Ms. Cara Helzer is a kindergarten teacher at Northwest Elementary School and is the 2021 Spotlght Teacher. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Early Childhood Education from Baylor University in 2019 and is a certified teacher. This is Ms. Helzer’s first year with Brownwood ISD.
Mrs. Helzer is a phenomenal teacher who is constantly looking for ways to move her students toward success. The kindergarteners in her class know that they are loved and valued. Mrs. Helzer thinks outside the box and allows her students to learn each new concept in a variety of ways. Mrs. Helzer has a heart of gold and it is evident in her classroom, her interactions with others, and her work ethic. She is a team player, consistently offering suggestions and asking for input on how to be the best she can be for her students and for her campus.
“She came back to her world as a scientist and carried this experience of having flown in space and that became a unique filter through which she passed all of her scientific work,” said Dr. Mike Barratt, a NASA flight surgeon assigned to Columbia, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
The laboratory was active right up through Hughes-Fulford’s own seven-year battle with lymphoma. She died Feb. 2, at her San Francisco home. Her death was confirmed by her granddaughter, Kira Herzog of Mill Valle.
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“She was one of the bravest people I’ve ever met. She told me that when she was taking off in the shuttle she had absolutely no fear,” Herzog said. “She was logically thinking of what her next task was and that is how she faced everything including her cancer.”
Melanie Larose has been named the City of Brownwood’s new Finance Director. Former Finance Director, Walter Middleton, retired on January 27 after 22 years of service to the City of Brownwood.
Mrs. Larose has worked for the City of Brownwood for 20 years. She joined the City in February 2001, as the Chief Accountant. In 2016, she became the Assistant Director of Finance. Mrs. Larose is an Investment Officer with the City and has served on the Fireman’s Relief and Retirement Fund Board since 2017 and the Internal Audit Committee since 2007.
Prior to working for the City, Mrs. Larose was an Accountant for over three years with private accounting firms. Mrs. Larose has a Bachelor of Business Administration with a Major in Accounting from Tarleton State University. She has been a Certified Government Finance Officer since 2015.
Millie Hughes-Fulford, astronaut and UCSF scientist, dies at 75
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Millie Hughes-Fulford, astronaut and scientist in San Francisco, went into orbit in 1991 aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.NASAShow MoreShow Less
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The crew of the Columbia enjoying weightlessness. Millie Hughes-Fulford is in back, to the right.NASAShow MoreShow Less
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Millie Hughes-Fulford took leave as a UCSF professor to be a astronaut and researcher on board the Columbia Space Shuttle in 1991.NASAShow MoreShow Less
In 1984, UCSF research professor Millie Hughes-Fulford took a leave from that position and left her Mill Valley home for Houston so she could become an astronaut and work on the Spacelab, a laboratory in Space Shuttle Columbia.