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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1995
Page
11
On Thursday morning August 24 the Cracker junior high cheerleaders held an opening assembly for the upcoming sports year. Shelly Southerland the head cheerleader delivered the opening speech to coaches players students and faculty.
The 1995-96 WJHS eighth grade girls basketball squad trains daily on fundamentals under coach Jena Ford with fourteen players: Kendra Allred Alison Wood Erica Ballinger Stormie Blevins Tiffany Day Jana Green Robbie Lenz Kappi Parker Shannon Seal Shelly Southerland Erica Thomas Melissa Vasquez Erin White and Alison Wood Managers Diana Hernandez Danielle Lindsey. The schedule will be released later as players anticipate a great season with cheer squads led by Kendra Allred and Alison Wood and pep rally planned for September 14 organized by Ranee Fourmentin.
The seventh grade Firecracker band at Wellington Junior High, directed by Kendall Hickenbutton and Greg Diamond, meets daily in Band Hall with 23 members. They will attend an Amarillo contest in the second semester and perform at pep rallies and the final high school football game. Members include Todd Collins, Tanner Jeffrey, Erica Eigenman, Tasa Watts, Scotty Seale, Jeff Eigenmann, Canessa Camacho, Nikki Sims, Randi Horton, Kendra Allred, Erin Lemons, Jason Maxwell, and others. Greg Diamond recently joined as assistant director from Shamrock. his wife Kersten and two children Brage and Brock are noted.
Wellington Junior High School adds three new staff members: Mark Low, 24, from Minco Texas will teach 8th grade and high school athletics and Earth Science. Kevin Bryant, from Panther Creek Texas with five years teaching will handle Seventh grade P E, eighth grade and high school athletics and Life Science. Dee Ann Martin, 29 from Wellington with seven years teaching will teach sixth and seventh grade math and sixth grade girls P E.
Wellington Junior High seventh grade Firecrackers begin daily practice for the 1995-96 season at Powell Practice Football Field. Twenty eight players including Marcus Almanzar and T J Cantu train under Coach Tim Allen and Coach Rocky Ford. The Red and White Scrimmage with eighth graders is set for 1:00 p.m. Thursday September 7 at Powell Field ahead of the September 14 game in Memphis at 4:30 p.m.
Laranda Ham of Turkey graduates from Texas State Technical College in the summer quarter with a Certificate of Completion in Interior Design Technology. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Randy Motsenbocker.
The Rocket Regiment eighth graders start the year in the band hall led by Kendal Hickenbottom and Greg Diamond with senior Kelly McKinney and junior Cami Scott as drum majors. The group now totals 63 students, including 27 eighth graders, with initiatives to win the district title again and a spring trip funded by a car wash. Practice runs daily first period from 8:00 to 8:50 a.m., and extra sessions on Mondays and sometimes Tuesdays evenings.
Fourteen students, mostly eighth graders, join Wellington Junior High choir taught by Mr. Hickenbottom. The half semester class meets sixth period in the band hall at 1 22 p m and covers singing for recreation with a Elton John Crocodile Rock number. A separate note lists seventeen eighth graders in beginning speech and drama taught by Duane Dodson who also handles geography world history and pre algebra at WHS.
A wry Anatole France line contrasts the fool who never rests with the knave who sometimes does, highlighting a bite of wisdom about human folly. It captures a literary reflection on idleness and deceit in a timeless, pithy aphorism.
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