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The
Commerce News
Page 6B FEBRUARY 6,2008
School News
Students Of The Month
Wayne Neal Chevrolet donated the use of
two cars to the driver education courses of
Commerce High School and East Jackson
Comprehensive High School recently. Left
to right are Wayne and Heather Abbs, own
ers; Britta Wilkes and Elizabeth Brooks,
driver education students at EJCHS; David
Cash, Commerce driver ed instructor; Jimmy
Williams, EJCHS driver ed instructor; and
Richard Crumley, assistant principal at EJCHS.
Currently, 45 EJCHS students and 21 CHS stu
dents are taking driver education.
These students were recognized at Commerce
Elementary School by their teachers as stu
dents of the month for January. Left to right
are (front) J’Varius Wood, Andreea Boaca,
(middle) Jacob Scogin, Dalton Flint, Courtney
Carroll, Ashley Ledesma, (back) Jana Fuller,
Logan Jackson and Ally Vaquera.
Win Six Awards At Science Fairs
Three home-school siblings from Nicholson won a total of
five first-place and one second-place awards at the EAGLES
Science Fair in Monroe and the Homeschool Enrichment
Ministries Science Fair in Conyers. Third grader Heidi
Seagraves’“Hummingbirds ... Are They Picky Eaters” won first
place in both competitions. Fourth grader Landis Seagraves’
“Sunlight, Color and the Clothes We Wear” garnered second
place at the EAGLES Science Fair and first place in the HEM
Science Fair. Meanwhile, sixth grader Macy Seagraves’ “The
Ups and Downs of Blood Pressure” captured first place in both
science fairs. The girls are the daughters of Tammy and Marty
Seagraves.
Learn Their Sight Words
Katherine Adkins, Garrison Briggs and Eli sight words. They are pictured with Principal
Savage, kindergarten students at Commerce Kim Savage wearing their new sight word
Primary School, recently learned all of their T-shirts.
Piedmont Honors Local Students
Piedmont College has award
ed the following Jackson
County students with aca
demic honors for the recently
completed fall semester.
Students named as dean’s
scholars for the semester
have earned a perfect 4.0
grade-point average, and stu
dents named to the dean’s
list have earned a grade-point
average of 3.5 to 3.99.
Jackson County students
named as dean’s scholars
include, from Commerce:
Amy Renea Hill and
Katherine Cummings; from
Jefferson: Kayla M. Mosher,
Jeannie Ondic, Rebecca L.
Kyle, Nickie Cole, Sandra
Davis and Katie L. Wilkes;
and from Pendergrass: Karen
Mangino.
Dean’s list students include,
from Commerce: Kayla
Duncan, Brandon F. Meadows,
Zachary Fletcher, Ashley
Maria Hancock, Thomas
Dimitroff, Nicholas Golding
and Beverly E. Stephenson;
from Jefferson: Kelly Branson,
Whitney Canup, Michelle
Looney, Sarah Reynolds
and Malorie Teach; from
Pendergrass: Stephanie
Rainwater; and from Talmo:
Elizabeth Nicole Sosebee.
Piedmont College is an
independent liberal arts col
lege of about 2,000 students
with campuses located in
Demorest and Athens.
Pictured with their FBLA medals are, left to right, Sydney Witcher, Kasey Hattaway, Mercedes
Elliott and Hannah Davis.
FBLA Chapter Activated
At Commerce Middle School
Under the leadership
of Kathy Cobb, Business
Education Instructor at
Commerce Middle School, a
Future Business Leaders of
America (FBLA) Chapter has
been activated. The (FBLA)
mission is to bring business
and education together in a
positive working relationship
through leadership and career
development programs.
FBLA at the middle level
offers students the chance to
experience leadership and
other fundamentals of suc
cess, while engaged in fun
and rewarding activities.
Membership is open to all stu
dents enrolled in a business
or a business-related class in
grades 5-8.
The Commerce Middle
School chapter has 12 mem
bers. Recruitment for more
members is under way. Six of
the new members participated
in their first Region Leadership
Conference Jan. 30 at Madison
County High School. The CMS
FBLA members competed in
several business events with
middle school FBLA mem
bers from all over Northeast
Georgia.
CMS had three first-place
winners and one third-place
winner at their first competi
tive event. Members also
attended leadership and team
building workshops. The CMS
students enjoyed their first
conference and are looking
forward to attending the FBLA
State Leadership Conference
in Macon Feb. 28. The state
conference will be a full day of
competitive events and work
shops.
FBLA Competitors
FBLA members who com
peted in the leadership confer
ence are as follows: Brttany
King, first place in Introduction
to FBLA; Brooke Vickery, first
place in proofreading and edit
ing and seventh place in busi
ness spelling; Kasey Hattaway,
first place in career explo
ration; Hannah Davis, third
place in proofreading and edit
ing and eighth place in busi
ness computations; Sydney
Witcher, eighth place in busi
ness concepts; and Mercedes
Elliott, tenth place in proof
reading and editing
For information about FBLA,
contact Kathy Cobb, advisor,
at Commerce Middle School.
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