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Military News: Trever K. Killingsworth
U.S. Army National Guard Pvt. Trever K. Killingsworth has graduated from basic infantry training at Fort Jackson, S.C.
During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, field tactics, military courtesy, military justice system, basic first aid, foot marches, and field training exercises.
Killingsworth is the son of Valerie and grandson of Louise Killingsworth of Gun Barrel City. He graduated in 2015 from Mabank High School.
Elizabeth Dickens wins DAR essay contest
By Nina Hendricks/Sarah Maples DAR
The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) partnered with the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) in 1996 to sponsor an annual national essay contest in honor of Christopher Columbus. The contest is open to students 9 through 12. Each year the DAR and the NIAF agree upon a topic for use during the academic year, and contest instructions are published online and sent to the schools by DAR chapters.
The topic this year is ” Compare Christopher Columbus’s voyage across the Atlantic and Charles Lindbergh’s flight across the Atlantic.”
Elizabeth Dickens has been chosen by the Sarah Maples Chapter as this year’s winner. She is a student at Mabank High School and we are so very proud of her. Her essay was wonderful and her choice of words made it all come together.
Essays are judged for historical accuracy, adherence to the topic, organization of materials, interest, originality, spelling, grammar punctuation, and neatness. Judging at the national level is supervised by the NIAF. One winning essay from all those submitted is sent from the participating chapters for judging on the state level. The state will send one winning essay to be judged on the division level. The winning essay from each division is then judged on the national level and the winner is announced. Second and third place winning essays are selected on the national level.
Each student participant receives a certificate of participation from the chapter. The national prize is awarded by the NIAF. This year something else has been added about Charles Lindbergh.
Mabank’s Aldan Marshall receives DAR Good Citizen Award
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By Nina Hendricks/Sarah Maples DAR
Alden Marshall, who is a senior at Mabank High School, has been selected to receive one of this year’s DAR Good Citizen Award.
Alden has been in the Mabank High School Band for four years and was the Drum Major for two years. He was also in the All-Area Band and the All-Region Band.
Alden was on the Year Book staff for four years and editor his senior year. He was one of two students from Mabank selected to attend Texas Boys State. He campaigned for House of Representive and won. While attending Boys State he obtained a greater appreciation of government.
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Mabank Speech and Debate Team come back from California with awards, memories
The Mabank speech and debate team at the Golden Gate Bridge.
Ian Snyder competed at The Stanford national speech and debate invitation with over 22 states and 5 countries represented. In Lincoln Douglas debate he finished 2 out of 135 debaters. He was awarded for being the 2nd ranked speaker in the tournament.
Kaylee Caffey and Makenzie Bryant ended up 16th and won trophies also out of over 150 teams.