Norwood valedictorian Lacey Decker earns multiple honors
Lacey Decker of Norwood and Sumnerwood is named valedictorian for 2000 and receives the Honor Graduate Certificate from the Texas Education Agency. She also earns the Delta Kappa Gamma scholarship, a Northeast Panhandle Teachers Credit Union scholarship, the Ozette Rainey Memorial Scholarship, and the Amarillo Globe News Celebrate 2000 scholarship. Additional recognition includes Legacy and residence hall scholarships from Southwestern Oklahoma State University, the Collingsworth County Crime Stoppers High Achiever award, the 2000 Superintendent's Award, Health Award, Government Award, the Fighting Heart Award, and selection to the All-District Academic Team and the All-District basketball second team.
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Lacey Decker
Sumnerwood
Texas Education Agency
Lacey
Delta Kappa Gamma
Northeast Panhandle Teachers Credit Union
Myers
Ozette Rainey
Amarillo Globe News
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Weatherford
Max Seymour
Collingsworth County
Texas A&M hires entomologist Charles T. Allen as program director
Charles T. Allen, an entomologist with the Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, is named program director of the Texas Bull Weevil Eradication Foundation. He succeeds Osama El-Lissy, who moves to USDA cotton pest programs. Allen holds a PhD from LSU and has long service in Texas and Arkansas extension work.
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Charles T. Allen
Texas Bull
Louisiana State University
Allen
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Wessaco
Fort Stockton
Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service
Journal of Cotton Science
Texas
United States
Norwood Exes Plan July 15 Reunion
The Sumnerwood Ex-student reunion of 2000 is scheduled for Saturday, July 15. Each class will organize parties and exes should contact a classmate for details. Directories print in early June. amendments should be sent promptly. Newsletters with final plans go out next month.
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Sumnerwood
Shose Ih
Ageesa
McMurry’s Cheyenne Oldham Earns DIII All American Honor
After placing fifth in the 4X100 at the NCAA Championships in Naperville Illinois the McMurry University sprinter Cheyenne Oldham earned NCAA Division III All American honors. The 4X100 team set a school record with 47.83 seconds. Lincoln University won in 46.87. Teammates include TaKosha Ragsdale Sabrina Griffin and Talitha Belcher. Oldham also helps McMurry’s national qualifying 4X400 relay. The Cowboys and Ladies teams earned seven All-Americans overall. Oldham is the daughter of Gary and LaDonna Oldham and a Sumnerwood High School graduate.
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Naperville
Cheyenne Oldham
McMurry University
Lincoln University
Pennsylvania
TaKosha Ragsdale
Oldham
Sabrina Griffin
Talitha Belcher
McMurry
Sumnerwood High School
Gary and
LaDonna Oldham
Veterans Memorial Day Observance Honors Local VFW and Korean War Milestone
Community memberss gather for Memorial Day events held by VFW Glynn Moore Post 6439 and the ladies auxiliary to honor living and fallen veterans. The 50th anniversary of the Korean Conflict is noted as poppies funds aid local disabled veterans and families. Edna Wooldridge and Esta Glenn chaired the observance with extensive participation and a county style breakfast after flag placements. Memorial Day services featured 600 flags at cemeteries and a concluding service at the Veteran's Monument.
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VFW
Glynn Moore
Ladies Auxiliary
Edna Wooldridge
Esta Glenn
Parsons Drug and
C&h Pharmacy
Golda Jones
Ina Brown
Margaret Peeples
Lynn Hurst
Pat Lewis
Louise Armstrong
Pauline Masten
Louise Smith
Ida Hartman
Auxiliary
Fred Squyres
Dalton Konkier
John
Robbie Rhodes
Kathryn Barjenbruch
J.W
Joe
Betty Tipton
Raymond
Faye Horton
Morgan Scott Tarver
Hubert Mauldin
Jimmy
Betty Harman
Mike
Marsha Hughs
A.J
Helen Fires
Harold Caldwell
E.B. Peeples
Betty Campbell
Ira O. Nored
Donald
Nadine Nored
Bear
Annie Bowen
Barney
Leonard
Elnora Kujawski
Jim Sikes
Wilma Gibbs
Buster
Laverne Hughs
Oren Rogers John Pratt
Bill Owens
Corene Childress
Veteran's Monument
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Norwood
Buster Hughs
Joe Tipton
E. B. Peeples
Oren Rogers
Bear Bowen
Eradication Foundation
Norwood Exes
Osama
Ian Matthies
Pecos County
Charles
Raymond Horton
Leon Parker
Geneva Langford
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