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SCHOOL from
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across
es.
With no new schools open¬
ing this year — the system
debuted three last August and
plans five new campuses for this
2009-10 year — the biggest
worry may have been traffic.
The return of school buses
made for slow going in some
parts Monday, particularly on
Hwy. 141 where there is con¬
struction near South Forsyth
High School.
Jennifer Caracciolo, spokes¬
woman for the school district,
said it typically takes “two to
three weeks for the bus routes
to actually be worked out and
get there on time, and for peo¬
ple to adjust their schedules.”
“On the first day of school,
we have a lot of parents that
want to drive their children to
school,” she said. “Or they
want to drive to school and get
pictures of their children get¬
ting off the bus, and we have a
lot of new students.”
In addition to new teachers
and students, four schools wel¬
comed new principals this year.
They include: Connie
Stovall at Liberty Middle;
Steve Miller at Otwell Middle;
Deaths
Margaret E. Hamby
Mrs. Margaret E. Hamby,
age 78, of Jasper, formerly of
Forsyth County, passed away
Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008, fol
lowing an extended illness.
Survivors include her son
and daughter-in-law, Phillip
and Suzanne Hamby of
Jasper; grandchildren,
Marybeth Hamby and Audrey
Hamby, both of Jasper,
Michelle Hamby of
California, Holly Hamby of
Florida; brother, Boyce
Millwood of Cumming; sister,
Barbara Ralph of Kansas City.
Funeral services were held
Monday, Aug. 11, at 11 a.m.
at Ingram Funeral Home
Chapel with Rev. Mark Davis
officiating. Interment fol
lowed in Sawnee View
Memorial Gardens.
Ingram Funeral Home and
Crematory is in charge of
arrangemertts.
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at forsythnews.com.
Forsyth County NewS
August 13, 2008
Joann S. Haykel
Joann S. Haykel, age 75,
of Cumming died Saturday
Aug. 9, 2008, at Northside
Hospital-Forsyth. A native of
Chatsworth, she was pre
ceeded in death by her
beloved husbands, Herschel
Shadbum and Norm Haykel.
Mrs. Haykel retired from
Sears in 1980, after 27 years
of service. She attended
Antioch Baptist Church after
moving to Cumming from
Atlanta in 1987.
Survivors include her
daughter, Shad Mason of
Alpharetta; Peden sister, Frankie
of Eton; brother and
sister-in-law, Bill and Myrtle
Presley of Cleveland, Tenn.,
and her grandsons, Cam and
Beau Mason of Cumming.
Funeral services were 11
a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 12, in the
McDonald and Son Funeral
Home Chapel, with Dr.
Marlon Thomas and Pastor
Travis Bridgeman officiat¬
ing. Interment followed in
Sawnee View Memorial
Gardens. The family
received friends Monday
from 6-8 p.m. at the funeral
home.
Condolences may be
expressed on-line at
www.mcdonaldandson.com.
McDonald and Son
Funeral Home and
Crematory in Cumming is in
charge of the arrangements.
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book at forsythnews.com.
Forsyth County News
August 13, 2008
Loretta Mary Durand
Loretta Mary Durand, 88 ,
of, Gainesville, passed away
Aug. 10, 2008.
Little Davenport Funeral
Home in Gainesville is in
charge of arrangements.
Forsyth County News
r August 13, 2008
FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS — Wednesday, August 13,2008
Charlley Stalder at Matt
Elementary; arid Jason Branch
at South Forsyth High.
Visits to several schools
Monday provided a glimpse
into the first day happenings.
‘We hope that
they’ll trust us’
Monday was difficult for
Julie Estep.
She had to
drop off her oldest
son, Gage, for his
first year of school
at Matt
Elementary.
Then, with her
youngest son
Hatcher, who still
has a couple of
years left before
he starts, she
joined other first
time parents of
school-aged chil
dren for Matt’s
“Boo Hoo
Breakfast.”
I’m not crying. I’m over
that part,” she said. “It’s just
weird, because you feel like
you’re entering another phase
in your life ... He’s never been
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Richard “Rick”
Langston Jr.
