Dolores Mayberry Trimiew

After I graduated from Weequahic High School, I attended Bloomfield College in Bloomfield, New Jersey. During my junior year I spent a semester at sea. While living and studying aboard a ship, we traveled to 16 countries all over the world. I majored in Spanish and minored in Latin and graduated with a B.A. degree in 1968. That experience compelled me to complete a graduate program that would allow me to live abroad.

I then went on to pursue graduate studies at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont. As part of their program, I spent a summer at the campus in Vermont and then went on to Spain where I completed the M.A. degree in 1969. In 1969, I began my teaching career at Essex County Vocational School for boys in Newark.

I left in 1970 to teach Spanish and Swahili at Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, New Jersey. I also taught at the Englewood Middle School until 1982 when my family relocated to Lombard, Illinois. While there I taught GED preparation in Chicago and Spanish at West Chicago High School.

Once again we relocated to Atlanta, Georgia where I taught Spanish at Lakeside High School.

In Fort Worth, Texas I taught Spanish at Arlington Heights High School and Dunbar Middle School. It was in Fort Worth that I was honored as Teacher of the Year in 1996 and Outstanding Teacher for my school in 1997.

Presently I live in Rochester, New York and have retired after teaching Spanish for 6 years at Gates Chili High School. Still, even after retirement I am teaching a course at Monroe Community College. I have devoted myself to education and have enjoyed teaching in the 5 states where we have lived.

In 1975 I married Darryl Trimiew a graduate of Rutgers School of Law. It was in 1982 that Darryl had a call to the ministry and so our travels began. It was in Illinois that Darryl attended seminary and Atlanta, Georgia that he completed his PhD in Christian Social Ethics.

We moved to Texas where he took a position at Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University. We lived there for 10 years until, in 1998 Darryl was called to Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School as the Dean of Black Church Studies. We have been blessed to live in 5 different states and develop lasting friendships in all of them..

We have two adult children. Our daughter, Rehema Imani Trimiew is 26 and a graduate in the class of 2000 from Bryn Mawr College. She is presently a student at Rochester Institute of Technology and is in the graduate school of film. She has been a Sister Cities Ambassador and has traveled to more than 10 countries. Our son, Rubani Isa Trimiew is 22 and graduated from Morehouse College in 2004. He is an admissions counselor for Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Rubani was a contestant on Teen Jeopardy in 1999 and won second place.

My e-mail address is trimiewd@yahoo.com