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Local 13-year-old homeschool student college-bound after taste of class at ECU

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Ada Shakespeare Company will present ‘Hamlet’

By Sunnie Dawn Smith

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ew plays in literary history are more iconic than William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.”

Even if some people know little about Shakespeare, they most likely know the phrase “To be or not to be” from countless adaptations and parodies.

Despite its popularity and universal themes, it is not often that audiences get treated to a live performance of it.

Ada Shakespeare Company is changing that this summer, giving locals a chance to see one of Shakespeare’s masterpieces live at the Wintersmith Park’s movie and music venue known colloquially as the Band Shell.

This will be ASC’s fifth summer production, though for many of the cast and crew, it will be their sixth summer of doing Shakespeare in the Park.

It all began with an East Central University production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” performed in the Wintersmith amphitheater. Many of the community members and college students involved loved the opportunity to bring Shakespeare in the Park to Ada and decided to form their own theater company. Thus, ASC was born.

Their first summer show was “Much Ado About Nothing” followed by “The Tempest,” “Julius Caesar” and “Twelfth Night” with some fall shows scattered

throughout. They try to alternate between tragedies and comedies, and when it was time to do a tragedy this year, the ASC board of directors thought their company would be ready to take on a task as daunting as “Hamlet.”

“We felt like we had built up enough participation and enthusiasm from the Ada theater community to have a cast to do a challenging script like ‘Hamlet,’” director Alan Marshall said.

There are many challenges that come with producing this play. First and foremost, the role of Hamlet is one of the most challenging and coveted roles for a mature young actor, and it has to be cast well in order to pull off the production.

Second, there are a large number of male roles and usually the ratio of male to female participants is rather small. Third, the cast is large, and while some parts can be double cast, it is not necessarily ideal.

Marshall knew he would have to have support from the local theater community in order to pull this off, but the ASC board and he felt that it was time. And they were right. The turnout for auditions was larger than they had ever seen before for an ASC production. Quality actors wanted to be a part of this production, and that gave Marshall

the team that he needed to succeed.

Teamwork is of utmost importance in any production.

Not only does it require a cast of actors who work together, it also needs people behind the scenes making sure everything works according to plan and who are flexible enough to improvise when things don’t go according to plan.

“Theater is teamwork,” Marshall said. “You don’t do theater of any kind by yourself. Even if it is a one-man show, you still have a director, someone doing the lighting, someone building the set. And then when you are on stage, you have to cooperate with other people. While some may be close friends, others you may have never met before.”

The act of collaboration and teamwork in community theater is a lot like the way theater was done in Shakespeare’s time.

There would be a group of semiprofessional actors who had

other jobs that came together to act while also doing the costumes, set, music, etc.

ASC is excited to use the new venue at Wintersmith Park.

They will have four show each beginning at 7:30 p.m. on June 20-23. Attendees should bring lawn chairs and blankets and can even get there early to have a picnic. One of the great things about summer theater in the park is that people get to see a great show while also enjoying the outdoors. It isn’t just a play; it is an event.

“People should come because it is a great show – just like the latest episode of ‘Game of Thrones’ or the latest Marvel movie,” Marshall said. “Don’t go because it is studied in school or because it is the ‘smart’ thing to do. Do it because Shakespeare wrote a great script and a great show.”

More information can be found on the Ada Shakespeare Company Facebook page.

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Jerry Wells led Bible studies in the U.S. Navy before serving as a preacher for 46 years at eight different churches in three states. He currently reaches people across the world with live streaming sessions through his online service, Wells Internet Bible Study.

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Mission of ministry takes pastor from the Navy to churches to the internet

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hen Jerry Wells was first called to preach, he had no way of knowing the direction his life would take.

Wells was a junior in high school at Luling, Texas and made his wishes known to the church. He started preaching right away, and by the time he was a senior in high school he was preaching at two different churches, alternating weekends between the two. After high school graduation, he felt called to join the military, and he served in the U.S. Navy from 19541958 He married his sweetheart Joyce “Jackie” Hasserodt in 1955.

