| ENGLISH TEACHER DIANA HINES HEARD 56, DIES |
56, an English teacher at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School for more than 30 years, died of complications of pneumonia Feb. 3, 1987, at Suburban Hospital. She lived in Gaithersburg. Miss Heard was the senior faculty member at the high school, and during her career had taught many of the school's current faculty members as well as the parents of some of her recent students. She had served on faculty liaison and social committees and as an adviser to school service clubs. She was the faculty sponsor for the ninth grade, which included responsibility for student activities. Except for one year at a Defense Department high school in Germany, Miss Heard spent her entire teaching career at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School.
Miss Heard was born in Gulfport, Miss., and graduated from Duke University. She had master's degrees from The Breadloaf School of English at Middlebury College and George Washington University.
She was a member of the American Association of University Women, the National Council of Teachers of English, the Maryland State Teachers Association, the Montgomery County Education Association, Teachers of English of Montgomery County and the Montgomery Village Citizens Association.
Survivors include her mother, Mrs. W.R. Heard of Gulfport.
