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SCHOOL NEWS
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Susie Bridges, North School sec-
ond grade teacher, was honored as
Teacher of the Year and Central
School Principal Glenda O'Shields
was honored as Principal of the
Year as highlight of the 1989
Service Awards Banquet of Kings
Mountain District Schools Monday
night.
Coveted plaques also went to
Shirley Valentine, Grover School
secretary for 28 years, Office
Support Employee of the Year;
Joyce Hord, KMSHS Cafeteria
Manager, School Food Service
Employee of the Year; Bonnie
Bryson, Grover School, Assistant
: Teacher of the Year; Central
i School maintenance worker Robert
& Costner, Maintenance Employee of
the Year; Central School custodian
Melvinia Jackson, Custodian of the
Year; Ethel Crocker, Grover
School assistant teacher, Bus
Driver of the Year; and Paula
Goforth, counselor at North and
East Schools, Instructional Support
Person of the Year.
Ms. Bridges has taught in the
Kings Mountain District Schools
four years, three years at North and
one year at West. She was graduat-
ed from Gardner-Webb College
and received her master's degree in
po education from Western Carolina
3 University. She taught two years in
A Florida before returning to her na-
tive Cleveland County. She is
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Carroll Bridges of Shelby. In her
second grade class she has empha-
sized cooperative learning groups,
| i interest centers for individualized
| reading, and is an advocate of the
open court reading program which
| i is a pilot program in K-3 grades at
We North School this year.
i Secretaries Bobbie Ware, East
School, and Doris McGinnis, of the
Central Office staff, were given
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two-year special program of study.
Special Friends awards went to
Fulbright teacher Barbara Turner
of England, who has taught this
year in an exchange program at
North School, and Cyprus-Foote
Mineral Company and KMG
Minerals, two local industries,
which initiated the Science-Math
Fair in the schools and strong sup-
porters. Accepting the awards for
the industries were Chuck Duncan
of Cyprus-Foote and Levy Canova
of KMG Minerals.
The four employees retiring
from the school system this year
gave a total of 65 1/2 years service
to their professions and were pre-
sented plaques. Retiring at KMHS
is cosmetology teacher Lillian
Whitworth after 23 years service;
Louise Wright, KMJH, cafeteria
worker after 18 1/2 years; Janie
Ware, East School, cafeteria em-
ployee after 10 years; and Pink
Ware, West School, custodian after
14 years. Teachers of the Year from
the eight schools in the KM
District Schools were recognized
with plaques from the schools and
from the KM Chapter NCAE.
Teachers of the Year are: Jane
Bryson, Central; Richa Clark,
Bethware; Sandra Mullinax, East;
Juanita Herring, Grover; Susie
Bridges, North; Laura McGill,
West; Julia Wood, KM Junior
High, and Jaquitha Reid, Kings
Mountain Senior High School.
Recognized as mentor teachers,
after completion of a two-year pro-
gram in the schools where they
serve as advisors to new teachers,
were Joan Dotson, Carolyn Roark,
Ethel Bumgardner, Judy Gibson,
Jackie Hope, Doris Wallace, Susan
White, Teresa Biggerstaff, and
Audrey Harris.
Dr. Robert McRae,
Superintendent, recognized a large
number of people who serve on
Bridges Teacher Of Year, O'Shields
HONORED-Glenda O'Shields, left, is Kings Mountain District
School's Principal of the Year and Susie Bridges is Kings Mountain
Teacher of the Year.
various committees and thanked
them for their service to the school
system.
They included:
Citizens Get Out the Vote for
School Bonds: Glee E. Bridges, C.
A. Allison, Beth McIntyre, Andrew
Milewski, Allen Propst and Jackie
Rountree.
Criteria Testing: Julienne
Hambright, Sandra Mullinax,
Linda Stewart, Katherine Blanton,
Ann Rudisill, Suzie Terres, and
Ethel Bumgerdner.
Educational Foundation Board:
Howard Champion, Martha
Bridges, Katherine Hardy, Billy
King, Charles F. Mauney, Dr
Everette Thombs, Dean
© PSP recognition after completing a
HONORED FOR SERVICE-Paula Goforth, left, was honored as Instructional Support Person of the
Westmoreland, Will Herndon, Mrs.
Year and Lillian Whitworth, right, was the retiring teacher honored by the KM Schools Monday night.
