>> [MUSIC] I came back to the school system in '93.
As a teacher I taught prior to
that in both Paulding County and Douglas County.
Came over part-time business teacher,
part-time economics teacher in
the social studies department and I
guess the thing that really took some getting used to,
I had some people I was teaching with that had taught me.
Some of them even said,
well, like, Miss Harrell,
call me Joan and I never could do that.
You'll always be Miss Harrell to me.
A lot of the staff
were teachers here when I was a student here.
Well, I was on the teaching staff here,
six great years teaching side by side with Louis Walker.
He was a teacher here,
and he had built up
the work-based learning program
so strongly that when he retired,
we were able to hire him back
half-time and I never could take his place,
but I took that position and was able to work
side by side with him for six wonderful years.
I remember when the position I'm in now as
an assistant principal and oversees
the career technical agriculture education,
which we knew was vocational,
came up and Mr. Walker was one of the big encouragers.
He said, Tim, you really need to apply for that.
You need to do that along with Coach Carter
he'd always encouraged me to get into administration.
And very fortunate at
that time to come on board with a new principal
here at married to high school Lee Colburn and
she and I had been in preschool together at church.
She kids me. We were in bed baby side by side,
swapping pacifiers, and then we
went to school through the Merita City Schools
together, graduated together.
Then I was a student for four years at Kennesaw State,
had some fine professors over there,
and Dr. Beggs,
who was Lee's dad hired me as
his student assistant so that
had come full circle at that time.
I mentioned a couple of fine principals
I was a student under.
I've worked for several many fine principals,
too, including Tom Wilson,
who was here when I arrived,
Gordon Pritz who's now with the county, and of course,
Lee Colburn a mighty fine leader to
take us into the next realm of
educating students with the Marietta City School. [MUSIC]