Sue Fitton

Carolyn Sue Fitton is recently retired.  She started her teaching career in Hemphill, WV after graduating from Radford College, now university, with a degree in Vocational Home Economics Education.  Sue moved to Volusia County and began teaching adult education classes, then working at T. Dewitt Taylor and Mainland High schools.  After taking a leave to attend Word Of Life Bible Institute, Sue taught at Spruce Creek High concentrating on culinary arts, food, and nutrition classes. During her 32 years at SCHS, Sue acquired a MA degree in counseling from Liberty University.  She is active in her church, mission-community activities, teaching, and leading a Bible study at the women's jail for 34 years.  Sue has been on several mission trips, loves to travel, enjoys people, food, reading (especially the Bible and related materials), crafts and her precious dog, "Precious", a dachshund.

Dr. Peromnia Grant

For over 35 years, Peromnia Grant has served as a classroom teacher, an assistant principal, elementary principal, coordinator of the principal intern program and assistant superintendent of Human Resources all in the Volusia County School System.

Peromnia’s higher education accomplishments include earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in elementary education from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, a Master of Arts degree in educational leadership from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, a specialist in educational leadership from the University of Florida in Gainesville, and a Doctorate of Education in organizational leadership from Nova Southeastern University.  

At this moment on her professional journey, she continues to serve as a keynote speaker and presenter. She has served on numerous boards including the American Red Cross, Halifax Medical Center, Volusia Literacy Council and Born To Read to name a few. Peromnia has been recognized as Phi Delta Kappa Educator of the Year and the Volusia Association of School Administrators District Administrator of the Year.  She is an ordained minister and youth pastor at Freewill Holiness Church of Daytona Beach. Peromnia and her husband of 46 years are also the founders of the Grant Unity Marriage Ministry.  The Grants are blessed with a beautiful daughter that resides in Baltimore, Maryland and works as an event planner at the University of Maryland Global Campus.

Deborah L. Keith

Deborah L. Keith was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. She graduated from Kwajalein High in the Marshall Islands where her father worked as a subcontractor for the government’s missile program.  After receiving her BA in English with a minor in speech and music from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, TX, she married Darius Roland Keith. They settled in Florida where they raised two children: Damon, who lives in Orlando and performs in the Nemo Show in Disney’s Animal Kingdom, and Darilynn, who works for corporate Life Way in Nashville, TN as Digital Event Coordinator (with Beth Moore, Priscilla Shirer, Johnny Hunt, etc.)

Debbie taught 6th grade music for two years in Panama City; 4th grade language arts in Sebring; 8th grade English at Campbell, and American and British Literature for 31 years in the same room at Spruce Creek High School. She is still the adviser to four clubs at Creek: The National Honor Society, the Asian Association and the Young Republicans. She serves on PAC, SAC and the Distinguished Hawks Committee. She has been a member of the Living Waters board since retiring in 2011.  

Debbie and her husband are active members of the First Baptist Church Daytona and Sister Cities and the Atlantic Federated Republican Women’s Club.  They were delighted when Damon married Katie Rose in October 2018 and hope to grow the family with little baby Keiths in the near future. Debbie loves reading, scrapbooking, singing in the choir, and traveling.

Connie Pryce

Connie is a retired high school English teacher and former Executive Board member of the Florida Council of Teachers of English. She holds a BA in English from Shelton College (NJ) and an MA in English with a concentration in writing from William Paterson University (NJ).

Before moving to Florida, Connie taught for one year in New York State, took a few years off while raising children, then taught eight years in New Jersey. After coming to Volusia county, she taught at Mainland High School in Daytona Beach for 15 years. After retirement, she continued work with the Florida Department of Education scoring the essay portion of the Teacher Certification Exam and other standardized tests.

In addition to serving on the Living Waters Board for 19 years, Connie indulges her hobbies of  reading and writing as a member of  Bookworms book club, and Word Weavers writing club. She’s also a crossword puzzle fan. She is an active member of Westside Baptist Church in Daytona Beach where she currently serves on the Finance Committee. 

She has been married for 60 years to George, a retired minister, and has two adult children and four grandchildren.

Dr. Joan Schrysen

Education and teaching have long been important to Joan Schrysen.  She taught swimming while working on her BA in Elementary Education at Allegheny College in PA.  There, Joan learned of the new trend of teaching foreign languages in the elementary school (FLES).   After a year in Paris earning her MA in French from Middlebury College in VT, she became the elementary French teacher at Long Beach Island Grade School in Ship Bottom, NJ.  During her ten years on the Island she married Art Schrysen, and their two children, Chris and Carol, were born.

In 1969, through a major prayer campaign, the young family moved to Florida.  Art was hired by Florida Gas Company and assigned to Eustis.  Joan taught at Umatilla Elementary for two years before becoming Lake County’s Itinerant Migrant Teacher. Upon Art’s transfer to Daytona Beach in 1975, Joan joined Volusia County Schools as a Title I teacher at Holly Hill Elementary.  Specializing in reading, she earned her Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from UCF. During her 20 years with Volusia County Schools, Joan also served at South Daytona, Sugar Mill and Westside Elementary Schools.   She retired in June 1995. Joan has always appreciated the little known army of Christians working in public schools at all levels.  This concern for Christian educators inspired her to form the first Board of Living Waters in 1994.  Writing, too, has been an increasing joy for Joan.  She authored a series of articles for the Florida Reading Quarterly and wrote extensively for WAVES. During her doctoral work she constructed the “Daytona Screening Device” that the Volusia Literacy Council used for years to assess the reading ability of applicants for tutoring. Since retirement Joan’s teaching focused on adult Bible study, and her writing continued for WAVES and her church newsletter.