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Staff Report on April 19, 2017

Texas Tech interim dean Dean Paul Goebel presented Steele with a scholarship on Tuesday. (photo by Moses Leos III)

Hays High senior football player Peyton Steele got quite the surprise Tuesday when Texas Tech interim dean Dean Paul Goebel personally visited during class to present him with a scholarship to the Rawls Business Leadership Program at the school. Steele is one of only 16 freshman students across Texas that are accepted and offered a scholarship into the program. Also present at the p...

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