Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 2, 2008 Page: 6 of 12
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Students in the Port Aransas
ISD have made use of the
educational tools purchased
with grant money from the
Port Aransas Education
Foundaiton. Friday night’s
Mardi Gras is the foundation’s
major fundraiser. Clockwise
from left, Fallon Zollars, left,
and John Amundsen, students
of social studies teacher
Kristi Longanecker, look
over maps in their Brundrett
Middle School classroom.
Showing off quilts they made
in Claudia Locher’s class with
sewing machines paid for
by PAEF grants are, from
left, seniors Kristi Hoffman,
Macy Luker and Megan Park,
junior Paige Porter and senior
Becky McCall. H.G. Olsen
Elementary School students
Matt Groseclose, Hannah
Waters and McKanzie Krott
use the whiteboards in first
grade teacher Ginny Shaw’s
class.
Staff photos by Chloe Tugwell
Kids appreciate foundation work
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and discussed by outside sources, but
it is the students who benefit from the
work the foundation is doing.
H.G. Olsen Elementary School was
primarily after a technology boost as
interactive whiteboards were installed
in four classrooms.
“The combination of the whiteboard
and the projector gives the effect of
a huge monitor that the students can
interact with,” said first grade teacher
Ginny Shaw.
Without this system, the class would
have to use chart paper and markers,
which are easily ruined and don’t at-
tract the attention of the first graders,
Shaw said.
Using the whiteboard, the students
become engaged with the lesson. The
teacher can allow all the students to
take part in the learning, and the screen
can be printed for each of them to have
a copy. Their enthusiasm was obvious
as they were questioned on what they
thought about the whiteboard.
“I want to smear my face on it!”
said first grader Matt Groseclosfclri
the excitement.
Chase Shelton said, “It’s wonder-
ful!”
Brundrett Middle School had a
range of requests, including new
library books and a field trip to the
King Ranch. Especially interesting to
students was world and U.S. history
teacher Kristi Longanecker’s request
for a set of maps. The maps include
current maps of the world and of
Texas, as well as 19 historical maps
that follow American history from
1610 to 1991.
“I can use each map that’s sig-
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learning about,” said Longanecker.
Before obtaining this group of maps,
Longanecker used one map that was
“not even \yprth pulling down.”
The students have also found the
maps beneficial.
“It makes it a lot more interesting
and it’s easier to learn,” said eighth-
grader Fallon Zollars.
Port Aransas High School was
treated to many new additions that
included a new set for the theatre and
a weather station for the entire district.
One request was for a new class that
began last year: sewing.
This year, sewing teacher Claudia
Locher put in an order for two new
sewing machines. The machines are
being used by her class to make several
items including quilts that are being
donated to the education foundation
to be auctioned at Mardi Gras in Oc-
tober. The students are getting more
excited about the projects as the year
goes on.
“I’ve had to limit the size of the pil-
lows because they keep getting bigger
and bigger,” said Locher.
The new sewing machines enable
the students to use more complicated
designs in their work, as they are able
to monogram, complete more intricate
stitches and also create buttonholes.
“With the new machines, everyone
gets a chance to make something,” said
senior Becky McCall, who recently
completed a hooded jacket using one
of the new machines.
The education foundation has raised
almost $70,000 in the last two years
to benefit the education of students
in the school district. The majority of
this money has been raised through the
Mardi Gras in October. The proceeds
will help pay for the grants requested
by teachers to make the students’ expe-
riences at school more fun, interesting
and beneficial to their futures.
By Chloe Tugwell
South Jetty intern
Halloween came early this year for
five students of the Port Aransas High
School theatre class.
The students were invited to pose
as patients at an emergency room on
Sunday, Sept. 28, for a course that
trained interns to become trauma
doctors. They were painted as trauma
victims at Christus Spohn Hospital
Memorial, Corpus Christi.
The students arrived at the hospital
on Sunday morning and were sent
down to the basement to pick the
injury they wanted to portray. They
chose folders with patient’s medical
situation that ranged from falling 35
feet to being shot multiple times. Us-
ing the injuries described as a guide,
make-up artists turned the students
into victims using latex wax and lots
of fake blood.
Senior Becky McCall was modeled
as a 20-year-old female who had hit
a pole with her vehicle and had been
flung out of the car windshield. Her
injuries included a gash on her cheek
and a bruise to her left side.
Junior Joey Fries was modeled as
a construction worker who had fallen
35 feet from scaffolding. His injuries
included a chest contusion and a skull
fracture.
Senior Chloe Tugwell was mod-
eled as a 21-year-old female involved
with a robbery at a liqueur store. Her
injuries included two bullet wounds,
one to the neck and one to the chest.
Junior Ashley Hendricks was mod-
eled as a female involved in a bar
fight. Her injuries included bruising
on her face and a stab wound on the
back that punctured her lung.
Finally, Senior Katie Fries was
modeled as a 24-year-old female in
her third trimester of pregnancy who
was involved in a car accident which
killed the driver, her husband. Her
injuries included a deep gash to her
forehead, a broken pelvis and bruis-
ing along her legs and arms.
Once they looked like incoming
emergency room patients, they were
taught how to act like them. Each
student was paired off with one of
the doctors who were teaching the
interns how to deal with emergencies.
These doctors described the effects
each student would feel if they had
actually experienced the injuries.
Some students had little acting to do,
as they would have been rendered
unconscious by their wounds, while
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others had to put on a show for the
intern, collapsing as they were being
examined.
The 32 interns training to become
trauma doctors were paired in teams
of two and sent to three rooms that
contained both a student “victim” and
a trauma doctor. They would practice
first, describing what they would do
before the patient arrived, how they
would stabilize their patient and how
they would get them transferred to a
bigger hospital. During their practice,
their partner would critique them
along with the doctor in the room.
In the second room, they switched
roles, and critiqued their partners.
Finally, they were on their own
and would have their final exam,
where they had to describe all the
procedures necessary to treat their
patient, and see if they could make it
as a trauma doctor.
The process lasted six hours, and
the students were each paid $75 for
their work, although they all agreed
they would have done it for free.
“I never thought getting stabbed
in the back could be so fun,” said
Hendricks.
Each student has been placed on
the list of those called to be models
for these events, and will be able to
participate in the training again in
the future.
Trauma ‘victims’
Courtesy photo
Theater arts students at Port Aransas High School participated in
a trauma training exercise at Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial in
Corpus Christi on Saturday, Sept. 27. ‘Victims’are, from left, Chloe
Tugwell, Joey Fries (in back), Becky McCall (foreground), Katie
Fries, Kaffie Middle School student Eric Mathews (background)
and Ashley Hendricks.
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Judson, Mary Henkel. Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 2, 2008, newspaper, October 2, 2008; Port Aransas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth496627/m1/6/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ellis Memorial Library.