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ELGIN COURIER - ELGIN, TEXAS
PAGE 14
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2017
Meet Neidig Elementary's new teachers
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Elgi nites
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honors
Kristi Clowdus, Fourth
Grade English (ELA).
Clowdus attended Ash-
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John Granado, Fourth
Grade English (ELA)
and Social Studies.
This is Granado’s first
year in Elgin. He comes to
Neidig Elementary School
from Midland, where he
spent five years teaching.
Granado is Texas-born
and raised in Redford and
Pecos. Prior to teaching,
John was a probation offi-
cer where his contact with
youth was mostly on the
negative side.
I am constantly amazed
at the number of re-
turn-address labels which
I receive periodically.
As I write this, I have
125 (2016) Veterans la-
bels, 24 Ky Wesleyan
College (my alma mater;
I bought those and use
them on correspondence
where I want to impress
someone), and 42 USA
Shooting Sports. To-
day’s post brought 20 la-
bels from the Arbor Day
Foundation, a new sup-
port-seeker. Scattered in
there are generic cutesy
Christmas stickers which
you put on Aunt Nora’s
card. She’ll see it and say,
“Oh, how sweet!”
Caveat: I philosophi-
cally support all veter-
ans’ groups. Whenever I
see the ubiquitous gimme
cap on the head of a vet, I
shake his hand and thank
ish make her proficient
in four languages. Before
going into education, she
lived in Austin working at
Apple Headquarters mak-
ing maps. Her parents have
lived in Elgin for eight
years while Rosa has lived
here for three.
Toni Nelken, Third
Grade Dual Language.
Nelken grew up in Le-
ander and comes to Elgin
from Austin ISD. Nelkin
attended The University of
Texas at Arlington for her
bachelor degree and Texas
Women’s University in
Denton for her graduate
degree.
“I am out here in Elgin
because I wanted a smaller
school district,” Nelken
said.
“I like small towns. Now
I live right up the road in
Taylor. I get to enjoy the
pretty country drive back
and forth to work.”
David
PHILLIPS
A new school year has
started and there are
many new faces at Elgin
ISD.
The Courier took a few
minutes to get to know
some of the new hires
at Neidig Elementary
School this week.
Press Release — The stu-
dents listed on the Dean’s
List of Academic Honors at
Sam Houston State Univer-
sity in Huntsville, are under-
graduates who have achieved
a grade point average of at
least 3.5 out of a perfect 4.0
in all work attempted while
enrolled in not less than 12
semester hours.
The university recognizes
the following students for
earning the honor for the
Spring 2017 semester: Jon-
athan Bedolla, Akia Britton,
Tametra Cook, Haeli Dodd,
Angela Franco, Breanna
Hargrove, Chloe Henze, My-
randa Hernandez, Cameron
Ligon and Regan Tindell.
The students listed on the
President’s Honor Roll at
Sam Houston State Univer-
sity are undergraduates who
have achieved a perfect 4.0
grade point average in all
work attempted while en-
rolled in not less than 12 se-
mester hours.
The university recognizes
the following students for
earning the honor in the
Spring 2017 semester: An-
gela Franco, Myranda Her-
nandez and Cameron Ligon.
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Gabriel Rosa, First
Grade Dual Language.
Gabriel attended St. Ed-
wards University, where
she majored in Spanish
with a minor in Sociol-
ogy. She finished her
masters in Geography
a year and a half ago at
Texas State University.
She grew up in Paris,
France and moved to
Texas when she was 15.
Rosa grew up in a
home speaking both
French and Portuguese
and attended a bilingual
school learning English.
Her studies in Span-
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him for his service (they
are usually startled by
this). I pick and choose
even which church to re-
ceive our widows’ mite
of money. These types of
discretionary funds are
limited.
I pay about half a dozen
bills online, and about the
same amount by mail. I
do not send greeting cards
by USPS because I have a
marvelous online service
which costs me $12 a
year. For that I can send
an unlimited number of
greetings, all with classy
musical accompaniment,
to anyone with an email.
Thus I have sent Christ-
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seat in humility to no one
regarding lifestyle, so
how do “they” find me?
This is my first mailing
from Arbor Day. Yes,
they enclosed labels.
BUT: in exchange for
answering a very modest
survey AND MY DONA-
TION, if I am one of the
first 50 respondents, then
I can choose from four
free gifts.
