STAR TEACHERS HONORED - Kings Mountain's Star Teachers, back row from left Mark Sivy,
Carol Peeler, Gene Bumgardner and Pat Baker, were honored by students Kristen Miller, Becky Jo,
Katie Rountree, Sarah Bunch and Emily Anthony, left to right, Thursday night. Jo tapped former
teacher Jane Blake, now of Jefferson Elementary School, not pictured, as her star teacher.
Star teachers honored at KMHS
The Top 5 academic students in the 1998 Kings
Mountain High School Senior Class chose five
teachers as "Stars" Thursday night because they
said each set high standards for themselves and
students.
The students chose the teacher who they said
had inspired them the most during their 12 years
of schooling. For some of them the No. 1 teacher
was from elementary or middle school years and
others were the teachers they had worked with in
high school.
Pat Baker, selected by Emily Anthony, Eugene
Bumgardner, selected ‘by Sarah Bunch; Carol
Peeler, selected by Katie Rountree; Mark Sivy, se-
lected by Kristen Miller and former teacher Jane
Blake, selected by Rebecca Jo, said ithey found it
easy to be a "star" with "star" students.
"Mr. Bumgardner teaches much more than a
subject," said choral student Sarah Bunch, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Bunch. "He's superior
and teaches us moral lessons as well as the notes
in music.” Bunch said Bumgardner has been a re-
al role model and had helped her to make deci-
sions in life. "His is a great passion for music,"
she said. Bunch plans to major in communica-
tions at UNC in Chapel Hill. She has been active
in recent plays presented by drama and choral
students and sings in the King's Revue.
Blake, now assistant principal at Jefferson
Elementary School, was Jo's AG teacher in
grades 5-8.
"I really improved in reading comprehension
and Ms. Blake was a friend as well as a teacher,"
said Jo, daughter of Won U and Okk Young Jo
"and plans to major in psychology at UNC in
Chapel Hill.
"Mr. Sivy encouraged me in physics and really
‘helped me," said Miller, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
Roger Miller who aspires to be a physical thera-
pist after graduation from UNC in Chapel Hill.
"Mrs. Baker helped me cultivate the love of
math and she's the main reason I want to teach
math after graduation from Appalachian State
University," said Emily Anthony, daughter of
Janet and Thomas Anthony. Baker was Anthony's
8th grade algebra teacher.
"Mrs. Peeler inspired me in French classes and
now I am tutoring other students and plan to
teach French after I finish Appalachian State
University," said Rountree. Hands-on experience,
according to Rountree, is the fun part of the four
courses in French she has taken at Kings
Mountain High School. Rountree is the daughter
of Joel and Patsy Rountree, both KM faculty
members.
The Kings Mountain teachers were among a to-
tal of 20 chosen from Cleveland County by the
top five members of the four high school senior
class in a program sponsored by Time Warner
Cable. The teachers and students were honored at
a supper at the KMHS Cafeteria.
This is the third year that KMHS has participat-
ed in the event which began eight years ago by
Time Warner and which won for Floyd Williams
and Time Warner Cable a national award for the
original program, said KMHS guidance counselor
Anita Campbell.
Other award teachers and students were: Burns
High - Phyllis Elmore, selected by Shanna
Littlejohn; Chris Glover, selected by Kristi
Rudisill; Mitch Lipscomb, selected by Danny
Price; Alisa McKee, selected by Lynda Hull and
Jim Ruark, selected by Seth Yarboro; Crest High -
Kenneth Brooks, selected by Jenny Lowery; Roger
Harris, selected by Brooke Davis; and David
JLutnamyin, selected by Candice Burrill; Elizabeth
Elementary -'LoricHastings, selected by Jessica
Hicks; Kay Harvell, selected by Gene Holmes and
Jane McCraw, selected by Chris Hudson; and
Shelby High - Brenda Goforth, selected by Sandy
Terrell; Jeff Jones, selected by Chris Fryer; Bob
Scoggins, selected by Joanne Pearson and Emily
Yelton, selected by Sarah Laney.
Kindergarten registration underway in KM schools
Children who will be five years
old on or before October 16, 1998
should register for kindergarten in
their respective school districts. If
parents do not know which school
their child will attend, they should
call the Kings Mountain District
Office at 734-5637.
Applications and Kindergarten
Health Assessment Reports are
available at all elementary schools.
The application should be complet-
ed and returned to the school as
soon as possible. The Kindergarten
Health Assessment Report is to be
completed by the child's physician
or the health department and is due
on or before September 9, 1998.
