Six new teachers join HHS
Mark Dowdy
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VOL. 122
NO. 41
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Wednesday, October 8,2003
Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon
2004 Morrow County Fair and OTPR
Court chosen
(L-R): Princess Jessica Wainwright, Queen Lexi Kennedy and Princess Emily Bergstrom.
Lexi Kennedy, Emily
B ergstrom and Jessica
Wainwright were chosen as
the Queen and Princesses for
the 2004 Morrow County Fair
and Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo.
Queen Lexi Kennedy
o f Boardman is the daughter
o f Kevin Kennedy and Tracie
Kennedy and Tami Kennedy.
She is a senior at Riverside
High School.
P rincesses Em ily
B ergstrom and Jessica
Wainwright, both of Heppner,
are juniors at Heppner High
School. Bergstrom is the
daughter o f Hal and Rita
Bergstrom. Wainwright is the
daughter of Buzz and Stacey
Wainwright.
The Fair Board wishes
to congratulate these girls on
their selection. Applications for
ch aperone and pennant
bearers for this year’s Fair and
OTPR Court are now being
accepted. For information or
an application, call Renee at
676-9474. The deadline for
chaperone applications is
Nov. 3, 2003.
Greg Smith hired as new Oregon Cattleman
Association President. “Plain advance the needs o f the
executive
and simple, Glen did a great membership,” said Smith.
Oregon Cattleman’s
A sso ciatio n E xecutive
Director Glen Stonebrink will
be retiring following the
a s s o c ia tio n ’s
annual
convention and trade show at
Eagle Crest on Nov. 6-8.
Eastern Oregon businessman
G reg Sm ith has been
contracted to replace him.
“ Even though I am
stepping down, I won’t be far
away,” said Stonebrink. “I am
willing to assist the Oregon
C attlem en as a producer
member and certain specific
events connected w ith
governm ental relations
including lobbying.”
“The Cattlemen have
been well served by Glen’s
dedicated work,” said Bob
Skinner, Oregon Cattleman's
job.”
Smith, who will begin
his tenure with the association
on Nov. 1, was hired after an
exhaustive selection process.
“ Many good people were
considered, but in the end we
needed som eone w ith
extensive knowledge of our
natural resource issues and the
experience to advance our
membership priorities,” said
President Skinner.
Smith said his first
course of business would be
to personally meet with many
of the producer and associate
members and find out how the
Oregon Cattlemen can further
serve them. “As a member
driven organization, my
primary responsibility is to
The
O regon
Cattleman’s Association is a
grassroots organization that
has worked for more than
eighty years to advance the
economic, political, and social
interests of the Oregon cattle
industry.
Fire drill to be
held at Senior
Center
year with
t
h
e
Returning to the halls
M o rro w
of Heppner High School and
County
embarking
School
on his 2 1st
D is tric t,
year o f
transferred
teaching, is
t
o
M a r k
H ep p n er
D ow dy,
from the
4
5
lone High
D ow dy,
School as
who had to
a result of
l e a v e
l o n e
te a c h in g
forming its own district.
due to an
Along with teaching
illness, has
bu sin ess and com puter
recovered and is excited about
classes, Marquardt is also
getting back into the swing of
working with students on the
things.
HHS yearbook and school
This year he is
newspaper.
teaching social studies to
Marquardt received
grades 7-9 and a college prep
her bachelor’s degree in music
class to twelfth graders.
education from W estern
Dowdy, along with
O regon U niversity, her
Principal Wade Smith have
master’s in education from
created the college prep class
Oregon State University and
to help seniors become aware
her m a ster’s in business
of the many different college
administration from National
options out there and to help
University.
them focus on what they would
M arquardt
and
really like to study. The class
husband, Jim, live in Athena,
also helps seniors prepare for
although she spends her
ACT and SAT tests. Dowdy
w eekdays in H eppner.
is very excited about this class,
Marquardt also mentioned that
and about helping students
Jim is a graduate of Heppner
realize their full potential.
High School. The couple has
Dowdy received his
two grown children, ages 29
b a c h e lo r’s degree in
and 26.
secondary education from
Western Oregon University.
He originally was an English Jeannie Collins
teacher, but is currently
Joining the teaching
becoming certified in social
staff
o
f
HHS, after subbing
studies.
