Dian Sanders Cox-Beaird

Background

Cox-Beaird, Dian Sanders was born on December 18, 1946 in Murchison, Texas, United States. Daughter of Jessie Jackson and Lola Mae (Burton) Sanders.

Education

Associate of Arts, Kilgore Junior College, 1967; Bachelor, Stephen F. Austin State University, 1969; Master of Education, Stephen F. Austin State University, 1983.

Career

Teacher 8th grade American history and 7th grade Texas history, Chapel Hill Indiana School District, Tyler, Texas, 1970-1979; teacher 6th-7th grade regular, advanced, remedial reading, Sabine Indiana School District, Gladewater, Texas, since 1981. Member, tutor East Texas Literacy Council, Longview, since 1992. Secretary Sabine Junior High PTO, Gladewater, 1990-1991.

Faculty sponsor cheerleaders Chapel Hill Indiana School District, Tyler, 1970-1973, representative curriculum committee, 1976, historian PTO, 1974. Member anthology committee New Jersey Writing Project in Texas, Kilgore, 1991. Selected hostess International Reading Conference, Tucson, 1992.

Achievements

• Dian Sanders Cox-Beaird has been listed as a noteworthy Middle school educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Leader Girl Scouts American, Tyler, 1973. Counselor Camp Natowa-Campfire Girls, Big Sandy, Texas, 1970. Director Bible School, 1st Methodist Church, Overton, Texas, 1980.

Secretary Young Democrats, Kilgore, 1965-1967. Actress Gallery Theater, Jefferson, Texas. Member Opera House Theater and Galley Theater, since 1992, board directors, since 1996.

Board directors Opera House, 1996. Member International Reading Association (presenter 1992), Texas Middle School Association, Piney Woods Reading Council, Texas State Teachers Association (campus representative since 1990, secretary Chapel Hill Indiana School District 1971-1972), Laubach Literacy Action.

Interests

• Avocations: reading, travel, camping, acting.

Connections

Married Richard Lewis Cox, May 24, 1969 (divorced November 1993). 1 child, Stuart Scott. Married Charles A.Beaird, December 1994.

Father:

Jessie Jackson Sanders

Mother:

Lola Mae (Burton) Sanders

Spouse:

Charles A.Beaird

Spouse:

Richard Lewis Cox

child:

Stuart Scott Cox-Beaird