LampLighter Awards

The Longview ISD Foundation celebrated its 21st Lamplighter Awards on Thursday, April 22, 2021, at 6:30 PM in the Lobo Coliseum with dinner catered by T. Blanco's and dessert provided by Menchie's.   The Longview ISD celebrated the power of great educators, members of the most influential profession in the world.  Without the education profession, there would be no other professions, for all of us learned our trade and skills from our teachers.    The Longview ISD Foundation believes that students long remember the teachers with whom they had strong relationships, who truly cared about them, and who helped them become the successful students and young people they are.

The Longview ISD Foundation sponsors three grant programs that enhance educational opportunity for LISD students:  the Great Rewards for Great Ideas Grant Program, the Campus Initiative Grant Program, and the John W. Harrison, Jr. Academic Field Trip Grant.
 
Since 1996, the Great Rewards for Great Ideas Grant Program has funded 728 grants, returning $795,468.74 to LISD’s classrooms and enabling innovative teachers, counselors, librarians, and nurses to create new educational programs or to enhance existing ones so that they can provide the best instruction possible to all students.  These grants have funded programs and projects for students of all ability levels in a variety of disciplines.  In addition to strengthening academics, the grants have also funded projects in music, art, technology, character education, health and physical education, guidance and counseling. and STEM and STEAM education.
 
The Foundation has also funded forty-seven Campus Initiative Grants for a total of $138,872.58.  The Foundation believes that this grant program, targeting overall campus improvement, complements the Foundation’s annual Great Rewards for Great Ideas Program.   Since fall 2008, the Foundation has funded five John W. Harrison, Jr. Academic Field Trip Grants for fourth and fifth grade and middle school students for a total of $25,991.13.  Through its three grant programs, the Longview ISD Foundation has returned a grand total of $960,332.45 to LISD classrooms and campuses in its twenty-six-year history, moving ever closer to the one-million-dollar mark.

The Longview ISD Foundation, Inc. sincerely thanks the sponsors of the 2021 Lamplighter Awards banquet and their overwhelming generosity and support of the educators and students in Longview ISD.




Heart of the Community Sponsors

Linebarger Goggan Blair and Sampson, LLP	Anonymous Donor	Longview News-Journal
Ward, Smith and Hill Law Firm

Champions of the Foundation

AEP Southwestern Electric Power Company	Southside Bank	Super 1 Foods
VeraBank	Anonymous Donor	Sloan Law Firm

Sustainers of the Foundation

Texas Bank and Trust

Advocates of the Foundation

Forbes and Butler Visual Communication, Inc.	Meredith Roel	Boon, Calk, Echols, Coleman and Goolsby, PLLC
Sherman and Briscoe Orthodontics	East Texas Professional Credit Union	Diagnostic Clinic of Longview
Leslie and Cameron Carlile	Texas Oncology-Longview Cancer Center	Satterwhite Log Homes in Memory of Sam Satterwhite
Hudson PEP Elementary School PTO	Kona Ice	Sorey, Gilliland, and Hull, L. L. P.
Brian Dolive, DDS	Kay and John Ray

Benefactors of the Foundation

Foster Middle School PTA	LeBus International, Inc	Dee Anne and John Sloan
Gans and Smith Insurance Agency, Inc.	Spring Hill State Bank	Weber Landscapring
Rebecca Jenkins Melton	Amy and Brian Williams	Voyage Medical Solutions
Louis Morgan Drug IV	Dr. and Mrs. Martin Hilton	Diamond H Services
Judy Harper and Paula Poole	Jack and Lanie Lenhart	Casa Flora Floral Shop
MALL Energy, Inc.	Whitney and Troy Schaap	Judson STEAM Academy PTA
Renese and David Henderson

Friends of the Foundation

Dr. Kelly Mack	Emily Erisman Myers	Crista and Michael Black
Bar K Ranch Store/Mary and Miles Darby	Heidi and Kendall Archer	Pack N Mail Mailing Center
Sally Gossett Barron, LPC-	BTH Bank	Mack and Hansen Orthodontics
Brian and Kimberly Mendenhall	Laura and Brett Miller