OurGunter - September 2019

I was sitting down on the field last night trying to get a few close up pictures of football. When I turned around, I noticed how gorgeous the sky was and how full the crowd was. I thought, “This is what it means to live in Gunter, Texas.�

-Hailey Wilde, GHS junior

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FEATURED Preserving Family History

Letter from Publishers 2019-2020 GISD Staff New GISD Staff Introduction Homecoming Information Gunter History: Preserving Family History School Zone: Letter from Dr. Jill Siler School Zone: September 2019 Calendar RYLA Camp Gunter Library Programs & Information Gunter Library Calendar On The Cover: Fans at the first home game of the 2019 Gunter Tiger football season. Photo by: GHS junior, Hailey Wilde

OURGUNTER H ISTORY | V ALUES | F UTURE

September 2019 VOL 1, Issue 7 Published By 4CMEDIAGROUP, LLC Editorial & Design Renee Marler Renee@4cMediaGroup.com Production Jimmy Marler James@4cMediaGroup.com Contributing Writers Juanita Hazelton | Jackie Kruzie | Jill Siler | Chris Dodd Contributing Art & Photography 4CMEDIAGROUP Marion Cole | Juanita Hazelton | Hailey Wilde | Jill Siler | GISD Editorial Submissions Please send editorial considerations to Renee@4CMEDIAGROUP.com Advertising Information Contact us at

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Letter From The Publishers We survived the start of school and we are now immersed in all things fall, such as football lights on Friday nights! We are excited to be staring off the 2019-2020 school year with you and can’t wait to see what this year has in store for all 1000+ students in GISD! We appreciate each and every one of you! We also want you to know that WE CARE about you and pray OurGunter is a representation of our true dedication to this community.

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Join us as we welcome these new staff members to GISD!

2019-2020 GISD Faculty & Staff

2019-20 Convocation started the school year off with a clear vision for the future!

Dr. Siler called roll, introduced our newest Tiger faculty, honored the five year pin recipients, and then handed the mic over to our awesome Teachers of the Year who made our vision clear. They shared stories from their hearts that touched each and every person in the room.

Special thanks to our School Board President, Scott Meyerdirk for welcoming us with encouraging words, and to the GHS Chamber Choir for opening our ceremony with the National Anthem. Also thank you to Boy Scout Troop #3 and Girl Scout Troop #4746 for presenting the flags.

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OF CHAMPIONS Dress Up Days

Monday – Party Like it’s 1999 Tuesday – Groovin’ Like the 80’s Wednesday – Disco Day Thursday – Greasin’ 50’s Friday – Tigers Through the Decades * Dress up days are for all campuses

GHS Homecoming Dance Friday, October 4th After the game until midnight GHS Commons Parade Notes

Parade start time is 2:30.

- Route: Leaving from GISD Admin > Pecan Street > directly to GHS - All floats will go through Stadium Drive (without stopping) and end up in the band parking lot - We will unload all students in the Band Parking Lot

Wednesday It all begins at 6 PM! Tailgate Party Food and Fun! Community Pep Rally Cheers! Dances! Entertainment!

Homecoming Court Introductions! GT Lighting!

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Friday 1:00 pm - Early Release 1:45 pm - Parade Line Up 2:30 pm - Parade 4:00 pm - Volleyball Action 5:00 pm - Annual BBQ Supper (Sponsored by the sophomore class)

7:00 pm - Coronation 7:30 pm - Football Kickoff

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P r ese r v i n g By: Juanita Hazelton

F a m i l y H i s t or y

Merrill’s brother Valton Hazelton who was born in 1932, graduated from Gunter High School.

He often includes bits of history in his Facebook. These are a few of his memories: “Long ago and far away on what is now a vacant lot, my father owned a Gunter Street Scene coal yard, feed store, and feed mill just across from the Froggy Bottom Café and Dance Hall. To pull his feed mill, my father depended on used automobile motors.

When an old farmer brought a load of corn up to be ground, his son was scooping the load into the mill hopper when he threw a fourpound steel cotton pea” (a balance from the scales) “in with the corn…the hammer mill became fragments and a large piece of the scale weight pierced the Chevy engine behind which Uncle Felix crouched. They purchased a new mill and bought a wrecked Stutz Bearcat with a good engine. Bearcats had a duel ignition system like a small airplane. Daddy thought plugs fired every other time, could not get it to run, and eventually had to conscript G. W. Taylor, who later owned The Taylor Tank Company, to fire the fellow up.

