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The Lamplighter
Vance County Schools
January 2013
Employee Newsletter
Crinkum-Crankum earns another award
The Crinkum-Crankum literary
magazine at Northern Vance High
School has earned second place
in the 2012 Student Publication
Awards competition through the
N.C. Literary and Historical Association.
Members of the award winning
magazine’s staff are shown at right
with their trophy. They include, front
row from left, Ryan Wilson, Mary
Oakley, Kudaija Hurling and
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Berenise Martinez. On the second
row, from left, are Alexis Wilkerson, Deja Fuller, Cortney Williams and Terrylynn Silva. Staff
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Wilson newest member on Board of Education
Ed Wilson, a long-time
educator, coach and the athletic
director at Southern Vance High
School before his retirement, is
shown taking the oath of office to
begin his first four-year term on
the Vance County Board of Education. He is joined by his sister,
Aletha Watkins, and the Honorable
Judge J. Henry Banks, right, who
administered the oath. Emeron
Cash and Dorothy Williams also
were sworn in after being reelected to the board.
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Food donations
Vance County Schools again
supported the annual Salvation
Army Canned Food Drive by
donating thousands of canned
food and other nonperishable
items for needy families during
the holiday season. Salvation
Army representatives, including
retired principal Winston Kerley,
second from left, are shown in
the photo at right with Carver
Elementary students and Assistant Principal Nita Henderson as
they collect donated items.
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TOP donates items
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Teen Outreach Program (TOP)
students and advisors are shown at
left with some of the 965 canned food
and nonperishable items they collected and donated to needy families
for the holidays. Students shown
collected the most donations for the
food drive. One goal of the program is
to help students get involved in
community service projects.
Clarke students given
community donations
Clarke Elementary students were
the recipients of gifts from generous
community organizations prior to the
holidays.
Representatives of Lifeline Outreach of Henderson, the Vance
County Department of Social
Services and Walmart Distribution
Center visited the school’s Exceptional Children’s classes to bring
them holiday snacks and gifts. Their
generosity was met with lots of
smiles and hugs from the students.
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Stephanie Hargrove, center, and other volunteers from Lifeline
Outreach distribute snacks and gifts to students in Alka Singh’s
classroom at Clarke Elementary School.
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Kinsley honored
Ronald B. Kinsley was
honored by the Vance County
Board of Education on
December 10, after 16 years
of service on the board. He
is shown at right holding the
plaque he was presented by
Gloria J. White, board chairperson, right, and Ronald E.
Gregory, superintendent, left.
Kinsley served as a teacher
and principal for 37 years in
local schools prior to being
elected to the board in 1996.
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Water safety classes provided for second graders
Water safety classes through the
Save Our Kids grant program have
begun for second graders in local
elementary schools.
Students at Carver and New Hope
elementary schools have completed
their five sessions for the classes,
designed to show them how to be
safe in and around water. Second
graders at L.B. Yancey and E.O.
Young elementary schools began their
classes on January 15. Students from each school
go to the pools at either the Henderson Family YMCA
or the Aycock Recreation Complex for the instruction.
Certified lifeguards are teaching each of the classes.
The school system’s partnership for the classes has
been made possible through a grant secured by the
YMCA and with the support of the Henderson-Vance
Parks & Recreation Department. Second graders at
all 10 elementary schools will go through the classes
before the end of the school year.
Instructors are shown working with students from
Carver Elementary at the Aycock Complex, top photo,
and New Hope Elementary at the YMCA, at right.
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Psi Phi Nu Step Team
Members of the Psi Phi Nu Step
Team at Southern Vance High School
who will be competing as one of only
eight teams in the 2013 CIAA High
School Step Team Competition in
Charlotte on March 2, are shown at
right. They include, front row from left,
Kayshon Hawkins, Raymon Wright,
Octavius Copeland and Quentin
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Cowan. On the second row, from left,
are Xavier Fields, Christopher Solomon, LaDarian Eaton and Jeremiah Williams. On the back row,
from left, are Kendell Williams, Shemar Tunstall, Torian Henderson, William Kittrell, Christopher
Jones and Joshua Curtin. Not pictured are Miles Clark, Jamal Williams and Julian Perry.
