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Major all-stars
eliminated
See Page 1B
Summers takes photos
of July 4 parade
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Dobie‘s athletic
history being sought
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uth Bhelt-Afllington Leader
July 10, 1997
“The Voice of Community-Minded People’
Vol 22, Number 23
SJC registration today
On-campus and late registrations for San Jacinto College’s second summer
semester have been announced.
On-campus registration will be Thursday, July 10, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.
and 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Late registration will be held Monday, July 14, from 1:30 to 2:30 and 6:30
to 7 p.m. A $20 late fee will be charged on this day.
The second summer semester begins Monday, July 14. For more informa-
tion, call the South campus at 281-484-1900 or visit any campus.
Car, airline tickets
won in chamber drawing
TAAS retakes July 15-17
Retakes of the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills will be Tuesday through
Thursday, July 15-17, in the Dobie High cafeteria.
The writing portion will be administered July 15; math will be given July 16;
and reading will be offered July 17. All students who did not master these tests
should plan to retake that portion of TAAS on these dates. The students must have
been enrolled in a Pasadena Independent School District high school during the
1997 spring semester.
Registration will begin at 7:45 a.m., with students asked to check in by 7:30.
A photo ID is required.
Out-of-school students who were not enrolled in the spring must have
preregistered for the TAAS retakes and must bring the admission form that was
sent to them.
Rummage sale at Dobie Saturday
The Dobie Athletic Booster Club will hold a garage sale at the school Satur-
day, July 12, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
A wide variety of goods will be offered, with proceeds to benefit football and
spring sports programs.
PIP meeting Tuesday
Phil Sandlin from the Precinct 8 Constable’s office will discuss workings of
the constable’s office at Tuesday’s meeting of HPD’s Positive Interaction Program.
The meeting will be held at Memorial Hospital Southeast (first floor) at 7 p.m.
Orbit comes to library
Astros mascot Orbit will appear at the Parker Williams Library Tuesday , July
15, at 2:30 p.m. Children will also get to hear a story.
AARP meeting Friday
The first annual talent show of the American Association of Retired Persons
will be held at the July 11 meeting. The meeting will be held at 10 a.m. at the
Kirkwood South Christian Church across Kirkfair from H.E.B.
Senior citizens ages 50 and older can visit the Chapter 4341 meeting, after
which refreshments will be served.
Little League meeting Sunday
Officers for the 1998 season of the Sagemont-Beverly Hills Little League will
be elected Sunday, July 13, at the social hall of St. Luke’s Catholic Church. The
meeting begins at 2 p.m.
Kids’ activities at Bracewell
The following children’s activities are scheduled at Bracewell Library:
Thursday, July 10, 2 p.m. - Gizmo the Robot will help present a program
on safety and drug awareness.
Tuesday, July 15, 10:30 a.m. - A program titled “Kitchen Chemistry” courtesy
of the Children’s Museum will be presented to children ages 4-6.
Wednesday, July 16, 2:45 p.m. - A presentation on Texas “Adopt a Beach”
program will be offered to children of all ages.
Thursday, July 17, 2 p.m. - The Museum of Printing History will present a
program on Ben Franklin for children ages 5-12.
Children can still register for the Summer Reading and Read-to-Me Clubs,
which run through Aug. 1. Incentives are offered to children who read 10 books
and up. Bracewell is located in the parking lot of Almeda Mall.
Cowboys to meet Monday
The Sagemont Cowboys will hold their regular monthly meeting Monday,
July 14, at 7:30 p.m. at the Kirkmont Municipal Utility District Building on
Blackhawk Boulevard.
Heavy trash in Beverly Hills
City of Houston residents who live in the South Belt area north of Fuqua (Bever-
ly Hills) are scheduled to have their heavy trash picked up Monday, July 14.
Crews sometimes run behind schedule. For information, call 713-551-7320.
Beauty pictures available
Photographs of the South Belt beauty contestants and parade participants are
now available for viewing and ordering at the South Belt-Ellington Leader office.
The photos are the property of photographer Bruce Summers, who has pro-
vided ordering forms.