Though he joined the military, his mission to preach the Bible did not stop.

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them, and he brought it up to his commander. He was told there wasn’t really time. The only possibility was at the end of the day after taps, but if he was caught he could be thrown in the brig.

“Because of that Bible study, about half of my company was led to the Lord,” Wells said.

After that, Wells was stationed aboard an aircraft carrier and worked in the engine room. He was, yet again, approached about leading a Bible study. That began with one class and eventually turned into three different classes that were even attended by his executive officer. The Protestant chaplain aboard the carrier was being transferred elsewhere, so Wells transferred from the engineering department to the executive department. As they would pull into different ports, there would be a turn-

over. Some sailors would be transferred to other carriers and new ones would come on board. Wells didn’t know yet, but his message and passion for the Bible was being spread beyond his own ship.

When he pulled into port in Japan, he was told that he had a visitor on the quarterdeck. He looked around and didn’t see anyone he knew, but the man certainly knew him. It was the director of the Christian Servicemen Center and he wanted to talk to Wells about his Bible study classes.

After a conversation, the director invited Wells to do programs at churches there in Japan. Of course, Wells said yes.

He would preach at different services – many times with the use of an interpreter – and as his military career continued, this would happen at every port he entered.

Through this, he developed a love for shar-

ing the Bible with people from other countries, getting to know them and traveling off the beaten path to see what the rest of the world was really like.

When he returned to the states, he became an ordained minister by the First Baptist Church in his hometown of Luling, and he began a career pastoring churches spanning 46 years at eight churches across three states, including nine and a half years at Trinity Baptist Church in Ada. Even when he retired, he didn’t really retire. How can someone stop the work they believe in so wholeheartedly after such a long time? This is when Wells became an internet missionary.

Wells actually started his internet ministry 25 years ago, developing a web page with Bible studies that anyone could access. In 2005, a woman from China came to the United States to live with a family.

She had found Wells’ internet Bible studies online and saw that he was willing to do a Bible study course via Skype. When she went back to China, she asked if she could continue studying with him, and that was when he started his international classes.

What began with a Skype session and a single computer has transformed into something much larger over the years.

Wells has a dedicated room on the second floor of Ada First Baptist Church where he has a technologically sophisticated setup.

Now, they use four different computers with cameras set up to show the people in the Bible study in Ada, the person or group participating in a different country, Wells himself leading the study and the animated powerpoints he has developed.

All of the Bible studies go at a different pace. Sometimes, they will get through an entire lesson in a session; other times, they will ask a lot of questions, get into good discussions and only get through part of a lesson. The pace of learning doesn’t matter to Wells. All that matters to him is that they are learning, becoming closer to God and gaining an understanding of the Bible.

The relationships that he develops with his students cross borders, and they truly become an extended family. For instance, his first student from China, Jenny, introduced him to another lady from China, Rui Wang, who not only did his internet Bible study but happened to be in Texas during Christmas. She made the trip to Ada to celebrate with Wells and his family.

There are times these relationships can be heartbreaking, like the case of a young

man in Iran who would go underground to do the Bible studies. They would be able to hear the violence of ISIS in the background, and then one day the young man stopped communicating with them.

Another young man in Pakistan had been doing Bible study faithfully with them, and now has not been heard from for three months. They keep hoping and praying that he will show up again, but they fear the worst.

Currently, Wells has sessions with students in Australia, Brazil, Germany, India, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, South Korea, Uganda and Vietnam. These sessions usually meet in the morning here in Ada, though in the afternoon or evening in the other countries.

Thanks to internet tracking programs, Wells is able to keep good statistics of traffic on his website, wellsbiblestudy.com.

In 2018 alone, 6,132 people used Wells Internet Bible Study, 384 read the plan of salvation and 23 were saved.

