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The new executive Director of the Child Care and Learning Center is not a new face in the county. She is not new to the field of education. She is not a new to running a business. She is not even new to the Learning Center. The new executive director is Rose Ann Sharp.
“I am very excited about working here. I feel that I can approach this job from many different angles: from that of a parent, from that of a previous Board member, from that of a trained educator, from that of a business manager. I feel that a director in any organization of this size really needs to be a jack-of-all trades. I am hoping that my past experiences will be of benefit to . the Center.”
Rose Ann and her husband Alex are apple growers and packers. They own Skyline Cold Storage in Sperryville, live on Mountain Green Farm in Washington, and rent several apple orchards throughout the county. They have three children, ages 7, 4, and 10 months.
Rose Ann, a graduate of the University of Virginia with a B.S. in Special Education, took a break from teaching at the birth of her first child. “Lauren, our oldest daughter, started attending The Learning Center when she was two years old. At the time, I was looking for a place that could offer her an opportunity to play with other children - a luxury not to be taken lightly in a rural community. I was delighted to find that we had a day care/preschool in our county. I was not a working mother at the time.
“Since then, I have also taken advantage of the Center as a day care facility - a safe and stimulating home-away-from-home in the hours that I worked with my husband in our growing business,” Mrs. Sharp said.
Rose Ann Sharp’s experiences in the field of education are rather diverse: she worked with an infantstimulation program in Charlottesville, a Title I kindergarten class in t Newport News, a GED class at Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center, junior high and elementary school classes in Rappahannock and Culpeper counties, and childbirth classes and aerobic exercise classes for adults locally.
“I see one of my responsibilities as executive director here to be staff development - helping train teachers to teach. We have a very positive and enthusiastic staff here which I am finding a joy to work with.”
This is the thirteenth year of operation for the Child Care and Learning Center, founded in 1976 by Camille Harris. The number of children served has grown from 10 to a tbtal of 88.
“One of the facts that I am proudest of here is that this Center has no mortgage. We have raised over the years enough money from individuals donations, private foundation grants, and fundraising activities to pay for our current facility. This has been done without federal money. Our facility has not cost the taxpayer a cent, the new director pointed out.”
Rose Ann attributes the fundraising success of CCLC to a very dedicated and hard-working Board. “I think the scarriest decision the Board of a non-profit has to make is
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