Carter Petty
Director
Carter comes to MDCS with a varied background. He obtained both a B.A. in English and an M.F.A. in Technical Theatre and Design from the University of Georgia. Before coming to MDCS, he worked in professional theatre and then for eight years as the sole proprietor of his custom metalworking business. He became involved with the creation of MDCS in February, 2001 serving on both the committee that wrote the charter application and the founding board that began the process of making the application a reality. He stepped in to serve as co-director in October, 2003 and has been a lead administrator at MDCS ever since. He began serving as Director in June, 2010 after serving a year as Interim Director.
"One of the many rewarding experiences I've had at MDCS is leading the design and implementation of our Education Outdoors program. The kids really respond the setting and activities. Our trips are such a great vehicles for history, language arts, and science. It is very fulfilling to be able to deliver the kind of educational experience we envisioned when we wrote the charter and see firsthand how experiential education promotes a deeper understanding of the topic and a much greater enjoyment of the experience for student and teacher. "
Carter teaches 8th grade computer skills, an internet publishing elective, and co-leads the 7th and 8th grade outdoor education offerings. "I really love being so heavily involved in the trip to Hazel Creek. It gets me out in the field for a week, provides me with another opportunity to see the vision come to life, and gives me a chance to share my passion for local history with the students."
Carter currently lives in Bryson City with his wife, Ellen, and his two boys, Holden and Colyn. Holden attends MDCS and Colyn has gone on to Swain County High School.
Jill Blake
Director of Instruction and EC Services
Jill Blake comes to Mountain Discovery with 24 years of experience in teaching exceptional education students. She has taught in self-contained, resource, and hospital settings. Jill has worked with students at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. She does not have a favorite group because she says there are wonderful qualities at each level.
Jill received her Exceptional Education Degree from Auburn University. She is always looking for opportunities to grow as a professional.
In August, 2009, a golden opportunity for professional growth presented itself when she was offered the chance to direct instruction as well as EC services. Jill is thriving in her new role.
Jill has been married to her high school sweetheart for over 30 years. She has a son who works in the building trade and a daughter who is recently graduated from the University of South Carolina and works for Investco in Atlanta. With her free time, Jill enjoys reading, riding road bikes, and spending time outside with her family.
Office
Crim Bassett
Office Manager
Crim grew up in North Georgia where she attended the University of Georgia and gained a BS in Child and Family Development. In 1996, she and her husband Jeff moved to the North Carolina Mountains to start their business, Bee Global Studio. For the past 16 years they have owned and operated a working studio gallery nestled in Stecoah Valley where they craft and market candles, ornaments, lamps and many other creations, all made from pure beeswax. They also maintain a bee farm where they harvest many types of honey. Crim has had much experience multitasking where she co- managed the studio gallery and office of her business. There has always been a part of her that knew one day she would use her degree in a positive way. “I am such a people person and like working in a community where I can make a difference. I feel honored to be working here at MDCS among a fabulous staff and ultra fabulous students.”
She has two wonderful sons, Elijah and Booth, who attend MDCS and are thriving in this type of learning environment. In her free time Crim loves to spend time with her family, tend to her garden of more than 60 varieties of wildflowers, experience Fontana Lake and all of its magic, teach yoga, and knit.
Kristin Schrader
Kindergarten Teacher
Kristin Schrader grew up in Southern California and moved to the coast of North carolina at the age of fourteen. After graduating High School, Ms. Kristin spent the next two years traveling The United States. She found her home in The North Carolina Mountains in 1994. She attended Western Carolina University and graduated with a Bachelors degree in Science of Education, Magna Cum Laude. She also has a DFA in Art.
Ms. Kristin has over sixteen years experience working with children. She began teaching Kindergarten at MDCS in 2003. Over the years, Ms. Kristin has contributed in many ways to the growth of the learning community at MDCS. She currently heads a committee which oversees the training of new teaching staff and the implementation of K-8 classroom expeditions and hands on learning.
“I am confident about the environment and routine my Kindergarten students live and learn in on any typical day in my classroom. I have been very successful at creating a safe, happy, respectful, and productive classroom community. My students are encouraged to take pride in both personal strengths and challenges they may encounter. Even the youngest students at MDCS learn to make their own choices, have time to do their best work, and are proud to present finished projects with others. I have a classroom full of confident Kindergartners who are very excited about learning. Everyday, parents tell me how much their child loves school.”, says Ms. Kristin.
