Recipients of the Hays High School PTSA Wish List grants for 2011 recently gathered to receive their grants and share a smile with PTSA President Lucinda Cook, Wendy Scarborough and Aedin Meagher ( PTSA at far right), this year’s co-chairs of the annual Wish List Committee. Cash grants totaled more than $2,300. (Photo by Jim Cullen)
STAFF REPORTS
Every school campus wishes for a team of active and committed parents bent on offering encouragement and support every day and, occasionally, a little help. Hays High School is among those campuses fortunate to enjoy such a blessing in the form of its Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA).
Evidence of the support that group brings to the Rebel family was offered recently when PTSA President Lucinda Cook and members Aedin Meagher and Wendy Scarborough visited a Hays High School morning faculty meeting bearing gifts—many gifts. A tradition of the organization for some time has been its attempts to meet some of the specific needs of campus teachers by addressing their “Wish List.” Scarborough and Meagher were co-chairs of the Wish List project this year and they hit a homerun for many of their flock.
By the time they’d announced the results, 14 teacher’s wishes had been fulfilled, with a total dollar price tag of more than $2,300. It was all in the spirit of that support the Hays High School PTSA brings to their campus.
Recipients and the money for their granted wishes went to the following: Paul Anderlitch, $200 for camera to document student projects; Glenna Billingsley, $80 for algebra software for 30 at-risk students; Bret Coats, $340 for a drumset for the after school guitar club; Heather Morgan, $100 for a digital microscope; Ashleigh Bomar, $100 for magnifying lenses, Kelli Keenan, $130 for social studies supplies; David Bowe, $250 for campus supporting Student Council supplies; Brandi Brownlow, $150 for targeted social studies books.
Others included Tom Ray, $150 to help students with SAT and TAKS preparation; Eleanor Greer, $115 for Quickread materials for recent immigrant students; Liz Honeycutt, $115 for resource student reading books; Amy Parrish, $115 for art materials for students in Spanish; Starr Cruz, $240 for art block printing presses, and Marnie Hart, $322 for mat cutters in art classes.
