The Mountain Home Education Foundation will induct four new honorees into the Hall of Honor at Thursday night’s honors banquet at Big Creek Country Club. This year the alumnus being honored is Mica J. Strother, Class of 1990 and the Mountain Home teacher honoree is former high school German teacher, Nancy Reed.
A 1994 graduate of Ouachita Baptist University with honors, Strother earned a juris doctorate from the William H. Bowen School of Law in 1999. Although she was admitted to the bar after graduating from law school, she became a political consultant working for Mike Beebe when he was Arkansas Attorney General and later when he became the state’s governor. Her fund raising clients have included Senator Mark Pryor, gubernatorial candidate Mike Ross, City Year Little Rock, the Southern Legislative Conference Arkansas Committee and ARVets. This year she helped launch the central Arkansas office of the Razorback Foundation. Strother credits her Mountain Home education and teachers for giving her the foundation for her career.
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Strother advises current and future Mountain Home students to take advantage of all the opportunity their schools and community has to offer them.
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Reed, known affectionately as Frau Reed by her students, began the GAPP program 1984 to give her German students more than an knowledge of the language. She was determined to share with them the customs, culture and people of Germany which they couldn’t experience from a tour bus.
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Although Reed retired from teaching at the end of the last school year, the GAPP program continues at Mountain Home High School under the new German teacher, Chris Francis.
The recipient of the National Certificate of Merit from the American Association of Teachers of German, she was also awarded the prestigious Daimler Medallion, presented to her by the City of Scorndorf, Germany. Reed, who says she loved teaching and being with the students, offers this advice to students considering teaching as a career.
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The Night of Honors Banquet at Big Creek Country Club Thursday night begins with cocktails at 5:30 with dinner served at 6. Tickets are $40 each and can be purchased through the Mountain Home Education Foundation office, at the Mountain Home Public School Administrative Office or at the door.
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