Reba Greer

In 1971, I began 40 years in Prince William County’s Public Schools. I taught English, coordinated the county’s high school gifted program, and served as the county’s Language Arts Curriculum Specialist. Work as a High School Assistant Principal took me to central office. I supervised K-12 Curriculum Restructuring for Art, Music, Foreign Languages, Social Studies, Libraries, and Language Arts. In Language Arts we developed our K-12 research assessment.

Prior to work in Virginia, I taught in Georgia, California, Mississippi, and Maryland. My graduate degree is from George Mason University. My undergraduate degree is at the University of Mississippi.

Retired from Virginia in 2011, I returned home. A W&R teacher checking roll in the Ford Center lobby introduced me to the Department of Writing and Rhetoric. A founding principle for our University, Rhetoric requires creating research-based text and oral presentation. We gather information, develop and modify our hypothesis to create persuasive argument.

I first visited Mississippi Wednesday, February 12, 1941 in Pearson’s clinic over Louisville’s Strand Picture Show. I grew up a mile or so outside town with Bo, Diane, John, and 3 sets of McCullouch cousins. Sundays, we walked the land or drove to Bethsalem. The well yet flows at the site of our first house. Bethsalem now holds four generations. Whippoorwills still call the Wife of Lance, the Mother to Smith, and the Grandmother for Greer.