Carnival set for Friday
A family carnival featuring food, games, rides and music will be held from
4 to 9 p.m. at Evangel Assembly of God Church, 12515 Astoria.
Proceeds will benefit the church’s vacation Bible school. Tickets will sell for
25 cents each.
Bank slates food drive
A food drive will be held at Texas Commerce Bank-Almeda Genoa from noon
to 2 p.m. Friday, July 18.
Those contributing cans, packaged food or $1 or more in contributions can
see magic tricks and receive a balloon toy or face painting. Refreshments and an
appearance by Casual the Clown will be featured, as will door prizes.
Contributions will be given to the Houston Food Bank.
Cowboys to register July 19, 26
The Sagemont Cowboys and Cowgirls will hold registration from 9 a.m. to
2 p.m. at Dobie High School two consecutive Saturdays, July 19 and 26.
Ages for football are 5-13. The fee for flag football is $65. For contact foot-
ball, the fee is $95. For football information, call Denny Wranich at 281-484-0568.
For information on drill team, call Bobbi Sommerfelt at 281-484-9532.
Immunizations available
A mobile unit will be available every Monday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
to administer free immunizations at the Sagemont Recreation Center, 11507 Hughes
Road. For information, call Baby Shots at 713-794-9267.
Immunizations will also be available at Memorial Hospital Southeast the third
Friday of each month (July 18 ) in the dining room of Memorial Hospital Southeast
from 9 to 11:30 a.m. and from 1 to 4 p.m. The shots cost $15.
For information, call Carol Jones at 281-929-4199.
From rags to riches
In one day, Neil West (with wife Eloise) goes from tooling around the July 4
parade on a motor bike to being the 500th ticket drawn in the reverse drawing
and winning a brand new Mercury. West was the first person to purchase a
$100 ticket in the car give-away, sponsored by the South Belt-Ellington Chamber
of Commerce. For the past nine years West has chaired the annual July 4 parade.
Photos by Donna Rizzo
Kirkwood South’s Neil West won the Priess and Terry Groff.
brand new Mercury given away in the An installed burglar alarm went to Terry
South Belt-Ellington Chamber of Com- Felton, and Jim Pace received a hand-held
merce’s reverse draw July 4. cellular phone.
West’s $100 ticket was the 500th drawn. Aviex Jet, Inc. won a gasoline weed
Winning two airline tickets was Connie trimmer.
Morgan, who had the 499th ticket drawn. Dinners for two to various restaurants
A color television (498th ticket drawn) went to Joyce Lewis, Carbide Grinding,
went to Bob Maxwell. Dot and Jimmy Bogert, George Slaughter,
Michael Green (497th) won a shotgun, Gary Freeman, Santo Carnabucci, Ruth
and Robert Schurtz (496th) won a one-night Naples, Jim Horton, Keith Gray, Larry
jacuzzi suite. Cernosek, Wayne Slovacek, Dan Martin
Laura Stordeur (495th) won a one-night and Jim Baker.
hotel stay, and LaVern K. Tupa (494th) Receiving South Belt-Ellington shirts and
received a one-night hotel stay with dinner, caps were Stephen Cavender, Lynn and
Derrell Isenberg (493rd) will receive free Stan Caudle, Charles O’Dell, Roger
computer training. Carter, Jack Murphy and Penny Baker.
B&L Lock & Safe Co. won an installed Other restaurant gift certificates went to
yard light, and William L. Sheehan won a Brian Groff, Dennis Boedeker, Brice
July 4 basket. Sumrall and Paul and Peggy Allison.
Between the 25th ticket drawn and 475th The South Belt-Ellington Chamber of
ticket drawn, prizes were awarded. Commerce, which sponsored the event, ex-
These included: pects to clear $25,000 from the drawing.
$50 savings bonds went to Paul and Proceeds will go toward the chamber’s
Peggy Allison and to a ticket held by building fund.
Dorothy Geoffrey, Parker Williams, Janet All 500 tickets were sold.
2 considering District 11 seat
A legislator and former legislator are
reportedly looking at running for the Texas
Senate seat now held by Republican Jerry
Patterson.
