Wishing to recognize the significant impact so many educators have made in the lives of students, the UNC Greensboro School of Education launched a new initiative in 2018 honoring Inspirational Educators. All monies raised through the nomination of Inspirational Educators will fund new Student Excellence Awards for UNC Greensboro School of Education students. When you nominate an Inspirational Educator, your gift not only honors a legacy, but inspires our students and helps us provide them with the best preparation possible.
Celebrating Impact & Inspiration
Launched in 2018, Inspirational Educators recognizes educators who have made a transformative impact on students’ lives. The UNC Greensboro School of Education values the difference educators make in engaging communities and promoting life-changing opportunities through education.
The goals for the Inspirational Educators program are simple: elevate the profession of education, create an opportunity to honor people who have made a difference in the lives of others, and raise much needed funds for our future educators. A permanent recognition, the Inspirational Educators Wall, is displayed in the School of Education Building.
Recipients
UNC Greensboro’s School of Education (SOE) is proud to recognize the following individuals for their extensive contributions to the field of education.
Inspirational Educators recognizes and highlights the service of those educators to whom SOE alumni and friends are most grateful. This permanent recognition is displayed prominently in the School of Education Building.
Inductees
- Barbara Baer
- Terry Ackerman
- Betty Scott “Scottie” Banks (B.A., Longwood College, 1952)
- Vicki Jacobs (B.A., Dartmouth College; M.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Wayne Journell (B.S., James Madison University, 2002; M.A., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2004; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Ubana Champaign, 2009)
- Kathy Matthews
- Cindy McCormic
- Emilee Transou*
- Darrin Turner
- Holt Wilson (B.S., East Carolina University; M.A. Ed., East Carolina University; Ph.D., North Carolina State University)
- Annie P. Wimbish (B.S., Averett University; M.A., University of Virginia; Ed.D., Fayetteville State University; Ed.S., University of Virginia)
* denotes UNC Greensboro alumnus
- Clinton Edward Alexander (B.A., Olivet College, 1987; M.Ed., Spring Arbor University, 2016)
- Ruth Frank Andreve (B.S., University of Pennsylvania, 1935; MLS, Drexel University, 1938)
- Deborah J. Bartz (B.A., Purdue University, 1990; M.A., Western Michigan University, 1999)
- Sarah Burke Berenson (B.S., University of Massachusetts, 1959; M.S., Western Connecticut State University, 1972; Ph.D., Florida State University, 1985)
- Rochelle Brock (B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1996; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1999)
- Anessa M. Burgman* (B.S., Appalachian State University, 1991; M.Ed., UNC Greensboro, 1995; Ed.S., UNC Greensboro, 2004; Ed.D., UNC Greensboro, 2011)
- Jim Carmichael (B.A., Emory University, 1969; M.Ln., Emory University, 1977; Ph.D., UNC Chapel Hill, 1988)
- Flo Denny Durway* (B.A., Queens University, 1960; MAT, Duke University, 1971; Ed.D., UNC Greensboro, 1989)
- Lenwood Earl Edwards, Sr. (B.S., Johnson C. Smith University; M.S., Springfield College; M.Ed., North Carolina A&T State University)
- Tricia Booth Fish* (B.A., Duke University, 1957; M.Ed., UNC Greensboro, 1968)
- Ye “Jane” He* (B.A., Shanghai Normal University; M.A., Shanghai Normal University; Ph.D., UNC Greensboro, 2005)
- Robert Lee Howard, Sr. (B.A., Williams College, 1966; M.B.A., University of Chicago, 1968; Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1978)
- Dorothy Kendall Kearns* (B.A., UNC Greensboro, 1953; M.Ed., UNC Greensboro, 1974)
- Carl Lashley (B.A., West Virginia University, 1968; M.A., West Virginia University, 1976; Ed.D., Indiana University Bloomington, 1994)
- Thomas “Gabe” Leonard (B.S., Winston-Salem State University, 1974)
- Linda Wilson McDougle* (B.S., North Carolina Central University, 1966; M.Ed., UNC Greensboro, 1970; Ed.S., Appalachian State University, 1988)
