Hall of Fame Celebration
Fifty-seven DMS students who had earned Reading Hall of Fame status in early April celebrated their accomplishment with free books and ice cream. These students selected their books from the book fair on April 5 and then continued their celebration in the media center by making ice cream sundaes. Each student also wrote the name of the best book she/he read this school year and these have been displayed on the bulletin board outside the media center.
Hall of Fame students include: sixth graders AJ Atkinson, Clayton Spofford, Wes VanCleave, and Donnie Youngdale; seventh graders Megan Clark, Joseph Dalton, Hannah George, Nathan Hahn, Kelsi Hall, Shaylie Hall, Logan Houser, Emily Kirby, Daniel Knauss, Collin Lane, Josh Minch, Alyvia Morgan, Angie Naaman, Jacey Price, Madison Savage, Eric Smith,
Olivia Smith, Bethany Taylor, and Joselyn Whipple; and eighth graders Madison Bergren, Alicia Coffey, Krisha Conley, Billy Cribbs, Erica Davison, Shannon Ellery, Tiffany Flowers, Andrea Grasso, Kirsten Hagen, Jalen Hammond, Michael Hardman, Maddi Hatfield, Brandon Hines, Katie Huston, Rebecca Jennings, Devin Lawson, Darrian Lee, Hope Lehman, Ryan May, Colin McCaslin, Michael McKean, Tamara Modglin, Hannah Myers, Maren Orchard, Jami Parson, Tavis Rattray, Kaitlyn Rawls, Rachel Smith, Cody Stone, Brendan Thompson, Wesley Wagner, Bailey Walton, and Colleen Wells.
Many students and staff took advantage of the half-price book fair by purchasing books during the week of April 6 – 9. Book sales totaled nearly $2500 during the four day fair meaning nearly $5000 in new books are out in the DMS community. Sales increased by $1000 over the previous year’s half-price fair.
The media center prepared breakfast for the staff on April 14 in celebration of National Library Week. Several teachers won door prizes that had been donated to the media center. The prizes and their winners included: discount coupons for all staff and a certificate for an ice cream cake from Albany Dairy Dream--Mr. Reade; box of lattes from Healthy Coffee (Tracy Fenwick)—Mrs. DeNeal; Mary Kay products (Amy Fowler, Independent Beauty Consultant)—Mr. Richards; dinner for two from Pete’s Duck Inn—Mrs. Mays; three dinners for two from Texas Roadhouse—Mrs. Musselman, Mrs. Dennis, and Mrs. Studebaker.
Please let the businesses that gave donations to DMS know that you appreciate their support of our activities.