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THURSDAY
EDITION
Vol. 17 No. 88
August 19, 1982
BURLESON^STAR
For Mail Delivery
295-0486
Graduation left at Elk Stadium
(,r(i(hi(ition J ieivs Given By Students
Diane Nicholson was one of about a dozen students to address the board of trustees
Monday night on the subject of high school graduation. About 50 persons in all at-
tended the meeting to listen or to give their views on the subject to the board.
Wedding to be real ‘drag’
(Editor's Note Announcements of
engagements and weddings usually
don’t appear on Page One of the
Hiirleaon Slur But exceptions are
always news and this is an exception.!
By DORIS E WILSON
Mr and Mrs M&M Belch of Sleepy
Hollow Estates announce the im-
mediate marriage of their daughter,
Bernice 'Bernard Erickson) to Jerry
Boom Boom i Jerry Boone), son of Mr
and Mrs John Daniel Boom Boom of
Deep Gulch Manor
The ceremony (such as it is) is
planned for 8 p m Friday in Burleson
Community Center in Chisenhall Park
with Rev Elmo Gantree 'Buddy
McKee) officiating
The bride-elect's parents are the
former Stanley Pitman and Chuck Hut
son
Parents of the prospective bride
groom are the former John Daniels and
J C Ware
Miss Belch has announced her
"feminine" attendants will be Alena
Magoo (Alan Magee), maid of honor,
Jami Farkenparker (James Moody),
Billie Strib (Bill Stribling), Teresa
Chevrolet (Terry Ford) bridesmaids.
Attending the bridegroom will be Clif-
ford Lou-Pez (Cliff Lopez), best man;
Marcus Dowa (Mark Sowa), Franklin
Kling i Rev E Frank Leach) grooms-
men, David Monster Brat (Rev David
Mosser), ringbearer
Little Miss Regina Twinkle (Richard
Duke) is flower girl with Marion H
Wick (Marion Howard) lighting the
'fiuptial candles.
Following the ceremony, the bride's
parents will host a reception.
Everybody in town is invited to at
tend There is, however, a slight stipend
for the opportunity to view what is
billed as the "social event" of the
season Adults are $1.50 and children
are 75 cents, but it’s all for a good
cause—The Burleson Chapter of the
American Cancer Society
Bank names new president
Bill Shaw was elected president of the
First National Bank of Burleson Fri
day, according to chairman of the
board Jerry Boone, and was at the bank
all day Friday getting acquainted with
personnel and patrons
Shaw, with 35 years in the banking
business, was senior vice president and
director of the Bank of Commerce in
Fort Worth until leaving that institution
in 1972 to found and serve as president
of the Benbrook State Bank That bank
was sold last year
A native of Cleburne, Shaw was
reared in Fort Worth, where he resides
with his wife, Martha, at 3416 Clear
Fork Trail They have two daughters,
Carole, 23, who has just graduated form
Tarleton State University in Stephen
ville and is currently employed by First
United Services of Fort Worth, and
Rosemary, 19. a sophomore at Abilene
Christian College
They are members of Alta Mesa
Church of Christ.
Boone also announces the election of
Pat Cogburn to the board of directors
She is a vice president and cashier and
has been with the bank since its found
ing in February. 1981 She was a vice
president and cashier at Benbrook
State Bank before coming to Burleson's
FNB.
She resides in Everman with her
husband, Tom, and their nine-year-old
son. Heath
White to campaign here
Mark White, seeking the office of the
governor of the State of Texas on the
democratic ticket, will be in Burleson
today at 3 p m for a 45-minute recep
tion in Burleson Community Center,
just off McNairn Road in Chisenhall
Park
White will be accompanied by State
Rep Bruce Gibson of Godley
An informal reception is planned by
local democrats with White making a
brief speech and being available for a
question and answer period
White, currently serving as attorney
general of the State of Texas, is com
pleting his first four-year term in that
Good behavior
a requirement
BILL SIIAW
.new FNB president
PATCOGBURN
...named to board
office He had previously served as
assistant attorney general
Prior to that office, he was secretary
of state during Gov Dolph Briscoe’s
term of office.
Coffee and cookies will be available
at the reception
Bank
funds
juggled
An 18 year-old Fort Worth man was
arrested by Burleson police Aug 10 and
charged with theft of over $200 after
admitting opening accounts at several
area banks under different names and
juggling funds back and forth.
Steven Scott Francisco was charged
with the felony and placed in Johnson
County jail in Cleburne Officer Odell
Woodard investigated the case
F&M State Bank in Burleson alerted
Burleson police that someone had
opened an account and then had made
large deposits at night in checks only
Francisco told police that he owed
four banks over $11,000 F&M Bank is
owed $5,536.72, Burleson State Bank
$277.07, Haltom City $1,500, and Cle-
burne National Bank $4,233 70. He told
police that he began by opening an
account at Cleburne National Bank in
the name of Bill or Nancy Payne and
opened several accounts at four other
banks under various names
He said that he used the five banks to
float funds back and forth to pay his
bills. According to police reports, he
said that he began with the intention of
paying the debts off in time
The familiar strains of “Pomp and
Circumstance” will again ring through
the bleachers at Elk Stadium next
year—providing it doesn’t rain—but
disruptive students will no longer walk
away from the graduation ceremony
with diploma in hand
Burleson School Trustees in a special
meeting Monday night abandoned the
idea of moving next year's graduation
to Daniel Myer Coliseum on the TCU
campus after hearing from about a
dozen students or ex-students of Burle-
son High School. They also dropped the
proposed idea of a required social
development course for all seniors
which would be taught at home room
and be on a pass-fail basis dependent
upon the individual student's actions at
graduation events
A school board policy will require
appropriate behavior at all such events
before graduation requirements are
met, however Diplomas will not be
handed out as the seniors march across
the stage Instead, they will be given at
a later time to students who are not
disruptive at graduation
THOSE WHO DO disrupt the proceed-
ings will not receive their diploma and
will not be high school graduates since
they have not fulfilled all necessary
local requirements These students can
apply for a diploma no sooner than six
months from the date of graduation
The compromise settlement seemed
to please most of the students, who took
up the first hour -.id a half of the
meeting expressing their views. Stu-
dents reflecting a cross-section of cam-
pus activities were invited to address
the board on the graduation issue.
