Rosemarie Smith

Waterville High School

1 Brooklyn Avenue

Waterville, Maine 04901

I was born in Westbrook, Maine in 1952.  After graduating from Westbrook High School in 1970, I graduated from Bates College in 1974 with a B.S. in biology with a minor in chemistry.  I worked in medical research for six years and received my Masters of Education in Science Teaching from the University of Vermont in 1981.  I taught at McAuley High School in Portland, Maine for 2 years and Forest Hills High School in Jackman, Maine for 2 years before moving to Waterville in 1987 with my husband, Clifton, and three children. 

I have been teaching science at Waterville High School since 1987.  I started our highly successful Science Olympiad team in 1990 and have coached it ever since.  I became science department chair in 2003.

During the time I spent in research, I was a secondary author on 6 papers published in several scientific journals.  I had the yearbook dedicated to me at McAuley in 1984 and at Waterville in 1997.  I was given a Renaissance in 1996 and the Waterville Board of Education Faculty Award in 2002.  I was named Chemistry Teacher of the Year for Maine by the New England Association of Chemistry Teachers in 2003.

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