Colette Thompson Stockum

1983 B.A. Modern Languages

Colette used her language skills for many years; first as a translator and copy editor for TV Guide, and then as a senior editor at Time-Life. In 2002, she decided to go into teaching and started at the Dayton Academy, teaching Spanish to first, second, and third graders and opening up the world of another language and culture to inner-city children.

She went to back to school full time for a M.Ed. degree and is now teaching Spanish in kindergarten through sixth grade at Patterson-Kennedy Elementary School.