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Corporate Sponsorship/Souvenir Journal Ad Opportunity
The Turkey Day Jam - All Class Reunion serves as our major fundraiser for our scholarships. Last year, over 800 alums and friends attended the event. Since 1996, over $45,000 in scholarships and donations have been awarded to Buchtel Cluster Schools.
We are extending an invitation to you to join us and to be a Corporate Sponsor in the amount of $500. By securing our Corporate Sponsorship level, the BHSAA, Inc. will extend the following benefits to your organization:
* A reserved table for 10 guests at the Turkey Day Jam - All Class Reunion
* Corporate recognition in the Souvenir Journal, and at our Community Health Fair
* A location to promote your organization within our vendor area at the Health Fair and All Class Reunion
* Special acknowledgment during the evening
Other advertising levels include:
$150 Inside Back Cover
$100 Full Page Ad
$ 65 Half Page Ad
$ 35 Quarter Page Ad
Please respond in writing by Friday, October 31, 2008 to:
The Buchtel High School Alumni Association
c/o The Corporate Sponsorship Committee
ATTN: Shawn Strode
P.O. Box 22156 * Akron , Ohio 44302-2156
The Buchtel High School Alumni Association, Inc. is a 501c3 Non-Profit Organization with an established Endowment Fund through the Akron Community Foundation. All donations are tax deductible. For further information, please contact Denise Brandon at (330) 773-3006.
Thank you in advance for your time, consideration and patronage.
Shawn L. Strode
Turkey Day Jam Committee/Public Relations Manager
Buchtel High School Alumni Association, Inc.
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Community Health Fair and Expo: Call for Exhibitors
(AKRON, OH) -- The Buchtel High School Alumni Association and Summa Health System will host the 4th Annual Thanksgiving weekend Community Health Fair and Expo on Saturday, November 29 from 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. in the Buchtel High School cafeteria. The Health Fair and Expo will continue its tradition of providing an array of activities, demonstrations and information about health and wellness.
Community organizations, associations and businesses providing health-related services and information are invited to register for exhibitor space for the event. Interactive displays are encouraged; direct selling of products is prohibited. Exhibitor space is available on a first come, first serve basis and free of charge.
Free screenings being offered include; Blood Pressure, Blood Sugar, Sickle Cell, Prostrate and Hypertension. A free continental breakfast will be served.
Immediately following the Health Fair the 13th Annual Turkey Day Flag Football Classic will take place at Griffin Stadium. The Even Years will face off against the Odd Years for another installation of this heated but friendly rivalry. Last year, the Odd Years defeated the Even Years by a score of 30 - 8. The Even Years lead the series 7 - 5. Who will it be this year?
For more information call (330) 535-5532 or (330)573-0247 or visit www.GoGriffs.net.
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Buchtel Alumni Celebrate Thanksgiving Weekend with Annual Scholarship Fundraiser
(AKRON, OH) --The Buchtel High School Alumni 13th Annual Turkey Day Jam - All Class Reunion will be Saturday, November 29 2008 from 8:00 p.m. until 1 :00 a.m. at the John S. Knight Center , 77 E. Mill Street (downtown) Akron , Ohio.
This year's entertainment includes Gospel selections by the Buchtel Alumni Mass Choir led by Benjamin Drone, Special Guest Performances by National Recording Artists; Howard Hewett (c/o 74), Blake Carrington (c/o 88) with special guest appearances by Kym Sellers WZAK on air personality (c/o 84) and Leland Jones (c/o 82) from the movie "The Gospel" and Tyler Perry's "House of Payne". Music for the evening will be provided by DJ Pearl Jam.
Tickets for the event are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Guests must be 21 years old and over with proper attire.
Tickets are available at Graffitti Print Shop ( 739 N. Main Street ) from now until Wednesday, November 26.
Henry’s Acme (Hawkins Plaza), and Sidney Ryan, Inc. (2086 Romig Road) will have pre-sale tickets available from now until Friday, November 28.
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A Benefit Concert For The Akron-Canton Regional Food Bank
Hosted by Sight Sound & Word
Saturday, Dec 20, 2008 (7:00 PM) at Lake Anna After Dark
469 West Lake Street, Barberton, OH
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Finding New Solutions to Old Problems
During a loud and busy afternoon at Perkins Middle School, a group of deeply engaged young men are listening to an enchanting tale. The storyteller pauses … and the young men harmoniously pound on their drums. Then, they stop drumming and beginning talking.
