“We spent the entire summer studying and discussing environmental issues on a global scale. Accepted for a prestigious study abroad program at Oxford University, she discovered something that would completely change her trajectory. Mary Lynn had a transformational summer after her junior year in college. Her minor? Art history, also due to the influence of her AP Art History teacher in high school. “My early interests had a lot to do with the high school chemistry teacher who encouraged me in a field that, frankly, was not overrun with females at the time and that I didn’t have any inkling I would enjoy.” Her high school passion became her college calling, and she majored in chemistry at Wake Forest University. Mary Lynn started off very much like one of her high school students, working in an upper-level chemistry course that turned out to be a surprisingly welcomed and enjoyable challenge.
I like who they are and the potential I see in them, a glimpse of who they will become as adults.” It’s what invigorates her about teaching and gives meaning to her work. No, it’s usually a jury of 20 restless high school teenagers who have signed up for her honors chemistry or AP chemistry course. The start of every school year isn’t anything like the courtroom scene Mary Lynn Huett had mastered after law school, or even the legal services department she ran later on for a national trade association.
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