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Mr. Corrigan, Director of CFCI, came to the school this summer from Searsport District Middle School in Maine. He was the Principal of the 6-8 Middle School for three years and Dean of Students and Athletic Director for the High School and the Middle School in Searsport for one year. Previous to this experience he was a High School Science Teacher for 8 years. More... |
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| Kathy Rettig, Business Operations Coordinator| e-mail | |||||||
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Kathy
Rettig joined the new CFCI Administrative team as Business Operations
Coordinator in July 2008. Born in Boulder Colorado, Kathy holds degrees in Accounting and Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona. More.... |
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| Michael Zentmeyer, Human Resource Coordinator | e-mail | |||||||
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Michael Zentmeyer comes to CFCI with 32 years experience working in public schools in New Hanover County. He was an elementary grade teacher, peer evaluator and, for the past 13 years, an elementary school principal. More.... |
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| Lori Underwood, Curriculum Coordinator | e-mail | |||||||
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Ms. Underwood comes to CFCI this year from South Brunswick Middle School where she served as a Curriculum Specialist and Algebra 1 teacher. Before that, Ms. Underwood taught 6th, 7th, and 8th grade math at Leland Middle School. More.... |
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| Pam O'Dell, Front Office Administrator | e-mail | |||||||
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Pam is our front office administrator and maintains student records, handles telephone calls, attendance, visitors, student applications, lottery, enrollment and various other duties. She came to CFCI in January 2003. More.... |
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| Sara Johnson, Secretary | e-mail | |||||||
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Sara is our part-time office assistant, who aids Pam O’Dell, our front office administrative assistant, with a variety of duties. Sara came to CFCI the end of August 2003. More.... | ||||||
Kindergarten/1st
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| Joanne Brinkley | e-mail | |||||||
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Joanne Brinkley has been teaching for 14 years. She taught for four years in Duplin County. While there, she was trained as a Reading Recovery teacher and taught at risk first graders for three years. After moving back to Wilmington, she taught first grade for four years at Mary C Williams in New Hanover County .More... |
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| Beth Carter | e-mail | |||||||
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Beth Carter was one of the founding teachers at CFCI, and is teaching kindergarten this year – her 8th at CFCI. She doesn’t usually reveal how many years she has taught elsewhere, but has enjoyed all of them, teaching at the college level, third grade, first grade, and preschool. More.... |
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| Samantha DePrisco | e-mail | |||||||
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Samantha DePrisco is a native of Waverly, Virginia. She graduated in 2001 from Randolph-Macon College with a degree in Sociology and Studio Art. More.... | ||||||
| René Lemons-Matney | e-mail | |||||||
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Kindergarten/1st
grade teacher René has many connections to CFCI. She is one
of the co-founders of the school, a CFCI Board member, and the mother
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2nd/3rd
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| Harden Barker | e-mail | |||||||
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Harden joined the 2/3 loop in 2004 after teaching 5th grade for 5 years. Harden loves being part of the CFCI community because of the school’s social curriculum and the student-centered learning. More... |
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| Michele
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Michele came to CFCI after teaching at Williston Middle School. She taught three years at the 6th and 7th grade levels. More..
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| Cyndi O'Brien | e-mail | |||||||
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Cyndi
taught at Invin Avenue Open Elementary School in Charlotte for 12
years in multiage classrooms. She was one of the founders of Community
Charger School in Charlotte and taught there for four years.
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| Jan Tremon-Jenkins | e-mail | |||||||
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Jan Tremon-Jenkins has been in education and teaching in the public schools, and various colleges for 28 years. Presently, she is getting certified in Brain Gym. More... | ||||||
4th/5th
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| Arden Gaddy| e-mail | |||||||
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A Wilmington native, I graduated from New Hanover High School in 1983. I attended the University of North Carolina at Wilmington until 1986 when I got married. More... | ||||||
| Nancy Kachadurian |e-mail | |||||||
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Nancy
Kachadurian is a native of Rhode Island. She moved to Wilmington in
1995 where she earned her degree in Elementary Education and Sociology.
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| Lori Benazzi | e-mail | |||||||
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Lori and her new husband James moved to Wilmington in June 2008. She relocated from her hometown of Glen Cove, New York. Lori attended Long Island University, receiving her Bachelor’s degrees in Elementary Education and her Master’s degree in Special Education. More.... | ||||||
| Lori Winner |e-mail | |||||||
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Lori Winner is a home town girl who attended local schools (John T. Hoggard-Go Vikings). She has been married to her one true love since the tender age of 20. More... | ||||||
Middle
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| Jackie Anderson, 7th grade homeroom | e-mail | |||||||
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Jackie Anderson comes from Roanoke, VA, where she earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary and Middle Grades Education with a concentration in math. More...