This group of young, black, middle school students belongs to Alchemy, an afterschool program offered through Perkins Activities Central. The group meets twice a week, listens to a mythological story, drums in harmony and councils each other. Mythological stories are used to increase the use of the student’s imagination, creativity and critical-thinking skills. Through the dissection of characters and their universal dilemmas, the students begin to understand and relate their own life situations to the characters in the story. As they discuss how the story’s hero overcomes adversity, they learn how to transform their own lives.
“Our approach helps students understand that the rain doesn’t always fall on just one roof,” said Alchemy Inc. founder Kwame Scruggs. “This is their safe zone to talk about their problems.”
The mentoring program begins when the boys are in sixth grade. They analyze a myth by author Michael Meade called “Water of Life.” The tale is about three desperate sons who try to find a cure for their sick father who is the king. One by one, the young men learn they must admit when they need help in order to find what they are looking for.
“I stop and ask each student what resonates within the myth,” said Scruggs. “This one [myth] helps them understand that they need to stop and ask for help if they are having a problem.”
The program has been running for four years at Perkins and aims to mentor young boys through middle school. Once the students reach high school, they return to Perkins in a paid position to mentor their fifth-grade successors. Scruggs said the inspiration behind the program came from a series of life-changing mythological books and a desire to “follow your bliss.”
Scruggs and his program are currently receiving national recognition from Ashoka — a global association of social entrepreneurs. The organization would like to expand Scruggs’ program to other urban cities around the county including Los Angeles; New York; Oakland; and Washington, D.C.
“I have found that different cultures have the same troubles,” said Scruggs. “We’re just setting out to find new solutions to old problems.”
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Since the inception of Alchemy, standardized scores from the Ohio Achievement Reading and Math Tests, in- and out-of-school suspensions and school attendance data have been used to assess the impact of Alchemy on student behavior and learning. Key findings over a four-year period include:
Reduction in excused and unexcused absences
Reduction in tardiness
Reduction in both in- and out-of-school suspensions
Reading and math test scores were higher for Alchemy participants than non-participants
For more information, contact Carla Sibley at 330/761-3297.
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Planners are trying to find a way to combine Buchtel High School and Perkins Middle School in a way that will keep seventh- and eighth-graders apart from the older high school students. (Paul Tople/Akron Beacon Journal)
West Akron wants to keep its high school
Plans to combine Buchtel, Perkins to be ready by May
Architects instructed that older, younger students can't mix
By John Higgins and Katie Byard
Beacon Journal
Published on Wednesday, Mar 19, 2008
The Akron school board should see the first plans for a new building combining Buchtel High School and Perkins Middle School in May.
Board members approved the concept last summer to avoid closing Buchtel, on Copley Road, because of declining enrollment, but they left the plans open to change, depending on public response.
Community meetings late last year confirmed two things: Parents didn't want the West Akron neighborhood to lose its high school, but they also wanted to ensure that seventh- and eighth-graders would be separated as much as possible from older students.
''People seem to be very aware of the economic situation and the enrollment situation,'' said Jacqueline A. Silas-Butler, executive director of Project GRAD Akron, a nonprofit educational reform organization focused on the Buchtel cluster. ''People have voiced concerns about the intermingling of the older and younger students.''
The same issue arose in the redesign of East High School, which will be renovated to accommodate seventh- and eighth-graders from Goodyear Middle School. Goodyear is to close when the new school opens in 2010.
After Perkins is closed, sixth-graders will attend elementary schools in the Buchtel Cluster.
That's the same plan for the east side: sixth-graders at Goodyear Middle School will be divided among the elementary schools in the East cluster.
The initial design for a combined East High School didn't pass muster with parents, who wanted better separation of the middle school students from the upperclassmen.
Revised designs for the additions to the high school building address those concerns. Officials hope the experience tackling the separation problem at East High will carry over when architects design the new Buchtel building.
''In some ways, it helps being a brand-new building, because they have more flexibility with the design to make that separation more distinct,'' said Paul Flesher, the district's director of facility planning.
Akron is about halfway through an $800 million construction project that will shut down, renovate or replace every school in the district.
The state is paying for 59 percent of the project, with the rest coming from a city income tax hike approved by voters. The schools will double as community centers after classes let out.
The Ohio State Facilities Commission, which oversees the project, evaluates enrollment trends every year and makes adjustments to the master plan for the project accordingly.
