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Salado High Grad Pictures on Page 7A-10A Salado VVillageillage VVoiceoice Vol. XXX, Number 4 Thursday, May 24, 2007 254/947-5321 fax 254/947-9479 www.saladovillagevoice.com 50¢ Salado High School names Valedictorian, Salutatorian Salado High School pionship UIL academic a recent one in Colorado, of Stacy Rooney and Rich- has named the top two teams for all four years of and has also participated ard Winn, of Salado. Her graduates for the Class of high school. She recently in the church choir, and brother, Tyler, graduated 2007. They are Valedicto- placed second in State in volunteered with Vacation from Salado High School rian Crystal Schoellmann Prose Interpretation, and Bible School events and in 2005. and Salutatorian Molly finished first place in that Habitat for Humanity. Rooney was a standout Rooney. category on the district She credits her success at Salado in athletic and Crystal Schoellman has level in her junior and se- to having a supportive academic endeavors. She been named Valedictorian nior years. family and several influ- was a member of Salado for Salado High School’s In addition, Schoellman ential teachers at Salado High School’s UIL Aca- graduating class of 2006- was a seven-year member High School, including demic Team for four years, 07. of the Salado band, where J.J. Jonas, Dennis Caban- including the Math Team Schoellman will grad- she played the clarinet. which placed second at Crystal Schoellman Molly Rooney iss and Christian Briehn. uate with a 103.05 grade She also participated in She notes that Cabaniss’ the State Meet for three of highest ranking graduate, point average. the UMHB Conservatory While at the University courses, in particular, her four years. She also she will have her first year An attendee of Salado Choir. of Texas, she plans to try have prepared her well for participated in the Science of tuition paid in full at schools since the fifth Her excellent academic out for the school’s con- college. “His class was competition. the University of Texas in grade, Crystal is the record earned her a multi- cert band and choir. Her always challenging,” she Her athletic accom- Austin. daughter of Rosanna and tude of scholarships. She brother John currently at- says. plishments include being Schoellman plans to Matthew Schoellman. was the recipient of an tends the University of a two-time medalist at focus her studies on bio- During her time at IBM Watson Scholarship, Texas, as well, and was a With a grade point average the Class AA State Track logical sciences, and has Salado, Schoellman stayed in the amount of $8,000, a 2003 graduate of Salado of 103.04, Molly Rooney and Field Meet. In her an interest in zoology and busy both with academics Salado Education Founda- High School. will represent Salado specialty, the 300m hur- veterinary medicine. She and extra curricular ac- tion scholarship ($2,000), A member of the First High School’s graduating dles, Rooney won gold as would like to pursue her tivities. She participated a City Federation of Wom- Baptist Church of Salado, class of 2006-07 as salu- a junior and bronze as a postgraduate education at in Salado’s state cham- en’s Clubs scholarship Schoellman has taken part tatorian. senior. She finished just a university in Europe. ($1,500), and for being the in mission trips, including Molly is the daughter SEE TOP GRADS, PAGE 14A Memorial Day Service at planned Salado Cemetery By MaryBelle Brown were buried in the local country during the late last Monday in May under Contributor cemetery. rebellion, and whose bod- the National Holiday Act On the morning of May ies now lie in almost ev- of 1971. Friends of Salado Cem- 5, 1866, the townspeople ery city, village or hamlet Since the National etery Association will placed flowers, wreaths churchyard in the land. In Holiday Act of 1971, the host the annual Memo- and cross on the graves this observance, no form traditional observance rial Day Service at the of the Northern soldiers of ceremony is prescribed of Memorial Day has di- historic Salado Cemetery in the cemetery. There are but posts and comrades minished. Many Ameri- on Baines St., beginning also reports that women’s will in their own way ar- cans have forgotten the at 9:30 a.m. May 28. Area groups in the south were range such fitting ser- meaning and traditions of residents and visitors are decorating graves before vices and testimonials of Memorial Day. At many invite to attend the ser- the end of the Civil War. It respect as circumstances cemeteries, the graves of vice to join in horoning of has been difficult to prove may permit.” In the North- the fallen