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Friday. January 22. 1999
THE BAYTOWN SUN
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English teacher helping peers
By PAUL GANNON
The Baytown Sun
Mary Ledbetter is a Goose
Creek CISD English teacher
who spends a good part of her
spare time teaching other teach-
ers across the continent.
“What it amounts to is, people
pay a price for a seminar and
they get me for 8 hours,” Led-
better says.
She leads seminars for teach-
ers of Language Arts for grades
6 through 12.
About four years ago, she
started working as a speaker for
, the Bureau of Research and Edu-
cation in Belvieu,'Wash., after
going through a lengthy applica-
tion process. She became inter-
ested in the program after sitting
through one of the seminars in
Houston.
The seminars she leads are
taught in cities across the nation
and she leads hundreds of teach-
ers through programs that can be
used in the classroom.
“I just go all over the country
and it’s really exciting. I speak in
front of 170 to 180 people,” Led-
better says.
During spring break she will
go to the states of Washington
and California to lead seminars.
Ledbetter has been a teacher
with the Goose Creek CISD for
the past 15 years and taught in
Michigan for eight years before
Dayton officials appoint
new committee members
By JEFF RIGGS •
The Baytown Sun
Though efforts are painfully
slow, the Dayton City Council is
attempting to bring new life into
its city charter.
Billy Dool and Rick Sparks
were both appointed to the
Charter Review Committee at
the regular council meeting
Monday, city manager Robert
Ewert said.
“We started a couple of years
ago reviewing the charter
because it is dated,” Ewert said.
“We are trying to get a lot of
verbiage out of there which is
simply not needed.”
He says it is not known when
work to revitalize the charter
will be completed.
In another agenda item, coun-
cil voted to accept a bid from
W T. Byler Co., Inc. for street
paving and rehabilitation. The
bid was for $456,020.
Buddy Bean, Dayton police
chief, alerted council to the fact
that jail fees have increased
from $25 per day per inmate to
$29.
The city pays Liberty County
for use of its jail.
Meador joins Army Reserve
Ryan Meador has joined the
U.S. Ajmy Reserve under the
Delayed Training Program at the
U.S. Army Recruiting Station,
Baytown.
The program gives young men
and women the opportunity to
delay reporting for basic mili-
tary training for up to 270 days.
An enlistment in the Reserve
gives many new soldiers the
option to learn a new skill, serve
their country, and become eligi-
ble to receive more than $7,000
toward a college education and
$20,000 for repayment of col-
lege loans. After completion of
basic military training, most sol-
diers receive advanced individ-
ual training in their career spe-
cialty.
The recruit qualifies for a
$3,000 enlistment bonus.
Meador will report to Fort
Sill, Lawton, Okla., for basic
training on June 9, 1999.
He is the son of Margaret and
stepson of David Lee of 8219
Sanford, Baytown.
His father and stepmother,
Earl and Lori Meador, reside in
Morgan City, La.
Snake finds new home, job
By JEFF RIGGS
The Baytown Sun
Unemployment in Baytown is
down and housing is up. It’s a
situation so good that, earlier
less than two hours after mes-
merizing a group of onlookers
in Can T-* f-li
in the San Jacinto Mall parking
lot for 90 minutes.
The snake was captured at
about 6 p.ffi. Tuesday after
which it was transported in an
old purse to an empty field to
believed to be a
ISnSGS
ty guards and city animal con-
trol officers after it reportedly
crawled under the fender of a
customer’s car, and rested,
coiled near the tire, for about 90
MaU security SgLW Roberts
said the snake, was pulled out
after an unidentified teen-ager
coaxed the snake out by poking
it wife a coat hanger.
“We are not allowed to
remove any part of the car,”
Roberts said. “The young man
unscrewed the dust cover Wider
the fender well, and poked at
the snake enough to where we
Roberts reportedly grabbed
the snake’s midsection after
security officer B. Frady
grabbed the snake behind the
head.
