Family: My husband, Dana, and I have 4 children: Nick, 31; Rachel, 25; Jennifer, 29; and Allie, 25. Nick is in a PhD program at U.K. and Rachel is working on a masters degree in geology at U.K. Jennifer and her husband live in Arkansas and have two children. Allie lives in Massachusetts and has a daughter. So...we have three grand-daughters all together!
Birthplace:
Lexington, Kentucky
Education: B.A. in Education/Special Education; MSLS from the University of Kentucky. Achieved National Board Certification in 2009.
Experience: I taught moderately and severely mentally/multiply
handicapped students for 6 years in Garrard and Jessamine Counties before becoming a
librarian in Woodford County. I have been at Northside Elementary
since it opened in 1992. This is my 26th year of teaching.
Hobbies: I love to read (especially mysteries), work in my flower garden, take photographs, sing, and travel. I'm a member of the Lexington Singers, a chorus of approximately 150 singers. Our most recent international trip was to Brazil in the summer of 2007, where I got to go hang gliding (see photo below)! The summer of 2003 we spent 10 days in Italy, where we performed in Rome, Venice, and Florence. We have also sung at Carnegie Hall in New York (1999); at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris; and in Austria (2000). In February, 2009 we sang at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. I LOVE to travel. My daughter and I went to Egypt over Christmas break (2007), where we rode camels at the Pyramids of Giza. How awesome is that? My son, daughter and I recently went to Greece (2010). This past summer, my husband and I went on an Alaskan cruise.
Me with two of my grandchildren Mrs.
Horowitz hang gliding in Brazil and riding camels in Egypt
(Sadie, age 2 and Norah, age 9 mo.)