Carol D. Peery Ayers

Educational Credentials

• B.S. Spanish Education, Miami University, 1977
• A.B. Spanish, School of Arts and Sciences, Miami University, 1977
• M.A. Spanish Language, Culture and Linguistics, University of Colorado, 1980

Biography

After forty-three years in private schools, Carol D. Peery Ayers recently retired from teaching all levels of Spanish, including Advanced Placement Language and Literature. She began her career at the Columbus School for Girls in 1981, where she served as Department Chair. After seventeen years of mentoring young women, her family moved to the Philadelphia area, and Carol started teaching at Germantown Academy in Fort Washington PA. She served as Department Chair there as well and helped establish a Spanish exchange program with a school in Seville, Spain. Carol was the first Director of Diversity at GA and laid the foundation for the diversity work, which is still done today at the school. Over the years, she served as advisor to the Black Student Alliance. Finally, Carol was awarded membership into “The Class of 1760,” which recognizes non-alums for their outstanding contributions to the school and community. Carol retired from Germantown Academy after twenty-six years.

While at Miami, Carol’s love of languages inspired her to participate in two study abroad programs. At the end of her freshman year, she attended Miami’s Summer Institute in Italy at the Universitat d’Urbino. She spent part of her junior year studying at La Universidad de Costa Rica, which is where she was able to become bilingual.

However, Carol feels her most memorable and significant contribution to Miami was being a Charter Member of the Lambda Mu Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., which was chartered in May 1977 and continues to thrive on the Miami Campus. After Carol’s early graduation in December 1977, she worked in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese as an Adjunct Instructor, teaching Spanish 101. Carol left Oxford for Boulder, Colorado, where she was a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Modern Languages. After finishing her graduate degree, Carol returned to Oxford to work as an Assistant to the Director of Admission.

Carol and her husband, Randy’78, live in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. They have two adult children, Ryan, 39, and Cameron, 34, who are both married. Ryan and his wife Allison live in Newtown Square, PA, and Cameron and his wife Lauren live in Nashville, TN. Carol enjoys traveling and attending college and professional basketball and volleyball games because her two sons and one daughter-in-law are all coaches.

Carol enjoys singing at her church, volunteering, substitute teaching, walking, and working out. Carol has served on the Advisory Board for the School of Education before in the early 1990’s and is thrilled to have the opportunity to do this work again!