Joyce Ward

From 1970 to 2007, Joyce Ward taught at Harpeth Hall School, where she served as chair of the Foreign Language Department for fifteen years. With her passion for academic travel, she led fifteen trips from 1983 to 2006, mainly to Italy, Greece, and Egypt, where her contacts with Chicago House, the archeological research facility run by the University of Chicago in Egypt, allowed her to take students to archeological sites off-limits to the public. She was named Outstanding Teacher of the Year in 1984 and was the first recipient of the Owen Chair for Excellence in Teaching in 1994. Additionally, she was named Teacher of the Year by the Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association in 1984 and received the Golden Apple Award for Teaching Excellence from Peabody College (Vanderbilt) in 1997.