I have been teaching since 1989.  I decided to go to college after I had my children and they went to school.  I had worked for a lawyer and a doctor and then decided to become a teacher.  I taught my first year at Earling Grade School. It was an experience that I will never forget.  I took my children on a school trip and most of them had never been out of Logan County let alone out of the state of WV.  From then I went on to work at many different schools.  I taught at Man Junior High, Mallory Elementary, Logan Grade, Monaville, Omar and Whitman before I began my tenure at Holden in 1995.  I have been at Holden since that time.  I am a Title I teacher and I love my job. My prinicpal Mickey White and my friend Janis Clark talked me into going back to school to get my administrative degree.  I have now finished that degree and last year I had the opportunity to work as principal at Holden while Mickey was off on medical leave. I really loved that job!   I hope that one day I will become a principal and I would love to be right there at Holden Elementary School.    It is home!!!!