Making the plaque presentations is Supt. Bob McRae.
EDUCATOR PROFILE
Emily Suber and Dr. Martin
Stallings.
Health Council: = Karen
Arrowood, Cindy Borders, Rev.
Bob Collins, Katherine Hardy,
Jerry Hoyle, Billy King, Jane King,
Cheryl Lutz, Quint McCoy,
Barbara Ormand, Allen Propst,
Twyla Robinson, Ann Rudisill, Dr.
Martin Stallings, Dr. Everette
Thombs, Jean Thrift and Mary Lou
Ware.
Interim Report Card: Carole
Wheeler, Jackie Hope, Hilda Kiser,
Joe Rountree, Judy Gibson, Jim
Owens and Priscilla Mauney.
Superintendent's Liaison
Council: Mary Plyler, Cindy
Wood, Mike Smith, Jackie
Blanton, Sally Hendricks, Julia
Top Principal
Wood, Ann Lefevers and Carla
Bennett.
Middle School: Jane King, over-
all chairman; Glenda O'Shields and
Jerry Hoyle, co-chairmen; Mary
Accor, Karen Arrowood, Ann
Bennett, Dr. Larry Allen, Libby
Blanton, Cindy Borders, Ethel
Bumgardner, Doyle Campbell,
Sarah Cole, Betty Corry, Betty
Gamble, John Goforth, David
Heffner, Joey Hopper, Jean Thrift,
Laura Whiteside, Julia Wood.
Math-Science Fair: co-chairmen
Patti Weathers and Grace Costner;
Marti Clemmer, Mike Smith, Linda
Stewart, Connie Bell, Garnelle
Bailey, Judy Gibson, Audrey
Harris, Sally Hendricks, Michelle
Spivey, Susie Terres and Jane
King.
Parents Advisory Council: Ann
McDaniel, Leonard Rayford,
Brenda Lovelace, Jim Jolly, Sandra
Senter, Mary Perkins, Sandra
Wingo and Donna Butler.
Personnel: Jackie Blanton,
Annette Parker, Ann Scism,
Shirley Bynum, Lynn Echols,
Carole Wheeler, Ronnie Wilson
and Supt. McRae.
Southern Accreditation Study:
Joe Rountree, Dianna Allen, Nancy
Hughes, Jane Talbert, Barbara
Bridges, Gail Baber, Linda
Stewart, Juanita Lutz, Susie
Roberts, Sarah Simpson and Linda
Humphries.
Teacher of Year: C.A. Allison,
Katherine Blanton, Joey Hopper,
Priscilla Mauney, and Ronnie
Wilson.
Five teachers represented the
Kings Mountain system in regional
competition: Pattie Weathers,
Science; Sally Hendricks, sec-
ondary math; Joe Rountree, social
studies; Ethel Bumgardner, liberal
arts; and Beverly Moffett, elemen-
tary math.
Dr. McRae, who presented the
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TEACHERS OF THE YEAR-Pictured are five of the eight Teachers of the Year in the Kings Mountain
awards, assisted by other principals
and staff members, recognized
guests, including members of the
KM Board of Education.
McRae said this is the second
year the system has held the
awards program. It is the first year
the system has presented an award
to a Instructional Support Person of
the Year. Paula Goforth, guidance
counselor at North and East
Schools, received the award. Mrs.
Goforth is wife of KMSHS
Assistant Principal John Goforth
and they are parents of two
sons.She graduated from
Limestone College and completed
graduate school at Georgia
University. She taught school five
years in Georgia and Florida.
Prior to the awards program, a
dinner of baked chicken and wild
rice with accessories was served
buffet style.
Rev. Dewey Smith, pastor of
Galilee/St. Paul United Methodist
Churches, gave the invocation.
Special entertainment, coordi-
nated by Lynn Echols, featured tal-
ented singers and musicians from
the school staff who delighted the
large audience with a variety of
music from "Dueling Banjos" by
Jerry and Steve Edmonson; a
quintet by Rachel Bolt, Vivian
Duncan, Jean Thrift, Larry Allen
and Robert Scism; a quartet com-
posed of Gene Bumgardner, Tim
Echols, Joey Hopper and B. S.
