Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 143, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 22, 2016 Page: 1 of 10
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members are pictured inside the 16th Street
Baptist church in Birmingham. The group
heard a presention about the church bombing
which killed four girls. Also pictured is pastor
Jerry Jones.
disobedience for black citi-
zens demanding equality.
Visitors may also tour an
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Register Staff Writers
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NCTC’s Emily Kuser throws to make an out at first Monday afternoon
against Temple College at Darwin Field in Gainesville as teammate Haley
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For the first time since
2012, there will be a new
face leading the Gainesville
Leopards varsity football
program, and for the first
time since 2005 Gainesville
High School has a new ath-
letic director.
James Polk, 38, was
named Gainesville
Independent School
District’s new athletic direc-
tor Monday evening, along
with being named to the
position of head coach of the
Leopards.
The GISD School board Staff photo by Megan Gray-Hatfield
unanimously approved his James Polk was officially named the new
hire with a motion by Place 7 Gainesville High School head football coach/ath-
Corey Hardin and seconded letic director Monday night after a unanimous
by Place 2 Ryan Green at the vote by the GISD school board.
board’s monthly meeting.
A total of 107 applicants Superintendent Dr. Jeffrey to Gainesville in May of
applied for the position, with Brasher. 2012 from Vernon High
Polk will replace former School, finishing last season
viewed for the position, Leopards head football with a 1-9 record, and a total
according to GISD coach Keith Hall, who came
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Staff photo by Megan Gray-Hatfield
Spring break is over and school is back in session for students of
Gainesville Independent School District. Pictured: Edison Elementary
students loading into buses after school let out Monday afternoon.
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The IGNITE youth
group from Whaley United
Methodist Church spent
spring break doing good for
others.
The students went to
Birmingham, Ala. where
they toured sites from the
Civil Rights movement of
the 1960s.
“We have been studying
for the last two months the
Freedom Riders, the Civil
Rights Movement and the
children's march through
Kelly Ingram Park as well courtesy Photo
as the bombing of the 16th Whaley United Methodist Church youth group
Street Baptist church,”
youth leader Kelly Fiore-
Watson said in an email.
She noted the girls —
Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia
Wesley and Carole ation,” she said. “Our group
Robertson, all 14, and 11- has Discipleship class in the park became a focus of civil
year-old Denise McNairhad morning and church serv-
— had just finished a Bible ice.”
study class and were in a The group also visted the
restroom that Sunday mom- Birmingham Civil Right area with sculptures depict-
ing when a bomb exploded Institute and Kelly Ingram ing police dog and fire hose
killing them all. Park. assaults on demonstrators,
Fiore-Watson said her Kelly Ingram Park was many of them children,
church youth group mem- the site of civil rights rallies,
bers didn’t have any trouble demonstrations and con- ing and the kids were quite
identifying with the bomb- frontations. Visitors may taken by the realization of
ing victims. take a guided audio tour via the park’s history through
“Seeing how the girls their cell phones. the sculptures,” Fiore-
were the same ages as the In the early 1960s, the Watson said,
youth, it was very easy to park was the epicenter of the
place themselves in the situ- nation’s Civil Rights
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North Texas Medical Center.
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Trigg, Delania. Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 143, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 22, 2016, newspaper, March 22, 2016; Gainesville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1305417/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cooke County Library.