Carol Chase, Jean Tyson Child Development Study Center Teacher, Retires

Carol Chase, lead teacher at the Jean Tyson Child Development Study Center, retired on Friday, May 31, at the age of 73. Carol began working at the Infant Development Center in August of 1985.

She received her master's degree from the University of Arkansas in 1991 in home economics and human development and family studies. During Chase's 27 years with the University of Arkansas, she taught, with love and compassion, hundreds of toddlers, mentored undergraduate and graduate students on their journey to become early child educators, was a parent educator, and gave presentations to local early childhood groups, state and national, including the National Association for the Education of Young Children.

Chase was beloved by the children, families, and staff of the Infant Development Center and Jean Tyson Child Development Study Center. Chase dearly loved the children and families she worked with and left a legacy of high quality early childhood education behind.

During Chase's 27 years of service one of her primary passions was literacy and the development of a love for reading in children. To honor her dedicated service to the children of the infant and child centers and the University of Arkansas, the Jean Tyson Child Development Study Center is creating a parent, teacher, and child library in her name.

Donations of books will be accepted at the center, and will be labeled by the donor and in honor of Carol Chase. Any books that are appropriate for infants through pre-schoolers as well as parent and teacher resource texts will be accepted.

To donate a book bring your book to the main office of the child development study center located at 924 W. Douglas St., Fayetteville. For more information please contact Vernoice Baldwin at baldwin@uark.edu.