DSEA Action!

What's hot Member Benefits Fairs Find out how to save $ with your membership. New Castle County Thursday, October 17, 3:30 - 6:30 p.m. White Clay Creek Country Club 777 Delaware Park Blvd., Wilmington Kent County Carol Wright remembers 1963 March on Washington and "I have a dream" speech Wednesday, October 23, 3:30 - 6:30 p.m. Dover Downs Conference Center Dover Sussex County Thursday, November 7, 3:30 - 6:30 p.m. Baywood Greens 32267 Clubhouse Way, Longneck " Fifty years ago, on August 28, 1963, I was 16 years old and a rising Junior at Howard High School in Wilmington when I was asked to attend the March on Washington with the Wilmington Chapter of the NAACP. was well aware of the issues that were impacting African Americans who were living under "Separate but Equal" laws at that time. Arriving in Washington, D.C. on the yellow school bus was exciting. I had never seen so many people gathered in one place in my life. There were crowds and crowds of people. All I saw were people on the Mall. I clearly remember that we were instructed to stay together and to be careful. When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his 'I Have a Dream' speech, I stopped what I was doing and paid attention. The words that Dr. King spoke that day have been with me all of my life. Over the past 50 years I have had the opportunity to visit every place that Dr. King mentioned in that speech. Just standing at Stone Mountain in Georgia or at Lookout Mountain in Tennessee, a feeling of calmness comes over me. I www.dsea.org We welcome new UniServ director tephanie Walters joins the DSEA staff in early September, working out of the Walters Dover office as a UniServ director. She'll be the field staff representative for the Kent and Sussex locals formerly assigned to Wendy Cannon – Indian River, Milford, Sussex Vo-Tech and Woodbridge. Cannon is working with the locals formerly assigned to Toby Paone who has returned home to the mid-west and now working for the Iowa State Education Association. S The words that Dr. King spoke 50 years ago have been with Carol Wright every day since then. Throughout my lifetime I have been actively involved in organizations whose missions are to improve the quality of life for everybody I see Dr. King's dream . through some of the progress that has been made in living conditions, education and voting rights for all people. " Wright is an active member of DSEARetired, representing New Castle County members on their board. She taught in the Wilmington and Red Clay School Districts for 40 years. During that time she was a member of the DSEA Exec. Board; Red Clay Teacher of the Year in 1995; and recipient of the DSEA Human and Civil Rights Award in 2009. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta and returned to DC with them for the 50th anniversary celebration on August 24. Walters comes to us with a strong background in organizing and in public education. She has been a paraprofessional, teacher, UniServ director, activist and organizer in Milwaukee Public Schools, the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association (MTEA) and, most recently, with the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC), the state affiliate of NEA. Walters holds a bachelor of arts degree in broadcast journalism from Marquette University, and a master of science in curriculum and instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Walters will be on board the first week of September. Woodbridge middle school teacher joins DSEA Exec. Board ay Sockriter, a 7th grade social studies teacher at Phillis Wheatley Middle Sockriter School in Woodbridge, is the newest member of the DSEA Exec. Board. He was elected by the Exec. Board to fill a Sussex County vacancy created when Dom Zaffora, also of R Woodbridge, became the DSEA treasurer. Sockriter, a native of Milton, DE, holds a masters degree in Education from Wilmington University, and has been teaching in Woodbridge for 12 years. To see the entire Who's Who of DSEA and your local association officers, go to www.dsea.org/About DSEA/Whos who.html. September 2013 DSEA ACTION! 3

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