Kristin lives in Dillsboro with her son, Harvest, who is attending Jackson County Early College.
Jonathan Wertheim
Kindergarten/K-5 General Music/Junior Appalachian Musicians Program/Middle School Drama
Mr. Jonathan is a native North Carolinian. He received a B.A. in English Literature (Journalism minor) from Western Carolina University. He received his recording engineering certification from the Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences. He also studied Theater at the North Carolina School of the Arts and Education at Western Carolina University. He has collaborated with most of the grade levels, departments, and concentration areas of MDCS, and has served on various committees that support the whole school. However, Jonathan thinks Kindergarten is the bee’s knees.
Jonathan began working at MDCS in the autumn of 2003, becoming part of the Kindergarten Team for the 2004-2005 school year. He strengthens the Kindergarten Language Arts curriculum through storytelling, dramatic play, puppetry, writing, art, and music. Aside from directing years of Kindergarten Production Nights, Jonathan has produced an original Expedition-themed album of children’s music each year since 2005. The music is unique in that the lyrics and the vocal performances are by the Kindergarten class. The Kindergarten albums may be an acquired taste, might get worn out on summer trips, and are often “lost” by families needing a well-deserved break.
Jonathan began teaching guitar at MDCS in 2004, eventually adding songwriting and recording. He has served as the Program Director for the Junior Appalachian Musicians of Swain County since 2005. J.A.M. meets after school at MDCS, instructing third-eighth graders in Traditional Mountain, Old Time, and American Folk Musics. J.A.M. is supported by the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources. He has recently taken on duties in K-5 General Music and Middle School Drama.
Jonathan is a singer-songwriter, a musician, an electronic composer, and a veteran of too many bands to list. He was co-producer of Smoky Mtn. Drum’n Bass. He has written, arranged, performed, dj’d, and/or engineered music in Chicago, Phoenix, Missouri, and North Carolina. He has collaborated for a decade in Jackson County’s own Moolah Temple $tringband (an old time meets electronic curio), on nine albums to-date (and one ballet). His favorite author is Samuel Becket. Mr. Jonathan likes calling North Carolina home.
Afterschool
Teresa Pindur
Kindergarten One to One Assistant/ Afterschool Coordinator
Teresa is a native of Western North Carolina. She majored in Business Administration & Law at Western Carolina University before starting her family with her husband Greg. She later earned a Certificate in Holistic Nutrition from Clayton College of Natural Health. She has 4 daughters, Cassidy, Kaitlyn, Emma & Ella. Cassidy & Kaitlyn graduated from MDCS and have moved onto Swain County High School. Emma & Ella are still students at MDCS.
Prior to joining the staff at MDCS Teresa served as the Director of the Swain County Partnership for Health for 3 years. During that time she worked closely with Swain County youth in prevention of substance abuse, teen pregnancy and other youth risk behaviors.
Teresa is thrilled to be a part of the MDCS staff. "Mountain Discovery is like family, and of the few choices we get to make for our children this is the best one I've made so far for mine!"
Becky Henritze
First Grade Teacher
Becky knows that teaching at this school is a fabulous way to utilize her skills in both creativity and in exploring topics of study in depth. She enjoys singing many different songs that coincide with topics of study, and some of her favorite projects with students have been: a study of the rainforest, dressing up as an historical figure and giving an oral presentation, and using drama and reader’s theatre to encourage reading and creative expression.
Becky grew up in Oxford, NC. Her grandfather was the school superintendent there for many years, her mother the music teacher, and a love of learning flows deeply in her blood. The Webb School in Bellbuckle, TN was founded by one of her relatives.
She attended UNC-CH for two years, then worked a year in Cambridge, Mass. at Tot Lot Daycare, and finished her bachelor’s at UMass-Amherst in 1976. She completed her Masters in Gifted (with a minor in English) at Appalachian State, where she got to take a whole course on creativity!
For thirteen years, she enjoyed teaching gifted and talented students in both North and South Carolina, working with Kindergarteners through Eighth Graders. With gifted students, she emphasized creativity, critical thinking, research, oral presentations, a love of reading, and taking responsibility for one’s own learning. “Become a lifelong
learner“ is her motto. She often told her students, “If you don’t use it, you lose it.”