Roberts said eight people, all
mail customers, watched as the
snake crawled over the shoul-
ders of mall security personnel,
including Roberts, Frady and
officer H. Miranda.
One of the people watching,
Billie Strokos of Mont Belvieu,
who was about to go into an
east entrance to the mall to shop
said the snake was just a few
feet from the door of the J.C.
Tenney’s store.
She and her mother Jo Smith,
were the first people to see the
snake.
“I saw it crawl up into the car,
and was waiting to see if it was
going to come out,” Strokos
said. “When the owner came
out, we told her about it.”
Roberts said the snake was
not harmed during the capture.
“We put it into an old empty
purse,” he said, “I don’t know
where it came from. Even with
a six-foot snake, it coiled up
pretty well in there.”
Roberts said an unidentified
man took die snake in the purse
to a lot he owned and put it to
work feasting on field mice.
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tha|t. The idea behind the semi-
nar is to help other teachers
learn new techniques to use in
the classroom, she says.
“It’s hands-on. The partici-
pants will write different sam-
ples of things and they will
apply my techniques. They kind
of pretend they’re students,”
Ledbetter says.
She says the teachers attending
the seminars are active partici-
pants. Ledbetter has them play
the part of her students and
allows them to experience what
a student in her class will.
She says that when a paper is
assigned students are given a
rubric to follow when revising. It
includes things to look out for
like run-on sentences and other
grammatical errors she wants
her students to look out for.
“Rubric means red flag and I
tell the participants they should
tell the students those are the
things the paper will be graded
on and these are the things they
should have,” Ledbetter says.
But, unlike most rubrics given
out to students she makes her
students prove to her they have
looked for those errors by hav-
ing students list them on a sepa-
rate sheet and show various ways
to make corrections.
“I ask them actually to do
what the students would do,”
Ledbetter says.
Alpha Chi Chapter schedules
Super Bowl Party for Jan. 31
Alpha Chi Chapter of
Epsilon Sigma Alpha will
meet at 4:30 p.m. January 31
for a Super Bowl Party in the
home of Margaret and Bobby
Nelson.
Assisting Mrs. Nelson will
be Debbie Anderson, chapter
president, and Debbie Girling-
house, vice president.
Members will also meet
Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. in the home of
Rose Fowler. Mrs. Fowler will
present the program, “Sweets
For The Sweets.”
The 1999 Chapter Sweet-
heart will be chosen, and
plans for the Feb. 20 social
honoring the new sweetheart
will be announced by Girling-
house, the 1998 Chapter
Sweetheart.
A valentine party and gift
exchange will follow the
chapter meeting. Members are
reminded to bring food, paper
goods and toiletries to the
meeting for the Bay Area
Women’s Center.
Margaret Nelson attended
the Jan. 17 District II meeting
in Crosby, hosted by Sigma
Rho chapter. A decorated hat
parade was held, and Mrs.
Nelson was presented a gift
for having made the “Most
Unique” hat.
The chapter was presented a
third place educational award
for the November program,
and a second place award for
the December program.
At the December chapter
meeting, a $100 donation was
made to the Easter Seals Gulf
Coast-Texas Creative Chil-
dren’s Center of Baytown. A
donation Was also made to the
Baytown Goodfellows. Dec.
28, the chapter held a social at
Cracker Barrel honoring
member Mary Margaret
Hooks who was home on
Christmas break from her
teaching duties at the Ameri-
can School of Durango in
Durango, Mexico.
Joy Paulus, Ross S. Sterling High School graduate and Stephen F.
Austin State University freshman, will perform with the SFA Reper-
tory Dance Company at its annual dance concert at7:30 p.m.
Feb. 2-3 on the university campus. Paulus is majoring in history at
SFA. The dance company is composed of 10 students selected
through auditions.
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 72, Ed. 1 Friday, January 22, 1999, newspaper, January 22, 1999; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1019888/m1/3/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.