Talk of the Neighborhood: Local achievements and honors for May 30, 2010
Talk of the Neighborhood highlights Central Texans’ achievements.
* Class Acts *
* Cody Dulock, a 2008 graduate of Connally High School, recently finished a spring internship for U.S. Rep. Michael McMahan, D-Staten Island/Brooklyn. Dulock is a sophomore majoring in government and politics at Wagner College in New York City.
He has been on the dean’s list every semester. In April, Dulock was one of five Wagner undergraduates chosen to attend the Clinton Global Initiative University at the University of Miami and listened to former President Bill Clinton talk about issues in today’s world.
He is the son of Bryan and Paula Dulock of Lorena and Candace and Terry Lester of McGregor. His grandaparents are Richard and Sue Wilshire of Elm Mott.
* Midway High School students Katie Puryear and Scotti Geiger won awards in the 2010 Photo Contest co-sponsored by Jostens and Wolfe’s Camera.
Puryear, a senior, and Geiger, a sophomore, were among 103 winners selected from more than 8,000 contest entries nationwide.
Geiger’s photo of a pair of shoes on an interesting background placed second in the pictorial category of the contest. Geiger is the staff artist for The Panther Post student newspaper.
Puryear’s photo of the marching band earned an honorable mention in the student life category of the contest. Puryear is the faculty chapter editor of the yearbook.
* Applause *
* Jillian Leann Mason of West was crowned “Baby Miss Division Supreme 2010” at the America’s Cover Miss & Cover Boy USA state beauty pageant in Dallas in April.
With the title, her entry fee is paid for the national contest in Daytona Beach, Fla., in July.
Jillian competed against babies up to 1 year old. In addition to the overall pageant honor, she won in the categories of most beautiful, prettiest eyes, best formalwear, best overall fashion, glitz photogenic, natural photogenic, outfit of choice, red, white and blue, and she was first runner-up in casual wear.
She is the daughter of Kristie and Sam Mason. Her older brothers are Coy and Riley Schier. Grandparents are Garry and Patricia Drews and the late Connie Drews, all from West, and Debbie and Jim Mason of Mankato, Minn. Great-grandparents are Dorothy Zahirniak of West, Lillian Mason of Mankato, Minn., and Irene and Mike Wassermann of Temple.
* The Rev. Delvin Atchison, pastor of Antioch Missionary Baptist Church of Waco, is the Cen-Tex African American Chamber of Commerce’s Citizen of the Month for May.
Atchison is one of six children born to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Atchison Jr. of Hearne. He received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from St. Thomas Christian College and Seminary in Florida in 2004 and is pursuing a Master’s of Divinity at George W. Truett Seminary at Baylor.
In a 25-year ministry, he has been pastor at churches in Crockett, Cameron and Branchville.
A founding member and chairman of the Black Student Association of Truett Seminary, he is chair of the Black Pastors Roundtable.
He and his wife, Brenda, have four children.
* Doug Matous and Derek Lewis, Heart of Texas Electric Cooperative employees in Rosebud, were recognized with the Texas Electric Cooperative Life Saving Award at the Loss Control Conference in Austin.
They saved the life of coworker Bradley Bishop, who had come in contact with a 7,200-volt live conductor.
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