Owner/Operator of Deb's Creative Services, a document design service. 

Specializing in preparing professional documents, promotional items, and personalized greeting cards

Education

M.A in American History, Public History, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas (2008-2010)- Pending
B.A in American History, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas (2006-2008)
Graduated with the distinction of Magna Cum Laude, cumulative GPA 3.85
Minor in Geography, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas
Associate of Arts, Allen County Community College, Burlingame, Kansas (2004-2006)

Work Experience

Assistant to the Director of Ethnic and Gender Studies, Emporia State University (2007-2008)
Respite Care Provider, Resource Center for Independent Living (2006- )
Assistant Librarian, Lyndon Carnegie Library, Lyndon, Kansas (2001- )

EDUCATION
B.A. Ed, Speech Communications Wichita State University, Wichita, KS - June 1968
Funeral Director – Kansas State Board of Embalming, Topeka, KS – June 1979
Methods in Teaching Reading National University, Oakland, CA -1988
Developing Programs for Special Students Education University of California, Haywood, CA – 1990
Post Graduate Speech Communications – Master Program W S U , Wichita, KS – September 1999
Adult Basic Education Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS – September 2001
Post Graduate Computer & Education Ottawa University, Wichita, KS – September 2003

WORK EXPERIENCE
Educator for forty (40) years>  1968 - 2009
IBM, U.S. Dept. of Commerce
Juvenile Delinquency CA & KS
Public Schools - NJ, TX, KS (USD #259)
Adult Basic Education - Wichita Area Technical College and Wichita State University

BA in Religion and a Minor in Mathematics Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 1974
33 years in Professional Sales-
22 years with Xerox Corp., 7 years with Steelcase, Inc. and 4 with Bell and Howell Corp.
Currently a Major Account Representative for Xerox Corp.

Major areas of interest:
Religious Studies
Collecting African American History - Wichita African American History, Booker T. Washington, and Slavery.

Areas that support hobbies and special interest:
Assembled a collection of historical documents on Booker T. Washington over the past 16 years.
Provide research / expertise to Doctoral Students, Authors, Dealers, and Collectors across USA on B.T.W. and G.W.C.

Presented a 2 month exhibit of my Wichita African American Newspaper Collection at WSU Special Collections Dept. 1996(Subject: “The Wichita African American Press Expresses its Writes in Black and White”)

Compiled the 50th Anniversary Historical Journal for the Progressive Missionary Baptist Church 1996.

Served 6 years on the Wichita Sedgwick County Historical Museum Board
Served 6 years on the Crime Stoppers of Wichita/Sedgwick County Board
Served 5 years on the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Sedgwick County Board
Served 3 years on the Wellington Place Board for assistant living
Served 8 years on the WSU Alumni Association Board

Past Superintendent of Sunday School for the Progressive Missionary Baptist Church for 30 years.
Member of ARISE (African Americans Renewing Interest In Spirituals Ensemble)
Organizing a 44 year (1927-1971) elementary school reunion of Dunbar Elementary School of Wichita, Ks. with a historical document and historical video to complete the work on this project schedule June 9, 2007.
Presenter two consecutive years on U.S. slavery related subjects at Wichita State University Library Special Collections.

Jennifer Holvoet is a retired associate research professor, who worked for more than 30 years at the University of Kansas. Her Doctorate is in Developmental Psychology (1981) and her Masters degree in Education with an emphasis in Special Education (1977); both from the University of Kansas. She also worked from 1983-1989 as a teacher and as an administrator at the Institute of Logopedics (now Heartspring) in Wichita, KS. She also worked as a special education teacher and as an administrator with USD 501, Topeka, KS. She was a finalist for Kansas Teacher of the Year in 1993. While at the University of Kansas from 2000-2007, she worked for SCRTEC (South-Central Regional Technology Consortium) and ALTEC which designed free online technologies for teaching and learning. Additionally during this time, she had the opportunity to work part-time as the K-12 education coordinator for PRISM (Polar Radar for Ice Sheet Measurement) and CRESiS (Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets) which designed technologies to better measure and map the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. Throughout her life she has had a strong interest in genealogy and archaeology and the strengths different people have brought to the American culture. Thus, she decided to participate as a volunteer with ROBW.