Williams replaces Bowling; Doty replaces Williams...again

With former Assistant Superintedent Ritchie Bowling accepting the superintendent position at Maypearl ISD recently, it created an opening and Howe ISD chose to remain loyal and fill the position by promoting a qualified administrator from within That role swap created another administration opening and it also was filled by a qualified administrator already employed by the ISD. And for the record, this is the second time that Bowling's progress has affected these same two administrators

Darla Williams has been the elementary principal for the past five years and she was promoted to fill the position of assistant superintendent To fill the elementary school principal role is Clarissia Doty, who has been the assistant elementary principal for the past five years

Five years ago, Bowling was promoted to assistant superintendent from elementary principal. That moved Williams to elementary principal and Doty into Dean of Students.

If all of this happens again, in five years, Williams will be the superintendent at Maypearl and Doty will be assistant superintendent here

Doty, the former Clarissia Farrer, attended Howe ISD from kindergarten through graduation Her fondest memories of being a student in the same building that she's now the principal was square dancing in Mrs Wormsbaker's kindergarten class Between Wormsbaker, Texanna Norman and Gayle Skipworth, she said that something about those ladies stood out and inspired her

Doty graduated from continued on Page #3

Rhoten finds happiness for "me and my three"

For the past two seasons, Wes Rhoten has been the head coach and athletic director at Whitewright But the move to Howe, he says, has found himself in a comfortable situation for his family and surrounded by leaders

A native of Arlington, Texas and a graduate of Arlington High School in 1991, Rhoten ended up playing football for Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas

"When I was playing up there it was NAIA, but now they're in the Lone Star Conference " said Rhoten "I was red-shirted and played there four years "

He met his wife, Kristi, during that time who is originally from Canton, Texas Upon graduation, he and Kristi went to Nashville because a friend of his had offered him a coordinator position continued on Page #2