Today you may see a house for sale with three bedrooms and more than one bath. When I was a kid, houses often had two rooms and a path. Many people bathed in a number three wash tub in the kitchen because it was the warmest room and water was heated on the kitchen stove. My brother and I often went down to a little pool on Squirrel Creek under Rattlesnake Bluff after a sweaty day to chase away the near billy goat smell of dairy farm labor. We had Mama buy us Ivory soap because it would float if we dropped it in the pool.

One day my neighbor told me that he was in the kitchen in the wash tub scrubbing the bod when his older sister yelled, “Cover up your eyes, John, I’m coming in.” Lots of things have changed since way back then.

Before the advent of electricity in the thirties, the South used candle holders with clips for the branches to light their Christmas trees.

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With the coming of the power, people switched to strings of electric lights. My folks had one little string of lights for the tree but would not leave it on for long periods because they feared it would run up the bill. We kids had some of the clips that my grandmother gave to Farmers State Bank in Gunter us for toys. Christmas trees were not widely sold, so the rural folk cut their own. Sherman had what they called a jockey yard, similar to a community yard sale, where people came to “jockey” for merchandise. I remember seeing a fellow selling “woods cut trees” there one time out of a wagon.

Hamlet said, “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” I have personally never seen a ghost, but who am I to rule them out. When I was a kid, we lived across the road from an old “falling apart” Gunter College girls’ dormitory. Our house was the old boys’ dormitory which had been a two-story building, badly damaged by a tornado, and restored as a story and a half dwelling. Vagrants lived in the old girls’ dormitory and a little lady about twelve years old from there used to come sit in our yard with us and tell the scarcest and best ghost stories a body ever heard.

I came along just at the end of the horse farming day as illustrated by my memories of Main Street in Gunter, Texas. There was Streetman Hardware, Dr. Bounds’ drug store, a north-south street that went down to the Wallace gin, Gunter Hatchery and Feed Store, and Gunter Lake, an empty Gunter Bank building, Buck Autry’s grocery store (who was Gene’s cousin,) a couple of empty lots, and Gunter Business Advertising Tuck Taylors’s mule barn. In a

few years the mule barn became Joe Bennett’s Allis Chalmers tractors dealership.

Gunter, Texas

Grain was cut and bundled by binders, often drawn by horses; laborers put the bundles in shocks to let it dry. After it dried, a separator came to the field. Bundle wagons brought the shocks to the thrasher, powered by a long belt from a tractor. About the time I started to school, my brother and I became interested in grain harvests in early summer and would sit at edge of the yard in front of our old house listening and watching for the parade. Most of the equipment had steel wheels, making them easy to hear. When the bundle wagons started passing, we sat on the grass in front of our house and counted them--the more wagons, the bigger the separator. First came the bundle wagons, and a cook shack, we hoped for a steam engine, necessitating a water wagon, then the old thrasher pulled by a steam engine.

One of civilization’s problems has always been preserving its food supply. When I was young, many people did not have refrigerators or ice boxes. We lived in two places in East Texas, one of which did not have electricity, but we had no ice box or refrigerator in either place. My parents got a Leonard refrigerator near the start of WW II to store baby formula, but I had an ice box when I first married, and an iceman delivered a block of ice two or three times a week. Like hard tack, drying fruit is a way to preserve it, so my father bought a lug of dried prunes in a wooden box which became my booster seat at the dining table; but my sister came up a little in the world and sat on a Skoohum apple box for her repasts.

In the thirties, ninety percent of the city folk and ten percent of the country dwellers had electricity. The power companies said it was too expensive to run lines to remote farms just for lights, and beside that, the country bumpkins couldn’t afford it anyway. In 1935 the first Rural Electric Association law was passed as part of the New Deal; and Lyndon Johnson, who was from an area with no electricity, was elected to the House of Representatives in 1937 with the idea of bringing power to the people and forwarding the REA. When he was elected as a senator in 1948 his constituents were “on line.”

