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Announcing the 2010 Lamplighter Awards Banquet
A Special Night for LISD Students and Their Special Educators
The Longview ISD Foundation, Inc. believes that the Longview Independent School District delivers excellence to its students, and excellence is achieved because of the dedicated, nurturing people who touch the lives of students every day. To honor the profession, the Longview ISD Foundation is sponsoring the 2010 Lamplighter Awards, the tenth annual fundraising educator tribute dinner event, to be held on Thursday, April 8, 2010, at 6:30 PM at Pinecrest Country Club, 201 Club Drive, Longview, Texas. Reservations for the event are $25.00 each. Call Kay Ray, Executive Director of the Foundation, at 903-663-4732 or 452-7015 to make reservations or contact her at gray@lisd.org.
Based on an idea inspired by the children’s book My Great-Aunt Arizona by Gloria Houston, this fundraising event honors students and campus personnel (teachers, principals, counselors, librarians, teachers’ aides, cafeteria workers, custodians, bus drivers, or nurses) who have touched the lives of these students. Students read My Great-Aunt Arizona and wrote essays about a person from their LISD campus or a person who has retired from their LISD campus who has been special to them like Great-Aunt Arizona, a teacher, was special to Gloria Houston, the book’s author.
At the banquet, Gene Jordan, Jr. and Celia Elkins, this year’s emcees, will read portions of the students’ essays about the honorees while both student and educator are presented. Each student and honoree will receive a Lamplighter Award.
This year at the banquet the Foundation will also award the eighth annual Cornerstone Award to Shirley Williams, retired Longview High School senior English teacher. Each year this award honors a retired LISD employee who has been instrumental in the tradition of success of Longview ISD.
With the Lamplighter Awards, the Longview ISD Foundation pays tribute to students and those who are special to them in their school lives and invites the community to celebrate Longview ISD and the people who make it a success. Through this event, the Longview ISD Foundation also raises funds for the annual Grants-to-Teachers Program and the Campus Initiative Grant through the generosity of Heart of the Community, Champion, Sustainer, Advocate, Benefactor and Friend sponsors.
To learn how to become a sponsor of this year’s event, click on “Ways to Invest” on the homepage and scroll down to find a sponsorship form.
The Longview ISD Foundation is proud to present the 2010 honorees:
Bramlette Elementary School—Cecil Walton honored by Tiffany Hershberger
J. L. Everhart Magnet Academy of Cultural Studies— Archie Jones honored by Measha Jones
G. K. Foster Montessori Magnet School—LaTosha Johnson honored by Tre'Veon McAfee
Hudson Elementary School—Victoria Awbrey honored by Caitlin Wilcox
Johnston Elementary School—Shameika Allen honored by Matayia Jones
McClure Magnet School of International Studies—Mesha London honored by Kayla Ford
McQueen Primary School—Kara Carter honored by Tatiyanna Johnson
South Ward Elementary School—Susan Moon honored by Melissa Ruiz
Valley View Elementary School— Amy Anderson honored by Menessa Poss
Ware Elementary School—Niki Wilson honored by Marcos Lopez
Forest Park Magnet School of Global Studies—Sam Ferguson honored by India Williams
Foster Middle School— Janice Royal honored by Madison Branch
Judson Middle School—Grant Woodson honored by Brooke Moore
Longview High School—David White honored by Joanna Fruia,
Larry Cunningham honored by Anthony Horner, and
Xocia McClendon, interpreter for the deaf and hearing impaired at Johnston Elementary School,
honored by Tameshia Arthur
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