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Name: Mary Kelly Bumbaugh
Position: Freelance - Features Writer
Email: mbumbaugh@yahoo.com
Biography:
"Mickey" was raised on the Great Plains, in a small town on the Missouri River, where her grandmother gave her free reign to explore and encouraged her to “make things out of imagination." Carrying these lessons with her into a life long career, Mickey combined traditional and experimental teaching and counseling to develop learning approaches and programs in higher education. At 26, she joined the faculty at Marymount College, Boca Raton, where she taught in a new, integrated, humanities program; and for 10 years as non-teaching faculty at Valencia Community College, Orlando, coordinated numerous manuscripts on controversial curriculum reform, published by the Office for Civil Rights, Atlanta. Emerging, community based, educational outreach programs, non-traditional for the times, caught her eye, while living in Berkeley in the '60s. Later, she coordinated several of these "store front" centers that had new funding for reaching difficult-to-enroll college students. This involved organization of unique, team-written proposals and progress-tracking systems. Along another professional course, she entered private practice in counseling, near Jacksonville Naval Air Station, for three years. Mickey continued her career when she, her husband, and son settled in Kingwood in l985. She counseled in a new psychiatric ICU in Bellaire, until UT M.D.Anderson Cancer Center initiated a new role in health care. Then she became the senior in-house counselor for the nursing staff, a continuing education teacher and a co-investigator for two research studies. While there, for l7 years, Mickey's papers in counseling, nurse education, communications, generational studies, group studies and dream research were published in several professional journals. After nearly 40 years in education, including an appointment to assistant professor, she retired in 2005, and joined The Tribune in 2007. Along the way, she has practiced yoga, compiled personal, media art journals, gathered artworks from world religions, and added to her collection of rare sea glass. The first pieces were found on Bimini, where she lived for several summers. Mickey has a bachelor's degree in psychology and sociology from the University of Wyoming, a master's degree in education Florida Atlantic University, and post-graduate work from UC at San Diego, Uof H, and Sam Houston University. She is a licensed professional counselor. Her husband of 33 years, Jon, is self-employed in Humble. Their son, Eric, 27, earned his Eagle Scout in Kingwood, played KHS football, and was in the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets. Griffin, 18-months, their first grandchild, is the love of their lives.
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