I attended a church near Red River that had no electricity. The walls had little niches in them for Coleman gasoline lanterns with reflectors placed behind them for night activities. They were fueled and pumped up before the service with people designated to take care of them during the meeting. I only lived at one place that did not have an electrical connection. Mama had an old kick start Maytag washing machine which featured water drawn form a well.”

Do you have special memories of growing up in a different world than our modern electronic, electrified, time of instant communication? Please use a little of our modern technology to record it for your children and others. Gunter Library & Museum would love to have a copy of it.

All photos were taken by Charles Elmer Carruth. He was a photographer in Denton for over 50 years. He lived in the Gunter-Weston area before WWI. He and his wife Thelma Mae Ketterman Carruth were residents of Hilltop Haven. Copies of these pictures were given to Debbie McFarling when she worked at Hilltop Haven, who gave the pictures to the Gunter Library & Museum.

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SCHOOL ZONE Dear Tiger Family, It has been a wonderful start to the school year! Car lines are getting shorter, student transitions are getting quicker and I’ve seen nothing but smiles as I’ve gone campus to campus. As our students are now off and running, I want to take a moment to touch base about a more serious issue that is gripping our nation’s youth: vaping.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention released news this past week that it has identified 153 cases of severe lung disease associated with vaping across 16 states, including Texas from June 28, 2019 to August 20, 2019. That was an increase from 94 cases just 4 days earlier.

You may be wondering why this is being sent as an all-district communication and not just for our older students & parents. Not only is this epidemic starting younger and younger with our youth, this is an education piece that needs to start EARLY. I have seen in my generation the near eradication of cigarette smoking amongst youth. Our parents fought hard to teach their kids about the dangers of smoking and it worked. And then without us even realizing, we lost the war on nicotine almost overnight through vaping: Because of kid-centric flavors like cotton candy, mango, mint or flavors mimicked after their favorite cereal; due to the major vaping companies paying social media “influencers” to promote it as the thing to do; and because the devices themselves look like innocuous USB drives and are able to be hidden (and inhaled) virtually undetected.

One of the challenges to this vaping epidemic is that it does not discriminate. This is not an issue where only a handful of troubled kids are taking part. As one parent shared with us, “I’ve been told by many parents that they don’t believe their child is or would (use a vape). I can tell you that many of them are. I can tell you that there’s a good chance that your smart, kind, sweet or seemingly innocent kid that is never in trouble has tried it, or worse - is doing it.” The FDA’s 2019 report notes that the number of teens vaping increased 78% in one year; 21% of all teens reported vaping. And before you think this is a high school only statistic, the percent of Middle School students is also on the rise jumping 48% in just this past year. And honestly, we feel like these statistics are lower than reality.

This is an issue not just in schools across our nation; this is an issue in OUR Gunter ISD schools.

We updated our Student Code of Conduct last year to include disciplinary consequences for vaping ranging from multiple days in ISS to removal from our campuses and placement in DAEP. But I want to caution ourselves in thinking that discipline is the sole answer in this issue. One tiny JUUL pod has the equivalent nicotine as an entire pack of cigarettes, and our young people have been known to vape multiple pods a day. This issue isn’t just about kids making poor choices; it is about addiction. And our response needs to be reflective of that. We are looking at this issue with a wide lens to include prevention through education and public awareness, detection systems, disciplinary consequences, and support for nicotine addiction.

Last year we started a districtwide Vaping Awareness Committee made up of teachers, leaders, support staff, counselors and nurses and brainstormed ways to reach kids about this topic. We joined together with multiple districts in our area to host an “Escape the Vape” week-long regional event where teachers developed learning experiences around vaping and we shared vaping facts through announcements and social media and hosted a vaping essay contest. We also brought in nationally renowned author and speaker, Robb Holladay, to host a parent seminar and campus assemblies to share the truth around this epidemic. But we know that’s just the start.

We will be continuing these efforts but we NEED your help! We need your help at home in having conversations with your children (young and old) about the dangers of vaping and in being mindful of what vaping paraphernalia look like and smell like. I’ve included several resources below to help on that end. We are also establishing a community task-force to change our statistics in Gunter ISD. We want leaders, parents, teachers, police, community health professionals, and our students to come together to help develop strategies to prevent and stop vaping in our schools and homes. We hope you will join us in these efforts. To take a role in this work, please drop an email taskforce@gunterisd.org.

