HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE
Crisp County High School - 1968 

ASSOCIATE DEGREE
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College 1970

BACHELOR'S DEGREE
Georgia Southwestern State University 1972

MASTER'S DEGREE
Georgia Southwestern State University 1978

After teaching for one quarter at Lee Co. High School in the spring of 1977, I joined the Southland Academy family in the fall of 1977.  I taught "typing" to tenth graders for several years before the urgency of technology surfaced.  I have also taught accounting, office procedures,  business law, and personal finance.    Currently, I teach accounting/business law (an elective), personal finance,  computer keyboarding to 7th graders, and study skills to 6th graders.  I was also responsible for advising many excellent yearbook staffs in the compilation of the RAIDER yearbook for 35 years.  For several years, I was also responsible for the RAIDER REPORT newsletter until it was discontinued; but, thankfully, that publication has been resurrected.  (Mrs. Melanie Mathis now oversees the compilation and distribution of that publication.)

I attended ABAC after high school and received an Associate Degree in 1970 and subsequently enrolled in Georgia Southwestern State University where I received my Bachelor's Degree in Comprehensive Business Education in 1972.  In 1978, I completed the requirements for my Master's Degree at Georgia Southwestern State University and I have maintained a current certificate by taking the required courses.

I am originally from Cordele, Georgia.  I still attend church there at my "home" church--Hatley Baptist--and am the pianist for the church.  In December I will have been happily married to Bill Wills for 49 years.  My favorite pastime is attending gospel concerts.