Middle and secondary school educator primary
Vorous, Margaret Estelle was born on February 14, 1947 in Charles Town, West Virginia, United States. Daughter of Benjamin Welton and Helen Virginia Vorous. Associate of Arts in Pre-Education , Potomac State College, West Virginia University, 1967.
Graduated from the University Virginia.
Teacher 3d-4th grade Highview School, Frederick County, Virginia, 1968-1969, 3d grade Kernstown Elementary School, Frederick County, 1970-1971, East. Wilson Morrison Elementary School, Front Royal, Virginia, 1971-1972, Stonewall Elementary School, Frederick County, 1972-1978. Teacher 4th grade South Jefferson Elementary School, Jefferson County (West Virginia) Schools, 1978-1979, Emergency School Aid Acting reading teacher/reading specialist, 1980-1982, reading teacher/specialist Page Jackson Solar Elem.Sch., 1983-1987. Adult basic education teacher Dowell J. Howard Vocational Center, Winchester, Virginia, 1984-1987, G.E.D. teacher, coordinator, 1985-1987.
Library, media specialist Powell Valley Middle School, 1988-1991.
Adult Basic Education/General Educational Development/English as Second Language teacher for JOBS program Berkeley County Schools, 1992-1994. Library, media specialist Northwestern Elementary, 1994-1995, first grade teacher, 1995-1997.
Librarian, media specialist Widmyer Elementary, 1997. Teacher 4th grade Ranson (West Virginia) Elementary School, 1979.
Reading tutor; reading tutor, trainer LaubachLiteracy International, 1989.
Art representative Creative Arts Festival at Kernstown, 1971, Stonewall elementary schools, 1973-1977. Member cultural task force Frederick County School, 1974-1975, music task force, 1973-1974, textbook adoption committee for reading, writing, 1976-1977. Founder, editor: The Reading Gazette, The Reading Tribune, Emergency School Aid Acting Reading Program, South Jefferson Elementary School, 1980-1981, Shepherdstown Elementary School, 1981-1982.
Creator numerous reading games, activities.
Volunteer fundraiser American Cancer Society, Frederick County, Virginia, 1981. Volunteer blood donor American Red Cross, 1978.
Member Frederick County Political Action Committee, Jefferson County Political Action Committee. Delegate 103-109th Annual Diocesan Convs., Episc.Ch., registrar of vestry Grace Episcopalian Church, Middleway, West Virginia, 1980-1987, licensed lay reader, 1980-1990, licensed chalice bearer, 1983-1990.
Licensed lay reader, lay eucharistic minister Saint Pauls"s on-the-Hill, Winchester, Virginia, 1996, vestry member, 1997.
Committeeperson Lebanon Democrats, 1988-1989. Commissioned member Order of Jerusalem, 1985. VEMA leadership participant, 1989-1991, 95.
Facilitator VEMA Conference, 1994, 97.
Participant Seven Habits program Covey Leadership Center, 1993, Spring Festival Children"s Literature, Frostburg (Maryland.) State University, 1998.
Member International Reading Association, National Education Association, Virginia Reading Association, Shenandoah Valley Reading Council, Association Supervision and Curriculum Development, West Virginia Education Association, National Education Association. JeffersonCounty Education Association (faculty representative), Fauquier County Education Association, Virginia Education Association, West Virginia Adult Education Association, Virginia Ednl. Media Association, South Jefferson Parent-Teachers Association, Potomac State College Alumni Association, James Madison U. Alumni Association, Frederick County Democratic Women, Morgan County Education Association.
