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BERTIE LEDGER-ADVANCE MARCH 15,20171 AS The fabric of Bertie County since 1832 Continued Corbett From A1 Depending on the day, she will teach elemen tary, middle and high school students - some times combinations of all three. “I’m busy,” she said. “But 1 am used to it.” Teaching runs in her family. “There are a lot of teachers in my family,” Corbett said. “My dad had sisters that taught, and lot of cousins on my mother’s side taught.” Corbett learned from them that teachers are able to make a differ ence in children’s lives. “They taught me that you can make a differ ence in someone’s life,” she said. “Sometimes when kids get off track, you can be the one who has a positive influence on them and get them back on track, whereas otherwise they may not hear it.” Corbett grew up in Garner, and played softball at Wake Chris tian Academy. She then went to Peace College and Elon University for softball. She earned her bach elor of science degree from Elon and is a certi fied K-12 teacher with a biology endorsement. Corbett started her teaching career at Cur rituck High School. She taught physical educa tion and coached the softball team to a pair of state championships in 1987 and 1992. In addition, Corbett started the Knights vol leyball team. “They (Currituck) were looking and it just so happened that 1 had relatives that lived there,” she said. “1 ap plied everywhere and just wanted a job, and they encouraged me to apply there.” Corbett taught at Cur rituck until 1993. She then took an extended break to get married and start a family - first a daughter, Hallie, now 23, followed by two sons, Wyatt, 20, and Lane, 17. “When my youngest child (Lane) went to kindergarten, I went back,” she said. Corbett found her way to Lawrence Acad emy when she and her family moved near the school to help her hus band Bill’s father with some medical issues. Thwart From A1 investigating several incidents related to the delivery of drugs and cellular phones to the prison, and began a surveillance operation. At approximately 10:45 a.m. Saturday, two men were seen on a path leading to the prison grounds, with one of them carrying a volleyball. The two were intercepted by Windsor Police Officers Chris Leggett and Nao mi Wiggins. “The officers spoke to the young men and during the interview, the men began to run,” Chief Lane said. Officer Wiggins was able to secure one sus pect while Officer Leg gett gave chase, and cornered the second suspect in the yard of ^^"S’wiPBnBrBspr' IKI 'v " -Xi-i ♦Vi |0L lul iiK'l if'' iJi' I Lawrence Academy boys tennis coach Lisa Corbett shows Mason Berry, a first-year junior player, different grips for JIM GREEN / Bertie Ledger-Advance ground strokes during practice at the Windsor courts. “Shortly after moving here, he died,” Corbett said. “1 didn’t want to go back (to Currituck) because 1 was halfway home. 1 had heard a lot of good things about this school, and a lot of people from my church sent their kids here, so it made sense for me to work here.” But after such a long break, why return to teaching? “1 just love teach ing,” she said. “1 love kids and love watching them learn.” Corbett had another reason for returning to the classroom. “1 knew 1 wanted to be involved with my chil drens’ education, and 1 wanted to be on the same schedule my kids were on,” she said. “1 wanted a job where we have the same holidays and breaks. 1 wanted to be with them as much as possible.” Initially, Corbett be gan at LA as a volun teer - first with the PTO and then, with a group called Art Moms. “At the time they couldn’t afford an art teacher, so they had this program called Art Moms,” Corbett ex plained. “You’d come in and do a craft with the kids, and we had a group called Lunch Moms where you are with them and the teachers could have a break. 1 enjoyed it, it was fun, the teachers appreciated it and the kids enjoyed seeing me.” With the PTO, Cor bett served as presi dent and vice-president and remains a liaison for teachers. To this day, she still volunteers with the booster club and other groups, as her sched ule allows. Corbett’s teaching ca reer at Lawrence start ed when her youngest was in kindergarten. “Lane’s teacher left after Christmas and they hired me to fill her spot,” she said. During her career at Lawrence, Corbett has taught biology. Life science,horticulture, health and physical ed ucation and anatomy. She even helps in the lunchroom doing ev erything from serving high school and mid dle school students, to making sandwiches and cooking French fries anc chicken ten ders. Corbett started her coaching career through her children. “When Hallie was in the sixth grade, she wanted to play mid dle school basketball and they didn’t have a team,” she said. “The 2\D told her if she could find a coach, they would have a team,” she said. “Hallie said ‘my mom will do it.’” Corbett coached her daughter in junior var sity basketball and was the varsity coach for a year. “When Hallie was in seventh grade she played tennis and then the coach retired, so they didn’t have a coach,” she said. “My daughter said, ‘my mom will coach ten nis.’ So for a while 1 was coaching girls tennis and basketball.” Corbett started coaching boys tennis at Lawrence at the behest of her middle son, Wy att, who tried out but didn’t make the base ball team. “He told me it would be nice if we started a boys tennis team, so we started one and we’ve had one ever since,” she said. Her youngest .son. Lane, is a junior on the team this spring. So while Corbett’s coaching career didn’t start the conventional way, she said “1 think 1 would have missed it if my children had not volunteered me, because 1 didn’t turn them down.” Corbett has been in volved in education for nearly two decades and has witnessed many changes since she first started in the class room. “There is so much more technology now,” she said. “We didn’t have access to any of that when 1 started. Computers were still pretty new and you had to learn computer lan guage, and there was no Google and no cell phones.” For example, when students wrote re search papers, they had to go to the library and utilize the refer ence materials, Corbett said. “It was not as easy an access to information as there is now,” she said. How has it affected Corbett as a teacher? She enjoys the conve nience but dislikes the addiction to being on line. “Let’s say if 1 don't have access to a com puter lab, 1 can ask stu dents to pull out their cell phones and give them what they need to look up that day rather than wait a day to gain access to a lab,” she said, “because other wise we can’t use cell phones in class.” “1 don’t like the addic tion part of it,” she said. “Students check their phones to see the time, and that’s not what cell phones are for. “Wear a watch - everything has its time and place.” Corbett’s classes are active and interactive, as explained by one student. “She is so fun and al lows us to do games,, but she teaches us very well,” said Ashley Featherston, a sopho more biology student. “1 am never bored, and it’s not like 1 want to go to sleep in her class - and 1 like to sleep.” Though Lawrence Academy draws stu dents from severed counties, Corbett be lieves it is a community school. “Even though we draw from several com munities, when they get here we are all one,” she said. “Even though we are not a Christian school, we do promote a lot of Christian moral values and that helps also.” Corbett likens the school and the staff to a family. “The teachers and administration all get along and everyone is accommodating,” she said. “Teachers always will help cover for me if 1 have to leave, and 1 have done the same thing for them many times. Everybody helps everybody.” Corbett said the job has been perfect for her. “1 don’t know if there will ever be another job like this,” she said. “It’s been perfect for me because it’s close to home, my children wiU have all graduated from here, and I’ve worked with some of the best teachers, students and administration that anyone could ever ask for. 1 wouldn’t trade the friends 1 have made here for anything.” Corbett says she avr erages between four and five hours of sleep per night. “Maybe,” she said. “There are still house hold chores to dp, which 1 hate, but they have to be done.” When Corbett does have free time, she spends it with her 83-year-old mom in Garner (her dad passed away in 2010), and many members of the family join her. “I stay busy there too, because my mom always has this list of things she needs done,*’ she said. “It’s a different kind of busy but it’s my kind of break -1 love be ing with my family, and 1 want my kids to know (my brothers’) kids.” Corbett admits she has a hard time saying no to anyone who asks for help. “1 usually say if 1 can work it in. I’d be more than happy to,” she said. a residence on Cooper Hill Road. He waited for backup by Windsor Po lice Det. Eddie Hoggard and Cpl. Frank Ratzlaff before taking the sec ond suspect into cus tody. “Officer Leggett con tacted prison officials and had them check the property for con traband,” Chief Lane said. “Prison officials advised they located two volleyballs on the property.” Chief Lane said an in vestigation of the three volleyballs allowed of ficers to recover 8.9 ounces of marijuana, 80 Xancix pills, three bags of tobacco and 23 cell phones. The two suspects in the case - 26-year-old Marquise Robinson of Lewiston Woodville and 23-year-old De- juan Deovonte Davis of Woodland - were charged with 23 counts of attempting to furnish cell phones to an in mate, as well as posses sion with intent to sell and deliver a Schedule IV narcotic (Xanax) and possession with intent to sell and deliver a Schedule VI controlled substance (marijuana). Each was taken to the Bertie County Magis trate’s office where he was confined to the Bertie-Martin Regional Jail under a $100,000 cash bond. Davis and Robinson are to make their first appearance in Bertie County District Court today (Wednesday). “1 can’t speak highly enough about the ac tions of the officers of the Windsor Police De partment,” Chief Lane said. “Several of the of ficers involved were off duty, but responded to the scene to assist with the arrest and the inves tigation. Officer Leggett and Officer Wiggins did an excellent job of con taining the situation until additional officers could arrive.” Chief Lane expressed appreciation for the work of N.C. Depart ment of Corrections Coastal Region Direc tor Annie Harvey and Dave Millis of Bertie Correctional Institute for their efforts in local investigations. “These arrests are the direct result of co operation between the administration of Ber tie Correctional Insti tute and the Windsor Police Department,” Chief Lane added. “This is a great example of how agencies achieve a common goal when they work together for the betterment of the community.” Bar-B-Que Chicken Potatoes, Slaw, Bread Saturday, March 18,2017 11:00 a.m.till 7:00 p.m. Perrytown Volunteer Fire Department $8.00 per plate Eat in or take out Sponsored by; Perrytown Volunteer Fire Department Station #53 All proceeds benefit the Perrytown Volunteer Fire Department Station #53 Thank you for your support! For ticket information Please call Bud Lee at (252) 333-9629
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