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Omaha Covenanter Named Outstanding Teacher
OMAHA, NE (June 3, 2003) - Kathleen "Kass" Anderson of First Covenant Church in
Omaha, Nebraska, was one of 15 recipients of a 2003 Alice Buffett
Outstanding Teacher Award and was honored in a dinner at the Joslyn Art
Museum on May 18.
Anderson, a third grade teacher at Omaha's Crestridge Magnet Center for
Global Studies, earned her Bachelor's degree from Chicago's North Park
University (then College) in 1980 and earned her teaching certificate from
the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1985. She has worked 18 years with
Omaha Public Schools, all at Crestridge.
An Omaha native, she has been at First Covenant her entire life. She
regularly participates in church activities and helps lead the church's
Alpha program and grade school youth ministry. She and husband Don, a North
Park alum, are the parents of three children.
The Alice Buffett Outstanding Teacher Award is named for Alice Buffett, the
aunt of well-known investor Warren Buffett. Alice Buffett had been a
longtime teacher for the Omaha Public Schools. Along with the Buffett
Award, Anderson received $10,000 from the Alice Buffett Foundation and $500
in McDonald's gift certificates.
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