She has enjoyed teaching at MDCS since 2004. After working with fifth grade for two years, she thoroughly enjoys teaching first grade. “I love the excitement, openness, and zest for learning that these students have.
Lisa Murphy
First Grade Assistant
Lisa has one son, Dillan. She is also one of the MDCS school bus drivers. Lisa produces a haunted trail for Halloween.
Gerry Murphy
Second Grade Teacher
Gerry was born and raised on Long Island in New York. As a service project in high school, she worked in a day care center and decided that she wanted to teach young children. She attended Harriman College where she earned her Associate Degree in Early Childhood Education. She then went on to St. Joseph's in New York to receive her Bachelor of Arts degree in Elementary Education.
After tutoring many different school age students up to twelfth grade, she began teaching in elementary schools in Connecticut and New York. When she moved to the mountains with her husband and two children, she began teaching again. Before coming to MDCS, she worked for 6 years in an elementary school in Jackson County. Gerry began teaching at MDCS in 2003.
Gerry loves teaching at MDCS, where she has the freedom to teach using creative ways to cater to the individual learning styles of each child."The way a child's eyes light up when they accomplish something they didn't think was possible, makes it all worthwhile."
Patricia Crockett
Second Grade Assistant/EC Assistant
Patricia is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and Boston University School of Law. She formerly served as a legal officer in the U.S. Coast Guard and as an attorney with the U.S. Department of Transportation. She has been pastor of Cherokee Wesleyan Church since 2001.
Until recently, Patricia and her husband, Doug, owned and operated Cooper Creek Trout Farm in Bryson City. They have four children which they homeschooled.
Kim Griffith
Third Grade Teacher
Kim Griffith comes to Mountain Discovery with fourteen years of experience in teaching. Having received a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education from Bowie State University in Bowie, MD, she taught elementary-age students in New Carrollton, MD, just outside of Washington, DC, for three years.
After being a stay-at-home mom for five years, the teaching bug once again caught up to her and she spent the last eleven years teaching middle school math (Pre-Algebra and Algebra) in Columbia, MD, San Antonio, TX, and Aberdeen, MD. She is very excited to be at Mountain Discovery!
Kim has two daughters, Kelly and Madeline, and one puppy named Roady. She enjoys woodworking, stained glass, riding her motorcycle, and spending time with her family in her free time.
Anne Jeter
Third Grade Assistant/EC Assistant
Anne grew up in North Georgia, near Chattanooga TN. She attended Berry College in Rome, Georgia then transferred to Appalachian State University where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology. Her concentrations were in child development, environmental philosophy and religion. When living in Chattanooga, Anne worked with the Girl Scout Council first as an Ameri-Corps member. She was later hired on as staff. Creating programs with girls in hard to serve areas was her specialty. Also while in Chattanooga, she had the great opportunity to work with Kids On The Block as a puppeteer. Anne is excited to be here at MDCS so she can share her love of nature right along with her passion for education. When not working, she loves to play with her family. They enjoy making music, crafts, and traveling. She has a son named Ravi who also spends his days at MDCS.
Donna Holcombe
Fourth Grade Teacher
Donna spent twenty years teaching kayaking, guiding rafts, managing, leading ropes courses, and leading adventure travel trips for Nantahala Outdoor Center. While this life was fun and exciting (drop by and she would love to swap adventure stories with you) something was missing. In 2003, Donna and her husband Jimmy flew to China and met their eighteen month old daughter Carolyn Xaioyao Holcombe.
After almost two years of being a stay-at-mom with Carrie, Donna dusted off the Elementary Education Certificate she received from Webster University in St Louis and came to Mountain Discovery Charter School. Many of her friends had been involved in the founding of the school and she had watched its progress with interest. Donna had minored in experiential education and been involved in outdoor programming for at risk youth before she joined NOC. It was just by fate that she ended up in fourth grade but it turned out to be a wonderful fit; she loves both the age group and the curriculum.
Her daughter Carrie is a student at MDCS.
