About Me
Born in Elm Mott, TX in 1946. Graduated from G. W. Carver HS (1965) and the University of Texas at Austin in Mathematics (1971). He fulfilled 33 years of federal service with National Intelligence Agencies (CIA, DIA, and NGA), completed six years as an airborne officer with the Texas and Washington, DC, Army National Guards, and received certification as a national intelligence officer from the prestigious Air War College in Montgomery, AL (1993).
Following his retirement from federal service in 2004, he
and his wife relocated to Gholson and from there transition through three phases of retirement. During the first phase of his retirement, he earned two highly qualified Texas teaching certificates in elementary and high school math in 2006 from McLennan County Community College. As an educator,
he accepted teaching positions at Connally HS, La Vega HS, and Aquilla ISD.
While at Aquilla ISD, Mr. Perkins founded Aquilla’s first band in 2008 and taught both band and math subjects while working there. In 2013, Mr. Perkins entered the second phase of his retirement by initiating America’s first small
business of its kind that merges music and math, in Woodway, TX. Dubbed Music & Math Masters Studio, it supplied clients of all ages basic instructions in more than 30 musical instruments as well as math lessons from pre-K to college level.
He retired from teaching at Aquilla ISD in 2017 and closed his
Woodway music and math business in 2018. Afterwards, he taught two years of specialized math tutorials at Brook Avenue Elementary School (Waco ISD) until his work was abruptly upended by the pandemic of 2020.
During the third and final phase of his retirement, Mr. Perkins spent his time volunteering to serve on various local and county boards. For instance, after serving two years as a Director on the Gholson Water Supply Corporation Board, Mr. Perkins became an active member of the Aquilla Education
Foundation (since 2020), serving as President of a church cemetery association in Waco (since 2021), continuing to perform his obligations as a deacon at Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church of Gholson (since 2007), serving in the capacity of Secretary of the McLennan County Historical
Commission (since 2021), and serving on the Carver Alumni Historical Committee in an advisory role for Waco ISD’s planning ,renovation, and construction of the new Carver Middle School (2022).
Mr. Perkins has been married for more than 54 years to his high school sweetheart, Rosemary Clayton, and they have one son and two granddaughters living in Northern Virginia, and one grandson in the US Army.