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Local 13-year-old homeschool student college-bound after taste of class at ECU

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n many ways, Abigail Schmitt is a pretty typical 13-yearold girl. She likes hanging out with her friends, reading mystery novels and watching Animal Planet.

In other ways, however, Schmitt is far from typical. For instance, most 13-year-old girls don’t take trigonometry at the college level. Even fewer leave home for college.

Her mother Nan Schmitt decided to homeschool particularly because of logistics.

They lived out in the country and were an hour from Ada and 40 minutes from McAlester.

It was difficult to get the kids to school on a regular basis.

Schmitt did spend some time in a private four-year-old program in McAlester, but when it was evident to her family that she needed more advanced work and needed to be challenged more, the school did not agree. So considering these factors – needing more challenging school work and living in the middle of nowhere – homeschooling seemed like the right choice for the Schmitts.

She did go to public school for her sixth grade year because her older brother, Josiah, wanted to go back to public school as well. While she loved the social aspects of it, she still needed more of a challenge and wanted to be able to work at her own pace, so she returned to homeschooling.

When she was in elementary school, they used a set homeschool curriculum. However, as she advanced, they ended up bringing together different ways of learning, and it has turned into a bit of a “hodge podge,” as Schmitt calls it.

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East Central University. Math and science are her favorite subjects. They come easily to her and challenge her in the right kinds of ways. Her family couldn’t find a plan of study for trigonometry that worked for them. Schmitt’s mother suggested that she take it at ECU as a college class. Even though Schmitt is only 13 years old, she is considered a sophomore in high school because of her advanced coursework.

When she was signing up for concurrent coursework at ECU, they wanted to make sure she took the ACT before beginning. When they found out she was only 13, they said she needed to get above a 25.

“If ECU wouldn’t have pushed us she wouldn’t have studied for the ACT,” Nan Schmitt said.

That push not only helped her take concurrent classes at her young age but also affected her entire trajectory. Not only did she score above a 25, she scored in the top three percent in the nation of all students and all ages taking the ACT. One day, while Nan was waiting for Schmitt to get out of class, she was searching online for stories about other young girls who were taking college courses just to see what other resources and possibilities were out there. She stumbled upon an article about a young girl who went to the Program for the Exceptionally Gifted (PEG) at Mary Baldwin University in Staunton, Virginia. Her interest was piqued, and she shared it with her daughter when she returned from class. Schmitt’s first reaction was, “eh.”

As she started looking at it and thinking about it more, she thought it might be a good fit.

Abigail Schmitt will attend college full-time in Virginia after acceptance into a gifted program following a path that led her from homeschooling to East Central University.

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She had already taking her ACT for ECU and decided to put in an application. She did not really expect much to come of it, but shortly after her interview in March, she received her acceptance – one brimming with awards and offers. She was awarded two scholarships.

The first was the Highest Merit Presidential Scholarship, and the second was the First Year Research Award. This second award goes to only one student per year campuswide. Schmitt is the first PEG student to be chosen, and this will allow her to begin her college career doing cancer research with one of the professors.

The PEG program is for girls ages 13-15 and allows them to go to college. It is not a high school program. These students take the same classes as the other college students, but they live in separate dorms with stricter, more age-appropriate rules. They average around 15-20 students per year in the PEG program, and while some colleges have programs where

you can enter a year early, this is the only one they found that was specifically for girls in Schmitt’s age range. They have counseling for homesick students. They have special classes for them on how to succeed in college. They even have special trips to go ice skating and have dances.

Schmitt will be majoring in biochemistry with a minor in probably either film or criminal justice. She really wants to become a forensic scientist or forensic chemist. While Schmitt said she will miss her father and her brother terribly, her mother is moving to Staunton with her to help her transition. She is looking forward to the challenges ahead and not being held back. She is looking forward to digging into cancer research and the opportunities that it will provide. One of the things she is most looking forward to is having unlimited Wi-Fi. So in some ways, she’s not so different from other 13-yearolds.