Londa Murray
Assistant, Fourth & Fifth Grades
Londa Murray comes to MDCS as a Western North Carolina native and current student at Western Carolina University. She is currently working to complete a dual-tract degree program culminating in May 2011 with a Bachelor of Science in both Elementary Education and Sociology. Although Londa's passion for teaching began in the 70's while attending the University of South Carolina, she has had the opportunity to work in both the corporate and political arenas in the meantime. After moving to Toronto, Ontario in 1979 with every intention of completing college, Londa was offered a volunteer position at the Pine School. Her position quickly evolved into the Language Arts Coordinator role which she accepted in lieu of completing college. The Pine School was a small private school serving the needs of children with learning disabilities and in Londa's opinion, it was a utopia of education. However, after eight priceless years of teaching and learning, she left to pursue a corporate challenge and pioneered a small chain of specialty printing boutiques. Quicker Than Ink stores could be found around the Southern Ontario area in large malls, serving the small quantity, personal printing needs of the public at large. Londa's professional jump from an academia path to a corporate path was both challenging and rewarding. Eventually she sold her chain of stores to a large franchise firm and moved home to Western North Carolina in 1998 where she joined Merrill Lynch in Hendersonville, NC as a Financial Consultant. Ironically, Londa also found herself simultaneously holding the elected position of Council Member with the City of Hendersonville. However, Londa's passion for teaching and working with children never waned. As legal guardian to her niece and nephew, Janette and Kevin, Londa watched her children finish school and move into adult hood, with mixed emotions. Although sadly realizing her tenure with the joys of day-to-day motherhood was coming to an end, she seized the opportunity to return to college and complete her training as a teacher and fulfill her dream of a career in the classroom.
Londa is very excited about her new affiliation with MDCS. She is a believer in the small school environment, especially after having had the opportunity to see inside both the larger schools with larger classrooms and the smaller schools with smaller classrooms throughout her travels and college training. Londa believes that all children learn differently at different rates and that many factors contribute to the differences. For this reason, she is pursuing a degree in Sociology in addition to an Education degree. With knowledge of how family and community factors affect children, Londa can better determine how to navigate around the differences between the children in a classroom in order to better accommodate their needs. All of which is more easily accommodated in the small classroom in a small school, just like the environment at Mountain Discovery Charter School.
Janet Smith
Fifth Grade Teacher
Janet Smith, born in Michigan, received her Bachelor of Science degree at Grand Valley University in Michigan and received her Masters in Education from Western Carolina University. After graduating from Grand Valley, Janet taught several years in the Delton, Michigan school system before leaving to teach and travel in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Upon her arrival back in the States she took a summer job at the Nantahala Outdoor Center that stretched into a 20-year career in outdoor recreation. In the middle of her NOC career Janet went to South America to teach in Baranquilla, Colombia. There she was elected Teacher of the Year. After returning to NOC, Janet was in her 5th year as a Vice-President for NOC when she decided to resume her other career: teaching.
Janet taught Language Arts for four years at the Swain County Middle School. In 2002 she earned her National Teacher’s certification. She transferred to the Andrews Public Schools system where she taught Social Studies for three years. She began teaching at MDCS in the fall of 2007 as the 3rd grade teacher, a mentor and Curriculum Coordinator.
She enjoys being part of the MDCS. Having recently finished a 30-hour course in Reading Foundations, Janet is currently intrigued with learning more about how children become proficient readers. During the 2008– 2009 school year she offered a class for teachers on “Teaching With Love and Logic”.
Randa Jobe
Mrs. Jobe grew up in the small town of Jasper, Indiana and from there left after high school to attend Harlaxton University in Grantham, England for a semester, then went on to attend the University of Colorado while managing Mile High Energy, a successful Solar business, at the same time. She then moved to Washington D.C. where she worked for MCI Telecommunications as Finance Supervisor for seven years and at the same time completed her B.A. with a major in English from the University of Maryland.
At the age of 32, Mrs. Jobe decided it was time to make a difference in her world, so she decided to go back to college to obtain her teacher certification because her first love has always been working with children and students. She moved back home to Indiana to care for her elderly parents and grandparents and completed her teacher certification as well as minors in Social Studies and General Science at Oakland City University. She taught high school English and managed the Yearbook and School Newspaper at Shoals Jr./Sr. High School for five years, then moved to Evansville, Indiana where she married her husband, Timothy, and began working for Signature Charter High School as English, World History, and International Relations teacher as well as maintaining the school's technology centers. Mrs. Jobe taught at Signature Charter School for six years.