Republican state Rep. Mike Jackson is
said to be considering a bid for District 11
in the state Senate. The La Porte legislator
represents Sageglen voters, who are in
District 129.
Former Democrat Mike Martin of Gal-
veston County is also looking into enter-
ing the 1998 primary for District 11, aseat
he lost to Patterson in 1994.
Patterson will lose his Senate seat in
order to be on the ballot for land com-
missioner.
SJC allows high school students to earn college credit
A San Jacinto College program which Rayburn and South Houston high schools Channelview and North Shore may register
allows students to earn high school and col- at the Pasadena ISD Administration Build- during San Jacinto College’s telephone
lege credit for courses is now available to ing. - registration July 28 through Aug. 12 or
almost every major feeder high school in Dobie students may register Aug. 14 or during on-campus registration Aug. 19, and
the college district. 18 at the high school. should provide documentation that they are
Pasadena ISD began offering the pro- Deer Park and La Porte students will approved by their high school for dual
gram to students in its four high schools this register at their respective schools Aug. 15. credit enrollment.
summer.
This fall, Clear Creek ISD’s Clear Brook
High School will also be a participant.
These districts join the Deer Park, La
Porte, Galena Park, Sheldon and Chan-
nelview districts in partnership with the
community college’s three campuses.
The program began in earnest in 1995,
after the Texas Legislature formally
recognized dual credit courses.
Its focus is to create advancement oppor-
tunities for those students who excel at the
high school level. Students who participate
in dual credit courses will earn three hours
college credit for each course taken.
“With all the emphasis on at-risk stu-
dents, we must not lose sight of the needs
of these exceptional students, said Roger
Woest, Pasadena ISD associate superinten-
dent for curriculum and instruction. “We
must provide further opportunities for their
achievement.”
In addition to college credit, the program
prepares students for future success by giv-
ing them a feel for college expectations.
Flexibility has been the capstone of San
Students should call their schools for
registration times.
Students from Galena Park, C.E. King,
“Feedback from the students. San Jacin-
to faculty and high school personnel has
been very positive,” said Tilley. “Dual
credit is working very well, and we expect
it to continue to grow,” she said.
For more information on San Jacinto
College’s admission requirements, call
Despite the varying approaches among 281-476-1878 (Central campus) or 281-
the high schools, the results from dual 922-3432 (South campus).
credit courses have been the same.
Sageglen resident new Brook principal
By Cheryl Bolen
still attends the Galena Park church she was
When Dr. Caryl Robinson, 47, learned baptized in. The high school she graduated
Clear Brook High School was shopping for from is no longer there, a casualty of in-
a principal, she decided to seek the job tegration in the late 1960s.
although she loved her job as principal at From Galena Park, she went to La
La Marque High School. Marque in 1990 as 12th-grade principal and
The round-trip commute from her became principal in 1993.
Sageglen house to La Marque, however, After a tornado leveled her North Shore
was 44 miles. home three years ago, Robinson made the
Since July 1, she’s been happily driving move to Sageglen. She found it a good mid-
412 miles to Brook.
point between her job in La Marque and
“I’ll probably retire from here,” Robin- Galena Park, where she dines with her
son said. “I absolutely love what I do. This parents every Thursday before choir prac-
is my calling.” tice at her home church.
Jacinto College’s program, in accordance
with methodology preferred by high school
She loves the South Belt area. “It’s two
exits from both malls,” she said with a
laugh, explaining that shopping is her on-
ly vice.
It’s really all she has time for because be-
ing a high school principal is so demanding.
In addition to putting in a full day, she tries
in her graduate studies and helped baby-sit
her children.
(She earned her doctorate in education
from La Salle in 1996.)
“I talk to my parents every single day,”
she said.
She has been a single mom for the past
10 years. “I like my life the way it is. The
nature of my job is trying on a married
woman.”
Because of “following kids in all their
activities,” an 80-hour week would be a
good week, she kids.
At Brook, she said “There’s nothing that
needs to be fixed.”