EJMS Ambassadors
Students at Eaton-Johnson Middle
School who have been selected as
ambassadors for this school year
are shown at right. They include,
front row from left, Logan Farmer,
Krysten Guin, Hanna Miller, Brittney
Kersey, Nathan Martin, Nya Reed and
Hailey Owen. On the second row,
from left, are Jose Malinab, Brian
Lopez, Ezekiel Turner, Anthony Ellis,
Caitlyn Bassett and Briana Coleman.
The third row, from left, includes Billy
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Cates Vicente, Zanee Davis, Jaylen
Webb, Zairea Davis and Ashley Owen. Students on the back row, from left, are Stephon Sample,
Imani Simmons, Tahirah Richardson, Mya Hargrove, Jo’el Royster and Hunter Dement.
L.B. Yancey Inauguration
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L.B. Yancey Elementary teacher
Antoinette Ball is shown at left placing a
badge on the blouse of an elected Student
Council representative. The school held an
inauguration ceremony for all newly elected
Student Council members on December 4.
Students in grades 2-5 and parents attended
the ceremony held in the school’s
cafetorium.
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Jennie Robinson speaks at VGCC Convocation
Several hundred faculty and staff members at
Vance-Granville Community College were treated to a
sampling of the special talents of an Early College
High School student at the college’s convocation on
January 7.
Jennie Robinson, who will graduate in May with her
high school diploma and an associate’s degree from
Early College, spoke at the convocation about her
experiences over the last five years.
Her comments were delivered in a very relaxed,
mature and professional manner as she thanked the
community college for its partnership with the school
system to make her high school experience possible.
She specifically thanked the college instructors who
taught college level courses to her and her fellow
classmates over the years.
Robinson noted the instructors taught with energy
and enthusiasm that made the classes fun and exciting. She will be the first in her family to attend college
when she goes to Meredith College in the fall. She has
been awarded a $56,000 scholarship.
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Jennie Robinson, a senior at Early College
High School, right, stands with her VanceGranville Community College Ambassadors’
advisor, Kay Currin, after she spoke at the
college’s convocation.
A special Book Fair
Carver Elementary media specialist Jody
Long helps two students who each received
a free book from the school’s Scholastic
Book Fair in mid-December. Several students
received free books to take home thanks to
more than $500 in donations from the Delta
Kappa Gamma educational organization, as
well as local churches and community
residents. Each student selected their new
book and received a new bookmark.
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HMS Band and Chorus
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Trevor Rorie, band director at Henderson
Middle School, directs the Jazz Band during
one of three special performances by the
school’s band and chorus for students and
staff members on December 19. Chorus
members, directed by Cara Emig, sang
several songs. The band and chorus also
held a community concert during the evening
on December 18.
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Bicycle winners
Brooke Lee, left, and Jordyn
Bullock, right, both students at New
Hope Elementary School, pose
behind the new bicycles they won in
a recent drawing at the school. Lee,
a fourth grader, and Bullock, a first
grader, had their names drawn after
getting a high percentage of their
ClassScape answers correct on the
computer software. The bicycles were
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donated by Tabernacle United Methodist
Church, a valuable partner with the school. Lee decided to donate the bicycle she won to a
needy student at New Hope.
Club 15 gives supplies
Club 15, an organization consisting of
members of the Beacon Light Masonic Lodge,
some Prince Hall Masons and the Eastern
Star, donated over $600 worth of school
supplies to teachers at Carver Elementary
School in December. Some of the supplies
are shown at right as they were presented to
Principal David Westbrook, left, from Tina
Taylor, front left, Lamont Noel, back left,
James Vann, second from right, and Bernard
Alston.
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In the parade
Local students involved in
the school system’s Dropout
Prevention Program are shown
at right as they lined up to
participate in the Henderson
Christmas Parade on December 2. Forty students from local
elementary, middle and high
schools wore their red hoodies
and marched in the parade
behind a “Destination Graduation” banner.