Orientation Day for incoming
kindergarten children and their par-
ents is scheduled for May 8, 1998
at all elementary schools. At this
time parents are to take their child's
official birth certificate and social
security number. No child can be
enrolled without the official birth
certificate. On Orientation Day
parents will take their child to
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school at 8:30 a.m. and remain for
an informative session with the
school principal which will last ap-
proximately one hour. The children
will go to classes and enjoy a typi-
cal kindergarten day, ending with
lunch in the cafeteria as guests of
the school system. Parents will
pick up their children at 11:30 a.m.
Regular kindergarten children will
not attend school on this day.
Questions should be directed to
Jane C. King, Assistant
Superintendent of Instruction, at
734-5637.
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Rehabilitation Program
RESIDENTIAL REHAB
The City of Kings Mountain is
administering a Single Family
Community Development Block
Grant Program which will include
renovation of a total of 28 homes.
Contractors that are interested in
submitting bids on these projects
should contact John E. Ganus at
and ‘a
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Dr. Houston is appointed
director of new UNC center
Dr. Samuel H. Houston ]Jr.,
Kings Mountain native and vet-
eran educational administrator,
has been named executive di-
rector of the newly created
UNC Center for School
Leadership Development in
Chapel Hill.
Houston has served since
1993 as executive director of the
N. C. Education Standards and
which in coordination with the
State Board of Education, is
charged with defining the edu-
cational skills the state's stu-
dents must muster if they are to
compete successfully in the
emerging information economy.
In his new post, Houston will
focus and align University-wide
resources on professional devel-
opment for teachers, adminis-
trators and other educational
leaders. The Center for School
Leadership Development will
serve as the umbrella organiza-
tion for a number of existing
University programs, the
Principals Executive Program,
the Principal Fellows Program,
the Mathematics and Science
Education Network, the North
Carolina Center for the
Advancement of Teaching, the
North Carolina Center for the
Prevention of School Violence
and the North Carolina Teacher
Academy. Future plans call for
the creation of an Executive
Leadership Academy, targeted
toward school superintendents
and other system administra-
tors, as well as local school
boards.
Houston, son of Humes
Houston of Kings Mountain,
holds undergraduate and mas-
ter's degrees in physical educa-
tion from Appalachian State
University and earned his doc-
torate in education from the
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro. After four years as
an elementary school teacher,
he began a career in administra-
tion, serving as assistant princi-
pal and principal at the junior
high and high school levels. In
1981 he was named assistant
superintendent of the Davidson
County Schools, and two years
Godbold speaker
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John Godbold, President of
Cleveland County Chamber of
Commerce, was guest speaker
at Tuesday's meeting of the
Kings Mountain Business and
Professional Association.
He spoke at a breakfast meet-
ing at First Charter Bank on
Gold Street.
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Accountability Commission,
later became superintendent of
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the Mooresville City Schools.
He held that post for a decade
before joining the Standards
andAccountability Commission
in 1993. Houston also has held
adjunct professorships at ASU
and UNC-Chapel Hill.
Houston has written and lec-
tured widely on such topics as
strategy planning, student per-
formance and accountability,
meeting the needs of the 21st
century work force and build-
ing educational partnerships.
Active in an array of civic and
educational organizations, he
earned the RJR-Nabisco
Foundation's 1993 China
Breaker Award for implement-
ing change and was named
North Carolina's Outstanding
Community Educator in 1992.
He is married to the former
Diane Roberts of Kings
Mountain, daughter of Mrs.
Eugene Roberts, and they have
two adult daughters.
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dwellings are not eligible.
Eligibility:
City of Kings Mountain
requirements
applications will be processed on a
however priority for assistance will
property.
City of Kings Mountain
Single Family Housing Rehabilitation Program
The City of Kings Mountain is now taking applications from
owner-occupants for housing assistance under the City’s SFR
The assistance will be in the form of principal only deferred -
payment loans which may be used to rehabilitate single family
detached, substandard site-built homes to meet HUD’s Housing
Quality Standard (HQS), NCHFA’s Energy Standards, and the
-Owner-occupied households only
-Dwelling must qualify as moderately deteriorated
-Dwelling must be located in the corporate limits of the
-Household must meet program income and special need
In order to be eligible for assistance your household income
(from all sources) must not exceed the levels shown below:
Persons in Cleveland Co. Gaston Co.
Household Income Limit Income Limit
1 $21,300 $26,500
2 $24,300 $30,250
3 $27,350 $34,050
4 $30,400 $37,850
5 $32,850 $40,850
6 $35,250 $43,900
7 $37,700 $46,900
8 $40,150 $49,950
To apply call the City of Kings Mountain at 734-4595. Pre-
The City will not accept applications for assistance for rental
le Homes and multi-family
first come, first served basis,
be given based on income.
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having questions regarding this subject should call the North
Carolina RELAY NUMBER for the DEAF (1-800-735-8262).
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