Mr. Richard “Rick
Jr., age 51, of
passed away
Aug. 10, 2008. He
employed by AT&T,
c k was a loving son and
who had many friends
family.
Survivors include his par
nts, Richard and Mary
of Cumming; broth
anc j sisters-in-law, Dennis
j Debbie Langston of
Daryl Langston of
Duane and Dorothy
of Woodstock; a
of other relatives also
Funeral services will be
Thursday, Aug. 14, at 11
in the Ingram Funeral
Chapel. Interment will
at Sawnee View
Gardens. The fami
w jn receive friends
Wednesday, Aug 13, from 6-8
Ingram Funeral Home and
is in charge of
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August 13, 2008
Johnny Reynolds
Mr. Johnny Reynolds, age
73 , Q f Cumming passed
away Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008.
He was a Mason and Shriner
an d member of IBEW. He
was preceded in death by his
wife, Janice Reynolds,
Survivors include his
daughter, Cindy Reynolds
p r i ce 0 f Canton; sons and
daughters-in-law, Jeff and
Elizabeth Reynolds of
Alpharetta, Joseph and
Carrie Reynolds of
Woodstock; sister, Rosella
Richards of Cumming;
brother, Billy Joe Reynolds
0 f Oak Ridge, Tenn.; six
grandchildren; five great
grandchildren; several
nieces, nephews and other
relatives also survive.
Graveside services will
be held Thursday, Aug. 14, at
2 p.m. at Bremen City
Cemetery in Bremen with
Rev . Billy Edmondson offici
at i n g. The family will
receive friends Wednesday,
Aug. 13, from 6-9 p .m.
Ingram Funeral Home
and Crematory is in charge
of arrangements.
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book at forsythnews .com.
Forsyth County News
August 13, 2008
Jack Matthew
Lowe
Master Jack Matthew
Lowe, infant son of James
and Regan Lowe of
Cumming, passed away
Sunday, Aug. 10,2008.
McDonald and Son
Funeral Home and Crematory
is in charge of arrangements.
Forsyth County News
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anywhere where anyone else
has had to feed him lunch even,
besides my mom babysitting
him.
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ing him to the wolves a little
bit, but it’s a good school and
I’m really appreciative of that.
He’s got a great teacher so
we’ll just see what comes. It’s
going to be exciting.”
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Matt Elementary kin
dergartener Hannah
Staton clutches the
hand of her mom, Kim.
trust us,” she said.
“Parents don’t know me
because I’m new. So it’s just
letting them get to know me so
that they know I’m going to
take care of their babies.
“The kids have so much fun
that the second day is so much
better because they want to
come back.”
‘Everybody’s just
so on top of it’
Sisters Emily and Katie
Pitts not only were ready
Monday morning for the bus to
North Forsyth Middle, they
were excited to go back to
school, albeit for different rea¬
sons.
Katie Pitts wished “it was
still summer” but said she was
“excited to see all my friends.”
Unlike last year, however,
she is in middle school. It also
is the first time in two years the
sisters are attending the
MOMS from IA
Monique Dearth lives in
Laurel Springs, but is a for
mer resident of Bridle Ridge.
She said she had a “totally
smooth morning” getting her
fifth-grader, Kendall, and her
third-grader, Harrison, off to
Sharon Elementary School.
For Kendall, Dearth said,
the most exciting part of
being a fifth-grader was the
fact that she got to sit in the
last seat on the bus.
“She told her brother this
morning he wasn’t allowed to
sit in the back because he’s
only in the third grade,”
Dearth said.
Ashley Cavendar said
goodbye to her fifth-grader,
Blake, and second-grader,
Elizabeth. She said her son
and the Weavers’ daughter,
Mary Evans, have been in the
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More than 20 mothers attended Michele Weaver’s
brunch, held the first day of school each year. Below,
vehicles line a street in the Bridle Ridge subdivision.
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parents
as teary-eyed as
their anxious
kindergarteners is
nothing new for
Charlley Stalder,
principal at Matt
Elementary. With
11 years of experi
ence at the elemen
tary level, Stalder
was ready for
Monday.
