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The Ardmore Rota-ry Club announces five area high school seniors as April Students of the Month.

Blake Riesen, Plain-view High School senior, has a 3.4 grade-point aver-age. He is the son of Mark and Martha Riesen; and is a cancer survivor.

He is a member of the Plainview golf team, Fel-lowship of Christian Ath-letes and past member of the Spanish Club.

Honors and awards in-clude Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Edu-cation and Chickasaw Honor Club.

He enjoys golfing, hunt-ing and fishing.

He has worked for two years at the summer youth camp at the YMCA. He volunteers at Oak Hall Episcopal School and the Ardmore Soup Kitchen.

His future plans are to attend OU and major in engineering.

Collin Wayne Potter, Dickson High School senior, has a 4.24 grade-point average. He is the son of Brad and Stacy Potter.

He is a member of Top 10 percent of Class, Fellow-ship of Christian Athletes, Adopt a Senior, Comet Kids Camp, Student Council, football and golf.

Honors and awards include Salutatorian, Superin-tendent’s Honor Roll, Governor’s Honor Roll, Murray State College Scholastic meet, Oklahoma Association for Academic Competition, football awards for Ardmo-reite Super Team, District 3A-4 co-offensive lineman and Class 3A All-Star Team.

He enjoys football, golf, snow skiing and wake-board-ing.

His work experience includes Southern Oklahoma Animal Rescue and Kriz-Davis Company.

His future plans are to attend OSU and major in electrical engineering.

Emily Dill, Ardmore High School senior, has a 3.7 grade-point average. She is the daughter of David and Robin Dill.

She is a member of yearbook and Leaflets.Honors and awards include National Honor Society

and Principal’s Honor Roll.She enjoys photograpy, writing and reading.She has worked at the Ardmore Community Water

Park.Her future plans are to attend Murray State Col-

lege and Oklahoma State University and major in journalism.

Brentson Castillo, Ar-dmore High School se-nior, has a 3.6 grade-point average. He is the son of Lee and Tammy Castillo.

He is the head drum major of the Pride of Ard-more High School march-ing band. He is a member of the tennis team, bowl-ing team and Teen Battle Chef. He is a hard worker who stays dedicated, a

team player and a leader in various activities.

Honors and awards include National Honor Society of high school stu-dents, Superintendent’s Honor Roll, Outstanding Drum Major and various band and tennis awards.

He enjoys music, swim-ming, playing tennis and bowling.

He has worked at vari-ous restaurants as a host.

His future plans are to attend college and pursue a degree in veterinarian science.

Alyssa Cunningham, Plainview High School senior, has a 3.65 grade-point average. She is the daughter of Julie Ault-man.

Clubs and organiza-tions include Spanish Club for one year, secre-tary of Student Council and a member for three years and Fish Club a stu-dent led Bible Study.

Honors and awards are Principal’s Honor Roll, All-State 3A Cross Coun-try and American Spirit Cheer National Cham-pion (team).

She enjoys playing the guitar and singing, study-ing biology, attending

church at McLish Ave. Church of Christ and com-petitive cheerleading.

She has worked at Two Frogs and as a lifeguard at Ardmore Water Park.

Her future plans are to become a chiropractor.

Five named April Students of the Month

Emily Dill

Collin Potter

Blake Riesen

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Brentson Castillo

Alyssa Cunningham

Students from Carter County looking to attend college are encouraged to apply for a scholarship from the Jason C. Wagner Foundation, a fund estab-lished by AT&T attorney Amy Wagner Collins to honor her late husband.

The foundation’s prima-ry focus is to award college scholarships to graduat-ing high school seniors in Oklahoma. Scholarships are awarded to applicants who, in the foundation’s view, most exemplify the characteristics Jason Wagner had in life: in-tegrity, intelligence and kindness.

Past recipients of the scholarship include Ivan Guerra, Ardmore and Hol-ly Gaines, Wilson.

“Jason was so full of life,” Collins said. “My hope is that through the foundation, his legacy will live on and that because of his life, the lives of our fellow Oklahomans will be enriched through the gift of education. I know he would be honored by the success our scholarship

recipients have achieved, and that’s really our pur-pose: to honor Jason, and to help others achieve their dreams.”

Students who are se-lected by the founda-tion will receive at least a $1,000 scholarship to be used at the Oklahoma college of their choice. To date, the foundation has raised and awarded more than $60,000 in college scholarships to Oklahoma students.