I know this is not the most pleasant topic to start off the year with, but with the sobering news from the CDC this past weekend and hearing our own campus principals share their concerns about what they’re seeing and hearing already, the reality is that Gunter ISD is not immune to this epidemic. Please partner with us to find the best ways to deter kids from making this choice.

Sincerely, Dr. Jill Siler Gunter ISD Superintendent 903.433.4750 jsiler@gunterisd.org 10

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September 2019 GISD CAMPUS CALENDARs GUNTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Sept 19 Sept 21 Sept 25 Oct 2 Oct 4 Oct 5

Board Meeting Dining with Disney GHS Picture Day Homecoming Tailgate Homecoming Sounds of Marching Contest

GUNTER HIGH SCHOOL Sept 19 Sept 21 Sept 25 Oct 2 Oct 4 Oct 5

Board Meeting Dining with Disney GHS Picture Day Homecoming Tailgate Homecoming Sounds of Marching Contest

GUNTER MIDDLE SCHOOL Sept 16 Sept 19

Sept 21 Sept 23 Sept 26 Sept 30 Oct 2 Oct 3

MS Volleyball vs Pottsboro @ Gunter JH Football @ Pilot Point Board Meeting Dining with Disney MS Volleyball Tournament @ VA (7A/8A) JH Football @ Nocona MS Volleyball @ Howe Homecoming Tailgate JH Football vs S&S @ Gunter

Schedules subject to change, please check website and/or social media for updates www.gunterisd.org/calendars

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RYLA CAMP By: Chris Dodd

Our campus focus again this school year is to promote, preserve, and protect a culture of excellence that has propelled our district to prominence. We strive to elevate our students by instilling in them self-confidence, engaging them in purposeful instruction for life, and empowering them by providing opportunities to lead. We are very intentional to utilize our talented staff and students and encourage them to cultivate initiatives for growth in their programs and classrooms. The staff and students are responding!

One of our best campus ventures is to annually send students to RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Academy) camp. This week long event, sponsored by Rotary International, takes the best and brightest seniors from around the state and places them in a boot-camp setting, where they prepare to leave a lasting mark on their campuses during their final nine months as a member of their high school community. The students leave camp physically and emotionally exhausted but chiseled into young campus leaders understanding the value of selflessness, empathy, and equipped with an encouraging spirit.

No one comes home the same.

We have been very blessed to send a contingency of students for the last decade and many of them re-up as graduates to serve as advisory staff and counselors. Recent Gunter RYLA participants have parlayed their experiences into an Air Force Academy appointment, admittance to Duke University, MIT, Austin College Honors program, and a spot on a Division One Cheer squad. Others are on their way to med school, law school, and even working the hallways as educators.

Seniors Schuyler Marshall, Keely Ward, and Kara Curtis represented the Ambush at this year’s camp. The trio embraces the concept of leadership through service. They are model students and involve themselves in community venture.

Keely Ward, daughter of Tim and Janelle Ward, moved to Gunter in eighth grade. The entire family quickly embraced the concept of “involvement”. Keely is a member of the Chamber Choir, HOSA, Student Council, and NHS. She is an avid reader and often is found with her nose in a book. Keely is undecided on her college destination but plans to major in Pre-Med or molecular/cellular biology in route to a career in pediatric oncology. Keely shares that, “RYLA provided an experience that taught me different ways I could become a more effective leader, and that anyone has the capability of stepping up to take hold of that role. I have become more independent and confident in my capabilities as a leader, and hope that I can continue to bring my acquired knowledge to other aspects of my life in order to teach those around me the significance of being a strong, dependable leader others look up to.”

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Schuyler Marshall exudes personality. He is the son of Doctors Winston and DeAnn Marshall and twin brother of William. Schuyler has been a Gunter Tigers for six years. Everyone knows that he is heading to Texas A&M because he only sports Aggie colors and swag.

