The Pauline Byrd Johnson Award
Each
year, the Kalamazoo College Education department awards the Pauline
Byrd Johnson Award for recognition
of outstanding teaching and supervision of a student teacher. The
winning teacher is invited to commencement and is honored before
the entire senior class
and their families.
The Pauline Byrd Johnson Award was named in honor of the first
African American woman to graduate from Kalamazoo College and
is awarded to the teacher who has been a valuable teacher at
pre-collegiate
levels. Pauline Byrd Johnson graduated in 1926 and went
on to become the first African American teacher in the Kalamazoo
Public School District. She died in 1988 at the age of
84.
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Last
year's awardee for the 2007
Pauline
Byrd Johnson Award:
Jerry Swaboda
Portage
Public Schools |
Past Pauline Bryd Johnson
Award Winners
2006
Lisa Vedmore
2005 Kelly
Killen
2005 Mary Ellis
2004 Corinne
Zann
2003 Susan
Thole
2002 Beth
Houseal
2001 Larry
J Kulcsar
2000 Margeret
Adams
1999 Douglas
E Collar
1998 Serpita
Collins
1997 Michael
Hall
1996 Diane
E Bishop
1995 Judith
J Butler
1994 Roger
Mattens
1993 Alta
S Lahner
1992 George
Kitchen
1991 Barbara
Felkel
1990 George
Forsberg
1989 Joyce
M Smith
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