Other students, parents, and teachers
were also given an opportunity to speak
on the subject. Some parents, Sue
Shields, in particular (see letter to
editor), expressed the view that gradu-
ation disruption was just a symptom of
other deep-rooted problems at the high
school A few students also said they
believed the rules were too tough at the
high school
MOST STUDENTS, however, seemed
much more interested in the graduation
ceremony itself, w ith almost all of them
saying they would go along with any
board policy that would keep ceremo-
nies in Burleson and allow the gradu-
ates to wear mortar board hats
Lou Lavely, president of the high
school chapter of the National Foren-
sics league, spoke first and was one of
the few who did not seem to object to
moving the ceremony inside He said he
felt the outside atmosphere might be a
factor in disruptive behavior by some
students He also supported the idea of
a student's behavior determining
whether or not he received a diploma
“In the past, some of them (gradu-
ates) have gone wild knowing that they
had their diploma in hand," he said
Lavely did think the tradition of
mortar board hats should be kept
Susan Tidrow, a sophomore member
of the choir, said most of the students
she talked to did not think moving
inside would help a thing
"THERE'S GOING TO be a few
troublemakers in every group," she
said
She said she felt students definitely
wanted to graduate in Burleson, that
they wanted mortar board hats, and
that they wanted their diplomas handed
to them as they marched across the
stage
Brenda Morgan, a senior, said she
basically agrees with Miss Tidrow
Another senior, Lori Rightmer, also
agreed
Brad Brazeel, a senior in the voca-
tional program, said the board should
track down the reason behind the stu-
dents' behavior As for a social develop-
ment course, he said, "The reasons for
bad behavior are more deeply rooted
than can be cured in 20 minutes a day as
a senior "
He did not elaborate on just what
those reasons were.
David Nichols, a sophomore who is
in the band, noted that seniors are
almost adults and shouldn t have to be
taught how to act.
"THEIR PARENTS should have
taught them that at home," he said
Shari Parks, a senior who partici-
pates in girls' athletics, said that since
withholding diplomas until after the
ceremony should stop most of the
problems, she didn't see why gradua
tion would have to be moved from Elk
Stadium
She also said she thought the social
development course should be scrapped
as an actual class and limited strictly to
graduation activities
Board Secretary A1 Evans inter
jected at this point to say he also
supported the idea of keeping the cere-
mony in Burleson
"Just because it's outside doesn't
mean it can't be a dignified ceremony,"
be said. “We just haven’t found the
right solution "
Diane Nicholson commented here,
saying her main concern was keeping
graduation in Burleson She also ques
tioned the social development course
which was proposed to be taught at
home room
"What would you do about announce-
ments? What would you do about clubs
and other homeroom activities’’ Would
the coaches who teach homeroom have
to take a social development course in
order to be able to teach us7" she
asked
BOARD MEMBER ANNE English
agreed with the contention that it w ould
be difficult to schedule a course during
homeroom
"Why can’t we just write up a policy
to withhold diplomas instead of a
course to replace homeroom, which is
also important7" she asked
Superintendent of Schools Gordon
Cockerham noted that the school dis
trict would not just be withholding a
student’s diploma He pointed out that
if appropriate behavior at graduation
were made a requirement, then a
student exhibiting disruptive behavior
would not be a graduate because he had
not met all the requirements for gradu
ation
"And it can be a requirement instead
of a course,” he said "Some teachers
suggested it might be more meaningful
this way, but it's legal either way."
Student Council President Alan
Moore said he did not think there was
any surefire way of controlling things
at graduation, but he did not think it
would help to move the ceremony off
the football field Moore, who also plays
football, said it wasn't his contention
that merely being on a football field
"makes you go crazy ”
HE LISTED SEVERAL points he felt
would help including the faculty taking
a low key approach, printing the names
See Graduation, I’age 6A
Honors plan ok’d
A new plan for the selection of the top three honor graduates at Burleson High
School was adopted Monday night by school trustees
Actually, two plans were adopted at the suggestion of BHS teacher Martha
Pearson, who pointed out that seniors had already pre-registered this year and
might find it difficult to switch classes in order to qualify for the honors
FOR THE UPCOMING school year, academic honors will be based in the cur
rent required courses of the Texas Education Agency for all Texas high schools
This consists of three years of English, two and a half years of social studies,
two years of science, two years of math, one and a half years of physical educa
tion, and one half year of health
For the 1983-84 school year, honors will be determined by the same re-
quirements on social studies, physical education, and health, but additional
math, science, and English courses will be required.
Three years of science will be needed (excluding physical science) as will
three years of math (excluding fundamentals of math and introduction to
algebra)
Either four years of English will be necessary or three years of English and
two years of the same foreign language
APPLICANTS FOR THE TOP three academic honors must make application
to the office fora transcript check prior to April 1 Final average used to deter-
mine the top three graduates will be figured at the end of the fifth sixth-weeks
grading period To be eligible for these honors, a student must have been en-
rolled as a full time student for at least two full semesters immediately prior to
completing the prescribed courses.
Class rank will still be determined after the final grading period and will be
on the basis of the final average of all courses taken during high school
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