| Hughes, Arkansas School Faculty Memorial |
| Sara Fay (Kittrell) Schwam March 3, 1918 – March 31, 1999 English Tenure: 1946-1949 |
| Mrs. Schwam was born in Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee, daughter of Robert French Kittrell and Ruth (Allison) Kittrell. She graduated from Maryville College in 1939 with a major in Latin, and she received her M.A. from Vanderbilt in 1945. She joined the HHS faculty as an English teacher in the fall of 1946, and she married fellow faculty member, Howard Schwam, on December 27, 1946. She served as the Beta Club sponsor while at HHS. By 1949 she and Mr. Schwam had returned to their hometown of Maryville, Tennessee, where he took a position teaching languages at Maryville College. Mrs. Schwam remained active with the college, serving on the board of directors for the Maryville College alumni magazine, the Focus. Before her passing in 1999, she left a bequest to establish the J. Howard and Sara Fay Schwam Scholarship to provide need-based scholarships to deserving undergraduates enrolled in Peabody College. |