Four Lady Card basketball players signed national letters-of-intent at Trinity Valley Community College Wednesday. Signing were (seated) Jada Wright (West Virgnia); (back row, from left) Arleighshya McElroy (West Virginia), Amber Hawkison (Louisiana Tech) and Tyasia Moore (Troy).
AISD Teachers of the Month
Athens ISD’s November Teachers of the Month were honored at Wednesday’s Athens Chamber of Commerce luncheon. They are (from left) Kimberly Hanson, Bel Air Elementary fine arts teacher for pre-K through fifth grade; Norma Thompson, Central Athens Elementary fourth-grade English language arts teacher; Robin Edlin, South Athens Elementary self-contained third-grade classroom teacher; Debbie Palmer, Athens Middle School seventh-grade science teacher; Lisa Rosenberg, Athens High School Spanish teacher; and Amy Fonseca, AHS Career and Technical Education teacher for culinary arts. Not pictured is Operations Center employee of the month Herman Petker, who drives a bus for the district. Congratulations to all! (Toni Garrard Clay/AISD)
TVCC Phi Theta Kappa inducts new members
Press release
Trinity Valley Community College’s Iota Alpha chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for two-year colleges, recently inducted 38 new members in a ceremony held in the Student Union Ballroom on the Athens campus on Sunday, November 11. Chapter officers were installed and Texas Phi Theta Kappa district three vice president Daniel Gray spoke to inductees before they officially took the oath of membership.
AHS sends 12 to Region 21 choirs
Press release
Twelve Athens High School choir members earned coveted places in the Texas Music Educators Association Region 21 Small-School mixed and honor choirs.
On Nov. 8, the Small-School Mixed Choir members competed in pre-area contest, where J. Brenden Wallace earned sixth-chair bass, advancing him to the area contest. Area, the final round of competition for the All-State Choir, will be held in early January.
Obituary: Stephan “Steve” Carl Hanson
Stephan (Steve) Carl Hanson beloved husband, father, grandfather and son returned home to his Heavenly Father on November 8, 2018 in Iowa City, Iowa. He was born January 3, 1955 in Reno, Nevada, and formerly resided in Athens, Texas for the past 18 years. Visitation for family and friends will be held at 10:00 A.M. Saturday, November 17, 2018 with services to follow at 11:00 A.M. at Autry’s Carroll-Lehr Funeral Home Chapel.