Mary Payne Hairald

Background

Hairald, Mary Payne was born on February 25, 1936 in Tupelo, Mississippi, United States. Daughter of Will Burney and Ivey Lee (Berryhill) Payne.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Commerce, U. Mississippi, 1957; Master in Business Education, U. Mississippi, 1963; postgraduate, Mississippi College, 1964; postgraduate, Mississippi State University, 1970; postgraduate, University of Southern Mississippi, 1986-1988, 90; postgraduate, University of California, Davis, summer 1997; postgraduate, Babson College, summer 1998.

Career

Business education teacher, John Rundle High School, Grenada, Mississippi, 1957-1959; youth recreation leader, City of Nettleton, Mississippi, summers 1960-1961; teacher social studies, Nettleton Junior High School, 1959-1970; teacher-coordinator cooperative vocational education program, Nettleton High School, since 1970; area manager, World Book, Inc., Chicago, 1972-1984; local coordinator, American Institute for Foreign Study, Greenwich, Connecticut, since 1988. Instructor business Itawamba Community College, Tupelo, 1975-1980. Sponsor Cmty. Coord. for Program of Academy Exch.

(PAX), since 1998; advisor Distributive Education Clubs of America, Nettleton, since 1985, state officers' advisor, since 1995. Appointed advisory county member Mississippi Cooperative Education-State Department Education.

Achievements

• Mary Payne Hairald has been listed as a noteworthy Vocational education educator, coordinator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Co-organizer Nettleton Youth Recreation Booster Club. Fundraiser Muscular Dystrophy Association. Sunday school teacher college and career class Nettleton United Methodist Church.

Member American Association of University Women (charter), American Vocational Association (Region IV Cooperative Vocational Education Teacher of Year 1985, Region IV Marketing Education Teacher of Year 1988, Region IV New and Related Superior vena cava syndrome Teacher of Year 1996, Region IV Outstanding Vocational Teacher of Year 1996, National Teacher of the Year 97), Cooperative Work Experience Education Association, Mississippi Association Vocational Educators (district secretary), Mississippi Association Cooperative Vocational Education Teachers (vice president 1980-1983, president 1983-1984, Mississippi Teacher of Yr.1984, 87, 95), Mississippi Association Marketing Educators (District II Teacher of Year 1993, 94), Marketing Education Association, Nettleton Ladies Civitan Club (charter), Phi Delta Kappa (Phi Delta Kappa Kappan of Year 1998, foundation representative).

Connections

Married Leroy Utley Hairald, May 31, 1958. 1 child, Burney LeShawn.

Father:

Will Burney Payne

Mother:

Ivey Lee (Berryhill) Payne

Spouse:

Leroy Utley Hairald

child:

Burney LeShawn Hairald