1st Victoria Bank of Texas donated $500 to the Edmunds Foundation as a scholarship grant for Nanci Macias for completing the 1st annual Leadership Skills for Young Adults. Nanci is a senior at Lamar Consolidated High School and opted to take this 7 week workshop to enhance her business and leadership skills. Nanci is majoring [...]
You literally have to be “one in a thousand” to receive a Gates Millennium Scholarship. For Lamar CISD, it was three in a thousand. Terry High School’s Shelby Rae Guel, Foster High School’s Cyrus Montanya and Lamar Consolidated High School’s Chimsom Faith Orakwue are the District’s fourth, fifth and sixth Gates Scholars – the first [...]
Lamar CISD honored almost 200 employees, representing a total of more than 5,000 years of service to the children of our community, at the annual Employee Recognition Banquet, held April 30 at Safari Texas Ranch. Among those honored were employees that have served 20-, 25-, 30- and 35-year-veterans. 20-year veterans Pamela Clayton, Diana Martinez, Sandra [...]
You literally have to be “one in a thousand” to receive a Gates Millennium Scholarship. For Lamar CISD, it was two in a thousand. Terry High School’s Shelby Rae Guel and Lamar Consolidated High School’s Chimsom Faith Orakwue are the District’s fourth and fifth Gates Scholars – the first for Terry, but the third consecutive [...]
Lamar CISD’s Board of Trustees approved the hiring of three administrators at the Board’s regular April meeting. Laura Haugvoll is the new principal at Beasley Elementary. She is a graduate Sam Houston State University and received her master’s degree from the University of St. Thomas. Haugvoll has 20 years of experience in education, including 13 [...]
The Lamar Consolidated Educational Secretaries Association, LCESA, hosted a reception to honor its members who have earned the Certified Educational Office Professional, CEOP. Special guests Superintendent Dr. Thomas Randle and his Cabinet, along with the district Staff Development Director, were in attendance. Current, retired and those members working toward certification were recognized April 16 with [...]
The Foster High School Symphonic Band is one of only 16 band selected in classes 1A – 5A to perform at the Texas State Wind Ensemble Festival, May 4. This is the first Lamar CISD band ever chosen for the honor. Jimmy Exline is the director of the Foster High School Symphonic Band. The concert will [...]
Terry High School is presenting its one-act UIL show “Fire in the Hole” at 7 p.m. Monday, April 8 in Graeber Auditorium, 5500 Ave. N in Rosenberg. The performance is free. This sweeping epic, the winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize, portrays three families in eastern Kentucky spans 200 years of American history from 1775 [...]
Two veteran educators have been chosen by their peers as the 2013 Principals of the Year for Lamar Consolidated ISD. Ben Perez, principal at Ray Elementary, is the Elementary Principal of the Year. A product of Lamar CISD schools, Perez began his career as a teacher’s aide, moving to teacher, math specialist, assistant principal, summer [...]
The Texas Association School Business Officers has presented the Lamar CISD Purchasing Department an Award of Merit for Purchasing Operations recognizes school district’s achievement in implementing best practices in the area of purchasing. The Award of Merit recognizes school districts committed to following professional standards in the acquisition of goods and services. Much of the [...]