Pontotoc Veterans Rally Point offers support for veterans re-entering civilian life

By Sunnie Dawn Smith

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ilitary life is not easy.

Those who serve put their lives on the line for our country every day.

In addition to putting themselves in the path of physical harm and possible death, service life also takes another toll on them – that of their mental and emotional well-being. What makes it harder is when they leave military service, they are thrust into a world without familiar resources. This is one of the reasons why Valori Slaughter and her team created Pontotoc Veterans Rally Point as an all-encompassing resource to help those who put it all on the line in service to their country.

Slaughter went into the service when she was 17 years old, first deploying to Kuwait with the Army National Guard before joining the active duty branch of the Army and deploying to Iraq, where she served from 2006-2008. Neither deployment was easy. Her first deployment was actually seen as a training mission, even though mortar shells would rain down on a regular basis.

As for Iraq, the years she was there were some of the worst to be in combat. By the time she left the service, she had post-traumatic stress disorder.

One thing that many might not think about, Slaughter said, is how difficult it is to transition from military life to civilian life, and PTSD makes it that much worse.

Because she entered when she was 17, she had never experienced the things that many other people gradually learn.

Small things like finding a place to live, finding a job, paying utility deposits, etc., become big things for the inexperi-

enced. All of these things had been taken care of for her while she was in the service, and dealing with it all at once without help was overwhelming for her. When she was in the Army, there was a phone number she could always call for help or information that they referred to as Army One. “When you call Army One, they can help you with pretty much anything,” Slaughter said.

Once she was out of the service, there was no such resource, and she had to figure everything out on her own. This led to difficulty with the transition from military to civilian life. In the military, they are trained to work as a team and think like a team.

“Your team always has your back,” Slaughter said.

But now, there was no team.

It was just her and her PTSD. It took years for Slaughter to get back on her feet after re-entry into the civilian world, but through her love for her family, her faith and her own persistence, she became more than a personal success story. She became a woman on another kind of mission – to help veterans get their lives back and get them the help they need to succeed in a new kind of life. She came to East Central University and received her bachelor’s degree while also working for Veterans Student Support Services. It was a discussion with her boss, Jill Williamson, that led her to make a post on Facebook in Ada Curiosity last June about interest in forming a Veterans Council.

The response was more than they could have ever hoped for, and when it came time for the meeting, Williamson turned it over to Slaughter.

This single Facebook post led to the formation of Pontotoc Veterans Rally Point. The purpose of the group is to provide teams that can help veterans with every aspect of re-entry, helping them get on track in the civilian world.

“I would be nowhere without my team,” Slaughter said.

The group is broken down into several teams that handle different aspects of life. Mentor lead Jason Schwarzott pairs veterans who need help with veterans who can help them.

Employment lead Tanya Gilleland helps them find jobs.

Angie Engel is the housing lead. Desiree Blankenship is the health and welfare lead, and she helps veterans find the healthcare they need along with finding alternative ways of relieving pain without the use of prescription drugs. Education leads Patrick Hicks helps make sure the veterans receive the education they need to succeed. The legal lead is Burt Page, and they also use the services of Ada Police veterans liason Joe Macchetta so anytime there is a call that involves a veteran, he can provide support and understanding of the

situation. The faith and family leads are Crystal and Tony Seaver, and they are trying to build a faith community to support the veterans by attempting to bring all the churches together.

All of these people coming together means that veterans coming home aren’t coming home alone. They still have a team that has their back and will support them. When they need help, they just have to contact Rally Point, and after an intake, the appropriate team or teams will look at their case and see what they can do to help.

For more information, join the Pontotoc Veterans Rally Point Facebook page. They need volunteers, both veteran and non-veteran, to help in whatever way they can.

