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 I am a native Arkansan and have lived in Arkansas all my life.  I was born and raised in a little place in southwest Arkansas named Whelen Springs.  I went to a little two-room school until I was in the 4th grade.  Between the 4th and 11th grade, I attended schools in Hope, Gurdon, and Arkadelphia.  In February of 1965, my family moved to DeWitt where I graduated from high school in 1966.  I also got married in 1966 to Johnny M. Purdy, Sr.  We have three children and seven grandchildren.   When my youngest child was in the 10th grade, I decided to go to back to school.   I graduated summa cum laude from the University of Arkansas at Monticello in May, 1992 with a major in math and a minor in physics.  I later acquired a minor in chemistry.  I taught physics and chemistry at Dumas High School for four years, and then came to DeWitt.  I started working toward my master's degree in math education in 1997 and completed it in 1999.