Our Staff

Delphine Douglass, PFCC Teacher, Curriculum Director and Center Director, has a master's degree in elementary education with a K-12 reading specialist certificate. She taught for 20 years in Texas and Louisiana, primarily in the areas of developmental and remedial reading and writing. Delphine has studied Waldorf education since 1997 at the Rudolf Steiner College in California, Rudolf Steiner Institute in Maine, with Novalis Institute in Minneapolis, Micha-el Institute in Portland, Oregon and has attended numerous Waldorf intensives and conferences. She operated Prairie Flower Preschool from her home and at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ames for eight years.  Delphine and her husband Jim Werbel have one son, Ian.

Katie Hardy graduated from the University of Iowa with a nursing degree.   She worked as a Pediatric nurse for 7 years and as a school nurse for 5 years.   She enjoys quilting and gardening in her spare time.   Katie also enjoys her3 1/2 yr grandson.