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The Commerce Journal
COMMERCE —
Several local organizations will celebrate Black History Month by
presenting awards to local superintendents, principals teachers, and
students on Feb. 24.
The Hunt/Hopkins County African American Leadership Conference,
Commerce Ministerial Alliance, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., are hosting the Dan and Jalinna
Jones Education Awards Ceremony at 2 p.m. in Conference Rooms A and B
in the Rayburn Student Center on the Texas A&M University-Commerce
campus.
Individuals were selected because of their outstanding academic
performance, school involvement, excellence in education, school
attendance or leadership in education. Students from each school were
nominated by their respective schools. Principals, teachers and
superintendents were selected by the sponsoring groups.
The event’s keynote speaker will be Ron Price, former president of the
Dallas Independent School District.
Below are the award winners for superintendents, principals and
teachers of the year. A complete award list can be found online at
www.commercejournal.com.
Superintendents of the Year:
Blake Cooper, Commerce ISD; Donald Jefferies, Greenville ISD; Michael
Lamb, Sulphur Springs ISD; Earnie Phelps, Campbell ISD
Principals of the Year:
Patrick Just, Commerce Middle-Commerce ISD; Trish King, A. C. Williams
Elementary-
Commerce ISD; Heath Jarvis, Greenville High-Greenville ISD; James
Evans, 6th Grade Center-Greenville ISD; Jason Tharp, Lamar
Elementary-Greenville ISD; Rowena Johnson, Lamar Elementary-Sulphur
Springs ISD; Carol Worsham, Bowie Elementary-Sulphur Springs ISD;
Vanessa Abron, Sulphur Springs High-Sulphur Springs ISD
Teachers of the Year:
Tracy Crews, Commerce Elementary-Commerce ISD; Kathern Aimes, Commerce
High-Commerce ISD; Savoy Wilkerson, Lamar Elementary-Greenville ISD;
Yvonne Panell, Houston Education Center-Greenville ISD; William Yates,
L.P. Waters Early Childhood Center-Greenville ISD; Jim Hudson,
Campbell High-Campbell ISD; Marcella Hornsby, Campbell
Elementary-Campbell ISD; Kara Argenbright, Bowie Elementary-Sulphur
Springs ISD; Michelle Bolton, Bowie Elementary-Sulphur Springs ISD;
Jeff Chapman, Sulphur Springs High-Sulphur Springs ISD