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SVHS students
produce videos
for holidays
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Dr. Wayne Miller, center, leads a session with fifth-grade students at New Hope Elementary School to help them with art
projects. He was assisted by fellow volunteer Shirley Wingo,
standing in the background.
Miller leads students in art classes
Fifth graders at New Hope Elementary School have
benefitted once again from the special talents of volunteers who help in the school.
Dr. Wayne Miller, who is retired, led several sessions in
December with fifth graders to complete art projects.
Miller is an artist who is sharing his talents once again this
school year with the students. During the sessions, each
student finished several works of art, which will be part of
an art show at the school later in the school year.
Students in digital media
classes at Southern Vance High
School completed video projects
in December that had a Christmas theme and tested their skills
in video development and production.
The students had special
showings of their video productions in the classroom of Elaine
Webb, their teacher, on December 14. Several school administrators and faculty members, as
well as parents, attended the
showings.
Each video was produced by
a team of four students. The
videos featured students singing
along with Christmas music
recordings. The videos also
featured elaborate decorations
and costumes.
Several of the videos have
been posted on You Tube.
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Scholastic Press Association Gold Medalist;
National Council of Teachers of English
Superior and Nominated for Highest Award;
North Carolina Scholastic Media Association
Distinction and First Place Theme Development; and Southern Interscholastic Press
Association Superior.
Griffin noted that she and her students are
very thankful for the support they receive from
their patrons and they are always looking for
more award winning students and artistic/
literary submissions.
members on the back row are, from left,
Sherry Randall, Jared Freeman and Maya
Alston.
The staff members are led by their instructor, Carole Griffin, in producing the magazine
each year.
Crinkum-Crankum has won numerous
literary awards over the last several years
under Griffin’s leadership. The awards include: American Scholastic Press Association First Place and Special Merit; Columbia
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NVHS soccer teams earn more academic awards
The 2011-2012 men’s
and women’s soccer
teams at Northern Vance
High School have received
the High School Team
Academic Award for a fifth
consecutive year from the
National Soccer Coaches
Association of America.
The award is presented
based on the outstanding
overall grade point average of the teams’ members for the entire school
year. Each team must have
a minimum 3.25 overall
grade point average to
qualify.
Razvan Tegean, a
member of the association, is the head coach for
both teams.
Northern Vance was
one of only 50 teams in the
nation to receive awards
for both the men’s and
women’s teams. The
men’s team had a 3.99
GPA, which ranked the
team eighth nationally
among 139 teams. The
women’s team, with a 4.02
GPA, was ranked 27th
nationally among 227
teams.
The 2011-2012 Northern Vance men’s soccer team included, front row from left,
Cody Mitchell, Jonathan Byrom, Barrett Johnson, Blake Manning and Luke Trull.
Second row, from left, Reed Kimbrell, Nick Sharpe, Clayton Harris, Tyler Manning, Joseph Sharpe and Jake Wiggins. On the back row, from left, Coach Razvan
Tegean, Chris Pendergrass, Colton Floyd, Thomas Knight, Sam Long, Brandon
Aycock, Ethan Byrom, Jaleel Seward and Raymond West. Robert Depo is not
pictured.
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The 2011-2012 Northern Vance women’s soccer team included, front row from
left, Gabby Matthews, Susan Garcia, Katlyn Reams, Ashlyn Reams and Kayla
Royster. Second row, from left, Kristin Long, Kaitlyn Moody, Stephanie Garcia,
Brenda Arias, Meredith Stevenson and Katherine Jarrell. On the back row, from
left, Coach Razvan Tegean, Logan Brinker, Anne Marie Rivera, Tanaua White,
Hannah Burgess, Rebecca Falkner, manager Ethan Parham and assistant coach
Melinda Farmer. Tiffany Williams is not pictured.
The Lamplighter is published monthly by the Public Information Office of Vance County Schools.
School news and story ideas are welcome and may be sent to:
Terri Hedrick, Public Information Officer,
492-2127, thedrick@vcs.k12.nc.us.
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