Bob McLamore

Bob McLamore served the Louisiana public school system for 37 years and left retirement to teach high school chemistry. McLamore earned a B.S. at NSU in 1970 and Master’s degree and +30 at McNeese State University. He is a certified teacher assessor/mentor and a certified Louisiana school business official. He began his career teaching science classes at DeRidder High School and later served as assistant principal and principal. He was a chemistry/biology instructor at Northwestern before going to work for the Beauregard Parish School Board as Purchasing agent, Child Welfare and Instructional Supervisor and Director of Auxiliary Services. He retired as Superintendent of Grant Parish School Board in 2005, but continued working as an ad hoc professor and a “Teach” program mentor at Louisiana College.

During McLamore’s career, DeRidder High School was named a Top Ten School by the state. He earned distinctions as state Science Teacher of the Year, Outstanding High School Principal for Beauregard Parish, Region V of Louisiana and was named to an advisory council for the State Board of Secondary and Elementary Education. During his tenure in Grant Parish, McLamore helped bring up performance scores and ACT scores, introduced the teaming concept to middle schools and established a program to reduce the drop-out rate. Last year, he returned to DeRidder High School where a science teacher was needed and has refurbished a chemistry lab and introduced students to new technology. According to his wife, Lydia Jane McLamore, teaching high school science again has “rekindled a passion for the classroom and teaching students that he thought was long gone.”