Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - FIVE
New faces come to lone, Heppner schools
H eading the lone
S chools team is Bryn
B row ning, lo n e ’s new
superintendent/principal
Browning,
29, and
h e r
husband.
Josh, and
two girls,
Leslie, 4-
Vi
and
M o rg a n ,
1 - '/* ,
cam e to Bryn Browning
lone from
Vancouver, WA
B row ning has a
b a c h e lo r’s degree from
E astern
W ashington
University and a master’s of
education from Washington
State University-Vancouver
W hile she loves
teaching, Browning was also
interested in following in the
footsteps o f many family
m em bers w ho w ork in
school administration She is
the fourth superintendent in
her family and there has been
an adm inistrator in every
generation Browning feels
that being an administrator
is a way she can make more
o f a difference in students’
lives and she can help her
teach in g s ta ff make a
difference too.
The
tra n sitio n
betw een te ac h e r and
a d m in istra to r
w a sn ’t
expected to come so soon,
but after visiting lone over
Christmas break last year,
Browning and her family fell
in love with lone and its
people The co n nection
drew her to apply for the
open position She said
waiting for the phone call
from the school board on
their decision was one o f the
most difficult moments, but,
once she got the call, was
very excited
Still loving to
interact with the students.
B row ning says th at she
creates tasks that can get her
in the classroom Currently
she reads a few hours a week
w ith
the
elem en tary
students She also took the
opportunity to go on the
natural resources field trip
with the high school She
said she enjoyed getting to
know the students outside of
school “They are great kids,
very respectful and fun ”
A nother bonus to
w orking in lone is that
Browning is a lot closer now
to her extended family Her
parents, George and Donna
Murdock, live in Pendleton
and her in-law s live in
Kennewick
Browning closed in
saying that her staff’is
“great and all are here for
the kids.” She also
appreciates how many
different “hats” many staff
members take on to benefit
the children
Michelle Stone
Michelle Stone, 28,
is another o f the new faces
at lone
S c h o o ls
She
is
te a c h in g
m usic to
t
h
e
elementary
s tu d e n ts
Elem entary School vice
principal, and three children,
moved to H eppner from
M ilto n -F reew ater Stone
said she was looking forward
to getting back to work after
taking two years off from
teaching This is Stone’s fifth
year teaching; she taught for
four y ears in M ilton-
Freewater
Born in M ontana,
Stone
received
her
b a c h e lo r’s d eg ree in
elementary education with a
music minor from Montana
State University-Northern in
Havre
Stone said she is
excited to be teaching in lone
because o f the great kids and
great families
In her free time,
Stone enjoys singing, playing
the piano, writing music and
playing with her children
She and her family also
spend a lot o f their time
enjoying the outdoors with
sports such as snowmobiling
and dirt bike riding
All in all, Stone says
she is very happy to be living
in Heppner and working in
lone, even though neither
has a McDonald’s
Josh Browning
Joining the Heppner
High School team is Josh
Browning Browning, 29, is
teach in g ju n io r high
language arts.
Browning, and his
wife, Bryn, and their two
( K - 8 ) ,
children m oved from
h i g h
Vancouver, WA, to lone,
school
.... „
where she is w orking as
guitar and M.chelle Stone
lo n e ’s su p erin ten d en t/
Title I math
principal and he found a
Stone, who lives in niche in Heppner
Heppner, with her husband
B row ning,
who
D aye Stone, H eppner grew up in K ennew ick,
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.
