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OCTAA Awards Scholarship
Earl Taylor, Michelle Bolton, Glenda Kirkpatrick, Paul Wiggins
Onslow County Teaching Assistants' Association Celebrates Members
and Honors Scholarship Winner
“Teaching Assistants are assistant teachers! They are another set of hands and eyes in the classroom,” former educator and current Board of Education member Earl Taylor commented at the Onslow County Teaching Assistants’ Association spring banquet. He, fellow Board Member Paul Wiggins, and many principals and teachers were out to honor and show support for Onslow County Schools teaching assistants.
2018 President of OCTAA, Michelle Bolton, a teaching assistant at Swansboro Middle School, welcomed teaching assistants from 35 schools in the district. She also recognized school administrators, friends, and family of TAs, and for the first time, instructional aides from the Camp Lejeune schools. “We are always there for our students, we never give up on them and do our best for them,” she told the assembly. Bolton recognized the 2018 OCTAA Board members and association officers then installed 2019 OCTAA President, Glenda Kirkpatrick. New association officers were also installed and recognition was given to school representatives, members’ years of service and 2018 retirees.
As part of the spring banquet, OCTAA honors a scholarship winner for the 2018-2019 school year. Scholarship recipients must be children of current OCTAA members and pursuing a higher education. This year’s scholarship was awarded to Tarique Hurd, a senior at Jacksonville High School, who will be attending Virginia Military Institute in the fall of 2018.