I am the youngest of four children born to Earl
and Anna in 1951. As a young adult I accompanied
my parents on seven Holy Land trips. My father
and I produced over 20 multimedia slide presentations depicting our travels.
Dad provided the narration and Marilyn and I correlated the slides with
music. The Holy Land presentations were shown in many churches in the
area
as well as other states.
After graduating from college with a
BA degree in Elementary Education, I taught at a K-8 school in
New Jersey. I taught third grade for 21 years and became the school's
1990 Teacher of the Year. In 1996, I was inducted into
"Who's Who Among America's Teachers."
In 1994, I became computer
lab instructor and assisted with the installation of the first
Macintosh computer lab. In 1997, the school's sixth grade teachers
and I were awarded the NJEA Frederick L. Hipp Grant to
implement a technology project on the history of the district's
only school. The Grant project was featured on the award winning
show Classroom Close-Up NJ.
Click
to enlarge Photos-Beverly as her district's Teacher of the Year
and as a baby.
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Beverly
Watts-Web Designer
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In 1998, I worked with an Apple computer
engineer to install brand new G3 Macintosh computers in the school's computer
lab. I assisted in networking the computers in the lab and classrooms.
In 1999, I wrote a grant to bring high-speed Internet access to our school.
Its purpose was to train teachers to use the technology and give the community
the opportunity to use the high-speed network. The school was awarded
the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund Grant and the 1999-2000
school year was spent implementing the grant. In 2001, after 28 years,
I retired to spend time with my family and care for my mother. In my spare
time I design web sites.
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