Background
Harris, Harriett Smitherman was born on April 28, 1932 in Centreville, Alabama, United States. Daughter of Burl Herbert and Adelaide Helen (Parker) Smitherman.
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Harriett Smitherman Harris
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor of Science, U. Chattanooga, 1956; postgraduate, Cumberland U., Lebanon, Tennessee, 1990.
Career
Teacher 5th grade, Eastdale/Woodmore Elementary School, Hamilton County, Tennessee, 1954-1956;
teacher 4th and 5th grades, Spring Creek Elementary School, Hamilton County, Tennessee, 1956-1959;
teacher 4th and 5th grades, Anna B. Lacey Elementary School, Hamilton County, Tennessee, 1959-1985;
teacher 4th and 5th grades, East Ridge Elementary School, Chattanooga, 1985-1994;
retired from teaching, June 1994. Homework hotline teacher Hamilton County Board Education, since 1988. Chairman Science and Health Textbook Adoptionk, Chattanooga, 1991, Hamilton County Zone Spelling Bee, 1991.
Coordinator for school Academy Olympics, Chattanooga StateTech. Community College, 1991-1993. Mentor Governor's School for Prospective Teachers, U. Tennessee Chattanooga Campus, 1992.
Mentor Public Education Foundation, 1992-1994, grade level chairperson 1992-1994. Member Site-Based Decision Making Council, 1992-1994, advisory county Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, 1992-1994. Judge Tennessee Department Education Mini-Grants,1993.
School representative Southeast Region Teacher's Study Council, 1989-1994. Judge Hamilton County and Southeast District.
Achievements
Membership
Membership vice president Freedoms Foundation, Chattanooga, 1990-1992, president chapter, 1992-1994, vice president education, since 1995. Volunteer Media Center, 1995. Docent Chattanooga Symphony and Opera Guild, since 1995.
Member National Education Association, Parent-Teachers Association (life), American Association of University Women (correspondent secretary Tennessee division 1988-1989), National Ret.Tchrs. Association, Tennessee Education Association, Hamilton County Education Association (chairman since 1990), Tennessee Middle Schools Association, International Reading Association (chair communications committee since 1995), International Speakers Platform Association, Delta Kappa Gamma (membership chairman chapter 1990-1991), Phi Mu (vice president chapter 1953-1954).
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Connections
Married Winton Walter Harris, June 3, 1955.