- William Watson Purkey (B.S., University of Virginia, 1957; M.S., University of Virginia, 1959; Ed.D, University of Virginia, 1964)
- Leslie Martin Rainey* (B.A., Pfeiffer University, 1971; M.A., Appalachian State University, 1978; Ph.D., UNC Greensboro, 1995)
- Bob Satterfield* (B.S., East Carolina University, 1965; M.Ed., UNC Greensboro, 1969)
- Katherine Davis Smith* (B.A., Woman’s College (now UNC Greensboro), 1944; M.Ed., East Carolina Teachers College, 1966)
- Jennifer Tomon Stephens* (B.A., UNC Chapel Hill, 2003; M.S., North Carolina State University, 2008; Ph.D., UNC Greensboro, 2014)
- Barbara Reynolds Todd* (BSHE, UNC Greensboro, 1973; M.Ed., UNC Greensboro, 1975; CAS, UNC Greensboro, 1981; Ph.D., UNC Greensboro, 1984)
- Joan Morrison Tolley* (B.S., East Carolina University, 1965; M.Ed., UNC Greensboro, 1981)
- Jackie Bridges Upton* (B.A., Greensboro College, 1963; M.Ed., UNC Greensboro, 1970)
- Carol C. Williams (B.A., Columbia College, 1972; M.Ed., Mercer University, 1978)
- Kay Plemmons Zimmerman (B.A., Furman University, 1970; M.A., University of South Carolina, 1972)
* denotes UNC Greensboro alumnus
Margaret Bourdeaux Arbuckle* (B.A., Salem College; M.Ed., UNC Greensboro, 1975; Ph.D., UNC Greensboro, 1983) | Deborah Davis Gough* (B.S., UNC Greensboro, 1970; M.S., UNC Greensboro, 1976; M.Sc.A., UNC Greensboro, 1996) | Jo Ann Payne Norris* (B.A., UNC Greensboro, 1964) |
Cheryl Armstrong (B.A., Western Michigan University, 1969; M.A., Hollins College, 1982) | Philip Ware Homiller (Mus., Northwestern University, 1992; ABT MM, Bowling Green State University, 1996) | Donna Cox Peters* (B.S., Pembroke State University, 1979; M.S., UNC Greensboro, 1980; M.S., North Carolina A&T State University, 1990; Ph.D., UNC Greensboro, 1999) |
Mark R. Armstrong* (B.A., Davidson College, 1977; M.A., UNC Greensboro, 1985; Ph.D., UNC Greensboro, 1996) | Jennifer Smith Hooks* (B.A., UNC Greensboro, 1976) | Carrie Davis Ponder* (B.A., Woman’s College (now UNC Greensboro), 1958; M.Ed., Western Carolina University, 1981) |
Judy Arnette* (B.A., UNC Greensboro, 1971; M.Ed., UNC Greensboro, 1973) | Sandra Anita Howard* (B.A., University of the District of Columbia; M.S., North Carolina A&T State University; Ph.D., UNC Greensboro) | Jean Griffith Ritchie* (BSSA, Woman’s College (now UNC Greensboro), 1956) |
Marie Crist Blackwood (B.A., Salem College, 1918) | Paul S. Huber III (B.A., Yale University, 1972; M.A., Middlebury College, 1978) | Lee R. Roane (B.S., Bridgewater University, 1977) |
L. Dianne Borders* (B.A., UNC Greensboro, 1972; M.Ed., Wake Forest University, 1979; Ph.D., University of Florida, 1984) | Hilda Davis Jennings* (B.A., Woman’s College (now UNC Greensboro), 1956) | Lee Robinson |
Theresa Ward Brown* (B.A., UNC Greensboro, 1954) | Celia Gomedela Jolley* (B.A., UNC Greensboro, 1971; M.Ed., North Carolina State University, 1983) | Orvin Lee Shiflett (B.A., University of Florida, 1969; MLS, Rutgers University, 1971; Ph.D., Florida State University, 1979) |
Dennis M. Campbell (A.B., Duke University, 1967; B.D., Yale University, 1970; Ph.D., Duke University, 1970; Honorary doctoral degree, D.D., Florida Southern University) | Deborah E. “DJ” Jones* (B.S., UNC Greensboro, 1975; M.Ed., UNC Greensboro, 1982; M.S., North Carolina A&T State University, 1987; Ph.D., UNC Greensboro, 1997) | Paula Myrick Short* (B.A., UNC Greensboro, 1967; M.Ed., UNC Chapel Hill, 1970; Ph.D., UNC Chapel Hill, 1983) |
Thomas P. Carpenter (B.A., Stanford University; M.A., San Diego State University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison) | Frances Faircloth Jones* (B.S., Appalachian State University, 1964; M.Ed., UNC Greensboro, 1971; Ed.D, UNC Greensboro, 1978) | Claudia Flick Siegal* (B.A., Bloomsbury State University, 1975; M.Ed., UNC Greensboro, 1985) |
Craig S. Cashwell* (B.A., UNC Chapel Hill, 1986; M.S., UNC Greensboro, 1991; Ph.D., UNC Greensboro, 1994) | Jeane Murdoch Joyner (B.A., Mary Baldwin College, 1963; M.A., North Carolina Central University, 1982; Post-graduate, North Carolina State University, Sacramento State, UNC Chapel Hill) | Lawrence J. Sorohan (B.A., University of Dayton, 1954; M.Ed., Ph.D., Ohio University, 1962) |
