EDMOND —
Edmond Public School this week renamed the EPS Administrative Center Technology Training Lab the David G. Fraser Technology Training Lab. Superintendent David Goin and Edmond School Board members named the lab after Fraser, who died in December 2012, in recognition of his 22 years of service to the Edmond School District.
The lab was renamed in honor of the man who was employed by the EPS in 1990 and served in various roles including Business Manager, Director of Technology and Chief Financial Officer.
“David took primary responsibility for the business, finance and technology areas of the district including presiding over the integration of the district’s vast technology needs and infrastructure development for more than a decade,” Goin read from the proclamation.
He went on to say, “David was a man of integrity, honesty and reliability, a man who had high performance expectations for himself and who passed along his deep sense of purpose and direction to all with whom he worked; and acknowledging that David Fraser’s expertise, abilities and humanity contributed greatly to the success of this district, with great affection we rename the lab.”
Goin said the school board members will make a donation to the Edmond Schools Foundation in the name of David Fraser.
District receives audit
District Treasurer Lori Smith introduced Mary Johnson, a partner with the CPA firm Rahhal Henderson Johnson PLLC who presented the results of the Independent Audit of Fiscal Year 2012 Financial Statements.
Johnson reported there were no material weaknesses nor significant deficiencies in internal controls identified during the audit, and there were no audit findings with regard to the compliance with federal programs.
She stated a report of conditions identified which were not material enough to qualify the audit opinion but which should be addressed by management.
The first condition concerned the timeliness and accuracy of deposits.
“During the time of testing of activity fund receipts, six out of 60 were not deposited within one business day. In these instances the teacher turned in the money to the financial secretary the day after it was collected,” Johnson said. “In two out of 60 receipts tested, the teacher’s collection sheet did not agree to the financial secretary’s deposit. In both of these instances the teacher’s list had compilation errors which were adjusted by the financial secretary when making the deposit but were not corrected on the teacher’s list.”
The second condition was that not all departments maintain inventories of supplies, parts, etc., and complete year-end physical counts.
“The district will implement inventory procedures in the current year for departments needing them (custodial, transportation and maintenance departments) and will obtain year-end inventory values in the current and future years which will be recorded in the district financial statements,” Johnson said.
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Award ceremony honors 2 local youth
Oklahoma’s top two youth volunteers of 2013, Perrin Duncan, 18, of Edmond and Mason Harvey, 13, of Guthrie, were honored in the nation’s capital recently for their outstanding volunteer service during the 18th annual presentation of The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards. Perrin and Mason — along with 100 other top youth volunteers from across the country — each received $1,000 awards and personal congratulations from Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey and Olympic gold medalist Allyson Felix at an award ceremony and gala dinner reception at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
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St. Mary's students make prayer blankets
Fourth- through seventh-grade students at St. Mary’s Episcopal School were expediting their effort this week to make as many “prayer squares” as possible before Friday — the last day of school — for tornado victims.
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OETA broadcasts academic awards banquet
Five outstanding Oklahoma educators and 100 of the state’s top public high school seniors will be recognized when OETA premieres its statewide broadcast of the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence 27th Academic Awards Banquet at 8 p.m. Saturday.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Thomas Friedman, who served as keynote speaker for the banquet, also will be featured on the program. The broadcast will air on OETA Channel 13 in Oklahoma City and Channel 11 in Tulsa. Subsequent broadcasts will be shown on OETA’s OKLA digital channel. For digital broadcast listings, visit the station’s website at www.oeta.tv.
The gala celebration, taped May 18 at the Cox Convention Center, is sponsored by the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence, a nonprofit organization that recognizes and encourages academic excellence in Oklahoma’s public schools. The program is emceed by foundation chairman and founder David L. Boren -
Schools lose teachers to retirement
St. Mary’s Episcopal School will be saying good-bye to Headmaster Nancy Hetherington. Hetherington will be leaving after serving the school, which contains grades kindergarten through eighth-grade for the past 30 years. Pamela Docktor will begin next school year as headmaster.
Connie Westof and Billye Palmer also will be retiring from St. Mary’s School. Westof has been in education for 30 years with the last 23 years at St. Mary’s. Palmer also has been teaching for 30 years with the past 23 years at St. Mary’s.
Deer Creek Public School District will have numerous changes in the classroom as well as in administrative positions for the 2013-14 school term, but only two will be from retirements.
Ann Thompson and Deborah Vaughn both left the system at the beginning of the school year. Thompson was a counselor at Deer Creek High School. She had spent a total of 27 years in education. Five of those years had been in other school districts and the past 22 years had been in the Deer Creek School District. Vaughn retired as a classroom teacher at Deer Creek Grove Valley Elementary. She had spent the past five years in the Deer Creek School District and 17 years in other school districts. -
Local students shine in House page program
Local students shined at the State Capitol as they served as House pages for state Rep. Anastasia A. Pittman.
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Deer Creek High School’s $2 million library open for business
Taxpayers in the Deer Creek School District are beginning to see the completion of the district’s projects being paid for from the October 2009 $142 million bond issue.
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SEAS ranks No. 1 in Oklahoma in First in Math online program
Students at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton were rewarded for their mathematics skills Monday in an all-school assembly as they received the No. 1 spot in a national online math program. In addition to the students, two teachers were also recognized for the number of math problems they solved correctly.
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Edmond schools receive Healthy Schools Incentive Grant
Edmond is one of 26 school districts to be awarded a Healthy Schools Incentive Grant from the Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust.
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Edmond Memorial alumni provide scholarships
The Edmond Memorial Alumni Association offers two scholarship each year to two graduating seniors from Edmond Memorial High School who plan to attend the University of Central Oklahoma.
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Parents Helping Parents schedules meeting
The Edmond Chapter of Parents Helping Parents will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Oklahoma Blood Institute’s private meeting room at 33rd and Broadway. Scott Van Krevelen, CADC and director of “The Van’s House” (www.vanshouse.com), will speak on the topic of “Enabling vs. Helping.”
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