One of those “gifts” is a
year’s supply of their cof-
fee. I am told it “matures
slowly in the shade of tall
native rain forest trees.”
(Sounds like Juan Valdez
country; remember him?)
My customary donation is
$25. I certainly can’t get
12 10-oz. bags of coffee
for that, so I DO hope I’m
one of the first 50. Keep
your fingers crossed, and
I’ll let you know how this
comes out.
Searls said.
“I grew up in Germany.
My favorite part was
Vilseck, South of Nurem-
burg. I came to Fort Hood
in 1992 after I graduated
from high school and have
been here ever since.”
Searls learned Spanish
living in Costa Rica for
several years.
He graduated from West
Texas A&M with a degree
in Geology. Searls mother
was a teacher and he says
he has always considered
teaching, and after work-
ing in the “oil patch” for
several years, he decided
to make a change.
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mas cards to confused
recipients; i.e., people
who never expected to
get one from me. I abso-
lutely do NOT send cor-
respondence with a return
address on it to Ike, my
moonshiner cousin back
home in Kentucky. He
has made it clear: “Don’t
send nuthin’ with no ad-
dress on it where them
gahl-darn Feds can trace
it to me.” ‘Shine being an
original cottage industry,
I honor his wishes.
Aren’t the names of
some of the senders on
the lists of other agen-
cies? Don’t they know
they’re not the only ones
wanting money? Over the
last several years I have
withdrawn or reduced my
support/involvement in
various groups: reducing
my footprint, as it were.
Now I truly take the back
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Ryan Searls, Fifth
Grade Dual Language.
Ryan comes from Ohio
(Go Bucks!).
“I was an Army brat so
I come from all over,”
Sarah Elizabeth Rose,
Music Teacher.
Sarah has a degree in
music education. She
plays the tuba and until
recently and perhaps still,
she played bass (Tuba
Bass) with a popular polka
band.
Rose says she is looking
for some kind of wind or
brass ensemble to play
with.
Rose has two young chil-
dren at Neidig Elementary
School.
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has been pretty ‘white’ for
a very long time. The re-
ality is, the culture around
us has changed (over 60
percent Hispanic in Elgin)
and I want to be prepared
to take the church in a new
direction,” Brannon said.
“Instead of being re-
quired to learn Greek and
Hebrew, I was required to
learn Greek and then be
whether ministry would be
his path.
Working with the polit-
ical group called Texas
Impact restored his faith,
but after several years that
work came to a political
end with the changing of
presidential administra-
tions eight months ago.
That brings Brannon to
St. Peters in Elgin.
He believes in and
preaches Christ centered
living.
“I believe in having Jesus
in one’s life and enjoying
the Grace and Joy that
comes from that. St. Peters
has had some very difficult
times and think those diffi-
culties has brought them to
a point of being teachable
and open to their commu-
nity,” Brannon said.
“As Elgin grows, the
community will change
and I think St. Peter’s faith
based community will be
instrumental in preserving
Elgin as the community
it was, the community it
is and the community it
will be as the population
grows.”
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be a teacher,” Clowdus
said.
“I went back and forth
between being a school
counselor or a teacher.
Having my own children
helped me decide to be a
teacher.”
Clowdus has a child in
Kindergarten, one in fifth
grade at Neidig Elemen-
tary and a senior attending
Elgin High School.
Clowdus has lived in
Elgin for 14 years.
“We are a big sports
family, so my main inter-
est is watching the kids
play sports. Even if it’s
not them playing, we are
watching sports on TV.”
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Hazel Humphries,
Second Grade
Self Contained.
Hazel has been a con-
stant presence at Neidig
Elementary for the last six
years as her son Bobby
went from Kindergarten
to fifth grade, while her
daughter Ariana is a sec-
ond grade student at Nei-
dig Elementary.
Several years ago, she
decided to attend Texas
State University and
earned a degree in early
childhood education.
Humphries focuses on in-
stilling a sense of safety,
respect and responsibility
in her students. Her class-
rooms work on achieving
a family environment.
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able to preach and teach in
Spanish. We spent a lot of
time immersed in Latino
ministries.”
Brannon graduated in
2005 and anticipated find-
ing a rural/agricultural
ministry, but that did not
come at first. His first post-
ing dealt with a poor blue
collar community in the
midst of being destroyed
by drugs and alcohol.
Brannon went through
several other difficult post-
ings and began questioning
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