She said she will spend her first year
becoming acquainted with existing pro-
grams and teachers and hopes to make her
contribution next year.
“I’m surrounded by some extremely
talented people,” Robinson said of Brook’s
administrators.
In some instances, San Jacinto College
instructors have taught the courses at the
high school. In others, the seniors meet as
a class at a San Jacinto College campus.
Another alternative has been for the
students to be mainstreamed into regular
college classes.
The courses of choice have primarily
been those that are required both in high
school and in college. They include English
Composition, Government, U.S. History,
Psychology and Algebra, and vary among
high schools and San Jacinto College
campuses.
Admission is based on ACT, SAT or
TAAS scores, or the college’s placement
testing.
Due to various arrangements between the
high schools and the college, testing times
and sites vary, as does registration.
The program is marketed through the
high schools in the spring, but there is still
an opportunity for interested, eligible stu-
dents to participate.
However, students are cautioned to con- parents.
tact their high school counselor prior to And when Robinson’s only brother’s on-
registering for a San Jacinto College course CCTCT huroat ly s°n and her only sister’s only son began
for dual credit. UVOL W CUSSE having problems in school, she had them
“Students should not assume that San , T 1 1 move in with her.
Jacinto College courses will automatically hearing 1 UI V 15 She made sure they attended classes, and
be accepted as being applicable to their high 4S • • both nephews (now ages 18 and 20) A TT © —
schoolgraduationrequirements,”saidDr graduated from LaMarque. UTL U.D. ICCIII
Gwen Tilley, San Jacinto Central vice The Clear Creek school district has “My family is everything to me,” . . n J
president of instruction. “It is very impor- scheduled a public hearing on the propos- Robinson said. Dobie 1996 graduate Alisha Broussard
tant that they talk with their high school ed 1997-98 budget. The hearing will begin Her parents always encouraged their will represent the L m e a es a
counselor before enrolling.” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 15, at the district’s children in their educational endeavors. Pan American.Games in Havana, u a
Summer registration has been scheduled administration building, 2425 E. Main in And even though Robinson earned an July 15-21. The three- ime state 1S
at many of the schools for those students League City. academic scholarship to Atlanta’s Spellman school champ m t e rip e Jump:
who did not sign up in the spring. Citizens who would like to address the College, where she got her bachelor’s, hav- Broussard has earne e secon spo in
Clear Brook registration will be Friday, board on budget matters can sign up at the ing their three children in college at the the nation 8 triple jump. She IS a mem er
Aug. 8, at the high school, meeting at 6 p.m. same time was a financial hardship. (Two of the University of Houston track team
Pasadena ISD has set Aug. 1 as a reg- Trustees are expected to adopt the budget of them earned degrees.) and 18 the daus er 0 au a
istration day for students of Pasadena, on July 29. Then later, her parents encouraged her Broussard.
to attend as many extracurricular activities employees.
as she can. She has met the coaching staff, band
She attended all the football games and director, lead counselor, registrar, one
attended at least one game in La Marque’s assistant principal and some vocational
other 10 sports as well as special non- teachers already.
athletic events. “Kids like to see you Getting to know the school’s staff, kids
there,” she said. “You should really show and parents are her goals—in addition to be-
your face at everything that’s really impor- ing a visible presence in the community,
tant to kids.’’ “Now I won’t have to divide myself be-
She and her assistants manage to cover tween two communities.' Robinson said,
all the activities.
Despite the rigors of her job, Robinson
has raised two daughters and says she
Her career in education has spanned two raised three other children.
decades. She taught Spanish and English Daughter Jonetta Brooks is 28 and lives
in Aldine for five years before embarking in Plano with her husband.
on a 12-year career in Galena Park, where Kristi is 20 and has been studying
she taught senior composition and British criminal justice at Texas Southern
literature before becoming an assistant prin- University.
cipal in 1987. A little girl who was a friend of her
Robinson has deep roots in Galena Park/ daughter’s came for a weekend and ended
Her parents reared their three children there' up staying for 10 years. Robinson explained
and still live in the same house. Robinson the girl, now 31, was neglected by her own
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