The Lance interviewed Mrs. Beth Ericsson as a part of the 54 question feature. Ericsson is a biology teacher who loves her job.

Ericsson attended Tulane University and earned her BS in Psychology and a minor in Biology but became very interested in research science while doing her honors thesis there.

She then went from Tulane to Georgetown University where she began working on a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology, specializing in Reproductive and Neurobiology. After nine years, she left with a Masters in those fields.

“You have to really want a PhD to earn one,” says Ericsson.

Ericsson then started teaching at a Catholic school in the 1998-99 school year where her sister was the art teacher. She got married the spring of that first year teaching. After moving to Frederick County, she started teaching at Brunswick High School in the fall but then taught at LHS in the spring.

“I will never forget walking into the Principal Marge Lyburn’s office asking if I could please stay full time at Linganore, not splitting my time between the two schools again. She agreed and I haven’t looked back and have loved the Linganore family ever since,” says Ericsson.

Why should you know Mrs. Ericsson?

Every student is required to take a biology class as their freshman science class. Though freshmen are allowed and encouraged to enroll in other science courses, biology is a graduation requirement.