Kim, with Katy and Jake

Kim is a Glasgow, Kentucky native, moving to Lexington about 8 years ago with husband Mark. She holds a bachelors in elementary education with a middle school endorsement from Western Kentucky University ("Go Toppers!"), and substitute-taught in Glasgow and Barren County before moving to Lexington and joining the staff at Bondurant Middle School in Frankfort, where " . . . I taught mostly Math, most of it in 7th grade." Along the way she gained a masters in library science from UK, joining the ranks of Fayette County Public Schools in 1998 as a school technology resource teacher, school technology coordinator, and Student Technology Leadership Program sponsor at Tates Creek Middle School. She had the distinction of being pregnant during a portion of each of the three years at Tates Creek Middle!

Kim joined the district TRT staff this year. Her school responsibilities currently include Leestown,  Winburn, Southern, and Jessie Clark Middle Schools, where she has earned a reputation as a can-do technology integration specialist. When not on the job, " . . .  I am usually playing with my three-year-old son, Jake and my 18-month-old daughter, Katy. I also love to read, play Rook or Spades, and see lots of movies."

Mr. Erminger and his family moved to Lexington in August 1984, from Jacksonville, Florida, " . . . to get away from the heat and to enjoy four distinct seasons." Although he is native to Jacksonville, he has lived in Rome, Georgia; Cocoa Beach, Florida; Udorn Thani, Thailand; and Edwards, California, where his son was born. He thinks Lexington is the best place he has ever lived and intends to retire here.

Wayne holds a Bachelor's Degree from Berry College (Mt. Berry, Georgia), and a Masters from Chapman University (Orange, California), and has many additional credit hours from the University of North Florida (Jacksonville), and EKU. He began his Fayette County teaching career teaching English at Lexington Junior High School (now Lexington Traditional Magnet School) before transferring to Paul Laurence Dunbar 11 years ago. Before joining Doug Gibson in the Student/School Management Systems office in October, Wayne spent his last three years at Dunbar as a guidance counselor.

Although he misses the contact with the students, Wayne currently is enjoying his role in supporting the county's STI products and helping teachers and administrators via the 2000 FCPS Help Desk. He also enjoys writing instructions for STI novices and teaching classes in the Ambrose computer lab. Currently he is working on an STI technology web page so people in the schools can easily download instructions to get help or updated information.

Wayne and his wife, Judith, have a son, Mikael, who is living in Tempe, Arizona and is studying Computer Science at the University of Phoenix.