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Ada 4-H chapter started in 2017 already reaping benefits of success, leadership

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hen Jayme McTague first came to Ada, she had no idea what the journey she was about to embark upon had in store.

Her husband Dr. Matthew Marcus McTague had accepted a position with the Chickasaw Nation Medical Center as a general surgeon, so McTague and her two children Dani and Tyler moved to Ada in August 2014. While she was excited to raise her children in the Ada community, she was surprised that Ada had neither a 4-H or FFA program, though many of the surrounding communities did. She grew up in a small community and had been very active in both organizations.

After visiting with exhibitors at the Pontotoc County Fair, McTague visited the Pontotoc County OSU Extension offices where they immediately joined the Pontotoc County Cloverbud Program for youth ages 5-8.

“The Cloverbud program provided us with opportunities to learn more about 4-H in the county and to work closely with Becky Walker, the county extension educator, and the rest of the extension office staff,” McTague said. “For three years, we attended meetings and became acquainted with members from 4-H clubs in the surrounding areas, then in 2017, Dani turned 8 and with the help of Becky Walker, I started the Ada 4-H Club.”

While most 4-H clubs are school sponsored, the majority of the leaders are volunteers. She was fortunate to talk with Ada City School officials and was given permission to hold their monthly meetings at Washington Grade Center.

“We are very pleased to have district students participate in 4-H,” superintendent Mike Anderson said. “The 4-H club helps students build citizenship and leadership skills that will benefit them for the rest of their lives.”

The first year she had five members, but the second year the number jumped to 20, and it has only continued to grow. Though kids as young as 5 may join the Cloverbud Program – which meets the third Thursday of the month at the county extension office at 1700 N Broadway Ave. – 4-H officially begins at age 8 and the third grade, and then membership continues all the way to the collegiate level. The Ada 4-H meetings are held from 3:45-4:45 p.m. the second Monday of every month at the Washington Grade Center at 600 S. Oak Ave. and is open to all Ada City School students who meet the age requirements, though McTague said they have one 16-year-old member who drives from Tupelo to be a part of this program.

Though the program is new, it has grown quickly.

“It is not just showing animals at the county fair or cooking or sewing,” McTague said. “It is learning by doing.”

The program has evolved over time to keep pace with an everchanging world. There are now projects in leadership, public speaking, STEM, robotics and archery along with community service projects. McTague and her group take the community service projects to heart and have completed quite a few. They have made motivational signs that line the halls of Washington Grade Center. They made “bedtime bags” for the Ada Youth Shelter. They partnered with the Ada chapter of Family, Career and Community

Jayme McTague helped establish the local 4-H chapter after moving to Ada in 2014 due to her own experience participating in the club as a student. The club has already established a history of community service and achievement among its members in its first few years, and it is open to all Ada City School students.

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Leaders of America to host a toy toss to collect toys for those less fortunate and donated filled stockings to Mama T’s and the Ada Youth Shelter. They collected and donated more than 100 blankets to PAWS and made cards and ornaments for individuals in nursing homes. In addition to their own service projects, some members also partnered with other local 4-H branches to do service projects like making chew toys for PAWS, collecting coats for a coat drive and collecting pop tabs for the Ronald McDonald House.

In addition to helping the community, the Ada chapter of 4-H has been successful in other ways as well. In 2019, five of the members competed at the South East District Public Speaking Contest, winning their divisions, with four of the members traveling to Stillwater to compete in the “Be the Best in the State of Oklahoma” state-level public speaking contest where all four members were awarded first place medals. The Ada 4-H Club has also earned the top Pontotoc County Junior Participation Award winner for the last two years and the top Pontotoc County First Year Participation Award Winner in 2018. In the last two years, four Ada 4-H members have received top honors at the Pontotoc County Achievement Banquet, being awarded with a 4-H jacket.

The jacket is only presented to the top 10 percent of county members.

The success of Ada 4-H could not be possible without the support of the community, though. Cothran Development Strategies has given financial support and whenever they have had fundraisers. McTague said everyone has been very generous with their time, money and donations.

“Serving as the 4-H leader for the Ada Club has been a rewarding experience for myself,” McTague said. “4-H is more than showing farm animals – it’s empowering the youth of today to be successful for a lifetime.” www.adahub.com • 5

The Hargrave Law House arose from wanting to create a place for legal studies students to reside together to help encourage and enhance their studies. Esteemed ECU alumnus Dr. Darryl Fisher and ECU political science and legal studies professor and chair Dr. Christine Pappas collaborated on the idea.

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ECU professor, distinguished alumnus create Hargrave Law House for legal studies students

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he idea of an Inn of Court is far from new.