Dowdy and his family since 2000, is Jeannie Collins.
moved back to Heppner in Collins is teaching junior high
2000. His wife, Pam, teaches language arts, as well as
at H eppner E lem entary freshman and sophomore
School. The couple has two classes.
C ollins graduated
children, ages 7 and 5, and one
f r o m
more due in November.
Eastern
Oregon
Petra Elguezabal University
Returning to Heppner, w ith
a
no longer as a student, but bachelor’s
now as a teacher, is Petra degree in
Elguezabal,
language
2 3
.
arts
in
This is
1992 and
Elguezabal's
completed
f i r s t
her student
te a c h in g
teaching in
jo b a fte r
1999. This
graduating
is her first
f r o m
y e a r
W e s te rn
teaching
O re g o n
language arts.
University
During her college
w ith
a
career, Collins studied in Japan
bachelor of
for one year. She said it was a
arts degree
great experience and that she
in Spanish.
was the only blonde in a city
Elguezabal’s family o f one million people.
m oved from N yssa to “Everyone knew who I was
Heppner in 1997, when her and where I belonged,” she
father, Juan Elguezabal, was commented.
offered a teaching position at
Collins, who was
HHS.
raised in Imnaha and Joseph,
Elguezabal has been moved to Heppner with her
coaching volleyball in Heppner family in 2000. Her husband,
and when the offer came to Tim, works for the U.S. Forest
teach she was ex cited , Service- Heppner District. ITie
because she thought HHS couple has three children, ages
would be a great place to get 8, 5 and I month.
started and she was happy to
be able to continue coaching
Kresimir Waite
the volleyball team.
Added bonuses to
Rounding out the new
working at HHS are that she
teachers
at
is teaching in her father's old
H
e
p
p
n
e
r
classroom, and she has one of
her younger brothers in her High School
are brothers,
class.
D i e t e r |
Darlene
Marquardt
Kresimir, 29,
graduated
from Eastern
Oregon
University in
Taking over the
business/computer classes is
St. Patrick’s Senior
D arlene M arquardt, 56.
Center will be holding a fire
Marquardt, who is in her sixth
drill, Monday, Oct. 13, at 7
p.m.
The drill is a way for
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Center residents, staff and
local emergency services to
organize and see how to best
help if a real situation were to
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LaGrande, with a bachelor of
arts degree in math and a
master’s degree in education.
He is teaching 7-12 math.
Dieter, 32, received
his associate’s degree from
Rick’s College in Rexburg, ID,
his bachelor’s degree from
Brigham Young University in
Provo, UT, and his master’s
from Eastern O regon
University in LaGrande. He is
teaching biology and life
science.
Dieter said that he had
originally set out to become a
veterinarian, but after tutoring
and student teaching at college,
decided he would prefer
pursing a career in teaching.
Kresimir and Dieter
come from a family o f 11
children, who grew up on
Buttercreek, but just on the
other side of the line that sent
them to Pilot Rock for high
school. Dieter commented that
their youngest sibling will be
turning 10 and many of the
siblings play against Heppner
in school athletics.
Dieter Waite
Both brothers had
talked
about the
possibility
o f being
able to
teach in
the same
school,
but were
not sure
t h e y
would be
able to
find
a
school
that needed both a math and
science teacher at the same
time. Luckily, HHS needed
both and liked both.
Both, Kresimir and
Dieter have settled in Heppner
with their families and hope to
be able to settle here. The like
Eastern Oregon and Heppner
has the benefit of being close
to family and friends.
Kresimir, and wife,
Shelbey, have a 3-1/2 month
old named Libby.
D ieter, and w ife,
Bridget, have two children,
Reiah, 4 and Leo, 2, and are
expecting a third child.
DA works to
resolve alleged
embezzlement
case
Morrow County
District Attorney David C.
Allen told the Gazette-Times
Tuesday that he is set to meet
with a subject alleged to have
embezzled money from local
public entities, her lawyer and
Heppner attorney Bill Kuhn.
“ We are pursuing
potential resolution o f the
case,” said Allen. Kuhn
declined to comment.
Football pics,
scores on Internet
Scores o f this Thursday’s
away game against Weston
will be posted on the Heppner
website at www.heppner.net.
The game starts at 7 p.m.
Also the gallery of sports
photos keeps growing with
action shots of the colt and
junior high football teams
added this week. There are
also new action photos of the
Mustangs win over Wahtonka
last week.
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