Phyllis Byrum

Editorial Summary

Background -Resident of Suffolk for 54 years -Married to Randy Byrum, a teacher in the Gates County Public School system -Retired Suffolk Public School Teacher -Member of Great Fork Baptist Church Education -1969 Graduate of Forest Glen High School and a product of Suffolk Public Schools -1972 Inducted Pi Gamma Mu National Social Science Honor Society -1973 Graduate of Barton College (Formerly Atlantic Christian College, Wilson, North Carolina) with a B.A. degree in Social Sciences -1978 Robert Taft Institute of Government at Old Dominion University -1991 James Madison Institute of Government at University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University -1993 - 2002 Studies in Archaeology of Tidewater, Native Americans and African American History of Virginia at UVA and Hampton University Experience -30 years in Suffolk Public Schools (John Yeates High School 1973-1990 and Nansemond River High School 1990-2003) -Member of Who’s Who Among American High School Teachers -Inducted in 1986 in Delta Kappa Gamma (Society of Women Educators) -Selected Teacher of the Year at Nansemond River High School 1994-95, 1998-1999, 1999-2000 -Best Teacher Under The Sun Award 1988 -Suffolk Teacher of the Year 2000 -Social Studies and History Department Chair 1985-2003 -Mentor for Student Teachers from Norfolk State University, Virginia Wesleyan, and Old Dominion University -Facilitator for Curriculum Development for Suffolk Public Schools -Facilitator for Staff Development on Cultural Diversity in Education -High Schools that Work Chairperson -Member of School Improvement Committees -Member of Principal’s Cabinet Advisory Group 1990-2003 -Member of Suffolk Public Schools After School Mentor Program -Facilitator of Textbook adoption committees for Suffolk Public Schools Community Service -Member of the Suffolk Clean City Commission -Member of the Whaleyville Village Initiatives Steering Committee -Officer of Election for the City of Suffolk -Member of the Whaleyville Ruritan Club (Past Treasurer, Secretary, and currently Vice President) -Member and Director of the Whaleyville Historical Society -Member of the Suffolk Nansemond Historical Society -Past Member of the NEA,VEA,EAS -Member of the Robertson Elementary PTA Authorized by Phyllis Collier Byrum