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National Annual Meeting Delaware sends 44 voting delegates to NEA Rep. Assembly Appoquinimink E.A. Ann Neubauer Appoquinimink Support Julie Harrington Brandywine E.A. David Bradley Kelli Bradley Kelly Darnell* Marlene Lacy Coletha Shamburger* Jeannette Wilt Cape Henlopen E.A. Diane Albanese* Marlene Lacy adds her signature to thousands of others, pledging to "Stand Strong for our Schools, our Students, and America." Lacy is a DSEA Exec. Board member, and art teacher at Mt. Pleasant H.S. in Brandywine. Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear accepts NEA's Greatest Education Governor award. And a governor who stood firm in the face of pressure to cut educa- tion funding to balance his state's budget, Kentucky's Steve Beshear, accepted NEA's Greatest Education Governor award noting the impor- tant investment a state can make in the education of its children. "One thing we have not and will not cut is our classroom support for class- room teachers." Assembly for a career in Association activism that has ranged from his chairmanship of the NEA Student Program to serv- ice as a local president, as president and executive director of the NCAE, to terms on the NEA board of directors and executive commit- tee, to 11 years in his current posi- tion as NEA's tenth executive direc- tor. Our Delaware delegates raised $439/delegate (3rd best) and $8.97/DSEA member avg. (best!) for NEA's Political Action Fund. NEA Executive Director John Wilson is retiring. John Stocks is the new NEA Executive Director effective October 1. John Wilson, who will be retir- ing at the end of September, was honored by the Representative www.dsea.org Amazing! Thanks to Dawn Dehel and Shirley Brown for sharing their photos. September 2011 DSEA ACTION! 13 Capital Paras Michael Brown* Margaret Martinez Patricia Reid Christina E.A. Shirley Brown* David Davis Lori Dickerson* Ariel Hardy* Sharon Hill* Abraham Jones Michael McKibbin* Ruth Rivera Colonial E.A. Stephanie Ingram Michael Renn DSEA Leadership Karen Crouse Mary Jo Faust Mike Hoffmann " I came away from Chicago with the resolve to make Delaware schools better for our students and the future of education. You can be proud of this Delegation - we put in long and sometimes tedious hours at the RA, but we received friendship, clarity of issues and camaraderie. Proud of that! DELAWARE ROCKS! " Indian River E.A. Sherry Abbott Cora Booth Daniel Hoffman* Adele Jones Patricia Murrell Milford E.A. Dawn Dehel* Red Clay E.A. Michael Bank Deanna Bilecki* Sarah Brady Frederika Jenner Ray Marsh Arthur Moffa Doreen Palucci* Victoria Seifred Christine Valente - posted on the DSEA Facebook page by Diane Albanese, long- time advocate, Assoc. Rep. in her building, first-time NEA RA dele- gate, and English Language Arts teacher at Milton Middle School in Cape Henlopen. NEA Rep. Assembly 2012 - Washington, DC 2013 - Atlanta, GA 2014 - Denver, CO *Rookie