Local educator receives Cornetet Award

Pamela Spann from Daingerfield, has received a Lucile Cornetet Individual Professional Development Award from The Delta Kappa Gamma Educational Foundation. She is a Pre-K teacher at West Elementary. This award will enable Spann to attend the “I Teach Pre-K! Conference.” “This award will allow me to receive information which will improve my work in the classroom. As an early childhood teacher, I find this very important,” Spann said. Jane D. Tanner, Educational Foundation Board of Trustees Chair, stated that “The Foundation awards approximately $60,000 annually to outstanding educators to enable them to attend professional activities in their respective fields.”

A bequest to The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International from the Lucile Cornetet estate was the basis for establishing the Lucile Cornetet Professional Development Fund in 2005. Miss Cornetet, a long-time educator and Society member from Ohio, died in 2001.

The Educational Foundation supports and encourages intercultural understanding and educational excellence. Established in 1964, the Foundation is a non-profit organization located in The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International Headquarters in Austin, Texas. The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, established in 1929, is an honor organization for key women educators with members in 18 countries.