veterans are in- conclusively who origi- ern states, the 30th of May creasingly ignored and ne- veterans of nine different Soldiers from Fort Hood’s First Cav posted colors at last wars who are buried in nated the practice. Many was observed as Decora- glected. Many people no believe that there were nu- tion Day, while the South- longer remember proper year’s Memorial Day Service. The public is invited to this Salado Cemetery. year’s ceremony May 28. What we know as Me- merous beginnings in dif- ern states commemorated flag etiquette for the day. contributed to the noncha- ful and meaningful ser- morial Day was originally ferent towns where people their war dead on different Some believe that Me- lant observance of Memo- vice. Flags are placed on known as Decoration Day. came together to honor the days. Some of the South- morial Day was intended rial Day.” There have been the grave of every veteran Down through the years, soldiers killed in the Civil ern state still follow this for honoring all the de- efforts to change the date buried in the cemetery by there have been several War. practice. ceased buried in a par- back to May 30 but have a local Boy Scout troop. cities and towns which Decoration Day was The name of Decora- ticular cemetery, not just been unsuccessful. The Association usually have taken credit for cel- officialy proclained on tion Day was changed to for those who died while Friends of Salado Cem- has soldiers from Ft. Hood ebrating the beginning of May 5, 1868 by General Memorial Day in 1882 serving their country. The etery Association chose to participate in the service. this memorable gathering. John Logan, National and soldiers who had died National Commander of meet on the last Monday Area residents are encour- One of these stories is that Commander of the GRand while serving their coun- the Veterans of Foreign because many people had aged to attend. a gentleman named Henry Army of the Republic, in try prior to the Civil War Wars stated in his 2002 a holiday from their work (Information for this Wells, who owned a drug his General Order Number were also honored. Memo- Memorial Day address: on this date. The very article was provided by store in Waterloo, New 11, which reads in part: rial Day was designated as “Changing the meeting first Memorial Day was Command Sgt. Maj. Mar- York came up with the “The 30th of May, 1868 is a public holiday in most date of Memorial Day in celebrated at the Salado vin Williams from The idea. He suggested that designated for the purpose states. the National Holiday Act Cemetery on a Saturday. Military Order of the Pur- all the shops in town close of strewing flowers or President Richard Nix- of 1971 merely to create a Many volunteers in the ple Heart Central Texas for one day to honor the otherwise decorating the on declared Memorial Day three-day weekend has un- Salado area have worked Chapter (1876).) soldiers who were killed graves of comrades who to become a federal holi- dermined the meaning of together to have a success- in teh Civil War and who died in the defense of their day to be observed on the the day. No doubt this has INSIDE Salado High School Commencement Bulk Rate U.S. Postage Paid CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2B Exercises are 7 p.m. May 24 at the Permit No. 50 CHURCH 14A Salado, TX 76571 CLASSIFIEDS 1C Frank and Sue Mayborn Campus ORUM Subscribe F 2A Center on the campus of the Univer- SHOPPING MAP 6B Today Rooted in Salado SPORTS 5A sity of Mary Hardin-Baylor. Since 1979 254/947-5321 Page 2A, SALADO Village Voice, May 24, 2007 Senate ruse and House insurgency mark final tempestuous days as FORUMFORUM session nears May 28 “sine die” An Open Exchange of Ideas The “Day of Rec­koning” for the Off the 80th Legislative Session is at hand and within the next few weeks, report Record c­ards for the 181 members of the House by Ken Clapp and Senate will be made public­, along with those issued to Governor (“Land- slide”) Perry, and Lt. Governor David and related “ho-hummery,” is a “perfec­t” Dewhurst. quote. Last week - during the upheavals in Meanwhile, House Speaker Tom both houses - we gleaned two suc­h pithy Craddic­k is spending the remaining c­ommentaries that will be remembered session-days manning the barric­ades with appropriate guffaws in the days against an insurgenc­y c­reated by what ahead. Craddic­k loyalists term “an unruly In the House - members have always gang of traitorous” fellow Republi- desc­ribed Speaker Craddic­k’s general c­ans, led by longtime friend and top- behavior patterns, during the three terms gun Jim Keffer (R-Eastland).

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