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Phone Number: home (865)483-8939
email:
Dan
Current:
Retired teacher and coach.
Current member of the Oak Ridge Schools Board of Education. I continue to volunteer coach (track) at Oak Ridge High School and to keep the track team website (http://www.oakridgetrack.org)
Background:
Born and raised in Gallup, New Mexico. Attended public schools
graduating from Gallup High School in June, 1960. Active in school
activities -- football, track, Key Club International, National Honor society, New Mexico Boy's State.
Education:
New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, New Mexico
June 1964 - August 1965:
Received the Master of Science degree with a major in
Biology. Thesis: "The effect of metabolic inhibitors on the metabolism
of Trypanosoma conorhini in culture.
Expenses financed primarily by USPHS Grant A1-05972 (Dr. John F.
Roberts, graduate faculty advisor).
September 1960 - June 1964:
Received the Bachelor of Science degree with a major in Biology and minor in Chemistry. Expenses financed primarily by athletic scholarship (football), summer jobs, and Elk's scholarship. President of the Junior Class.
Experience:
August 1971 to 2000:
Employed by the Oak Ridge Schools (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) as a teacher of science at the junior high level until 1995, then middle school level until present. Tennessee Career Ladder Level III.
* Teaching location -- Jefferson Middle School.
Principal Duties:
- Science teacher at three different grade levels and four different
subject areas.
- Life Science -- seventh grade -- only one year
- Earth Science -- ninth grade -- twelve years
- Biology I -- ninth grade -- three years
- Physical Science -- eighth grade -- twenty-eight years
- Additionally, I taught Physical Education for one period over a two
year period.
- Coached football as an assistant and head coach for 19 years and during that time also coached track and cross-country. I started the cross-country program for both boys and girls and I also started the girls' track program.
Additional Duties:
in-School
- Re-accreditation for Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
- Chair of three different committees.
- Member of Faculty Council -- several terms.
- Chair of the Science Department -- several terms.
- Team Leader for Academic Teaching team -- two years.
- Chair of the school-wide (four grade levels) committee to reorganize the school science curriculum.
- Was third in the "chain of command" for supervising the school
during the absence of the principals.
- Coordinator and director of the ninth grade science fair for many
years.
- Students won numerous awards at the Southern Appalachian Science
and Engineering Fair.
- Two were Grand-Champions -- one each at the Junior and Senior Divisions.
- One of these placed fourth in her division at the International
fair held in Birmingham, Alabama.
System-Wide
- Member and/or chair of textbook adoption committees -- several times
- Member of curriculum revision committees -- several times.
- Member of search committee to find a new Oak Ridge High School football coach.
- Trip leader and director for Japan Sister-City visit to Naka-machi, Japan. Involved leading eight students and three other adults, speaking to Japanese dignitaries (in Japanese), and follow-up reports to Oak
Ridge staff.
- Coordinating and matching host families for visiting Japanese.
Awards
- Certificate of American Ingenuity from the Edison Society.
Presented at the Southern Appalachian Science and Engineering Fair in April, 1995.
- Certificate of Recognition from Sigma Xi (Oak Ridge Chapter)
Science Educator of the Year. Presented on June 11, 1991.
September 1969 - August 1971:
Employed by Union Carbide Corporation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee as a research associate in the Environmental
Science Division. Principal duties -- research concerning radiation
effects and radionuclide turnover in mammals.
Military Service:
August 1968 - August 1969:
U. S. Military Service. U.S. Army. Assigned to the 2nd Division, 2nd Brigade Headquarters, 82nd Airborne Division, Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. Principal duties -- operations officer. Numerous other duties as
assigned, e.g., member of courts-martial boards.
Highest Rank -- Captain.
August 1966 - August 1968:
U.S. Military Service. U.S. Army. Assigned to the U.S. Army Chemical Center and School, Ft. McClellan, Alabama. Principal duties --
instructor. Numerous other duties as assigned, e.g., investigating and prosecuting officer for courts-martial cases. Highest rank -- First
Lieutenant.
August 1965 - August 1966:
Employed by the University of Utah as a research associate.
Principal duties -- research concerning the transmission of
psittacosis and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever by ticks from mammal to mammal.
Professional Memberships:
- National Education Association
- Tennessee Education Association
- Oak Ridge Education Association
- Oak Ridge Retired Teachers Association (President)
Interests:
Enjoy reading, walking, Tai chi, weight training
Active in St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Oak Ridge, TN ,
- Vestry person -- four terms (three full and one partial as a fill-in) -- including two terms as Senior Warden
- Sunday School teacher
- Member of two search committees to find a new priest -- including one as committee chair
- Lector, Usher, Chalice Bearer
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Donato (Dan) DiGregorio