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ContributorsArizona Board of Regents (Publisher) / Marine Biological Laboratory Archives (Publisher)
ContributorsArizona Board of Regents (Publisher) / Marine Biological Laboratory Archives (Publisher)
ContributorsArizona Board of Regents (Publisher) / Marine Biological Laboratory Archives (Publisher)
Created1908-06-13
ContributorsArizona Board of Regents (Publisher) / Marine Biological Laboratory Archives (Publisher)
ContributorsArizona Board of Regents (Publisher) / Marine Biological Laboratory Archives (Publisher)
ContributorsArizona Board of Regents (Publisher) / Marine Biological Laboratory Archives (Publisher)
ContributorsArizona Board of Regents (Publisher) / Marine Biological Laboratory Archives (Publisher)
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Jane was born Jane Sellers in 1927. She was born in Pomeroy, Ohio- town on the Ohio River that was eight miles long and half a mile wide. After graduating from East Grand Rapids High School in 1944, she attended MacMurray College in Jacksonville, IL where she earned her BA in Liberal Arts in 1948. Then, one year later, she received a Master's in Education and her teacher's certificate from the University of Southern California.
In 1949, she got her first teaching job in Victorville, CA where she stayed there until January 1961, when she moved to Glendale, California and taught at Toll Junior High School. She became a Fellow and co-director in the UCLA Writing Project. Ms. Hancock taught until she was eighty-eight, when an illness forced her to retire in 2015. Currently, she gets great satisfaction from leading classes for local writers once a week and another one for teachers which meets once a month. Jane is widowed with five grown sons, many grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
In 1949, she got her first teaching job in Victorville, CA where she stayed there until January 1961, when she moved to Glendale, California and taught at Toll Junior High School. She became a Fellow and co-director in the UCLA Writing Project. Ms. Hancock taught until she was eighty-eight, when an illness forced her to retire in 2015. Currently, she gets great satisfaction from leading classes for local writers once a week and another one for teachers which meets once a month. Jane is widowed with five grown sons, many grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
ContributorsRibisi, Lyn (Interviewer) / Hancock, Jane Sellers (Interviewee)
Created2019-11-12
DescriptionInterviewer: Jasmine Nelms
Interview about teaching experience within the community.
Interview about teaching experience within the community.
ContributorsNelms, Jasmine (Contributor)
Created2019-11-11
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This is an interview with Tammy J Mentel an informal educator who intertwined charter, public, private and homeschooling options for her daughters and then returned to academia to become a teacher. However after working as an education intern, charter school teacher and special education teacher aide, Tammy found many issues in the education field that deferred her from becoming a formal educator officially. Her background and perspective on these issues are addressed in this interview.
Created2019-11-20