He plans to study computer science and eventually earn an MBA. Schuyler will manage a software company. He is a member of the Tiger Tech Team (T3), a student IT program that provides much needed technical assistance to our students and staff. Schuyler is also a leader in the NHS and Student Council programs. He is a paint-ball enthusiast and competes in league play in the Metroplex. Schuyler writes of his RYLA experience that it was, “one of the most life changing weeks in my life. The activities pushed me out of my comfort zone and showed me that sometimes you have to take huge risks for the things you want in life. I grew so much during this week and if anyone has the chance to go to RYLA, or is even questioning it, go for it!”

Kara Curtis, daughter of Bill and Nicole Curtis, is currently the top ranked student in a very large and competitive class of 2020. Richmond University is tops on her list because of its standout Pre-Law program. Kara plans on majoring in International Political Economics.

She is going to practice corporate law. Kara has been a Gunter Tiger for five years and participates in Chamber Choir, Golf, NHS, Academic UIL Literary Criticism, UIL Social Studies, HOSA, and Girl Scouts.

Kara recently completed her Gold Star project, the equivalent to an Eagle Scout program. She renovated several classrooms used for dual credit. Kara lived with a family in Panama during the summer of 2017 and attended high school there. The trip gave her a unique perspective and a greater appreciation of foreign culture, in addition to life at home. Kara explains that, “RYLA really helped me understand when, as a leader, it is your responsibility to be at the front of the group telling people what to do, and when it is more beneficial to lead from behind. I realized that sometimes raising others up into those ‘in charge’ positions and helping them realize their vision can help you create a more productive group. In short, RYLA taught me that to be a team player, sometimes the best thing you can do is take a step back and think about how to promote leadership in others.”

We are thankful to our local Preston Trails Rotary Club for providing the opportunity of a lifetime for these Seniors. They returned “different” and the people around them can see their growth mind-set by how they lead on campus.

And for that reason, Keely, Schuyler, and Kara are our Tiger Times Students of the Month for September!

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The Gunter Library and Museum has been a part of the Gunter community for sixteen years.

We are a 501 c3 non profit Library with volunteers who give their time and talents to serve our area’s business, academic, imagination, and reading needs. Visit us 110 S. Hwy 289 (next to the donut shop) and take advantage of our services • Books in print/audio/e-books/DVDs • Storytime, STEAM, and kids Summer Reading programs • Book Club • Free wifi and computer access with printer and fax services • Visit our museum and featuring artifacts, picture, and stories about the history of Gunter

September is Library Card Sign-up Month and to celebrate GLM is giving away a new Kindle Fire! Anyone who signs up for a library card, or uses their existing card, during the month of September will be entered into a drawing. The more you visit the library, the more chances to win. Winner will be announced on October 1st.

During the month of October GLM will be hosting another Window Painting Contest, this time with a Halloween theme. We had so much fun during our Easter Contest and loved seeing beautiful creations that we just had to do it again. Follow us on Facebook for more information.

NEW EQUIPMENT AT THE LIBRARY:

GLM has purchased a new Cricut machine that is available for use during library hours. Users must bring their own materials as the library will not have materials on hand. Those interested in learning to use the machine can join our Cricut Class on Sunday September 8 from 2-4 pm at the library. Class is $40.00 and includes 3 take home projects.

The library has also purchased the latest version of Photoshop Elements. The program can be used to create and edit images and is available on a first come first served basis.

We hope these new additions to the library will benefit local entrepreneurs, hobbyists, and those who are interested in learning new skills. The purchase of these programs has been made possible by a grant awarded to the library by the Tocker Foundation.

The library needs your help! We are short on volunteers and are seeking friendly community members to cover four-hour shifts on the 1st Wednesday and 2nd Friday of each month. If you are able to dedicate your time to the library, please contact our Volunteer Coordinator, Sue Stratton, at susiestratton55@gmail.com Our library is growing in leaps and bounds and we are honored to provide resources and services that better our community.

See you at the library!

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September 2019 Gunter Library Calendar of Events September 3

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September 5

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September 10

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Story Time

September 12

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September 17

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Story Time

September 19

Thursday

4:30 pm

STEM

September 24

Tuesday

10:30 am

Story Time

September 26

Thursday

4:30

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Stay current on all library events and activities by visiting us at gunterlibrary.com Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!

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