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Page 2, The Wynnewood Gazette, Thursday, September 26, 2002
THf WYNNIWOOD
By Larry Russell
treasurer Judy is not through yet. Being prepared
As I See It
By Larry G. Russell
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must be passed annually. This year pay off those bonds. De-annexation
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Christmas comes early for Wynnewood Public Schools
and the Wynnewood Foundation for Academic Excellence
awarding grants to teachers from
unrestricted funds but focusing new
fundraising on the ITP over the
next three years.
Foundation
Joy may still be a community
but it is no long an independent
school district. It is a bought and
paid for part of the Wynnewood
District. A valid petition for an
election will require the signatures
Wynnewood has allowed 120
students to transfer out and has
allowed 29 to transfer in. Our
school district has lost 50 students
to Davis, 42 to Pauls Valley, 12 to
Whitebead, six to Sulphur, five to
Stratford, two to Roff, and one each
out with his friends. His plans for early cotton Monday morning when
the future are to go to college, get he beat Sam Tutor by six hours and
the art technology. That gift was
valued at over $18,500. Mr. Bill
Swift from 3COM informed Mrs.
Roderick Monday that his company
technology materials from Tinker
Air Force Base. Weldon’s request
letter received a quick reply, and 15
computer systems were delivered
last month. There is a possibility
there will be more to come. The
equipment coming from Tinker
could include computers, monitors,
keyboards, mice, network interface
Joy chose Wynnewood over
Davis for annexation because Davis
wanted nothing to do with the old
school building. Wynnewood agreed
in good faith to renovate and use
Joy School and bit the bullet to pay
the salaries of Reduction in Force
staffers for one year if they did not
find jobs elsewhere; Wynnewood
The Wynnewood Foundation for
Academic Excellence is abuzz with
activity as the time nears to select
teacher grants for this year and
begin preparations for the annual
foundation banquet on November 4.
But the source of most of the
Are you one of those saying “if
they want to leave, just let them
go”? If it comes to an election
voters should first understand: (1)
the loss in ad valorem tax revenue
and state and federal funding based
on average daily attendance; (2) you
voters supported a bond issue for
school improvements, and a ton of
that money was poured into the Joy
School to make it safe, up to
standards and pleasant for our pre-
schoolers. You may vote Joy away
but you’ll still be accountable to
803 S. Dean A. McGee
Wynnewood • 665-2580
Sun - Thurs: 7 am - 9 pm
Fri & Sat: 7 am - 10 pm
I his newspaper is published weekly on Thursday by
Russell Publishing Company at offices located at
2 l(> S. Dean A McGee, Wynnewood. OK 73098.
Phone (405) 665-4333 • Fax (405) 665-4334
I personally want to say Thank
You to our outstanding educators,
to our school board and to each of
you who have supported the
projects and goals of the education
foundation. The smiles and the can-
do spirit I’ve been witnessing early
in this school year warm the heart
of this old former educator and tell
me that things arc just going to
keep getting better!
has proven good faith for nine
years, and the Joy Early Childhood
Center is thriving.
funds.
This summer things began to
really pop. Wynnewood Schools
got a new superintendent who is
high on the foundation’s goals and
takes an active part in moving our
schools into the 21st century.
Tech Sgt. Richard Shearer, a
1983 Wynnewood graduate, steered
Superintendent Bill Weldon in the
right direction for acquiring surplus
Last week the Gazette provided a
sounding board for a group of Joy
Community residents circulating a
petition to de-annex Joy from the
Wynnewood School District.
It is my understanding, mainly
from their letter to the editor, that
they are disgruntled because Davis
the board chose not to allow Davis
buses into the district to transport
students to and from school. When
the Davis superintendent was asked
by Wynnewood Superintendent Bill
Welden if he would let Wynnewood
buses into Davis to transport Davis
transfer students to Wynnewood, he
smiled and said absolutely not.
