Tracy Davis works with Heavyn Horton (CQ) as she teaches students in the multi-handicap classroom at Dalewood Middle School.
ABOUT THE FINALIST:* Name: Hazel Elizabeth Robinson Bowles Foundation* Organized: 1998 after Bowles retired from Dalewood Middle School* Why: Bowles, family members and a few people in the community wanted to help the school and they set up the foundationQUOTES:* I retired in 1998 and I wanted to do something for the school and the students.” – Hazel Bowles, a founder of the Hazel Elizabeth Robinson Bowles Foundation* “I am very grateful to the foundation for all of the benefits that are afforded to my students.” – Tracy Davis, Dalewood Middle School teacherFUN FACTS* As a 6-year-old, Tracy Davis recalled she would visit her great-aunt who lived in the same community with Bowles and play with Bowles children.* The foundation was organized on Bowles birthday
Just two days before school was to start last summer, Dalewood Middle School teacher Tracy Davis realized she didn’t have the supplies for the new class to which she was assigned.
“As a teacher, we are only allotted so much money to buy supplies,” Davis said about the class for multi-handicapped students. “That amount wasn’t going to cover what was needed.”
Then, she said, her principal brought in Hazel Bowles and her husband, and they made a list of needed supplies which included items ranging from laundry detergent to snacks.
“She and her husband and daughter delivered them to my classroom,” Davis said.