Feagin Mill assistant principal honored as ‘outstanding’
Feagin Mill Middle School assistant principal Jim Langley has been named the Georgia Outstanding Assistant Principal for District 11.
Langley will be honored Saturday at the Georgia Association of Middle School Principals Fall Conference Awards Luncheon at St. Simons Island.
Langley is a product of the Houston County School System, graduating from Northside High School before attending the University of Georgia, where he earned a bachelor of music education degree.
He began his teaching career in 1985 at Harlem High and Grovetown Elementary schools in Columbia before returning to Houston County as band director of Northside High in 1987.
He has since moved around the district before being named assistant principal of instruction for Feagin Mill in 2007.
Houston students receive scholarships
Two University of Georgia students from Houston County have received scholarships.
Bruce Byrd of Byron received the Jim Andrews Family Foundation Scholarship awarded by the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. The scholarship is good for the 2011-12 school year.
Byrd is a senior majoring in biomedical engineering and plans to attend medical school.
Laura Ann Williford of Hayneville received two scholarships -- the Starr Hollister Wheeler Scholarship and the Henry L. Trussell Jr. Scholarship.
Both were awarded by the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences for the 2011-12 academic year.
Williford is a senior majoring in agricultural education. She plans to pursue a career as an agricultural education and FFA adviser.
Warner Robins student wins art contest
A Warner Robins elementary school student has won an art contest sponsored by Ready Georgia, the emergency preparedness campaign from the Georgia Emergency Management Agency.
As a part of September as National Preparedness Month, fifth-graders across the state submitted essays, artwork and videos reflecting the contest theme: Remember the Past, Get Ready for the Future.
Jordan Shealy, a fifth-grader at Parkwood Elementary School, placed third in the art contest, according to a news release.
Shealy’s art depicts a worried woman standing in front of a window showing stormy weather outside. The woman is on her phone.
Below the window, Shealy has written, “To prepare for the unexpected, you need to call people on the phone to tell them about a disaster and to see if their (sic) okay.”
-- Staff reports