The foundation is fund-ed by private donations and has received finan-cial support from AT&T; Collins, Zorn & Wagner; The Association of County Commissioners of Okla-homa; Wedel, Rahill & Associates; Professional Reporters and other or-ganizations and individu-als.

Scholarship applications for the 2014-15 school year are due Thursday. Addi-tional information, includ-ing a scholarship applica-tion, is available at www.jasoncwagnerfoundation.org.

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Scholarship opportunity for high school seniors

Springer Elementary School will conduct pre-en-rollment screening for the 2014-15 school year from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. by appointment on Tuesday. Parents are encouraged to make an appointment by contacting Springer Public Schools at (580) 653-2471.

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Pre-enrollment screening MondayDickson Public Schools will conduct pre-enrollment

screening for the 2014-15 school year from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Monday at Dickson Lower Elementary School. Debby Custer, Dickson Lower Elementary School Principal Debby Custer said enrollment is on a fist come first serve basis and in-district students will take precedence over transfers.

Parents or guardians need to bring a child’s birth cer-tificate, current shot record, and proof of residency, such as utility bills, lease agreement, or tax statement. CDIB cards are required for Native American children.

Indian Education meetingDickson Schools Indian Education will meet at 4:30

p.m. Monday in the middle school annex building, FACS classroom. Items on the agenda include discussion and approval of the 2014-15 Johnson O’Mailey and Title VII Indian Education applications.

All parents of Native American students attending Dick-son Public Schools are encouraged to attend.

To ask questions, contact Teresa Bolin at (580)223-2700.

Thirty-five students from Southern Okla-homa Technology Cen-ter were inducted into the National Technical Honor Society April 22. These students achieved

high levels of academic excellence, show respon-sibility, skill, leadership and service. They must be nominated by their instructor and have high attendance. The NTHS

motto is: To honor stu-dent achievement and leadership, award schol-arships, promote edu-cational excellence and enhance career oppor-tunities for NTHS mem-

bership. These students will stand out at their high school graduation as they wear their honor chords colored in silver and purple.

Front Row (left): Haillee Jewell (DicksonHS), Noemi Santamaria (Home School-Ardmore), Kelsie An-astasio (LGHS), Rhiannon Sorenson (AHS), Taylor Ward (LGHS), Teresa Rodriguez (LGHS), Angelica Torres (RHS), Joni Sorrell (MHS), Naomi Dean (Adult-Ardmore) and Samantha Pemberton (RHS). Back Row (left): Drew Meyer (WHS), Cade Raper (HHS), Wesley Smith (AHS), Julie Light (LGHS), Lacey Gee (MHS), Guadalupe Ugalde (Adult-Sulphur), Michaela Woods (LGHS), Juan Soto (MHS), Cassidy Henagar (PHS) and James Miles (Springer). Not Pictured were Robby Adams, SOTC Construction Technology Instructor/Co-NTHS Advisor (Sulphur), Makynze Lewis (Sulphur), Krista Parma and Chase Pitmon (Sul-phur). PhoTo SubmiTTed

Front Row (left): Alexia Sanders (MHS), Logan Lee (LGHS), Hailey Willingham (LGHS), Makayla Phillips (Ring-ling), Jessi Mays (Home Schooled-Ardmore), Haydn Owens (Dickson HS), and Jordan Ander-son (PHS)Back Row (left): Bri-anna Caldwell (MHS), Cy Freeman (MHS), Shelby Vinson (AHS), Ashton Hartsell (Dick-son HS), Cindy Adams, Medical Office Instruc-tor/Co-NTHS Advisor (Sulphur) and Heather Garnett (Adut-Ard-more). PhoTo SubmiTTed

national technical Honor Society inducts new members

Susan Young, a nurse with Mercy Hospital and Pla-inview Primary Discovery Club sponsor Rusty Wood have collaborated to bring students a hands on learning experience about germs. Students learned a plethora of new vocabulary and information about different types of germs. They experimented with ways that these germs are spread with “germ lotion”, “glittered germ gel” and “sneezing powder”. Stu-dents gained knowledge of how germs can take over body cells to duplicate and make our bodies sick as well as how our bodies fight to keep us well from germ invasions. PhoTo SubmiTTed

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Springer Public Schools has named two students as Students of the Month for April. The students are (left) Andy Hedrick, a 12th grade student and Reagan McNeely, a 7th grade student. PhoTo SubmiTTed

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