Mrs. Jobe has one son, James, who attends MDCS. Mrs. Jobe loves living here and she is most happy to be teaching Middle School Language Arts and Social Studies as she wholeheartedly follows the philosophy of teaching methods used at Mountain Discovery and has used them throughout her many years of teaching experience.
Jim Killebrew
Jim was born in Nashville, TN and grew up in LaGrange, GA. After graduating from LaGrange Academy in 1988, he attended Centre College in Danville, KY, where he majored in Psychology and Religion. In 1993 he began working at an after-school therapy program in Harrodsburg, KY, working with at-risk youth ages 5-13.
In 1994 Jim moved to St. Paul, Minnesota to accept a teaching position at the Native American survival school, Red School House. Jim returned to college after this experience with teaching squarely in mind. After taking classes at the University of Minnesota in ecology and agriculture, Jim settled on science as his teaching focus.
From 2003-2005, Jim taught science at a charter school in Hawaii, with perhaps the longest official name in the entire national charter school system. Na Wai Ola “Waters of Life” New Century Public Charter School asked Jim to serve as Board Chair in the second week of school. He accepted. A few weeks later the school fell into a zoning dispute after it moved onto a 28-acre farm. After two years, several hearings, meetings with the State Attorney General, and a three-hour deposition, the school reached an agreement with the State that allowed it to use the farm for educational purposes. This was the end of Jim’s interest in boards and politics.
After returning to Minneapolis to finish his Master’s degree, Jim worked at SAGE Academy, a charter school founded on project-based learning principles. Jim completed his research thesis on mindfulness meditation as a coping technique for test anxiety in May of 2006. He received his Master’s degree in Education from the University of Minnesota later that year, and moved to Bryson City in June to begin work at Mountain Discovery Charter School.
Jim lives on Wesser Creek with his wife, Vanina, and their two boys, Cef and Pablo. Cef and Pablo currently attend MDCS and love it.
Brook Stillman
Brook grew up in the small town of Homer in upstate New York. She was always interested in learning- especially math. Inspired by her 7th grade math teacher, Brook decided that teaching math was her calling.
From 1998-2002 Brook attended Western Carolina University, where she studied Elementary Education and participated on the women’s golf team. While she was there she focused her studies on math. After receiving her license to teach K-6, she became certified to teach middle school math.
Brook completed her student teaching at East Elementary in 5th grade with Shirley Grant. Then she took her first teaching job at Canton Middle School teaching 7th grade math and science. In the spring of 2004, Brook was offered a job teaching Title I reading at MDCS. The following year, she taught reading and was a part time Educational Assistant in 1st grade. In the fall of 2005 Brook began teaching middle school math for MDCS.
Brook has incorporated her interest in drafting into a class that she teaches. She feels that it is valuable to expand students’ knowledge and introduce them to different forms of mathematics. Brook is also one of the PE teachers for the middle school. She loves sports and exercise and wants to share its importance with the students.
Lynn Varian
Assistant EC Coordinator/EC Teacher
Lynn Varian moved from Florida to Bryson City in June of 2006 with her husband Craig Varian, a graphic artist, and their daughter Emma, who attends MDCS.
Lynn has a Master's Degree in Psychology from the University of West Georgia. She has over 10 years experience working with youth and adolescents as a Therapist with an Experiential Learning focus. In addition, Lynn has enjoyed a 20+ year passion for yoga and has taught classes to a varied clientele. Lynn is currently teaching in the Exceptional Children's Department at MDCS and is Co-teaching the Our Whole Lives Course to the 7th and 8th graders. She is a licensed NC Special Education teacher.
Sarah Rave
EC Assistant/Computer Skills Instructor
Sarah grew up in Greensboro, NC where she attended UNC-Greensboro and graduated with a BA in Geography with a concentration in Earth Science. After college, Sarah spent almost 10 years living on the west coast in California, Arizona and Oregon working for companies including Kinko's, adidas and Timberline Software. Eventually, a longing for home sank in and Sarah returned to NC where she met and married her husband Matt, a professor at WCU. They live in Sylva with a houseful of cats and dogs. Sarah began working at MDCS as a substitute teacher and was later hired as an EC Assistant. She also teaches 6th and 7th grade Computer Skills. Sarah is currently pursuing a degree in Special Education from WCU. She feels incredibly lucky to have landed at MDCS and to be part of such a wonderful learning community.