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re c e iv e d
h
i
s
bachelor’s
degree in
social
studies at
E a s te rn
Washington
University
in Cheney,
WA He
p u rsu e d
his p o s t
g ra d u a te Josh Browning
w ork
in English at
W ashington
State
U niversity-Vancouver
While in Vancouver,
Browning taught for five
years, teaching sixth grade
and 10th grade history. He
also coached football in
V ancouver, skills he is
sharing with lone
When not teaching
or coaching, Browning is
active with his children, as
well as enjoying many
outdoor activities
A
d ifferen ce
B row ning is seeing in
Heppner, as opposed to his
teach in g ex p erien ce in
Vancouver, is that most of
the Heppner students have a
similar know ledge base,
having gone to school
together Also, most o f the
kids know each other really
well
B row ning is also
enjoying living in the area
due to the fact that his family
is a lot closer now
Melissa Coiner
Melissa (McElligott)
Coiner, a Morrow County
native, has returned from
C alifornia to teach in
H eppner. C oiner, who
graduated from lone High
School, came back to the
area after getting married to
Josh Coiner and deciding
that Morrow County was a
better place to raise a family
than California
C oiner, who is
teaching junior high math
and physical ed u catio n ,
received her bachelor o f
science degree in special
education and elementary
education from University of
N evada-R eno She also
coached
t h
e
volleyball
“ B” team
this year
and will
b
e
coaching
t h
e
basketball
“A” team
I n Melissa Coiner
California,
Coiner had been teaching
sixth grade in a year-round
school There has been some
adjustments to teaching in
Heppner, in that classes sizes
are quite a bit smaller than
the 33 students she has been
used to teaching Also,
Coiner had less than a month
between jobs, coming out of
the y ear-ro u n d cycle
Teaching in Heppner is also
nice for Coiner because she
knows many o f the families
of her students
In her free tim e,
Coiner enjoys watching and
playing a variety o f sports,
as well as scrapbooking
Having bought a
home in Heppner, Coiner
says she enjoys being closer
to her family in lone
Bobby Rice
Bobby Rice, 33, has
come to H eppner, from
H alfw ay, to teach K -4,h
grade general music, 5th and
6th grade band, junior high
and high school band and
junior high choir
Rice, who has lived
in Texas and West Virginia,
graduated from Shepherd
C ollege (U n iv ersity ) in
Shepherdtown, W V, with a
bachelor o f arts degree in
secondary
ed u catio n
specializing in music
Wanting to be closer
to his children, ages 4 and 5,
who now live in Portland,
R i c e
looked for
a job in a
t o w n
closer
t h a n
Halfway.
A job was
available
i
n
H e p p n er
and Rice
Bobby Rice
decided it
would work
In his free time, Rice
enjoys studying astronomy
and playing with the Willow
C reek Symphony In the
symphony, he plays the tuba,
which he has really not had
a chance to play for eight
years, but studied in college
Rice, who would like
to stay settled in one place,
is hoping Heppner may be
that town He is also looking
to start a master’s program
some time soon
Also joining the lone
Schools is Bias Elguezabal
E lguezabal c o u ld n ’t be
contacted by publishing time
and will be included in an
article in next week’s edition
of the Gazette
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Football
Second Round State Playoffs:
H ep p n er M ustangs
vs. Nyssa B ulldogs
Saturday, Hovember 20th
at 1 n.m.
at the MG Fairgrounds
Heppner Mustangs Varsity Football Team: back row (L-R)-Nathan Van Cleave, Rory Kilkenny, Matt Kenny, Aaron Delveaux, Peter Geer, Kyle Carlson,
Jode Coil, Kory Paullus, Mikel Britt, Brandon Seitz, Matt Van Cleave; second row-Noah Fleischer, Matt Garrett, Andre Rauch, Quinn Peck, Brendan
McElligott, Jake Van Doom, Aaron Allstott, Tony Haguewood, James Van Liew, Nacho Elguezabal; third row-Gus Torres, Sloan Keithley, Kody
Lovgren, Justin Gregory, Caleb Maben. Justin Delveaux, Colton Hanson, Casey Maben, Robbie Smith, Tyler Boyer, Ben McCarl: front row-Tayler
Hodges, Matt McCabe, Francisco Escalante, Assistant Coach Daye Stone, Head Coach Greg Grant, Assistant Coach Shane Matheny, Assistant
Coach Les Payne, Rick Martin, Sean Murray, Travis Eubanks, Lane Bailey
These businesses and individuals congratulate the
Heppner Mustangs teams on their winning seasons
and say Good Luck in State to Mustangs Football!
GO MUSTAHGS!
and Congratulations to the Heppner Volleyball Team:
Fourth Place Finish in the Columbia Basin Conference
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