. Clements, '72, an English teacher at Gretna High School; Karen B. Conner, '09, a social studies teacher at Chatham High School; Amy C. Emond, '91, a teacher at Chatham Elementary School; Tammy M. Gauldin, '96, '06, a science teacher at Dan River High School; Adrian E. Nester, '01, '03, a tenth grade English teacher at Tunstall High School; Jamie L. Yancey, '02, a third grade teacher at Stony Mill Elementary School; Cindy Y. Young, '92, a third grade teacher at Twin Springs Elementary School.

Joan H. Reynolds was also named the 2009-10 Danville Public Schools Elementary Educator of the Year; Adrian E. Nester, '01, '03, was also named the 2009-10 Pittsylvania County High School Educator of the Year; and Cindy Y. Young, '92, was also named the 2009-10 Pittsylvania County Elementary School Educator of the Year.

The teachers from Caswell County who were recognized are Michele A. Bouchard, '04, a kindergarten teacher at Oakwood Elementary School; Cynthia D. McNeill, '97, a first grade teacher at North Elementary School; and Robert L. Mise, '06, a fifth grade teacher at South Elementary School. The teacher from Rockingham County teacher who was recognized is Michelle L. Robinson, '97, a fourth grade teacher at Draper Elementary School. Crystal R. Wyatt, '00, a third grade teacher in Martinsville, was named Educator of the Year for Albert Harris Elementary School.

Averett is proud of its graduates and congratulates those listed above for their achievements.