Cindy Coufal

     English Instructor
     Vernon College
     Vernon, Texas 76384
     Phone: (940) 552-6291 ext 2234
     Fax : (940) 552-9226
     Email: ccoufal@vernoncollege.edu

    Office Hours: MWF 8:30 a.m.-9 a.m. & 10 a.m.-11 a.m.
TTh 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
     Office: Biggs Arts and Sciences Center--C103

Welcome...

Welcome to the homepage of the world's most enthusiastic English teacher!
Here are some of my favorite quotes:

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
    -- George Bernard Shaw

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
    -- Socrates

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
    -- Gail Godwin

The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
    -- Virginia Woolf

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
    -- Aldous Huxley

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates ...
    -- Anonymous

Background

B.S. English/History Education-West Texas A&M University-1986
M.S. Education-Midwestern State University-1996

Teaching

ENGL 1301-English Composition and Grammar
ENGL 1302-English Composition and Literature
ENGL 2322-Survey of British Literature
ENGL 2323-Survey of British Literature
ENGL 0300,0301,0302--Developmental Writing

Memberships & Offices Held

Alpha Chi

Mortar Board

Sigma Tau Delta

Kappa Delta Pi

Developmental Educators' Exchange

Special Interest, Hobbies, Activities, Etc.

I enjoy spending time with my family--Charles, Alexis, Abbey, Charley, and Hershey. We like gardening, refinishing antiques, and shopping.

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