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Madison Craddock shines at art show By Anne Hart
Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett will speak to the Council of West Knox County Homeowners at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 5, at Peace Lutheran Church, 621 N. Cedar Bluff Road. The group meets for refreshments at 7:15 p.m. Afterwards, members will discuss two agenda items for the Metropolitan Planning Commission which will meet at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, June 14, at the City County Building. The first Tim Burchett is a request to rezone at Stony Point Farm. Adjacent neighborhoods include Admirals Landing, Northshore Landing and Lakeridge. The request calls for subdivision and rezoning of 2.3 acres in order to build 60 to 80 assisted living apartment units. The second is a request for Use on Review filed by Weigel’s. It seeks to put a convenience store and gas station at the corner of Westland and Ebenezer. The land is already zoned for planned commercial use. Adjacent neighborhoods may want to request use of the same lighting and signage standards that were used at Choto, according to the association announcement. Additional information is available at http://agenda. knoxmpc.org – S. Clark
Final pitch for KCS budget
The best case Dr. Jim McIntyre made for the Knox County school board’s $35 million budget increase proposal came last Friday morning, in his office, when he spoke as a daddy. “I’m the dad of two Knox County Schools students. I have a very personal stake in this.” Jake Mabe spoke to the superintendent on the eve of the big vote. See Jake’s story on page A-5
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Madison Craddock seems poised far beyond her years. When she starts describing her involvement as a student at the Community School of the Arts (CSA), she initially retains that calm and composed demeanor. But soon the pretty 15-year-old redhead transforms into a typically animated teenager as she excitedly talks about the program she has participated in for seven years. “It has helped me grow so much as a person,” she says. “It has been such a blessing. All of the teachers are so wonderful, especially Miss Willard.” She is referring to Jennifer Willard, who has been executive director of the nonprofit school since 1992, the year it was founded to provide free, quality lessons and classes in the arts to children ages 6 to 18 who might be unable to access such studies otherwise. The school now serves some 200 local children annually and was named one of the top arts and humanities-based programs in the country by the National Endowment of the Arts and the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. During her seven years at CSA, Madison has studied piano, voice, drama, creative writing, weaving and art. She says she has enjoyed each, but it is the art that landed her a coveted place in the school’s “SideBy-Side” program that matches students with professional artists in an innovative approach to learning. Artist and student work together in the artist’s studio for four to six months each school year in an
Madison Craddock, at left, a featured artist at the Community School of the Arts show at Bennett Galleries, visits with Lynn Overholt and her granddaughter, Misha Testerman, as they tour the exhibit. Photo by A. Hart apprenticeship that concludes with an art show at Bennett Galleries, where the work of the student and the artist are displayed side-byside. The program is now in its 16th year. Madison is obviously proud of the mixed media piece she created under the tutelage of artist Joyce Gralek that has been on display at Bennett. It is titled “Correction” in homage to the correction key from an old typewriter used in the piece along with other found objects. Madison explains that the background is formed of tiles covered with paper cut from magazines and other sources. Some
Hancock goes long Former Vol seeks legislative post By Betty Bean Democrat Anthony Hancock laughs off suggestions that it will take the political equivalent of a Hail Mary pass to get him elected to the District 18 state House seat next fall. He’s faced long odds before. “When I got to Tennessee, there Hancock were 15 other running backs here. I was like, ‘Wow! I’m the last on the totem pole.’ ” It was rare in those days for a freshman to play with the varsity, and although Hancock was “All-City” in Cleveland, Ohio, at Tennessee he was competing with seasoned All-Americans. He didn’t see a path to playing time, not even on the scout squad, but both his mother and his high school coach told him to stick it out. On the Monday before UT played Alabama, Hancock scored four touchdowns in a JV game against Carson-Newman. When he got back to campus, head coach John Majors and wide receivers coach Bob Harrison approached him. “Ever thought about playing wide receiver?” Majors told the freshman to suit up and practice with the varsity
