HHS students perform well at BPA Leadership Conference

from 56.37 Howe Enterprise January 28, 2019

Lee Joy Smithart, 1933-2019

Howe track athlete finishes fourth in Okl h i d

Last week, six Howe High School Business Professionals of America students competed in the BPA Regional Leadership Conference held at John Dubiski Career High School in Grand Prairie The Howe students competed in nine different business events and placed in six of them Around 475 students from Area 1 Region 2 schools participated in various events

Briana Stapleton, a senior, placed first in Business Office Systems and Procedures and will be attending the State Leadership

School naming

or Steve Simmons.

The ISD has made it well known that their position at this time is to not name buildings after people In fact, the ISD has only twice named buildings and each time was in honor of a superintendent Charles R Thompson

Gymnasium was named in honor of the longtime superintendent in the 1970s and the high school library is named in honor of Dr Wayne King

Howe has had one other school not carrying the name Howe It was the Marshall-Bean College (which was not a college, but a school) located at the present site of the administration office It was named for the two donors of the property, WH Bean and Captain Marshall

Soon afterward the new name was announced, a former Howe student Matthew Mariano put together a petition to name it “Steve Simmons Elementary” competition in March in Dallas

Five other students placed as alternates in the following areas: Ivonne Delgado – sixth place in Fundamental Spreadsheet Applications, Victoria Walke –fifth place in Medical Office Procedures, Amanda Miller – fifth place in Advanced Spreadsheet Application and Mikayla Hudek –sixth place in Payroll Accounting

Sponsors for BPA are Dianne Teafatiller, Business Teacher and co-sponsor Travis Johnson, Technology Teacher

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The petition received over 500 signatures in less than 24 hours

Steve Simmons was inducted to the Howe Hall of Honor by the Howe Area Chamber of Commerce (selected by the community) His plaque reads:

Steve Simmons came to Howe in 1987 as a coach for Howe ISD His motivating nature has inspired a couple of thousand kids and adults to be highly motivated, truly dedicated as well as rough and tough Perhaps no one in Howe’s history has held so much pride and love for their community and the children of Howe He served as the elementary physical education instructor for Howe ISD for 31 years As well as his work with children, he’s also been a varsity football, powerlifting and baseball coach and junior varsity basketball coach As a longtime member of First Baptist Church in Howe, his faith is unquenchable It is only a matter of time before something in this town is named Steve Simmons something