David Veve

This year we began the tradition of recognizing a General B.B. Bell Teacher Fellow Awardee. David Veve from Northwest Whitfield High School is the first recipient of this distinguished award. David crafted a lesson entitled “American Prisoners of War: Courage, Resistance, and the Human Cost of War.” In this lesson, students will examine the causes, course, and consequences of the Vietnam War, including: Geneva Accords, Ho Chi Minh, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, and Vietnamization. Students will analyze and gather information from a variety of sources. David’s efforts exemplified what it means to lead from the front while producing this lesson and participating in this year’s Teacher Fellowship Program.

Each year, a Teacher Fellow will be awarded a smaller brick in honor of General Bell along with a $1000 check to be utilized on further professional development or in the classroom. A larger brick will remain here outside our front door, displaying the names of the Teacher Fellows awarded and serving as a reminder that we are called to do our bit as citizens and patriots, to “lead from the front,” and that our lifetime efforts are the placement of one more brick on the path to a future our Founders were aiming for.

David led from the front throughout the 2025 Teacher Fellowship.