Going back at least until the 1500s in Great Britain – and possibly even further – an Inn of Court was a place where lawyers would stay on their travels, meet up and discuss their cases and the law in general. The idea of an Inn of Court has been around as long as lawyers have existed, said Dr. Christine Pappas, chair and professor of political science and legal studies at East Central University.

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Pappas as an educator was most intrigued by was the possibility of mentorship within the Inn of Court culture. This is what led to a fortunate conversation with Dr. Darryl Fisher one evening, culminating in the founding of the Hargrave Law House.

Pappas had been invited by Dr. John Hargrave to attend a dinner at Fisher’s home. During dinner, she was talking to him about how to develop a mentoring relationship between older students and younger students as well as bringing in the past graduates of ECU’s highly successful legal studies program. She mentioned her desire to have a house that was dedicated solely for the purpose of legal studies to

provide a place for these future lawyers to live and learn together, encouraging each other in their own pursuits. It wasn’t long after that dinner conversation that Pappas received a call one day from Fisher, saying, “Dr. Pappas, I have bought a house.”

Fisher – one of ECU’s most esteemed alumni and donors – knew the importance of following your dreams. Many students at ECU are first generation college students, as was Fisher. After an illustrious career that continues to flourish, Fisher wanted to give back to those students who could use it the most, and he was in a position to help.

Fisher graduated from ECU in 1960

with degrees in chemistry and biology before he went to medical school at the University of Oklahoma. He had surgical training at Johns Hopkins, spent five years as a professor of surgery at Vanderbilt University and then was a heart surgeon in Oklahoma City for 25 years. However, while he was a practicing surgeon, he was also taking law classes at Oklahoma City University, graduating with his law degree in 1989. He retired from his surgical practice in 1994 and then practiced law for ten years. He has also published a couple medical thriller novels and owns Oklahoma Heritage Bank as well as a real estate company.

It was a culmination of all these ventures that gave him the opportunity and the will to help these future lawyers.

As a life-long student, Fisher was more than happy to help young students who want nothing more than to eat, sleep and breathe their legal studies, though he insisted the house be named after former ECU President Hargrave.

The house has four suites, each named for a Supreme Court Justice: Ginsberg, Marshall, Rehnquist and Sotomayor. There is a front porch and a backyard where the students can gather and discuss or just unwind. They also have a fully-equipped kitchen and spacious dining room. In addition to the students being able to live together and discuss their studies, Pappas and other legal program alumni have dinner with the current students regularly.

This gives the students a chance to get to know practicing lawyers on a personal and professional level.

The Law House gives students an extra opportunity to reach their goals and dreams, on top of the already excellent legal studies and political science department. Already, the department has a 100 percent acceptance rate to law school with 17 in law school currently.

“Since I came here in 2001, I have had the opportunity to mentor 56 lawyers from undergraduate through law school,” Pappas said.

Enough time has passed that these former students are beginning to become partners in their law firms and judges.

Thankfully, they remember their roots, and when Pappas calls needing something for the department, they answer. In fact, the program has been so successful that Oklahoma City University is offering motivated students a chance to participate in a prestigious program, automatically

admitting them into law school with a 3.5 GPA and 150 on the LSAT. These students participate in the 3+3 agreement, which means three years of undergraduate study at ECU and then three years of law school at OCU, culminating in their law degree by the time they are twenty-four.

After a single semester, the Hargrave Law House has been such a success that Fisher bought another house for the master’s program in water resource policy and management, which will be open and ready to go at the beginning of the spring semester.

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New Konawa band director helping restore program’s excellence

By Sunnie Dawn Smith

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ven though Konawa is a small school in the communities surrounding Ada, it has a tradition of exceptional bands.

However, three years ago when then-band director Donny Longest retired, it took a toll on the program.

This fall, Konawa schools brought in a new band director, Konnor Robertson, with fresh ideas, and the program is on the way to returning to its traditions of excellence.

Though Konawa is a small school with a graduating class of 50 this past year, the band’s performance has traditionally exceeded expectations.

For many years, they received Superior ratings at many of their competitions. They also received multiple Sweepstakes awards, which recognizes receipt of Superior ratings in the OSSAA Marching Band and Concert Band competitions over the course of a school year. This year, Robertson was brought in fresh out of Oklahoma Baptist University, and the program has already started to rebound from the retirement of the previous director. They received Superior ratings from all three judges at the OSSAA Marching Band competition.

Band members are looking forward to the Concert Band competition in the spring and a possible return to their sweepstakes of old.

Robertson attributes his success to those around him, though.

