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FOCUS ON EDUCATION
Denton Record-Chronicle
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
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IN THE SCHOOLS
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Courtesy photo/Aubrey ISD
Aubrey High School students celebrate their wins at the National Senior Beta Club conven-
tion in Savannah, Georgia. Pictured from left are Morgan Place, Lauren Strittmatter, Sarah
Wainwright, Jacan Farmer, Mark Mayes, Hannah Travascio and Broderick Cross.
Courtesy photo/Northwest ISD
Land donors, Northwest ISD school board members and Superintendent Ryder War-
ren break ground on Lance Thompson Elementary School, the district’s 19th elemen-
tary, set to open in fall 2019 in the Harvest Community between Northlake and Argyle.
The school is named after the son of former board member and land donor Roger
Thompson, who died unexpectedly at age 6.
LIBERTY CHRISTIAN
SCHOOL
Jolley will major in forensic
chemistry at New York Univer-
sity this fall.
According to a press release,
the honor society boasts more
than 1 million members in 160
countries.
Graduate earns student
of the year honor
DENTON ISD
TEXAS WOMAN’S UNIVERSITY
AUBREYISD
Denton High School
Student invited to join
national scholar group
Peyton Jolley, who graduat-
ed from Liberty Christian High
School this
spring, was
honored by the
Texas Associa-
tion of Private
and Parochial
Schools as the
Fine Arts Fe-
male Student
of the Year.
Each of the schools in the
TAPPS 6A division nominate
one male and one female stu-
dent who has contributed sig-
nificantly to the school’s fine arts
department. The TAPPS board
of directors and the Fine Arts
Executive Committee then se-
lect the two winners.
Jolley won the state champi-
onship in poetry and took sec-
ond place in solo acting at the
state academic and speech con-
test this year. She also starred in
My Fair Lady at Liberty in Feb-
ruary and performed with the
school’s choir, which won back-
to-back state championships.
University selects new
associate vice president
Texas Woman’s University
officials last week announced
they have selected an innovative
information technology leader
as the university’s new associate
vice president for technology
and chief information officer.
Raechelle Clemmons, who
has held senior IT positions at
higher-education institutions in
three states, began her technolo-
gy career at Silicon Valley start-
ups Nethne and Digital Impact.
She will join TWU on Aug. 27.
Clemmons most recently
served as chief information offi-
cer at Davidson College in North
Carolina, and held prior IT lead-
ership posts at St. Norbert Col-
lege in Wisconsin and Menlo
College in California. She also
served in various IT capacities at
California State University, East
Bay.
Aubrey High School
Aubrey students place
in top 10 at convention
Students representing Au-
brey High School took home
five awards at the National Se-
nior Beta Club Convention in
Georgia last month.
Nine Aubrey students de-
scended on Savannah from
June 17-20 to represent their
local Beta Club chapter, a youth
organization that promotes ac-
ademic achievement, character,
service and leadership.
Broderick Cross placed first
in ninth-grade social studies,
while Jacan Farmer took sixth in
Division 11 math. Sarah Wain-
wright placed second in digi-
tal art and eighth in drawing.
Rachel Housewright, Farmer,
Wainwright and Cross earned
fourth place in the Meeting of
the Minds contest.
Alexis Wood, a student at
Denton High School, will be
inducted into
the Nation-
al Society of
High School
Scholars, an
academic or-
ganization that
offers resourc-
es and schol-
arships to its
Clemmons succeeds Dennis
Hoebee, who has been serving
as interim vice provost for tech-
nology and chief information
officer.
Jolley
— Staff report
BRIEFLY
Woods
IN EDUCATION
members.
Wood, the daughter of Shan-
non Newman and Beau Wood,
was chosen for the organization
after demonstrating leadership
qualities, community commit-
ment and academic excellence.
London
Annie Lennox made
honorary chancellor
Singer-songwriter Annie
Lennox has been made chancel-
lor of Scotland’s Glasgow Cale-
donian University, becoming
the first woman to occupy the special ceremony at the Glasgow
campus, where she vowed to use
Lennox, who had success the chancellorship to further
during the 1980s as the voice of the university’s mission. Lennox
British duo the Eurythmics, said says she could be considered
Monday she was “humbled and “an honorary graduate from the
awed” by her appointment.
She was installed during a
ceremonial post.
Since its inception in 2002,
the Georgia-based honor society
provides a network of resources
and scholarships to members
throughout their high school
and college years into their ca-
reer.
school of life.’
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Fiona, a baby Nile hippopotamus, sleeps in her enclosure beside a copy of “Saving Fiona,”
last week at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden in Ohio.
ROTATIONS
Fiona an educational force
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every day,” Maynard said of Fio-
na’s first six months after her
birth in January 2017.
His book is aimed at young
readers, telling Fiona’s against-
the-odds story while loading in
facts about hippos, such as that
they can outrun humans and
are herbivores that can be dan-
gerous because of their size of up
to 5,000 pounds.
“Part of the zoo’s mission
is public education,” Maynard
said. “[The book] is reaching
kids and families with a message
of hope... never giving up.”
The combined Fiona library
of books by various authors
and illustrators has sold tens of
thousands so far. Educators say
students are attracted to lessons
themed around animals.
Fiona has been on the cover
of three Scholastic Classroom
Magazines that reached mil-
lions of students with stories
accompanied by reading exer-
cises or math formulas such as
finding how many bathtubs the
water in her zoo would fill.
“Everybody just falls in love
with her,” said Stephanie Smith,
editorial director for Scholastic
News grades 3-6. “Kids will just
gobble it up. It makes teaching
easy.”
By Dan Sewell
Associated Press
CINCINNATI - Just call
her Professor Fiona.
The Cincinnati Zoo’s famous
premature baby hippo does
more than delight social media
fans and help sell a wide range
of merchandise. She’s also an
educational and literary force,
heroine of a half-dozen books
so far and a popular subject for
library and classroom activities.
The latest book is Saving
Fima, written by the zoo’s direc-
tor, Thane Maynard.
“She has taught us a lot,”
Maynard said. It’s believed Fio-
na is the smallest hippo ever to
survive. Bom nearly two months
early, she was 29 pounds, a third
the size of a typical full-term
Nile hippo and unable to stand
or nurse.
A zoo staffer hand-milked
her mother Bibi, and Smithso-
nian’s National Zoo in Washing-
ton helped develop a special for-
mula. Nurses from Cincinnati
Children’s Hospital were enlist-
ed to put in a hippo IV.
‘We were a nervous wreck
JAMES WOOD
Mike Shriberg, Great Lakes
regional director for the Nation-
al Wildlife Federation, said con-
servationists see celebrity-type
attention to Fiona that glosses
over the serious challenges for
hippos and other animals facing
shrinking habitats and illegal
hunting.
“There is a deeper message to
be conveyed,” he said.
However, Shriberg, who said
growing up in Cincinnati as a fre-
quent zoo visitor helped lead him
into wildlife conservation, said the
Fiona mania — which has seen
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her image marketed on items
from playing cards to beer — is a
positive development overall.
‘We are certainly in favor of
anything that is engaging peo-
ple with wildlife, and Fiona has
been a phenomenal success,” he
said. “You’ve got the American
public and people around the
world really caring about hippos
and animals, through the lens of
Fiona.”
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