John Mordhorst
EC Assistant
John brings a varied background in experiential education to his role of Educational Assistant for Middle School math. For many years he worked for Outward Bound in the US, Canada and Hong Kong as a field instructor, course director and Program Director. Additionally, he worked for several youth-at-risk programs adapted from the Outward Bound model. In 1990 he moved to Bryson City to work with the Nantahala Outdoor Center and eventually directed the Action Learning Programs department at the Center. Later, he became Assistant Director for Programs at Bradford Woods Outdoor Center, the outdoor center of the University of Indiana.
John originally came to MDCS as an Educational Assistant for EC. Subsequently, he was the Educational Assistant for the 4th & 5th grades. He is currently the Educational Assistant for Middle School math and also functions as the Outdoor Education Coordinator at MDCS.
John is married to Janet Smith, 5th grade teacher at MDCS. They have two children, Katya and Matt who are both in high school.
Todd Niedfeldt
Behavior Specialist
Todd joined MDCS in April of 2009 after taking a year and a half off to be a full time foster parent. Todd and his wife continue to serve the community as a licensed foster home in Swain County.
Todd previously worked at Swain County High School as a Behavioral Interventionist. In addition to being a licensed foster parent, Todd has received specialized training in MAPP (model approach to positive parenting), Love and Logic, North Carolina Intervention (Crisis Prevention Intervention), first aid and CPR (adult and child), SAIP (youth sexual abuse intervention program), behavior modification, anger management, de-escalation techniques and social skills adaptation.
Todd grew up in a small farming community in Wisconsin. He served in the US. Navy and met his wife, Amy, while in the service. They relocated in 2005 to Swain County from Charleston, SC in order to help take care of elderly grandparents. His family vacationed in the Great Smoky Mountains for several years and Todd states that he loves living in the mountains and really enjoys the community. Todd volunteers part time at the Swain County Hospital and the Swain County Family Resource Center. Todd is excited to be a part of the Mountain Discovery Charter family.
Jenn Pitney
Title I
Jenn was born and raised in Clearwater, Florida. She moved to western North Carolina with her family in the summer of 2004. Jenn is married with three sons. Her oldest son, Kyle recently graduated from the PTA program at SCC and her younger sons, Dalton and Jake are students at MDCS. Prior to joining the MDCS community as an EA, Jenn was a stay-at-home mom for 5 years, during which time she returned to college to pursue a degree. She attained her AA in Elementary Education through St. Petersburg College at the end of 2007. Currently, Jenn facilitates Title I Reading instruction to students in grades 3 through 8.
“We couldn’t ask for a better learning environment for our children. Mountain Discovery Charter School is a wonderful community and I’m privileged to be surrounded by such caring and dedicated people.”
Corky Ashcraft
Art Teacher and Art Curriculum Coordinator
Corky grew up in Miami, Florida, where she began taking painting lessons at the age of 8. Art was an early passion, and she continued to take art classes throughout middle and high school. Her interest in art led her to receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Art Education from the University of South Florida.
After beginning her career in Vero Beach, Florida, she taught art for 24 years in Florida, North Carolina, and overseas. Corky has been involved in local and state organizations to promote art education. She taught children's classes at the Asheville Art Museum and the Vero Beach Art Museum, and was co-chair of the annual Children's Art Festival in Vero Beach for several years.
Over the years Corky has continued to be a producing artist. Her interests are in painting and mixed media collage and assemblage. She also has been involved in quilt making, and still sews when she has time. In 2009, after passing the PRAXIS II examination, Corky added Elementary Education grades K-6 to her Art K-12 teaching license. During the 2009-2010 school year, she worked in the Title I reading program in Buncombe County Schools.
As the art teacher and art curriculum coordinator, Corky looks forward to expanding her students' knowledge of visual art expression and increasing their appreciation of excellence in all areas of their studies at Mountain Discovery Charter School.
Linda Goggin
Band Director
Bio Coming Soon
Faith Smith
Bus Driver
Faith Smith grew up in South Jersey. She is glad to be living in the Great Smoky Mountains where she is able to experience nature in its bountifulness. She enjoys all four seasons. Faith is the mother of five children, three of whom are still at home. Two of her children are in high school and one is in college. Faith and her family love to travel and sing.
Faith drives the Kindergarten – Fourth grade school bus.