January 18, 2007
Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
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Memorable achievement on bowling night
B y L eslie M itts
Spilyay Tymoo
January 3 became a day of
perfection for Austin Greene—
at least when it came to his bowl
ing score.
For the second time in his
life, Greene achieved a score of
300 in bowling.
During what began as an or
dinary night of bowling with the
Warm Springs men’s league in
Madras, Greene accomplished
what all bowlers are striving for:
12 strikes in a row.
It takes a bit of prying to get
Greene to talk about his suc
cesses, however.
But the humble man can re
cite dates that coincide with his
most memorable scores—his
first 300 came on Oct. 18,
1992.
“It’s not a frequent thing,” he
said. “That’s the challenge that
you look forward to.”
He originally began bowling
in the youth leagues in the 1970s
and has been bowling ever since.
While his average score is
around 200, he has come close
to bowling a score of 300 be
fore.
His first score of 299 oc
curred on Oct. 12, 1988. After
scoring 11 strikes in a row, a
single pin left Greene short of
a perfect score.
As for the elusive 300, he
said, “That’s every bowler’s
dream.”
Greene said the best part of
the sport is the challenge.
“Along with challenge, it
brings travel,” he added. “I like
to travel to various tourna
ments.”
Besides state and all-Indian
tournaments, Greene has had
the opportunity to travel to na
tional tournaments in locations
such as Wichita, Las Vegas and
Reno.
Bowling is something that is
submitted photo
Greene at a tournament in Reno.
a family affair for Greene—his
son and daughter have both
grown up with bowling.
“I trv to share what was
taught to me,” he said. His fam
ily also hosts the annual bowling
tournament in Bend.
According to Greene, “I also
have 4 competitive sisters that
also bowl in local leagues and
travel to tournaments.”
Family is one reason that his
second perfect score meant so
much, Greene said. He
achieved the perfect score on
the third anniversary of his son’s
death.
In Greene’s opinion, “It was
a really special thing that night.”
“I knew he was with me,” he
added.
Greene’s late father also had
an impact on him, he said.
In fact, his father was buried
wearing the ring Greene re
ceived when he scored 299.
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Greene said, “I dedicated
that ring to him when I first got
it because of his impact on me.”
Greene hopes to have a simi
lar influence on youth today—
something he strives toward in
his position as director of rec
reation at the Community Cen
ter.
He began working at the
Community Center nearly 27
years ago. Even then, he had
already held a few summer po
sitions there.
“Recreation really had an
impact on me,” he said.
As a local youth, Greene par
ticipated in recreation programs
like little league and teen club
basketball. “I started coaching
the Minor League Braves base
ball Team for 7 years, and
moved to the ‘Papooses,’”
Greene said—a team he once
played baseball for and still
coaches today.
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TaSheena George ac
complished something ex
traordinary at Jefferson
County Middle School.
She is the only Native
Am erican student that
achieved a 4.0 grade point
average at JCM S this past
trimester.
TaSheena received the
highest honors out of all
the Native American stu
dents in grades six through
eight.
The 13-year-old seventh
grader said she has a pas
sion for one subject in par
ticular: science.
“I like to do experi
ments, ” she explained.
TaSheena’s favorite ex
periment thus fa r involved
a project that required her
to test her own cheek cells,
she said.
According to TaSheena,
“It was fun, and it got us
really involved. ”
TaSheena is also very
active in the S M IT E pro
gram. That stands for Sci
ence and Math Investiga
tive T ea m in g E xperi-
ences.
She joined the program
as early as possible--dur-
ing fourth grade at Warm
Springs
Elem entary
School.
The program allows stu
dents to participate all the
way through high school.
A t that point, students
can potentially earn schol
arships to Oregon State
University.
T hat is TaSheena’s
plan, and she hopes to
earn a degree in veteri
nary science.
I t ’s a program that in
volves extra experiments
and even trips to a camp
in earlier years, she said.
T u rin g the seventh
grade, she hopes to travel
with the program to O SU
fo r the annual seventh-
grade challenge.
TaSheena credits her
mother as her hero in life.
“She teaches me basi
cally everything. She
taught me how to cook and
how to bead. She ju s t
helps me and is there for
m e,” TaSheena e x
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Greene began working with
the recreation department di
rectly out of high school, and
he hasn’t left since. What be
gan as an entry-level position
slowly grew into an increasing
amount of responsibility.
In 1997 Greene was pro
moted to his current position as
the director of recreation.
The best part, in his opinion,
is the chance to work with chil
dren.
“Before it used to be athlet
ics,” he said. “Now I like to
teach the cultural activities.”
Greene hopes that even tak
ing the time to speak with a
young person will benefit them.
“It has to be a good feeling
to them that someone can actu
ally talk to them,” he said.
As part of his position,
Greene hosts basketball tourna
ments like the upcoming high
school tournament for tribal
affiliation in April.
During the tournament top
teams from reservations around
the northwest will compete and
represent their tribes.
This will also be Greene’s
twenty-fifth year coaching base
ball.
In fact, he said, some of the
youth he once coached are now
in the community as young
adults.
“Some still greet you as
‘coach,’” he said. “That has a
very special meaning that you
can impact a young athlete in a
positive manner, and they will
respect you for many years to
come.”
Baseball season is always
something of a challenge, he
said, with more than 200 par
ticipants.
But in his opinion, it’s great
for the local youth have some
thing to join.
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