Maude Talley Caudle* (B.A., UNC Greensboro, 1967) | Sam George Kasias* (B.A., High Point College, 1954; M.Ed., UNC Greensboro, 1968) | Barbara LaSota Stewart (B.S., Indiana University, 1967; M.S., University of Illinois, 1970) |
Jewell E. Cooper* (B.S., UNC Greensboro, 1976; M.S., University of Memphis (formerly Memphis State University), 1984; Ph.D., UNC Greensboro, 1997) | Mary Joe Lentz* (B.S., UNC Greensboro, 1969; M.S., North Carolina A&T State University, 1984; M.Ed., North Carolina A&T State University, 1986; Ed.S., Appalachian State University, 1988) | Nancy Teague* (B.A., UNC Greensboro, 1970; M.Ed., UNC Greensboro, 1973) |
Janie Copple* (B.A., Gardner-Webb University, 1999; M.A., UNC Greensboro, 2002; Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2022) | Barbara Barry Levin (B.S., University of California, Berkeley, 1968; M.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1971; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1993) | A. Edward Uprichard (B.A., State University of New York (Fredonia); M.S., Syracuse University; Ph.D., Syracuse University) |
Katherine Bland Davis* (B.S., UNC Greensboro, 1974; M.Ed., UNC Greensboro, 1978) | Jennifer Robinson Mangrum* (B.A., UNC Wilmington, 1987; M.Ed., East Carolina University, 1989; Ph.D., UNC Greensboro, 2004) | Nicholas A. Vacc (B.A., Western Reserve University; M.A., Syracuse University; Ed.D., SUNY Albany) |
Carol J. Doniere (B.S., Northern State University; Library Science Certification, Middle Tennessee State University) | Sam Miller (A.B., Providence College, 1971; M.Ed., Rhode Island College, 1979; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1985) | Julie Davie Wright (B.A., Birmingham-Southern College, 1964; M.S., Florida State University, 1972; Ph.D., Florida State University, 1979) |
June P. Galloway* (B.S., University of Georgia; M.A., UNC Greensboro; D.Ed., UNC Greensboro) | Patricia M. Morris (B.A., Boston College, 1973; MAT, Bridgewater University, 1977) | Keith C. Wright (B.A., Willamette University, 1955; M.Div., Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 1958; M.S., Columbia University, 1968; Ph.D., Columbia University, 1972) |
How it Works
A gift of at least $1,000 ensures a permanent place on the Inspirational Educators Wall for the honoree.
All nominees will be reviewed by a committee of faculty, staff, and Advisory Board members from the UNC Greensboro School of Education. Once accepted as an Inspirational Educator, we will notify your honoree and their family. We will include the name of the nominator(s) in this information at their discretion.
Honor a Legacy
The person you nominate can be a star in their field or have had a significant impact on you or your family. This is a chance to publicly recognize someone who has made a difference in your growth personally and professionally. Individuals may be honored as Inspirational Educators posthumously. Your nominee could be one of the following:
You do not have to be a UNC Greensboro alumna/us or otherwise affiliated with the UNC Greensboro School of Education to nominate or be nominated. However, if the honoree holds a degree from UNC Greensboro, they will be identified with the UNC Greensboro seal on their nameplate.
The Impact of Inspiration
Over time, the UNC Greensboro School of Education will honor 1,000 Inspirational Educators, creating an Inspirational Educators Endowment of over $1,000,000. Each year, annual interest from this endowment will fund scholarships and awards recognizing outstanding School of Education students. Awards from the Inspirational Educators Endowment may be given to any student, undergraduate or graduate, in the School of Education. Recipients will be selected by a committee appointed by the Dean.
This prestigious awards program will highlight promising young educators. When you nominate an Inspirational Educator, your gift honors a legacy and inspires our students.
School of Education Development Office
Courtney Dabney, Senior Director of Development [email protected]
Location:
School of Education Building, Room 346
Mailing Address:
School of Education Building
PO Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402