The Phyllis A. Heinze Mathematics Education Scholarship Fund was started by Phyllis’s husband, Dyke, to honor her lifetime devotion to teaching Mathematics at various levels.
As a military wife, Phyllis followed Dyke’s career around the country for 23 years, and as Phyllis put it, “Wherever we were, I taught math.”
After settling down in Mt. Pleasant in 1990, Phyllis continued teaching math for the next 17 years at West Intermediate, Mt. Pleasant High School, and Central Michigan University. In 2009, she retired from a long, successful career, after touching many lives and influencing countless minds along the way.
A 2011 scholarship winner, Ryan Heeke, had Mrs. Heinze as a math teacher when he was a freshman at Mt. Pleasant High School and said she inspired him to continue pursuing mathematics. “She made sure you knew all the basics before you moved onto advanced material,” he said. Ryan is now attending CMU, planning to major in mathematics.
The Phyllis A. Heinze Mathematics Education Scholarship is awarded to a high school senior from Isabella County who has a career goal of teaching mathematics at the middle or high school level.
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