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| Lisa Brackney, 7th grade homeroom |e-mail | |||||||
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Lisa moved to Wilmington from Tampa, Florida in November 2005. She graduated from USF in Tampa and has been teaching for five years. Lisa is currently attending UNCW for her master's degree. More... |
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| Indira Grimes, 8th grade homeroom |e-mail | |||||||
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Indira Girmes is from Houston, Texas. She completed her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1993 and worked as an engineer for 9 years with Andersen Windows and Corning. More... |
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| Jon Hartman, 6th grade homeroom | e-mail | |||||||
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Jon Hartman was raised in Mt. Pleasant, NC and then moved to Wilmington to attend UNCW in 2002. He graduated in 2006 with a degree in K-6 education. More... | ||||||
| Teresa Lambe, 8th grade homeroom | e-mail | |||||||
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Teresa Lambe has been teaching at CFCI since 2002. She currently teaches middle grades language arts and eighth grade social studies. More... | ||||||
| Sarah McCorcle, 6th grade homeroom |e-mail | |||||||
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Sarah McCorcle is originally from Lynchburg, VA. She attended VA Tech for undergraduate where she earned a BA in History and English. More.. | ||||||
Specialists |
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| Joanne DaVolio - Technology | e-mail | |||||||
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Ms. DaVolio is a native of New York and holds a degree in Computer Science from Hofstra University. After 16 years working as a programmer and system administrator, she decided to venture into the education field. More... | ||||||
| Renée DeVos - Physical Education | e-mail | |||||||
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Renée DeVos, a native of New York State, decided to make North Carolina her home in 1995. She is a graduate of UNC at Wilmington where she earned her B.A. from the Department of Health and Human Science with her major in physical education and concentration in biology. More... | ||||||
| Adrienne Drum - Art | e-mail | |||||||
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Adrienne Drum has been working with children and art for over 15 years. She graduated from Lenoir-Rhyne College and holds B.A. in Art Education. More... | ||||||
| Sharon Moore- K-5 General Music and 5-8 Band | e-mail | |||||||
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Sharon D. Moore, a native of Illinois, moved to North Carolina in 2005. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI) with her B.A. in Instrumental Music and from American University (Washington, DC) with her M.F.A. in Arts Managements. More... | ||||||
| Tami Mix - Choral Music (grades 5-8) | e-mail | |||||||
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Tami grew up in Arizona but moved to Raleigh to attend NCSU after meeting her husband, Phil. They eventually moved here to Phil’s hometown of Wilmington. More... | ||||||
| Ingrid Stenzel- Spanish | e-mail | |||||||
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"Senora S" began studying Spanish during her senior year of high school. She had just returned from a year living abroad in Denmark. It was challenging readjusting to the Minnesotan high school and adding another foreign language to her brain. More... | ||||||
Exceptional
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| Nancy Johnsen , EC Coordinator | e-mail | |||||||
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Nancy Johnsen comes to CFCI with an extensive background in exceptional children administration. A graduate of the University of Maryland, Mrs. Johnsen obtained her MEd and EdS degrees from the University of West Georgia in Carrolton, GA with dual areas of licensure in Learning Disabilities and Severe Emotional Disturbance. More... | ||||||
| Evelyn Albright | e-mail | |||||||
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Ms. Albright is a teacher in our Exceptional Children’s department. She is proud to have recently served as a People to People International Ambassador for Special Needs traveling with a team of educators from North America and Quatar to the 2007 US-Egypt Education Forum in Cairo, Egypt. More... | ||||||
| Pauline Piner | e-mail | |||||||
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Pauline Piner taught in Indiana for two years as an Exceptional Children’s Teacher before accepting a teaching position at Camp LeJeune Dependents’ School in 1988. Since then she has taught in New Hanover County Schools as well as Cape Fear Academy, a private school. More... | ||||||
| Julie Sartorius | e-mail | |||||||
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Julie Sartorius graduated from UNCW in 2008 with her degree in Elementary Education and a concentration in Studio Art. She returns to CFCI as an EC Assistant after she completed her student teaching at the school in spring 2008. More... |
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| Andrea Busch - Occupational Therapist | e-mail | |||||||
| Andrea Busch graduated with a degree in occupational therapy from the Medical University of South Carolina. She has worked as an occupational therapist for ten years in the field of pediatrics. More... | |||||||
Teacher
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| Sadie Ackerman | e-mail | |||||||
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| Vickie Hiatt | e-mail | |||||||
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My hometown is Burlington, N.C. After graduating from Elon College, I began my teaching career in Lexington, N.C. More... | ||||||
| Clarissa Howe | e-mail | |||||||
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Clarissa Howe is a North Carolina native and has called many places home in both the USA and in Europe, before settling in Wilmington in 1988. She has a B.A. in Anthropology and Art History from UNC Chapel Hill. More... | ||||||
| Sally Myers | e-mail | |||||||
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Ms. Sally has been a resident of Wilmington since 1980 when her family moved here so her husband could take a teaching job at UNCW. Before working at CFCI, she taught in the New Hanover County School System from 1980 until retiring in 2005. More... | ||||||
| Carol Radford | e-mail | |||||||
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Ms. Radford was born in Goldsboro, NC, but spent most of her life in Greenville, NC where she graduated from East Carolina University with a Masters Degree in elementary education and a Principal’s Certificate. More... | ||||||
| Shellie Weunsch | e-mail | |||||||
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Ms. Shelley is a native of Corning, New York and graduated from UNCW with a degree in Studio Art in 2006. She has two children, Addie and Daniel. More... | ||||||
