Mountain Times - Volume 48, Number 19: May 8-14
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A • The <strong>Mountain</strong> <strong>Times</strong> • <strong>May</strong> 8-<strong>14</strong>, 20<strong>19</strong><br />
Barstow assembly spotlights character development<br />
By Julia Purdy<br />
The Barstow Memorial School’s monthly<br />
character trait assembly coincided with<br />
National School Principal Day on <strong>May</strong> 1<br />
this year, and former school principals<br />
were invited, including Karen Prescott,<br />
David Wolk, and, in memoriam, Eugene<br />
Fellers, who led the school from <strong>19</strong>56-<strong>19</strong>59.<br />
Grade by grade, the children entered<br />
and took their seats with the usual eager<br />
hubbub, quieted by the teachers’ raised<br />
hands. School “peer leaders” led the ceremonies<br />
with the welcome and statement<br />
of expectations for decorum, introduction<br />
of the special guests, and the greeting.<br />
Individual students took the podium to<br />
speak to the question of the month, “What<br />
is perseverance?” Abby called it “the drive<br />
that gets you past the hard stuff.” Brianna<br />
said it’s using “mind and body to push<br />
through to achieve.”<br />
Former principal Karen Prescott then<br />
spoke to the students, reviewing her<br />
achievements during her tenure. Starting<br />
at Barstow in <strong>19</strong>98, she was voted Principal<br />
of the Year in 2002 and retired in 2015.<br />
Prescott chose an analogy familiar to most<br />
students, “The Little Engine That Could.”<br />
“’I think I can’ – that’s what perseverance<br />
is to me,” she said. She referred to a long<br />
illness over which she prevailed and said,<br />
“You never know when another challenge<br />
will present itself.” She reminded the<br />
students that “There is learning even in<br />
failure.”<br />
“Barstow is in my heart always,” she<br />
concluded to applause.<br />
Acknowledgement of character trait<br />
winners followed, with two groups:<br />
nominated by teachers and by peers, the<br />
last accompanied by a statement written<br />
by students. All nominees lined up in<br />
front of or on the stage, and as Principal<br />
Bianca McKeen read off the names, two<br />
older students handed the certificates out.<br />
Reactions by the winners were mixed, from<br />
chin-up pride to bashful wiggling to stoic<br />
dignity.<br />
Among the guests were Susan Dick of<br />
Aiken, South Carolina and her sister, who<br />
told of growing up next door to the Barstow<br />
School when their father, Eugene H. Fellers,<br />
was principal. The women presented<br />
two gifts to the school – a plaque naming<br />
the past principals, and an engraved rocking<br />
chair in honor of their father.<br />
Ms. Dick asked the students for a definition<br />
of “role model” and received answers,<br />
“Doing what they’re supposed to do” and<br />
“Someone you can look up to.”<br />
In closing, a student led the assembly in<br />
“Our Promise to Each Other,” a reminder<br />
of the need for mutual respect: “When we<br />
care about each other, and our school, we<br />
share what we have, listen carefully, help<br />
each other learn, work hard and have fun<br />
together. We understand that everyone<br />
makes mistakes. That we stand up for ourselves<br />
and others. And when someone asks<br />
us to stop, we stop. This is who we are even<br />
when no one is watching.”<br />
Next month the assembly will consider<br />
Citizenship.<br />
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