Rebecca Anne Jolly

Background

Jolly, Rebecca Anne was born on January 30, 1943 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Daughter of Brooks Hobson and Rebecca Pearl (Smith) Baker.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Biology and Psychology, U. Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1964; education certified, U. South Alabama, 1981; postgraduate, U. Georgia, 1990; postgraduate, University of Southern Mississippi, 1992.

Career

Assistant virologist, Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, 1964-1965; teacher mathematics, Mobile County Public Schools, Mobile, Alabama, 1965-1966; teacher earth science, Mobile County Public Schools, Mobile, Alabama, since 1983; head science department, Mobile County Public Schools, Mobile, Alabama, since 1983. Member of advisory board SouthEastern Regional Visiting for Education. Presenter workshops on environmental education and development leadership skills to professional conversations.

Leader workshops on science experimentation for elementary, middle and high schools teachers, also on environmental science, microscopy, laboratory techniques. Proposal writer for science. Graduate assistant U. South Alabama, Mobile, 1982-1983.

Member Mobile Regional Science Far Committee, Mobile County Science Fair Committee. President Alabama State Teacher Forum.

Achievements

• Rebecca Anne Jolly has been listed as a noteworthy Secondary school educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Speaker to civic organizations on education-related topics. Member Alabama Governor's Commision on School Violence, Task Force on Education Technology. Member personnel committee, children's director Hillcrest Baptist Church.

Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, NSTA, National Association Biology Teachers (director, chairman selection commission to choose Alabama's Outstanding Biology Teacher Award 1991-1993, member resource team to train middle level Alabama science teachers), Mobile County Science Teachers Association (co-founder, secretary-treas), National State Teachers of Year, Alabama Science Teachers Association, National Middle Level Science Teachers Association, National Earth Science.Tchrs. Association, Environmental Education Association Alabama, Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Kappa Gamma, Kappa Delta Pi.

Connections

Married James Chester Jolly, Junior, June 12, 1965. Children: James Christopher, Brooks Alan, Randall Scott.

Father:

Brooks Hobson Baker

Mother:

Rebecca Pearl (Smith) Baker

Spouse:

James Chester Jolly

child:

James Christopher Jolly

child:

Randall Scott Jolly

child:

Brooks Alan Jolly