Volume #1, Issue #10
Howe's That This here Howe Enterprise owner turned 40 last week. The milestone, coupled with retirements of two teachers that I had while attending Howe schools has made the feeling a little more dilapidated than normal. My first spanking at school (and yes I said spanking at school) came because I told my kindergarten teacher, "You ain't my momma, I don't have to mind you." Now, at the ripe young age of five, how was I to know that my momma knew Mrs. Donna Wormsbaker quite well? They even went to school together, infact. That was my first introduction to small town life. When I reached high school, I was four years removed from my last school spanking (although I had H.E.S. permanently branded on my buttocks). I knew Janie Finney well because my neighbor was her dad and step-mother. I loved them and they loved me. Because of my fear of welding, raising farm animals and basically anything that had to do with my presence in the ag barn, I took all of the computer classes I could. And when I'd taken all of those, I found myself in home economics my senior year. That's where Mrs. Finney made me carry a baby around everywhere I went for about a month or so. The small town that we live in allows for such relationships. I can somehow, strangely, call them all by first name now and it's okay. I serve on a board with one of them and I'm trying to get another one to sit with me on a different board. Teachers of Howe ISD are special and we should salute them all. These two are selfless and gave so much to our kids in this small town. I'm so blessed to have been able to have had each of them as teachers. I love them.
Monday, May 19, 2014
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Longtime teachers retiring from HISD 1968. After graduating college in 1971, she spent a few years in her early career in Pottsboro, Van Alstyne and Tom Bean but ultimately found her way back to life as a Bulldog in 1976. "I left Van Alstyne because I was pregnant and you could not teach and be pregnant so I drew unemployment. We had moved to Howe during that Donna Wormsbaker and Janie When school starts in August, time and you couldn't work Finney have each been Howe ISD will be without two in Van Alstyne if you didn't of the longest tenured employees employees at Howe ISD spanning five decades and were students at live in the school district, so in the district's history. It will they couldn't hire me back. also mark the first year since the Howe in the previous two So I went to Tom Bean. I decades. 1920's that a member of the worked there for a year and Thompson family will not be then I came to Howe." says Donna Wormsbaker was a roaming the hallways. Wormsbaker. She became graduate of Howe High School continued on Page #3
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