Background
Bennett, Velma Jean was born on September 29, 1942 in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. Daughter of William Bud Baily, Daniel (stepfather) and Dessie Mae (Coleman) Ray.
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Velma Jean Bennett
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Student, Boston State College, U. Massachusetts, Boston, 1976-1982; student, American Institute for Foreign Study, Kenya, 1980; Master of Education, Cambridge College, 1983; postgraduate, Emmanuel College, Massachusetts, 1995; postgraduate, Harvard University, 1995-1996.
Career
Teacher middle grades, St. James Ednl. Center, Boston, 1971-1976; student teacher, William Monroe Trotter School, Boston, 1981; teacher, Crispus Attucks Children's Center, Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1981-1983; head teacher, Ellen Jackson Children's Center, Boston, 1983-1984; teacher grade 1, Franklin Delano Roosevelt School, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, 1984-1985; teacher, Henry Grew School, Hyde Park, 1985-1987; teacher grade 1, Ralph Waldo Emerson School, Roxbury, 1987-1988; teacher, Hamilton Elementary School, Brighton, Massachusetts, 1988-1993. Chairperson, member parent involvement Boston Public Schools, 1993-1997, sch.based union representative, 1994-1995, secretary healthy kids program, 1994-1996, faculty senate acting secretary, 1996-1997.
Achievements
Membership
Active Shaklee, Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1989-1996, Peoples Baptist Church, Boston, 1990. Member International Women's Writing Guild, Academy American Poets, International Society.Poetry.
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Married Warren Carlton Bennett, May 2, 1958 (divorced April 1968). Children:Arlene, Beverly, Carla, Doreen Bennett-Samuel, Eric, Rodney.
