My name is Adam Lewis, and I was born April 14, 1989 in Hinton, West Virginia. My parents are
Craig and Brenda Lewis of Fort Spring. My father grew up in Alderson, and my mother lived in Carl for a
number of years before moving to Fort Spring. The first school I attended was Alderson Elementary
School here in Greenbrier County.
I started elementary school in 1994 and finished in 2001. At the time, elementary school in this
area lasted from kindergarten to grade six. I had a lot of really influential teachers there, but one of my
favorite memories from that time is visiting Concord College in fourth grade. I think it was really that
visit that inspired me to attend college later in life. I also enjoyed some of the memorable school
activities there. I was in the school choir during fifth and sixth grade, which was a really enjoyable
experience. One of the interesting trivia facts about Alderson is that the school graduation ceremony is
called May Day and happens near the end of may every year. Every class prepares a musical number and
performs an outdoor concert, and the graduating class performs an old tradition called the maypole
dance.
After elementary school, I went to Eastern Greenbrier Junior High School, which is now Eastern
Greenbrier Middle School. My favorite classes there were the computer classes and the language
classes. Eastern Greenbrier was where I started learning French and continued my elementary school
goal of learning Spanish. I also had excellent math teachers who really prepared me for high school and
college, including at least two who still teach in Greenbrier County. I am very glad that the school
offered shop and home economics classes which also taught me a lot of math which I still teach today.
I was part of one of the last few ninth-grade classes to study at Eastern Greenbrier before going
to Greenbrier East High School as a tenth grader. I enjoyed high school a lot and continued learning
French. My favorite classes were math, science, English and art. I took both chemistry and physics and
have never forgotten the importance of correct units of measurement in both science and everyday life.
I met friends whom I still speak with, some of whom still live or have family here in Greenbrier County.
In 2007, I graduated from Greenbrier East and started the fall semester at the college I had
visited in fourth grade, which had since been renamed to Concord University. I met more friends there,
studied Spanish again there, and continued my journey of learning math. I knew I was going to study
education, but I did not know whether I was going to emphasize math or English education. It was a very
close decision, but I chose to study math education while continuing to enjoy and do well in my
language classes. The math department at Concord was fantastic, and the professors were both very
professional and very committed to helping the students learn. I was also careful not to take too many
courses in each semester, because I wanted to really put my best effort into each one. I was still
considered a full-time student and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 2012.
After graduating from Concord University, I went to work part-time for New River Technical and
Community College in Lewisburg. I was also working for the Tutoring Center in Lewisburg which sadly no
longer exists. Since I had kept my English skills strong during college, I was able to set up a writing lab at
the community college, which helped people learn to express their ideas better in writing. Since I felt I
needed a full time position, I moved to a private school in Summers County which I taught at for a
number of years and did tutoring as a community service for several of those years in Rainelle. It was in
2021 that I became a substitute teacher for Greenbrier County and 2022 when I started working at
Greenbrier West.