Debora Curry
English Dept - Administrative Assistant
Email: debora.curry@gcccd.edu
Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8am to 10am and 2pm to 4pm - email Debora for link for her Zoom Office hours
Source: Document Collections and Photographic Archives of the Grossmont College English Department. El Cajon, CA: Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District.
Source: The Arch Yearbook, Class of 1969. El Centro, TX: El Centro College, 1969. p71. Used with permission, courtesy of Dallas County Community College District Digital Archives Collection.
Source: Source: English Department Gallery Photos. Private Photograph and Documents Collection. Copyright Homer B. Lusk. Digitally reprinted with permission, courtesy of Homer Lusk, Grossmont College Professor Emeritus and former English Department Chair.
Scott "Scotty" Charles Pearce, received his B.A. in 1961 with an interest in journalism and rhetoric from Spokane’s Whitworth College, then earned a M.A. in English at Pullman’s Washington State University in 1966, and, for the next two years, he remained in the Washington area and taught English at local area colleges. Then, in 1968, Pearce left Washington altogether and headed to Dallas-Fort Worth to accept a tenured position with El Centro College, where he stayed until 1977. While at El Centro College, Pearce was a popular teacher known for his forward-thinking style of pedagogy. In 1969, just one year after arriving, he was nominated with five other ECC instructors for “Outstanding Educators In America.” In 1972, El Centro College toasted him as “Teacher of the Year.” He also regularly contributed to the college’s faculty periodicals and in 1971 started one of his own, The Teacher Paper, which contained faculty-authored articles on pedagogy and other topics. One of Pearce's pet topics was the difficult subject of death and dying, and how and why it should be taught.1
In 1977, Scott Pearce departed Dallas-Ft. Worth for El Cajon to fill the vacancy left by Lloyd Norwood’s departure from the Grossmont College English Department. Pearce’s innovative character also followed him to Grossmont, where, in addition to basic skills and introductory composition classes, he taught Introduction to Literature, Essentials of Literature, and Masterpieces of the Short Story. However, by the end of the fall 1998 semester, after years of suffering a disabling mobility condition, Pearce began to reduce his teaching load.
A year later, he took an early retirement and brought his thirty-five years of spirited teaching to an end. He remained in the area of La Mesa, California to be near his family.
Thank you to Edna White, El Centro College Archivist (El Centro, TX) for her kind and generous help with finding articles written by Scott Pearce in the El Centro College journals, The Teacher Paper and Dialogue.
Debora Curry
English Dept - Administrative Assistant
Email: debora.curry@gcccd.edu
Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8am to 10am and 2pm to 4pm - email Debora for link for her Zoom Office hours
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