The compromise for East High School was reached in 2005 to prevent East from shutting down. The high school originally was on a list of nine buildings slated to close because of a state mandate that Akron cut its project in light of declining enrollment.
Buchtel faced a similar dilemma.
Middle and high schools in the Kenmore and North clusters also could be combined if enrollment continue to fall, but those design ideas are still in the study stage, Flesher said.
Meanwhile, East High students are currently housed in the former Central-Hower High School downtown while their new school is under construction. They're expected to move back in 2010.
When they move out, Buchtel students will move into Central-Hower. Their new school is expected to open in 2012.
Flesher said the estimated cost for the new Buchtel, including design and fixtures, is $47.8 million.
In May, the board should see initial plans, which basically establish how much classroom space is needed for each academic program.
Those plans are the first of four sets of increasingly detailed design documents that school, city and state officials must approve before the project is bid out to contractors.
Silas-Butler said the community meetings about combining Buchtel and Perkins are ongoing and have been productive.
''It may not be exactly how you would want it to be, but everyone realizes the need to keep the school,'' she said. ''People definitely don't want the school closed.''
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Holiday hip-hop headliner
Kurtis Blow tops bill for Turkey Day Jam, along with Rayr Image, an Akron R&B band
Published on Thursday, Nov 22, 2007
Happy Turkey Day. Chances are you're reading this as you prepare for the joy and/or pain of gathering with relatives. You're most likely gorging yourself on turkey/goose/ham/tarted-up Tofu or some other foodstuff, or you've already enjoyed/endured dinner and are sitting somewhere breathing slowly and heavily with the top button of your pants/skirt unbuttoned in front of the TV trying not to look sleepy.
Either way, chances are I'm doing the same thing, so let's make this experience quick and painless so you can go ahead and nod off, OK?
Saturday at the John S. Knight Center will be the 12th annual Turkey Day Jam presented by the Buchtel High School Alumni Association. This year's musical guests are Akron-based R&B band Rayr Image and . . .
Wait.
Did I just type the words ''R&B band?''
Unfortunately, I have yet to have the pleasure of seeing Rayr Image perform, but they had me at ''R&B band.'' I'll wager they play a fair amount of covers, but, hopefully, they also have some original tunes in their set list.
Anyway, the evening's headliner will be hip-hop pioneer Kurtis Blow, who is best known for early rap classics such as the gold-selling The Breaks, Christmas Rap, Basketball and If I Ruled the World. He also was the first rapper signed to a major label.
His feats as an early hip-hop ambassador include opening for Bob Marley & the Wailers at Madison Square Garden in 1980 and The Clash in 1982, and he turned in one of the better acting jobs in the 1985 hip-hop movie Krush Groove.
Despite not being a chart presence for more than a decade, Blow has kept busy touring military bases in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Kyrgyzstan, Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman a few months after 9/11 and spreading The Word through hip-hop music.
More recently, the 48-year-old Blow has been working as a DJ for Sirius Satellite Radio on the Classic Old School Hip Hop station Backspin 43. He also has continued working as a Christian rapper and as part of a trio called Trinity, which also features Chris Flow and Ricky B. Blow.
Trinity has a single, Crunk Wit It. Sure, they are a few years behind on the whole ''crunk'' thing, but the songs on the single, which also include God, show that old-schooler Blow's rhyme flow has changed with the times.
This will actually be Blow's second appearance in Akron this year. He performed at a local church in the summer.
In an effort to ''redeem'' hip-hop from . . . well, you know . . . Blow has founded the hip-hop church. Check it out at http://trinityhiphop.com.
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Turkey Day Flag Football Classic 2007
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BHS Alumni Earn Decisive Victory
During the 12th Annual Alumni Turkey Day Flag Football Classic, the Odd Alumni defeat the Even Alumni by a score of 30 to 8.
The Evens now lead the series 7-5
See you next year!!!
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Buchtel Alumni Association awards $4000 in scholarships to deserving students
The Buchtel High School Alumni Association Inc. (BHSAA) awarded four students $1,000 scholarships at the annual senior class awards banquet in May.
The 2007 BHSAA scholarship recipients are Norman Wolfe, Male Athlete (Kent State University); Chelsea James, Female Athlete (Ohio State University); Kimberly Miller, Four Year Program (Kent State University); and Liddia Shropshire, Two Year/Technical Degree (Kent State University).