Most superintendents don’t because
every student lost from the district
means lost revenue.
your sabers. Like you, we want to
continue amiability across both
school districts and we want what is
best for all. De-anexation of Joy is
not the answer.
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Freshman attendant Kimberly
Yates is the 14-year-old daughter of
Jerry and Vicki Yates. Kim serves
on Student Council and Band
Council and is president of her
freshman class. She plays softball
and runs cross country and is a
member of Band, Student Council,
FCA, Key Club and First United
Methodist Church. Her favorite
activities are playing softball,
running cross country and playing
in the WHS Band. She plans to
attend college, be very successful
and eventually get married.
Kimberly’s escort is senior
Savage Harold Robertson, the 17-
year-old son of Glenn and Jean
Miller. He plays football and is a
member of FCS, Gifted & Talented
and Art Club. His favorite pastimes
are camping, fishing and hanging
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“what’s left on your list?” has the capability. Now we know
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bearing proposal and are prepared to
This year’s crownbearer is
McLane Jolly, the 6-1/2-year-old
son of Steven and Robin Jolly.
McLane is a member of First
Baptist Church. He enjoys hunting,
camping, fishing and baseball. He
just returned Saturday from a trip to
Disney World. He has not yet
chosen a career but plans to go to
college at OU and he wants to be a
policeman.
1992 - Four Wynnewood athletes,
members of Coach Charles Butler’s
Arbuckle Wings track team, are
preparing to depart for the National
Junior Olympics Championships in
Walnut, California. Runner
Bethany Butler will be competing
in her sixth national meet; VaNessa
Williams in her fifth; newcomers
Jamie Williamson and Mike
Huckabaa will compete in javelin,
discus and shot field events. [Butler
was later awarded Coach of the Year
honors by the Oklahoma Girls
Track Coaches Association]
the foundation by also seeking out Tinker staffers, all
grants and donations for matching
1922 - The largest watermelon
brought into Wynnewood for
market Saturday was owned by T.
B. Strickland. J. W. Kincaid bought
the whopper for $1. It weighed in at
60-3/4 pounds.
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1932 - J. M. Perry added another
“first bale” to his growing list of
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voting in school elections over the
past five years (800). Therefore, a
petition will require over 400
signatures of voters in the
Wynnewood District. An election
to de-annex to Davis would have to
be voted on by all of the
Wynnewood District, and it would
require a majority to pass.
would result in higher taxes for the
property owners who remain in the
Wynnewood district. We will still
have the same tax burden with less
people to foot the bill; (3) What
happens to those students in the
Joy area who attend school in
Wynnewood? Will they have to
transfer? and how will they be
transported? Would the Davis
district allow our buses into their
district? (4) Keep in mind that
there is no animosity between the
two administrations and Davis
Schools is not backing the
circulating petition; and (5) Who
pays for the election? The winner or
the loser?
Accompanying them, along with
Superintendent Weldon and Mrs.
Roderick was technical advisor, Mr.
Ron White of Sulphur. “He’s been
my guru through all of this,” Mrs.
Roderick said of White. “He knows
what we’re still lacking, and he has
the know-how to link all four
buildings to the new system.”
The beauty of it all is that Sgt.
Shearer believes there’s a good
chance a tech team can come from
Tinker to complete the hookup,
notwithstanding a blowup in the
middle east that could call them all
away on a moment’s notice.
I recently asked high school
counselor Barbara McKay what the
chances are of offering secondary
students a course to prepare them
for taking their ACT and PSAT
tests. Her reply was that the new
administration have already
responded positively to that
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their families for sugar rations.
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disappearing children has finally
been solved. Carl Rollow has used
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WHAT’S LEFT ON THE LIST? Consulting on how best to finish paving the Information
Technology Partnership highway for Wynnewood schools at the high school last week were
(RtoL) Superintendent Bill Weldon, tech advisor Ron White of Sulphur, education
foundation treasurer and grant writer Judy Roderick and the technology team from Tinker
Air Force Base, M.Sgt. Roy Nielsen, Tech.Sgt. Susan Kelly, M.Sgt. Jim Chastain,
Tech.Sgt. Richard Shearer and Staff Sgt. Christopher Phillips.
