Coming Home To A Legacy: Hayes-Lee Returns to WHS
After 28 years at Woodruff High and two at Clinton High, business-education teacher Cynthia Hayes-Lee is back teaching at the new WHS.
Veteran business-education teacher Cynthia Hayes-Lee has returned to Woodruff High School. She taught there for 28 years before retiring in 2018, and she has been teaching since 1987. After retiring she kept substituting at WHS, then taught for two years at Clinton High School in Laurens 56 beginning in 2024.
When a business-education opening came up at WHS, she applied, and the school board approved her return. She now teaches in the new Woodruff High building, in some cases to the children of students she taught two decades ago. The profile covers her early calling to teach, the technology changes she has seen, and her gratitude to the Woodruff community.