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Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences
New Mexico Highlands University
Office: PE – 237
Phone: (505) 426 – 2233
Las Vegas, NM 87701
Department Secretary Phone: (505) 454 – 3287
Personal Email: leroychwm@yahoo.com
New Mexico Highlands University
Office: PE – 237
Phone: (505) 426 – 2233
Las Vegas, NM 87701
Department Secretary Phone: (505) 454 – 3287
Personal Email: leroychwm@yahoo.com
August 2007 ~ Pete LeRoy brings 30-plus years of teaching experience with him to New Mexico Highlands University’s
Education. Immediately prior to joining Highlands, he taught at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. He has teaching
experience at Texas Tech University, St. Bonaventure University, and Montana State University – Billings as
well. He attended his first two years of college on a baseball scholarship, but between his sophomore and junior years, he
joined the United States Air Force. He is a Vietnam-era veteran. LeRoy completed his undergraduate work at Henderson
State University [located in southwest Arkansas; 1970, B.S.E. in physical education] where he also earned the M.S.E.
[1972, in physical education and health].
Later, he earned another master’s degree [Ed.M., health education] at Oregon State University and completed his Ph.D.
[public health] at O.S.U., 1990. In addition, he is a certified health education specialist (C.H.E.S).
As a high school educator and coach [1970 – 87] he taught physical education, health education, and a variety of other
courses, including social studies and driver training. He also coached boys and girls sports and his 1982 girls track team
[Greenwood, Arkansas] was the Arkansas Class AAA State Champion. The next season [1983] his track team finished
third at state competition. He feels he encouraged more than coached the girls, whom he states were "great."
May 2011 ~ Current job duties include the training of pre-service professionals In health education and health promotion,
his professional activities recently included making a presentation [AIESEP] in Sapporo, Japan on January 25, 2008. He
has made over 50 such scholarly presentations on various health topics all across the nation and is currently writing a book
on his years of teaching experience in public school and in public and private universities throughout the nation. His current
research interest is related to Native American education, especially health education in the Native community.
He received tenure in May of 2010 by New Mexico Highlands University president, Dr. James Fries.
The late Joseph Campbell [The Power of Myth; and The Hero With a Thousand Faces] who said, “If you want to help
this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it,” easily sums up his philosophy of education.
Dr. LeRoy’s travels have taken him to most [all of the "lower 48"] of the 50 states, Italy, France, England, Germany,
Switzerland, The Netherlands, Mexico, Japan, and Canada. A native of Jenny Lind, Arkansas, He began a career in
teaching in 1970. Pete and Kathleen LeRoy were married in 1990.
P.J. LeRoy (son) is a student at the University of Southern Mississippi. The LeRoy's lives in Las Vegas, at the foot of the
beautiful Sangre de Cristo Mountains of the northern New Mexico Rocky Mountain area. The ski area at Sipapu is within
an hour's drive of Las Vegas and provides enjoyable winter fun!
Pete believes in this - a most controversial, yet thought-provoking - idea: A maturing activity.
Education. Immediately prior to joining Highlands, he taught at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. He has teaching
experience at Texas Tech University, St. Bonaventure University, and Montana State University – Billings as
well. He attended his first two years of college on a baseball scholarship, but between his sophomore and junior years, he
joined the United States Air Force. He is a Vietnam-era veteran. LeRoy completed his undergraduate work at Henderson
State University [located in southwest Arkansas; 1970, B.S.E. in physical education] where he also earned the M.S.E.
[1972, in physical education and health].
Later, he earned another master’s degree [Ed.M., health education] at Oregon State University and completed his Ph.D.
[public health] at O.S.U., 1990. In addition, he is a certified health education specialist (C.H.E.S).
As a high school educator and coach [1970 – 87] he taught physical education, health education, and a variety of other
courses, including social studies and driver training. He also coached boys and girls sports and his 1982 girls track team
[Greenwood, Arkansas] was the Arkansas Class AAA State Champion. The next season [1983] his track team finished
third at state competition. He feels he encouraged more than coached the girls, whom he states were "great."
May 2011 ~ Current job duties include the training of pre-service professionals In health education and health promotion,
his professional activities recently included making a presentation [AIESEP] in Sapporo, Japan on January 25, 2008. He
has made over 50 such scholarly presentations on various health topics all across the nation and is currently writing a book
on his years of teaching experience in public school and in public and private universities throughout the nation. His current
research interest is related to Native American education, especially health education in the Native community.
He received tenure in May of 2010 by New Mexico Highlands University president, Dr. James Fries.
The late Joseph Campbell [The Power of Myth; and The Hero With a Thousand Faces] who said, “If you want to help
this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it,” easily sums up his philosophy of education.
Dr. LeRoy’s travels have taken him to most [all of the "lower 48"] of the 50 states, Italy, France, England, Germany,
Switzerland, The Netherlands, Mexico, Japan, and Canada. A native of Jenny Lind, Arkansas, He began a career in
teaching in 1970. Pete and Kathleen LeRoy were married in 1990.
P.J. LeRoy (son) is a student at the University of Southern Mississippi. The LeRoy's lives in Las Vegas, at the foot of the
beautiful Sangre de Cristo Mountains of the northern New Mexico Rocky Mountain area. The ski area at Sipapu is within
an hour's drive of Las Vegas and provides enjoyable winter fun!
Pete believes in this - a most controversial, yet thought-provoking - idea: A maturing activity.
"My mission is to inspire students and to help them to succeed."
Above: Cattle Drive, Melrose, Montana, 5/01
