Marilyn Moore
On a rainy Tuesday morning in mid-October, 2003, Marilyn Moore, newly-named Beaufort County Teacher of the Year, had her hands full keeping the 27 students in her fourth grade social studies class on task at Northeast Elementary School not far from Belhaven. They were working on art projects that, when combined with essays to be written later in the year, would become a scrapbook on North Carolina.
Moore's path to teaching was not a traditional one. It began some 20 years ago at Beaufort County Community College. At that time, Moore was a stay-at-home mother of seven children who also worked in her family's tobacco fields near Bath. She had married young - in March of her senior year in high school.
Years later, with two of her children in and a third about to enter college, Moore decided the time had come to pursue a college degree. That pursuit began in 1988 at Beaufort County Community College, where she studied for two years in the school's college transfer program. From there, she transferred to East Carolina University, earning her bachelor's degree in elementary education from ECU in 1993.
When she first entered college, Moore worked nights at the Washington Wal-Mart stocking shelves. She attended school in the mornings and returned home to sleep in the afternoons before beginning her day again working on the night shift at Wal-Mart. Not long into her college career, Moore was accepted into BCCC's work-study program and she was able to quit her night job.
“This community college is the best thing that's happened to me,” she said. “It was a good transition from high school to college. Here, teachers know you by name. You're a name, not a number. Without this transition, I would not have made it, I know. I needed it, the extra support.”
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