“The Konawa Band program is still on its way to being at the level it used to be,” he said. “I’m blessed to have great students, great community support and great administra-

tion. With those three things, I think the program will be back in no time.”

For Robertson, becoming a band director was the logical choice. He became involved with music through band, starting in fifth grade where he learned to play the trumpet.

When he was a student, band was always his favorite class.

“I had many different band directors through the years, and some of them really showed me the importance of band as well as the positive impact a band director can have on students,” he said.

Robertson got a call from the administration at Konawa this past summer, right after he graduated from OBU, asking him if he would like to interview for the position.

Though this was his first job as a band director, he had exceptional experience as a studentteacher working with Kathy Eby at Prague, who is in the Oklahoma Bandmasters Hall of Fame, and Nick Noble at Dale, who is being inducted into the Oklahoma Music Educators Association Hall of Fame later this month. Though Robertson attributes his success to his students, community and administration, it can also be attributed to his excellent education, mentorship, fresh ideas and enthusiasm.

“It is a joy to make great music with exceptional young people,” Robertson said. “I also get to learn about the students and their lives and have the chance to impact them in a positive way before they move on to adulthood. I’m just trying to give my students the opportunity and the tools to be

In his first semester as band director at Konawa, Konnor Robertson helped his group achieve a Superior rating from all three judges at the OSSAA Marching Band competition, a rating the school regularly received under former director, Donny Longest, until his retirement three years ago.

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successful at what they do.”

This journey can also have its difficulties, but Robertson even sees positive growth through the challenges. He has to get his students used to doing difficult things and realize that even hard tasks can help them grow. This is something that can help make them not just better musicians but also more well-adjusted adults.

Robertson is passionate about music education, both as a teacher and as a former student. As a young band director, he is not that far away from his own student experience, and that helps him connect with the students and empathize with their experiences.

“Being involved in music has been shown to help students academically as well as giving students an outlet for emo-

tion,” Robertson said. “Students can express themselves with the instrument they learn and the music they play. Not only does music offer all of this, but being in band offers students a family as well.”

In a single semester, Robertson seems on track to return the Konawa band to its former glory, and it will be exciting to see what happens in the future. While his 28 students in the high school band may be smaller than some, they are capable of doing great things.

With a new crop of beginning band students every year in fifth grade, he will be able to mold the future of the Konawa band into something that not only performs great music but produces great people with a strong support system. www.adahub.com • 9

St. Joseph’s Catholic Church offers ‘An Appetizing Arrangement’

By Sunnie Dawn Smith

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t. Joseph’s Catholic Church has a history that goes back to 1902, though the new church was consecrated in 1963.

Throughout the years, the parishioners of St. Joseph’s have been active in the Ada community as a whole, committing their time and resources to many different service projects.

The church itself also supports many programs, such as the Crisis Pregnancy Center. However, after more than five decades, while the mission of the church and its members may be as active as ever, the church itself is aging and in much need of repairs.

“Many things around the physical plant need to be fixed up and replaced, so we need funds to do that,” said Sarah Catalano, one of the organizers of St. Joseph’s upcoming fundraiser.

In addition to replacing and fixing the aging infrastructure, they also sponsor youth and adults in faith-building activities.

Organizers didn’t want to just have a regular fundraiser. They wanted to do something more than a bake sale or a rummage sale. They decided that, instead, they would do a dinner theater they are calling “An Appetizing Arrangement.”

The event will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 29 and consists of a sit-down dinner with musical entertainment by their church choir and musical parishioners along with a silent auction, bake sale and some other surprises.

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Organizers of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church’s “An Appetizing Arrangement” are planning an evening of good food and entertainment at 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 29 to help provide a time for the community to get together for some fun while also helping raise funds for much-needed repairs at the church and its social programs.

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ed and involved,” Catalano said.

“We wanted to do something fun and different to bring our church family closer together, along with the Ada community, to celebrate the outstanding musicians, cooks and other talented we have among us.”

In addition to the delicious food and outstanding entertainment, a silent auction will also showcase some of the treasures that Ada has to offer. Anyone who has anything they would like to donate should contact Catalano at saracatalano1@ gmail.com.

This event promises to be more than just dinner. There are many skilled musicians in the Ada area who will be volunteering their time and talents for this cause. Not only will it truly be a community event – giving people a chance to sit together, eat, enjoy and socialize in a fun atmosphere – its reach will extend into the community as well, allowing the church to continue to support many local

social programs that help those in need as well as supporting their own parishioners in their spiritual advancement.

