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Brief Biography of Patricia Dump After thirty years of teaching high school English, art, entrepreneurship, and computer skills, and college English, philosophy, and study skills, Patricia Dump is retiring from teaching in June to open her own business: Mid-Missouri Secretarial Outsourcing Services. After earning an MA in English in 1987, she was an adjunct instructor for CMSU (now UCM) and was the only adjunct instructor during her five years of service to receive Merit Pay for Outstanding Service to the English and Philosophy Departments and the College of Arts and Sciences. No mediocre teacher, she was four times nominated district Teacher of the Year. In May 2007, she was honored as the Wal-mart Teacher of the Year for the Sedalia, Missouri store. In 2004, was honored as Whittier Alternative High School Teacher of the Year, The Sedalia Community Teachers’ Educator of the Year, Sedalia District #200 Outstanding Educator, Missouri State Teachers’ Association Central District nominee for Outstanding Educator, and one of fifty-two teachers nominated for Missouri Teacher of the Year. She has also been an invited writer to present at the International Reading Association’s Young Author’s Conference in Warrensburg, Missouri for 16 years. Even so, she is more proud of being married to the same man for thirty-one years, the mother of three awesome children (one of whom will be attending law school in the fall), and the grandmother of three precious little ones. In her spare time, she is a published news feature journalist and photographer, poet, and writer who desires to some day publish “The Great American Novel.”