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| Tamika Singletary Johnson |
JUNE 4, 2014 - Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools is celebrating
the 50thanniversary of the consolidation of the city and county
school systems. As part of that, we’re recognizing people who are a product of
the school system who now work for the school system.
Tamika Singletary Johnson is an assistant principal at Northwest Middle
School. She graduated from Parkland High School in 1999. Before that, she
attended Easton and Philo. She still stays in touch with two teachers she had
in elementary school – Veleria Singletary (no relation) and Mildred Benjamin.
“They really took time with us – made sure we were take care of, and we read. I just loved school.”
Both women are still teaching. Both
are at Cook Elementary School.
When Johnson was at Parkland, one of
her math teachers was Chris Nichols, who will be succeeding Dennis Moser as principal at the Career Center when he retires. When she was in high school,
she took JROTC. One day, Lt. Col. Willie McCoy, who, these days, is school
system’s program director for JROTC, said he noticed that she hadn’t applied to any
colleges. She didn’t have the confidence to apply, she told him. He said she needed
to apply to college and that he would sit down with her and help her fill out
the applications. And he did.
She loves being able to do for today’s
students what such people in the school system did for her. “I understand why I
am here,” Johnson said. “I was taught be the best so I try to be the best.”
She started working for the school system in
2003 as a teacher at Walkertown Middle School. After a participating in a
principal fellowship in Lexington, she became an assistant principal at
Northwest in 2012.
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| Marion Tuttle |
Marion Tuttle is the lead secretary at the Career Center.
She graduated from Griffith in 1964. That was the end of the first year of
consolidation. She started at Union Cross and switched to Griffith in sixth
grade.
Tuttle went to work for the school system 30 years ago as a
kindergarten assistant at Hall-Woodward Elementary School. From there, she went
to Mineral Springs Middle as the second secretary. Later, she also started
working summers for the Summer Enrichment Program. When Dennis Moser was the
principal at Jefferson Elementary, she went to work there. After he became
principal at the Career Center, he invited her to apply for a job there when it
opened. She has been there ever since.
Cydney Conger graduated from
East Forsyth in 1977. She also attended Kernersville elementary and junior high
schools and Carver. She started working for the school system in 1984 as a
teacher at Walkertown Elementary School in 1984. She came to Central Office in
1997 and oversaw several special programs before moving into her current
position working with staff development and the program for beginning teachers.
As the Program Manager for Professional Development and the Coordinator for
STAY. She is married to Ed Simpson, who is the son of Harold Simpson, who, as
principal, opened three schools – Lewisville, Southwest and West.
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| Cydney Conger |
If you graduated from high school here
and now work for the school system, we’re inviting you to send us photo of you,
if possible, holding your yearbook or diploma or wearing your letter jacket (if
you can still fit in it). Anything else that connects you to those days works
just fine, too. And, if you have a picture of one of your classes in elementary
school, by all means, send that, too.
Be sure to let us know when you
graduated from what high school and what your job title is these days.
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