“That’s their
baby that they’re
trusting us to take
care of, and it’s
hard for them to let
go, but we [tope
same school.
Katie Pitts seemed excited
to have big sister around. And
while she joked about being
stuck with her kid sister, Emily
Pitts said she would ‘‘get to
help her out with a lot of stuff
too.
As an eighth-grader, Emily
Pitts said she wants to “enjoy
my last year [in middle school]
because I’m at the top again,
and I have to go to the bottom
again next year.”
At Otwell Middle School,
former Teacher of the Year
Michael Sloop was both nerv
ous and excited to be back
teaching eighth-grade physical
science.
“You do have so many kids
you don’t know and you get
nervous about how it’s going to
go,” he said. “And your reputa
tion precedes you and you hope
it’s a good thing.
• “But we have great kids in
the community and good com
munity support, so we expect
another good year.
Monday was definitely hec
tic for Otwell Principal Steve
Miller.
In addition to being new
and welcoming more than 900
students to the school, Miller
also had to worry about his
own 10 children making it to
school on time.
He said the first bus arrives
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Otwell Elementary School
eighth-grader Tiffany Burn
ettd grabs school supplies
before class.
same class together for the
past few years,
“This is a big year for him
so it’s kind of a big year for
me,” Cavendar said. “He’s
excited, so it’s easier for me.
I’m not ready to think about
middle school yet.”
Cavendar said she loves
her neighborhood, despite the
fact the children of Bridle
Ridge have had to switch
schools four times recently
through redistricting,
“We have such a huge
group of kids that are all so
close,” she said. “They get to
grow up together and they do
stuff together in the neighbor
hood, so it’s just one big fam
ily.”
E-mail Julie Arrington at
juliearrington@forsythnews.
com.
at 6:35 a.m. and keeps “going
until about 8:15 at my house.”
But there were no tears,
he said, “so that’s a good
thing.”
His first day as a principal
in Forsyth County was
extremely organized.”
“Everybody’s just so on
top of it,” he said. “Everything
that needs to be done, before
you can anticipate a problem,
they already have a solution, 44
‘Stepping the into
unknown’
With four Advanced
Placement classes on Zac
Redmon’s schedule at South.
Forsyth High School, “seniori
tis” is not to be an
option this
“Senior
year’s the dif
ferent one
from all of
them, I’ve
heard, so it’s
kind of step
ping into the
unknown,” he
said.
Having
passed his AP
tests from
last year,
Redmon is
diving into
AP classes in
mtcroeco-
nomics, macroeconomics,
government and psychology.
He joked that his plans
could change 1,000 times
between now and the end of
the year, but he hopes to
attend Georgia State
University for a degree in
business, and then pursue a
master’s in international busi¬
ness and business law at
Georgetown University.
Until then, Redmon will
focus on his heavy workload
and musical theater, which he
said serves as training for his
future in business.
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“You have to know how to
run a business to run a the¬
ater,” he said. “So I’ve learned
that side from just being in the
arts, trying to manage how
much money we’re spending
on items for the show and how
much time and effort we’re
putting into what we’re com¬
ing out with.
“You always want to come
out stronger and a little bit
wealthier for the department
after you do a show.”
Freshman Kyle Cheney
still has another three years to
go before facing the same
decisions as Redmon. For
now, his biggest concern is
“not getting lost and passing
my classes,
‘ It’s really big and there
• are a lot of he said.
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South Forsyth High School
freshman Lindsey Ettorre won
c * ers whether to go left or right
her next class.
twice, Jason
Branch was more than ready
to take over as South Forsyth
High School’s new principal.
“I think we’ve done a very
good job preparing for the stu¬
dents,” he said.
“There are always a few
butterflies in your stomach
when you start the first day,
just as the kids have, but we’re
excited to get everyone here
and gets started.
“It’s going to be a great
school year.”
E-mail Jennifer Sami at Jen¬
nifer sami @forsythnews. com.
From left,
Susan
Stachura,
Alice
Dalatri
and Karen
Moissiadis
visit during
the annual
Bridle
Ridge
subdivi
sion back
to school
brunch.
Photos/Jim
Dean
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