Pictured above, from left, are BHSAA members Twila Taylor, Yvonne Brooks, Norman Wolfe, BHSAA Vice President Shawn Strode, Kimberly Miller, BHSAA member Barry McIver, Liddia Shropshire, BHSAA Past President and Founder Russel C. Neal, Jr., and Chelsea James.
The Buchtel High School senior class of 2007 received $1,110, 220.00 in scholarships, according to school officials.
Photo courtesy of Patrick Dougherty, an art teacher at Buchtel.
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Buchtel High School Alumni Association, Inc. Accepts Read Challenge
The Buchtel Alumni Association, Inc. will join the ranks of the Albrecht Foundation, Mrs. Eileen Burg, Children’s Services Board, Dr. James and Mrs. Claire D’Ianni, Mrs. Jacqueline Maly Gill, Terry and Jeannie Haines, Mr. Donald Kaufman, Norris and Mary Kelly, Nancy Murray, Diane and Herb Newman, Mr. Keith G. Cantine and Dr. Lois Margaret Nora, Dr. Sylvester Small, Mr. Glen Stephens and Mrs. Sandra Stubbs-Pitts as donors of the Read Challenge.
Roger and Judy Read, well-known, active members of the Greater Akron community and 1959 and 1958 Buchtel High School graduates, have extended their philanthropic spirit and support to Project GRAD Akron.
Last year, Roger and Judy Read issued a matching challenge grant to Project GRAD Akron. The couple agreed to match seven scholarship pledges that were a minimum of $4,000 and that paid within three years or less. The Reads’ generous challenge was met, thanks to the generosity of several people. Their matching grant of $28,000 will be designated to benefit those students who have met the Project GRAD Akron guidelines and wish to pursue a two- or four- year professional or technical degree program.
This year, Project GRAD Akron is looking to secure a total of 12 pledges or contributions to the PGA College Scholarship Fund. Eight pledges have been secured and four more are needed by the end of the year.
For more information about the Roger and Judy Read Challenge Grant, visit the Project GRAD Akron link on our website.
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Art Competition Award Winners
Art Teachers Patrick Dougherty & Michael Sinerth entered four Buchtel students in the Northeast Central Ohio Scholastic Art Competition. It was held at Kent State University with 3,513 entries. This year Marlon Fears won a Gold Key (the highest award given) for his art portfolio. Kimberly Miller won a Silver Key (second highest award) for a painting. She also received a Merit Award for another painting. Only 319 Gold or Silver Keys awards were given among the 3,513 entries.
In addition, Purchase Awards for Ruple's Art Supply Company were given to Marlon and Kimberly by the Akron/Summit County Women's Club. Marlon's award was $500 and Kimberly's was $100.
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Stow filmmaker catches Hudson in his Vue-finder
by Rachael Biasiotta
Associate Editor
Hudson - The city may already be a hot spot for historic homes, arts festivals and quaint shopping excursions, but could it become Hudsonwood?
Stow-based independent filmmaker James Hinton is now working on his newest short feature, “Irina,” in Vue Restaurant on Village Way in downtown Hudson. He said the unique setting of the restaurant has provided the perfect backdrop for his film, a suspense/drama that he wrote.
“Ambiance ... the place has that feel to it,” Hinton said of Vue, adding the restaurant has a “new” look, but with lots of classic charm.
He added that he didn’t have to change anything inside the restaurant, except moving a few tables.
“The more natural I can get it and keep it, the better,” Hinton said.
Hinton said he visited two other area restaurants, but Vue stood out because of its unique decor and charm. Vue’s signage and name will be prominently featured in the film, so Hudson residents will recognize it, he said.
However, the film doesn’t indicate Hudson as the setting, so those from out of town might not know where the film is supposed to take place.
When asked how well his project has been received in Hudson, he said everything has gone well, and neighboring businesses and passersby have been very supportive, as have Vue staffers.
Mike Tomascelli, Vue’s general manager, will even make a cameo appearance in the film, Hinton said, as owner of the restaurant. Though Tomascelli isn’t the real-life owner of Vue, he said the real owners are pleased and he’s excited about the interest the film could generate for Vue and Hudson.
“It’s great for the restaurant, it’s great for the city,” Tomascelli said.
He added that filming hasn’t disrupted the restaurant’s regular operations, adding Hinton and his crew usually come to the restaurant around 8 a.m. and are gone by the time Vue opens its doors for lunch at 11:30.
