[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16336]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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            ARKANSAS'S FINALISTS FOR ``TEACHER OF THE YEAR''

 Mrs. LINCOLN. Mr. President, today I congratulate 14 Arkansas 
teachers who were recently named regional finalists for Arkansas 
Teacher of the Year. These educators represent the best of our State, 
and I join all Arkansans to thank them for their efforts to educate and 
inspire our Arkansas youth. These teachers devote themselves to 
ensuring a bright, successful future for their students, and I commend 
them for their pursuit of professional excellence and their dedication 
to learning and knowledge.
  The finalists are Blair Ballard, Walnut Ridge Elementary; Vickie 
Beene, an English teacher at Nashville High School; Julie Boyd, 
Hurricane Creek Elementary in Bryant; Jeannette Dempsey, College Hill 
Elementary, Texarkana; Oretha Faye Ferguson, an English teacher at Fort 
Smith Southside High School; Karen S. Hart, a biology teacher at 
Jonesboro High School; Kristy Parish, Westside Elementary, Searcy; Mary 
Katherine Parson, a biology teacher at Little Rock Central; Kathy A. 
Powers, Simon Intermediate School, Conway; Therese Thompson, John Tyson 
Elementary, Springdale; Rebecca Vaughn, Wedlock Elementary, West 
Memphis; Maryann Walker, M.A. Hardin Elementary, White Hall; Carolyn 
Whisenant, Mountain Home Kindergarten; and Emily Kathryn White, 
Monticello Elementary.

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