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Rollow, vice-president; and Emmett
Wilson, secretary-treasurer. It is
hoped the project of constructing 2
and 3-bedroom brick homes will be
underway by the end of this year.
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1982 - Competing this year in the
1982 Rodeo Queen contest are
Debbie Williams, Carol Readnour,
Billie Pickens and Shelly Crawford.
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The Wynnewood
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Development Authority got its start
on July 18 with a number of
businessmen who are striving to
ease the housing shortage here.
New officers of the non-profit
corporation are Dr. C. B.
McDonald, president; Garner
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He is educated who knows
where to find out what he
doesn't know.
—Georg Simmel
the technology is there; it only
remains to work the course into the
curriculum and collar an instructor.
With the state's budget shortfall
and monetary cuts to the schools a
reality, our school system needs our
support more than ever. Each of us
can help, if not financially, than
with our commitment to give our
children every educational
opportunity and with our personal
involvement.
to Ada, Paoli and Dickson. The dip unhappy because you feel your
in numbers has hurt school revenue rights have been violated, I say
and dropped our competition level please rethink this issue, back up
from 2A to A. and assess again the origin of your
Here arc some facts that voters anger, accept that transportation for
need to think about before they sign your children to and from school is
petitions or request de-annexation of your responsibility and quit rattling
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Serving as the flowergirl at Perry’s 1,460-pound bale is the first
Friday night’s queen coronation is of the 1932 crop and wins the
Jazmyne Thomas, the 4-year-old $39.75 premium prize money put
daughter of Marques and Cheryl up by the Junior Chamber.
Thomas. Jazmyne attends Mt. * * *
Carmel Baptist Church. She loves 1942 - Heads of families and
playing with her Barbies, playing housewives had the typewriters
with her brother Jordan, coloring clicking continuously at Central
and riding her bike. She plans to Grade School Monday, Tuesday and
their Wynnewood transfer students
in and out of the Wynnewood
District. I'm pretty sure that some
of the signatories don’t have a
busing problem anyway since their
children can drive themselves to and
from school.
I am all for school choice, and it
should be the parents’ ultimate
decision w here their children attend
school, particularly if they feel the
neighbor school has a better
curriculum, better discipline, better
athletic program or whatever.
However, it is not the burden of the
home district to provide
transportation for transfer students.
The Wynnewood administration
has been gracious in allowing
transfers out without so much as a
grumble. They were also gracious
in passing a resolution allowing
Davis to bus in and out of our
school district. Such a resolution
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effective grant writer and has also computers with 17-inch monitors,
been soliciting donations from keyboards and mice.
Wynnewood alumni, both with Just last Friday Tech Sgt. Shearer
rewarding results. Teachers and returned to Wynnewood High
administrators were to partner with School with four of his fellow
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Yolande Josephson - Bookkeeping, Production
Tammy Ervin - Layout, Production
Don Coffey - Photographer
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his mechanical genius to construct
a delightful spacecraft that each and
every child can take turns climbing
in and out of and venture into the
realm of enchantment. If you’ve
lost a younster, that’s probably
where you’ll find him.
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1962 - Wilson Ball reported
approximately $300 worth of
watches and pistols stolen during a
Monday night break-in at the
OTASCO Store. The burglars
apparently became frightened and
fled before taking other items, such
as hunting knives they had dropped
at the back window where they
exited.
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excitement among board members cords, printers and color copiers.
is the progress already made on the Mrs. Roderick last week received
foundation’s new Information a shipment from 3COM that
Technology Partnership formed just included many of the items needed
last year with Wynnewood Schools, to complete interconnecting all four
The plan was to continue school campuses through state-of-
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