10 Things About Mrs. Cooper

10.She has met 5 Presidents of the United States.

9. She taught English as a Second Language to Yemeni civil service students at the Yemen American Language Institute through Peace Corps.

8 . She has a Masters in the Arts of Teaching from Towson State University as well as a BA in English from Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, NC

7 . She has been teaching since 1993.

6. She has taught at Sara Collins since 2004. 

5. She has taught in Black Mountain, NC, and  Asheville, NC in a variety of school settings including a math/science based charter school and Carolina Day School.

4. She has a husband, one daughter and three sons, and one dauchaund named Lil Smokey. 

3. She has completed a 10K and  You Go Girl Triathlon. 

2. She can speak some Arabic and Spanish.

1. She interviewed Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan. They both navigated the first non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world in the Rutan Voyager aircraft from December 14 to 23, 1986.  The couple flew into the Gettysburg  Regional  Airport while Mrs. Cooper was a feature writer and newspaper reporter for the Gettysburg Times.