Hinton said that early morning filming hours also keep away interested onlookers whose faces in Vue’s windows might cause problems in the finished film.
Shooting at Vue has been taking place for about two weeks already, Hinton said, and he expects to wrap up by the first week in October.
The film has a “Hitchcockian” theme, Hinton explained, and hints that Vue, or at least the Vue in the film, is haunted. He said he doesn’t
doubt that people who visit the restaurant for the first time after seeing the film will be looking for ghosts.
The plot of the film is that people don’t leave the restaurant the same way they entered it, though he kept what changes the characters undergo and what secrets the restaurant holds to himself.
Hinton added that there is no real gun play or explosions in the film, which also will be without nudity or gore.
“If my wife, kids and grandma can’t watch it, I won’t make it,” Hinton said.
An Akron native, 41-year-old Hinton graduated from Arizona State University with a degree in psychology. He said he entered the film business about six years ago after a friend told him his writing was too good to let others make a profit from it. So Hinton left Arizona where he and his wife and two children were living and came home to Ohio.
He started his production company, Portrait in Black Films, in 2003 with the help of co-producer Myron Lewis, a Weathervane Playhouse trustee.
He said even though this area doesn’t have a reputation for film production, he has found businesses and communities have been very supportive of his efforts.
“It’s people like Mike that make me want to stay,” Hinton said. “You have select businesses that just embrace us.”
Support is something that’s very important, too, Hinton said, considering the funding for the films come from his and Lewis’s pockets and from the revenue from previous films.
Hinton said he expects to spend about $5,000 making “Irina,” and hopes to win the $50,000 prize at the Cleveland Film Festival in March. Of course, should Hollywood show an interest in making it into a feature film, Hinton said he would gladly scrap his plans to submit a short film to the Cleveland festival.
That’s a possibility, too, he said, as one of the lead actresses in the film, Giana LaMonica recently showed the script to filmmakers in Hollywood while filming an appearance for “The Drew Carey Show.” He said the script has generated some excitement already and he is eager to finish a feature length version.
Hinton said other cast members, all “seasoned actors,” include T’Keyah Keymh, who appeared on “Cosby” and “In Living Color;” Martha Vuscko, a local actress, model and owner of a day spa in Chagrin Falls; and Lewis.
E-mail: rbiasiotta@recordpub.com
Phone: 330-688-0088 ext. 3146
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Buchtel alums hope to jump-start arts
`God's Trombones' an invitation for theater in school, community
Kerry Clawson
Beacon Journal
Reva Golden speaks with pride about the days she studied the performing arts at Buchtel High School under a government-funded program that ran through the early 1980s.
``We actually met Glenn Close before she was Glenn Close. We got to see her in Barnum on Broadway,'' Golden said of her high school fine arts focus.
For Golden, a 1982 Buchtel alumna and Ohio University graduate, participating in a strong arts program in high school led to a lifelong love of theater.
``Before Firestone High School, before Miller South (arts magnet programs), there was Buchtel. Buchtel had the best plays in that era,'' Golden said of the arts at the former John R. Buchtel University High School.
At the time, the school offered accelerated programs in not only the arts but also broadcast communications, environmental science, business, health and medicine, horticulture and law.
Now, the director's working to jump-start the arts again at Buchtel with her production of God's Trombones, an Evening of African American Folklore. She said the last Buchtel High School play was seven years ago.
``We want to raise fine arts awareness,'' Golden said of her current theatrical endeavor.
The play, billed as wholesome family entertainment, will be performed 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Buchtel High School Auditorium. The event is sponsored by the Buchtel High School Alumni Association.
Part of the play stems from a series of short sermons written in verse by James Weldon Johnson. The rest draws upon poetry, gospel music, Negro spirituals, dance and folk tales, all written by African-Americans.
At a recent rehearsal, cast members from Buchtel High School as well as community actors worked on everything from a dance called The Eagles Who Thought They Were Chickens -- about the slaves' middle passage from Africa -- to a short poem called A Dream Deferred, by Langston Hughes.
In the background, Kwame Williams, Phillip Fikes and Tahj Davis played jemba and junjun African drums.
Johnson's sermons that are woven through the show include Creation, Go Down, Death and The Prodigal Son. Comedic scenes include God Made Man and Woman, Brer Rabbit and The Last Mama-on-the-Couch Play.
The piece also includes an excerpt from James Baldwin's The Amen Corner as well as historical stories of slavery by Millie Evans and Letice Boyer.
