Bernice Knautz Jefferis

Background

Jefferis, Bernice Knautz was born on October 5, 1931 in Cleveland. Daughter of Otto and Margarete (Wilkens) Knautz.

Education

Student, Baldwin Wallace College, 1950-1952; Bachelor of Science in Education, Cleveland State University, 1970; Master of Education, Cleveland State University, 1975.

Career

Teacher, Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Schools, since 1970. Chairman of the board of trustees Greater Cleveland Teacher Center, 1976-1977. Visiting professor classics Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1989.

Achievements

• Bernice Knautz Jefferis has been listed as a noteworthy Teacher by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member advisory county Teacher Resource Center Cleveland Museum Art, since 1980. Trustee Vergilian Society, Societas Cumana, Campania Tours, Inc. Fellow Aeneid Institute, National Endowment for Humanities, Council for Basic Education.

Member American Classical League (chairman elementary teachers classics 1989-1991), Ohio Classical Conference, Classical Association Midwest and South.

Connections

Married Richard H. Jefferis, March 29, 1952 (deceased August 1984). Children: Richard H. Junior, Robert, Jill.

Father:

Otto Knautz

Mother:

Margarete (Wilkens) Knautz

Spouse:

Richard H. Jefferis

child:

Richard H. Junior Jefferis

child:

Robert Jefferis

child:

Jill Jefferis