Fourth-generation Taylorite will be featured at the Taylor Rotary Scholar's Banquet on Monday, May 10.
Taylor Rotary Club will recognize the top 10% of local graduates and award its scholarship at the Rotary Scholars Banquet on Monday, May 10.
This year’s speaker is local Rotarian, fourth-generation Taylorite and St. Mary’s Catholic School Principal Heidi Zimmerhanzel Altman. She is a 1992 Taylor High School honor graduate and Rotary Scholar.
Altman participated in Central Texas Rotary Youth Exchange Delegation to England in the summer of 1990 where she spent almost three weeks presenting and fostering goodwill with our sister Rotary clubs throughout England, and then in turn hosted the British delegation.
Altman has a bachelor of science in interdisciplinary studies/education from Texas A&M University, a master’s of education with gifted/talented certification and a master’s of education educational administration and curriculum and instruction from the University of North Texas.
After years as a teacher, administrator and principal, Altman became the principal of her other alma mater, St. Mary’s in Taylor, in 2016. Since then, the school has returned the school to a Classical education model, expanded to include grades PK3 to 11 and established the first Chesterton Academy high school in Texas and the Southern United States.
Her father, Pete Zimmerhanzel is also a member of the Taylor club.