Golden originally directed a children's production of God's Trombones in 1997,when she was an Akron Parks and Recreation employee. She and musical director Clifton Mosely began crafting the piece 10 years ago.
In 2002, Golden revised the show for a staged reading of God's Trombones at Weathervane Community Playhouse, where nearly 200 guests packed the production in the theater lobby.
Now, they'll be able to seat 1,000 audience members in the Buchtel High School Auditorium, which features a proscenium stage. Weathervane is again lending its support with set pieces and props.
Show sponsors are the Buchtel High School Alumni Association, Omnova, Laborers' International Union of North America Local 894 and Stewart and Calhoun funeral home.
Also working on the Buchtel production are choreographer Everett Deck and costume designer Loren Mayer, a resident costume designer for Disney World.
Ultimately, the Buchtel High School Alumni Association would like to see a new, viable community theater housed at Buchtel as a nonprofit operation to enrich the whole community.
Russell Neal Jr., past president of the alumni association, said the group plans to continue networking with alumni who work in the arts to produce at least two community theater productions each year.
``As the alumni association, our goal is to work with them (arts professionals) and bring their skills back to Buchtel to create a community theater,'' Neal said. ``We look at it as a positive alternative to the overemphasis on sports right now.''
``We look at theater as being a way for kids to express themselves and get in touch with their feelings'' plus learn valuable presentational skills that will serve them in the work force, Neal said.
Tickets to God's Trombones, An Evening of African American Folklore are available at Mount Calvary Baptist Church, 442 Bell St., Akron; and Handel's Homemade Ice Cream, 986 Copley Road, Akron.
Buchtel High School is at 1040 Copley Road, Akron. Tickets are $15 for adults, or $6 for students 12 and younger. A Portion of the play's proceeds will be donated to the Project GRAD Akron Scholarship Program.
Call 330-753-9527 for more information.
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Buchtel Alumni Association Present $4000 in Scholarships
Pictured from left to right are Marcus Clark, Vianna Matthews, Shawn Strode (Vice President BHS Alumni Association, Inc), Dominique Williams and Curtis Eaton. Alumni members not pictured include Shana Lee (President), Scholarship Committee Chairs Yvonne Jackson-Brooks and Crystal Dent-Conway, Russell C. Neal, Jr., Barry McIver and Ebony Williams.
Photo by Atty. Crystal Jones, Scholarship Coordinator Project GRAD Akron
The Buchtel High School Alumni Association, Inc. awarded four deserving students with $1000 scholarships at the annual senior class awards banquet held Thursday, May 11, 2006.
The 2006 BHSAA, Inc. Scholarship recipients are Curtis Eaton - Male Athlete (Kent State University), Vianna Matthews - Female Athlete (University of Cincinnati), Dominique Williams - Four Year Program (Spelman University) and Marcus Clark, Jr. - Two Year/Technical Degree (Stark State College).
The Buchtel High School Senior Class of 2006 received over $1,331,759 in scholarships.
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LaLisa Anthony
Regional Coordinator
Play It Smart
1441 Tenth Street NE
Canton, OH 44705
Phone: 330-268-9615
Email: lanthony@neo.rr.com
LaLisa is currently in her sixth year with the National Football Foundation. During her first four years, she was an Academic Coach at Akron Buchtel and Cleveland Glenville High Schools. She has worked with many student-athletes and has celebrated with them their successes into college. Namely, she was Academic Coach to former Buchtel standouts Charlton Keith (Kansas), Antonio Reynolds (Tennessee), Tim Murphy (Pittburgh) Anthony Lovelace (Bucknell) and Antonio Pittman (Ohio State) who are all currently attending college and playing football. Also, during her time at Cleveland Glenville, she worked with Donte Whitner (Ohio State), Mike Hearn (Pittsburgh), Ted Ginn, Jr. (Ohio State) and Curtis Terry (Ohio State). There were more student-athletes under her tutelage and she remains in contact with the majority of them.
Prior to Play it Smart, LaLisa earned a degree in communication sciences from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. After completing her degree, she was a Campaign Associate with the United Way of Central Stark County and joined the Canton (OH) Area YMCA as a Program Director working with middle and high school students. As a volunteer in her community, she spent five years as President of the Canton youth football league serving over 300 children.
LaLisa is currently working toward her Master of Science degree in Social Administration with a concentration in community development at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University.
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