R-2 band rated excellent, art class awarded grant, other news.
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Band rated excellent
Pattonsburg R-2 Band members Aaron deJong, piano solo, and Nena Woodward, Jonathan Lowrey and Ashley Brown, trumpet trio, received superior I ratings at music contest held in Maryville on March 30. The Pattonsburg High School Band received an excellent II rating.
The following band student received a II rating on solo and ensembles: Aaron deJong, trombone solo; Kyle Mason, Brennan Leeper and Aaron deJong, trombone trio; Heather Teeter, Eden Waggoner, Robyn Shipers and Chris Eldredge, mixed woodwind quartet; Gina Burns, Jessica Hartley, Jacque Hartley, Miranda Bell, Erica Kobleski and Eden Waggoner, girls vocal sextet. All band members will be awarded medals for their performance.
Junior-senior prom
The Junior-Senior Prom will be held on April 21 in the Pattonsburg High School gymnasium. The junior class will host the banquet and dance, with will begin at 7 p.m. Pictures will be taken at 6 p.m. The colors for prom this year are navy blue, sky blue, silver and white. The theme is “This I Promise You.”
Project Prom, which the community sponsors, will provide the juniors and seniors with a movie and a few games of bowling at Albany, as well as the opportunity to earn a variety of prizes. Early on Sunday morning, there will be breakfast following the prize giveaway.
Play presented
The Pattonsburg drama students will present the play Wannabes! at 7 p.m. on April 7. There will be an intermission during the play at which time refreshments of dessert, coffee and punch will be served in the school cafeteria. The play will be performed in the gymnasium. The play is a three-act comedy/mystery about a group of girls attending drama camp.
Two to Boys State
Pattonsburg juniors Brennan Leeper and Robert Woodring will attend the 2001 Session of the American Legion Missouri Boys State at Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg from June 16-23.
Due to the fact that Pattonsburg has not had students attend in several years, the school will be permitted to send two candidates. One of the students is sponsored by Missouri Boys State. The other is sponsored by the community of Pattonsburg with donations from the Pattonsburg City Council, the Xi Iota Tau Sorority and the Pattonsburg P.E.O. Organization.
Art class awarded grant
The Northwest Missouri area of the Missouri State Teacher’s Association recently offered a $200 grant for supplies to be incorporated into any area of study. Mrs. Carlena Leeper was awarded the grant to purchase items enabling the integration of outside raku firing with clay into art classes.
An outdoor kiln, glaze, and chemicals will be purchased within the upcoming school year. This will work as a more refined process of the wet firings done outside earlier this school year with the Art Topics class. Students will also be able to mix and formulate their own glazes.
Thirty years of teaching
Mrs. Lois Swope has taught remedial math, remedial reading, first grade, fourth grade and second grade. Her entire career has been at Pattonsburg. That career reached 30 years on March 8. The following Friday, the elementary school hosted a reception for her.
All of the students presented her with homemade cards. There were two sheet cakes and a money tree from the staff and faculty. When asked how she felt about teaching for 30 years, she said, “It’s rewarding!”
She went on to say, “Mrs. Frankie Ward taught over 900 students over a 50 year period. She kept a list of who she taught. I wish that I had done that. I taught the parents of a lot of my students.”