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under the lights. When the traveling squad roster came out on Thursday, his name was on it (traveling squad rosters were issued for home games, and the team stayed in a hotel the night before). “All the freshmen were giving me high fives,” Hancock said. “It was great. We went to the hotel, ate prime rib, got a police escort to Neyland Stadium and I was just enjoying it. ‘That’s Bear Bryant over there. …’ I was star struck. Third quarter, Coach said, ‘Hancock, get ready.’ “For what? “They put me in. (Quarterback) Jimmy Streater was going like this (patting his head). I didn’t have a helmet. My roomie Kenny Jones, he gave me his. He was a defensive lineman and had a big old watermelon head. I’m in the huddle trying to buckle it up. They call a 19-quick screen left and I’m over there buckling up the chinstrap of a helmet that didn’t fit. “All of a sudden I realize, ‘Oh, man! That’s me! What do I do?’ “I did a Muhammad Ali shuffle, caught the ball and ran 19 yards for my first catch. I finished up with three catches for 51 yards. The next week, I scored a touchdown against Memphis State. I had seven catches my freshman year for 122 yards and was able to get out of practice by running track.” Hancock, who chose Tennessee over Ohio State (and tells a hilarious story about Majors and Woody Hayes both showing up at his high
feature scenes; others, words. The tiles are dipped in wax, which she points out makes the background of the printed areas “pop,” creating focal points that were previously so insignificant as to be unnoticeable. Despite her attraction to the visual arts, Madison says she is even fonder of musicals and is considering a career as a singer. The daughter of Kim and George Craddock, Madison has two siblings who are also in the side-by-side show at Bennett Galleries: Reagan, 13, and Laura, 11. Older sister Briana, 18, is a student at Pellissippi State. Mom Kim home-schools the
children and says of CSA: “We are so thankful for the school. It has given us so much. It is a wonderful thing for the students to have such great adult mentors.” The school year has ended for Madison Craddock, but her schedule remains full. She will leave soon for a summer mission trip to Guatemala with a group of another kind of artists: puppeteers from Central Baptist Church of Bearden. It will be Madison’s second trip with the young people, who call their troupe the “Son Light Puppeteers,” and who will entertain children in the country’s orphanages and public and private schools.
school at the same time on signing day), was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in 1982 and made a statement about Knoxville by buying his parents a home in West Hills with his signing money. That is where he and his wife, Paula, a teacher at Vine Magnet Middle School, live today. “Tennessee has been so good to me. This is my home now, and I want to give back,” he said. He spent five seasons in the NFL, all at Kansas City, and returned to Knoxville when his pro career was over. He married Paula in 1988 and wondered what was next. He applied for two jobs – one at Children’s Palace, the other with the Boy Scouts of America. The guy at Children’s Palace couldn’t believe he was interviewing Anthony Hancock. “He said, ‘Are you the Anthony Hancock who played wide receiver at UT with Willie Gault?’ I told him that Willie Gault played wide receiver with me, because I was older. “He asked if I was the Anthony Hancock who was drafted in the 11th round by the Kansas City Chiefs. I told him yes. He asked me if I was the Anthony Hancock who went back and got my degree, and I said I was. “Then he asked me what in the heck I was doing applying for a job as stock boy at Children’s Palace. I told him I needed to work. My father worked at Ford Motor Company. My mother worked. We always worked. That’s what we do.” Hancock got the job with the Boy Scouts and was put in charge of an inner city Scouting program.
“I was there for eight years and by the time I left, there were 500 kids in close to 38 inner city Scouting programs,” he said. Next, he took a job as a marketing consultant with UT’s Institute of Public Service, which got a state grant to work with small businesses through the Department of Transportation. When UT and the state parted company, he was living in Nashville and found himself out of a job. He started working as a substitute teacher and took a parttime job with parks and recreation while taking classes at night to get certified in Special Education. He returned to Knoxville and taught at Northwest Middle School, Whittle Springs Middle School and finally Bearden Middle School, where he is now. He has been teaching for nine years and has two daughters and two grandchildren. Hancock figures his life experiences, work experiences, educational experiences and the hardships he has overcome have prepared him to represent the interests of working people. “You’ve got to take it one hurdle at a time,” he said. “You hit them sometimes, you clear them sometimes, but I’m going to finish that race.” Deeply religious, Hancock relies on a passage from the Bible for inspiration: “I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through Him who gives me strength.”
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