My name is Lee Ozier and I am the 8th and 9th grade counselor at Prep. I also teach two semester electives (Old Testament Survey and New Testament Survey) in the high school. My wife’s name is Ramona. She is from Brookhaven. When she is not creating “Home and Garden Network”-style projects for us she is a much-in-demand math tutor. We have one son, Sam, who is 11 years old and is a sixth grader at Jackson Prep.

I am a Jackson native and “matriculated” here when Prep opened its doors way back in 1970. Lakeland Drive was paved only as far as Airport Road, gasoline lines were rampant and Mississippians were abducted by space aliens along the Gulf Coast. I graduated from Prep in 1974 and headed to Starkpatch – on the Trace, not Highway 25. I eventually earned a BS degree from Mississippi State and an M Ed degree from Mississippi College. In 1989 I enrolled in the Family Therapy program at Reformed Theological Seminary. I graduated three years later with a master’s degree and a spouse who was in the same program. I like to tell people that “I met my wife in therapy.”

I have been working in school environments (everything from teaching 7th grade math to working as an associate registrar at a small liberal arts college) for 20 years. I have taught History and Bible on the secondary level, served as campus chaplain at a boarding prep school and worked as a junior high counselor. This is my sixth year at Prep.

Before returning to Mississippi to work at Prep I worked both at the McCallie School and Covenant College, both in the Chattanooga, Tennessee area.

I enjoy reading 4 or 5 books at a time (and possibly finishing one), watching ESPN, the History Channel or Turner Classic Movies while stuck on the treadmill, throwing the baseball with Sam and “light” yard work with my wife. I also enjoy any evening out that ends up at Borders. One book in the stack I am currently reading and enjoying immensely is The Blessing of a Skinned Knee by Wendy Mogul. The book is full of anchored Old Testament wisdom for the drifting 21st century family.