One example of something St. Joseph’s does for its junior high and high school youth is a journey to the Steubenville Catholic Youth Conference every summer. This takes place in Springfield, Missouri, and gives their teens an opportunity to be around thousands of other Catholic youth and participate in, as Catalano calls it, “an experience that is unique and rejuvenating for them.” It can be a life-changing experience for some of the teens and allows them to come back to the Ada community ready to help their community and those in need.

“An Appetizing Arrangement” gives people in the community a chance to have a great meal with excellent entertainment at a very reasonable cost. People who attend will get more than a nice evening out, though. They will also get the satisfaction of

helping repair the infrastructure of one of the oldest institutions in Ada. When the parish was first founded in 1902, the congregation met in an individual’s home.

It wasn’t until 1916 that they had a concrete block building on Hope Street. In 1948, they constructed their first parish hall. The structural history of St. Joseph’s Catholic church is long and varied, as a group of people have worked hard to make sure they have their own adequate space to worship. This fundraiser is the next step in this process, allowing them to bring their current building up to date and continue flourishing and helping the community in the future.

Tickets are $25 and can be purchased in advance from two of the organizers: Carol Naberhaus at (580) 759-5066 or carolnaberhaus@gmail.com or Anne Fine at (580) 279-4701 or anne.e.fine@gmail.com

ECU grad student takes on director role for critically-acclaimed musical

By Sunnie Dawn Smith

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very year, the theater department at East Central University puts together a musical for the community to enjoy. This year, one of the graduate students at ECU has the opportunity to direct the musical, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” Makaila Marie Rodriguez was honored when ECU professor of musical theater Vickie Reifsnider asked if she wanted to direct it as a part of her master’s degree program.

Rodriguez graduated from ECU in 2018 with a Bachelor of Science with a concentration in musical performance. She decided that she wanted to continue her studies and is working on a Master of Education with a concentration in music. While tackling a musical may be a daunting task, Rodriguez feels prepared and excited for the challenge ahead.

“I feel that my education has helped prepare me for this challenge by giving me wonderful professors to lean on when I am unsure of the next steps,” Rodriguez said. “Vickie Reifsnider has been my rock through this process thus far, and I know she will be there to continue to support me.”

Though this is Rodriguez’s debut as a director for a full length musical, she has been involved in theater for much of her life. She has taken on roles both on and off stage, working as a backstage manager, prop manager, assistant costume manager, musical director and co-directed a children’s musical a few years ago. She loves the unique connections that she makes with the cast and crew when working on a musical.

“We work together for such a long period of time, and work towards a single goal that just brings people together,” Rodriguez said. “Of course, rehearsal time can be difficult to plan – working around everyone’s busy schedules – but the joys definitely outweigh the challenges.”

Though putting a musical together is hard work, dealing with sets, costumes, props and acting as well as the added challenges of music and choreography, Rodriguez is excited to see all of their hard work come together to put on a good show that audiences will thoroughly enjoy.

“This musical is funny and a different musical than Ada has ever seen before,” she said. “I want Ada to fall in love with this musical as much as I have.”

“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” is definitely unlike most musicals performed in Ada. Written by William Finn, this musical debuted on Broadway in 2005 to critical acclaim.

As indicated by the title, this musical is about a group of middle school students from all over the region coming together to compete in the annual county spelling bee, with a chance at going to the national spelling bee.

“Throughout the show, each character has to overcome an obstacle,” Rodriguez said. “People will enjoy this show with its … connection with the characters.”

The cast of nine characters are central to this musical, and everyone has their chance to shine and develop their own characters’ personalities. Casting was easy for Rodriguez, because as

Makaila Marie Rodriguez is helming East Central University’s production of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” as her directorial debut. She is currently working on her Master of Education with a concentration in music after receiving her bachelor’s degree in musical performance in 2018.

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they were auditioning, she could hear exactly which character would fit their voice and personality. In the end, the students who were cast were Will Brock, Isabella Roan, Zach Smith, Phillip Newcomer, Summer Pearce, Annabelle Elliott, Allie Bush, Teagan Williams and Malik Sharp.

While a spelling bee can be a relatively mundane occurrence for some people to engage in when they are young, it can also be larger than life to others individuals involved. This is one thing that makes it such an interesting starting point for a musical.

“I absolutely love musical theater because you can be anyone, anywhere and anytime,” Rodriguez said. “You get the chance to escape the world and become anyone you would ever imagine. I love the idea of just breaking out in song during the middle of a sentence. There is nothing better than a wonderful musical.”

Anyone can break into a song during a musical, even in the middle of a spelling bee.

Members of the community will have three opportunities to see “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” It will be performed in the Ataloa Theater in the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center on the ECU campus. Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 14-15 and 2 p.m. on Feb. 16. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for kids and free for ECU students. www.adahub.com • 11

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