About the Author

Born on a farm in the Midwest, I received the first years of my education in a small rural school in Webster County, Nebraska, where very small class sizes were the norm. In 1956, after graduating from Washington High School at Red Cloud, Nebraska, and then earning 12 hours of college credit in Education at Kearney State College, Kearney, Nebraska, my career began teaching children in a rural school at the age of seventeen. Later, I completed my B. A. in Education at Kearney State College.

I married Darrel Weber and moved to St. Francis, Kansas where I reared two children, Janice and Darrel Lynn. During this time, I continued Education courses for graduate credit at Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas, and continued teaching school at the elementary and junior high levels until I retired in 1998 with over forty years of teaching experience.

My belief is that children can become whoever they want to be in the United States of America if they learn to read well and become confident and competent mathematicians.

Aside from teaching, my other interests include reading, sight-seeing, gardening, glass etching, rock carving, visiting with friends and former students, and attending family affairs.

Elizabeth C. Weber