Retired Parkland Teacher Seeks Allentown School Board Seat

FROM AUDRERY MATHISON:  Audrey L. Mathison, a retiree from Parkland School District, has announced that she is running for Allentown School Board.

“I’d like to apply my years of educational experience to help restore the quality of education in the Allentown School District and to serve the community I live in,” Mathison said.

Mathison taught English at Parkland High School for 40 years and understands the importance of language skills, arts and humanities in shaping the minds of teenagers preparing for college and the workforce.

Mathison can also bring the board insight into labor-management relations as she spent much of her time at Parkland in leadership with the Parkland Education Association, the district’s teachers union. She has also served on the board of directors of the Pennsylvania State Education Association and the National Education Association.

Born and raised in the Philadelphia area, Audrey moved to the Lehigh Valley in 1966 to earn her master’s degree in education from Lehigh University. She became a teacher in the Parkland School district in 1967 and retired in 2006.