Pecler; an octet, "60's Medley" by
Treda Berry, Mary Accor, Gene
Bumgardner, Ronnie Whisnant,
Sherrill Toney, Billy King, Judy
Whisnant and Claudia Stroup.
Craig Mayes was a audience fa-
vorite with his comic routine,
“Jerry Clower."
Schools. From left, Juanita Herrin, Jaquitha Reid, Laura McGill, Jane Bryson and Susie Bridges.Not pic-
tured are Julia Wood, Sandra Mullinax and Richa Clark.
Craig Mayes Always Wanted To Go Home
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BY MARTY HOHMANN
Of the Herald Staff
It has been said that you can never go home again.
But for Craig Mayes, that old adage doesn't mean a
whole lot. For him, going home was a dream come
true.
As a youngster growing up in Kings Mountain,
Mayes took great interest in his agriculture classes at
Kings Mountain High School. He knew that he had to
learn more about the issues of concern to the nation's
graduated number two in the class of 1980, he decided
to pursue a degree in agriculture at N.C. State.
But the prompting of an assistant principal at the
high school pointed him in the direction his future was
to take. The principal recommended teaching agricul-
ture and he gave an open invitation to return to Kings
Mountain High School and teach - after Mayes learned
what it took to be a good teacher. The principal ad-
vised, "Go make your mistakes somewhere else and
then come back here."
Mayes set out for college where he earned a bache-
lor of science and a master of science degree in agri-
culture education. Following the advice of his men-
tor, he taught school for two years in Asheville and
then he came home to Kings Mountain.
"I always wanted to come back home," said Mayes.
"I wanted to come back here and give the students
some opportunities I had and some I didn't."
Coming back to his alma mater eight years after
leaving was not an easy transition for Mayes.
farmers and livestock producers. So, when Mayes
CRAIG MAYES
"It was interesting because a lot of the people who
are here were here when I was in school," he said.
"After I got used to being a teacher rather than a stu-
dent, it was okay."
Finishing his first year back at Kings Mountain
High School, Mayes has learned that he is still young
and that it will take time to achieve the expectations he
has set for himself.
"I felt like 'here I am’. I always thought Kings
Mountain High School was a good high school. I felt
like I had to live up to their level of work. I guess I've
done okay. Realizing that I was one of their col-
leagues now rather than a student really helped," he
explained.
Mayes' goal to find his new place as teacher at
Kings Mountain High was not easy to attain, but he
had a bigger goal in mind.
"I knew when I came back that it wasn't going to be
a promised land," he said. "But I've got to make this
program into something that it wasn't before. I know
it's not going to happen overnight."
He says, though, that he is willing to stick with that
goal and help others to see the importance of agricul-
ture.
"I was interested in agriculture and always had been
and I wanted people to understand agriculture is im-
portant," he said. "We need some people in agriculture
and they need to understand that it's not some farmer
leaning on a fence chewing on straw."
In fact, Mayes explained, only about two percent of
the population actually farms the land, and we depend
on that small group for most of our food. For that rea-
son, he notes, they need to understand the science of
agriculture. :
"It's not just farming," he said. "There are a lot of
opportunities there for people if they're just made
aware of them."
Mayes has made a point of making his students
more aware and he is seeing that agriculture and horti-
culture are no longer just a man's line of work.
"About one third of my students are girls. It seems
like the percentage is going up too," he said.
"Sometimes they do better than the guys in some
things."
Already Mayes has improved the agriculture voca-
tional education program at Kings Mountain High
School by getting students more involved. Not only
are they on-line with the agriculture program computer
system, students are also actively involved with the
FFA, Future Farmers of America.
"If it weren't for the FFA, I probably wouldn't
teach," said Mayes.
He calls it one of his best motivational tools because
it gives the students hands-on opportunities. The class
has participated in livestock and poultry competitions,
are learning leadership skills and have attended the
state fair. The class also runs its own greenhouse
where they grow a variety of plants to sell. The expe-
riences, Mayes notes, are invaluable.
"If I had had somebody to get me involved, I could
have done a lot of those things," he said.
With the program headed in the right direction,
Mayes is encouraged by what he sees in his classes.
Progress is being made and interest is being generated
in the field of agriscience. But for himself, he doesn't
expect any drastic changes. Mayes just wants to con-
tinue doing a good job at what he loves best.
"I'm looking forward to teaching right here and
building this program up," he said.
"This is home."