Birthday celebration for Edna Pemberton

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Birthday celebration for Edna Pemberton

Edna Pemberton Birthday Celebration

The large community room at Southwest Center Mall on West Camp Wisdom Road was full of people, smiles and praise this afternoon. Citizens and officials came to say, "Happy Birthday, Edna Pemberton!"

Her pastor, Rev. Bryan L. Carter of Concord Missionary Baptist Church, gave the purpose. Those who attended knew why they were assembled. Mistress of Ceremony Diane Gipson, officials and friends were there to celebrate their own Edna Pemberton connection.

This birthday celebration was an ideal opportunity to give appreciation to a beloved community servant. It was a time to say thanks to Edna Pemberton for caring about and contributing to the greater Dallas community, not only through major challenges this year but during decades of past service.

The Friends of Edna Pemberton Host Committee planned the community Birthday Celebration.

Thanks to you, Edna Pemberton, for the many ways you help the community, including students, parents and public schools.

Happy Birthday, Edna Pemberton of school district 6!

A Teacher's Creed

"In the classroom on the first day of a new school year, I am eager to meet my students. I have rehearsed my greeting and first day’s remarks, but no matter how many years I’ve prepared for this procedure, it’s always new. My heart pumps a bit harder, faster; I feel adrenaline like an athlete, or like an actor, or maybe like a novice public speaker. It’s a marvelous feeling, this first day, because I know that something special is going to happen, and I know it because I’ve experienced it before and I know that I will experience it every time I meet a new class throughout my venerable career. And then they’re seated before me and I smile at this special feeling. This is an assembly of students, yes. But there’s so much more, because each of these young persons is more than just a student entrusted to me. Each of these students has a story to tell, a lifetime, however brief, of experiences, a history in volumes whose richness and depth I can barely begin to fathom. And so as I absorb the first glimpse of these young charges, I must appreciate the extent of my responsibility, of the privilege I’ve accepted in presenting these young souls my special knowledge. In offering them my talent and passion, I am adding an enormous array of new bright stars to the vast firmament of their minds, stars that will never have time to fade in their lifetimes. I will be part of their story. And I know that each of them will always be part of mine. And that’s a good feeling, a feeling that is perpetually renewed, revisited, and rewritten in A Teacher’s Creed."

Carla Ranger - Dallas ISD Education Blog

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Birthday celebration for Edna Pemberton

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