Anyone who needs to contact them by phone can call, text or leave a message at (405) 287-7799.

The best thing the community can do to help these veterans is to come together in supportive ways, and Rally Point is the perfect opportunity to do just that.

Veterans and other community members formed the Pontotoc Veterans Rally Point to provide support services for veterans transitioning to civilian life.

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Legally blind artist never lost sight of her goals

By Sunnie Dawn Smith

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hen Sue West – formerly known as Sue Silkey – was born on an Army base, she wasn’t yet legally blind. However, she was born premature and too small.

She was put in an incubator with too much oxygen, and this is what is believed to have blinded her. West said it turns out that at that time, this wasn’t that rare of an occurrence. She had other friends who dealt with the same issues.

At age two, she could only see light and dark, but over the years her vision has gotten better. Her left eye is made of hard plastic and her right eye has about 20% vision in it, but this is still better just seeing in light and dark.

To best describe what she sees, West said she “can see a car go over the next hill if there is blue sky behind it, but I couldn’t tell you what color it is.”

Some people wouldn’t think that West would end up being an award-winning artist. Those people would be wrong.

Growing up in Tulsa, West’s mother Mildred was an artist and took lessons from wellknown artist, George Greco.

West would stand behind her mother and watch her paint.

When she was 16, West went to Greco and asked him to teach her how to paint. He said no and told her that she couldn’t see well enough to paint.

“At first it hurt, and then I just said, ‘I’ll show you,’” West said.

West continued creating art, watching what her mother would do and working on honing her own skills.

More than 10 years later, West took Greco one of her black and white drawings.

“He told me it was good, but that I wouldn’t go far,” West said. “But knowing how

I was turned, I still don’t know whether he said this to encourage me or criticize me.”

Now, West has a big book filled with ribbons from shows during the past 20-30 years.

Nearly every year, she has taken home first prize from the Pontotoc County Fair.

People might wonder how someone who is legally blind can create such stunning works of art. The most important thing for her to have is a good source of direct light.

Sometimes, this means drawing outside in bright sunlight.

Other times, it means pointing a very bright lamp directly at the surface and working with her face very close to the paper. She has worked from photographs or magazines for inspiration while also creating her own groupings of objects to recreate, such as flowers from her garden.

Her favorite works are either portraits or sunsets. Portraits allow her to capture someone’s physical likeness along with something else about their personality that is somewhat inexplicable. With sunsets, West loves the colors the most.

“In the clouds, you can see the yellows and pinks and purples and oranges,” West said. “It is the way the clouds are mixed together and the colors blend.”

One of the remarkable things about West’s artwork is how her style changes based upon her subject matter. Many of her works are so precise that they border on photorealism.

It can be difficult to tell the difference between a photograph and one of her works.

West said she has even had work rejected from art shows before because they thought it was a photograph instead of a sketch. However, when she does her colored pencil

sketches of sunsets and landscapes, her work takes on more of a post-impressionist quality.

The contrast between light and dark, the way she uses different colors right up against each other and the way she seems to add texture with only a colored pencil creates a unique work of art that is truly her own vision.

West is sometimes commissioned to do works of art, and she also makes greeting cards and Christmas cards based on her original artwork. She enjoys doing these smaller works for other people. However, she also relishes the time she has with larger works of art. She will sit for hours working on a

single piece as time just passes.

She said she will be so wrapped up in the process of creation that she will even forget to eat, and her sister, Carla, who lives with her and helps take care of her, will have to remind her.

The visual arts might be unexpected for someone who is legally blind, but for West there is nothing that brings her more solace and contentment.

For greeting cards, Christmas cards or to commission a work, contact her at her home phone (580) 279-1697 or her sister’s cell phone (580) 665-0187. She is also working on creating an artist’s page on Facebook.

Sue West has won multiple prizes for the last few decades after an artist and teacher told her being legally blind would keep her from ever being a good artist.

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