Pioneer Technology Center (PTC) received the Gold Star School Award in Oklahoma City at the Oklahoma Association of Career and Technology Education’s (OKACTE), yearly Summit.
The Gold Star School Award, sponsored by OKACTE, provides recognition to technology center districts with outstanding programs designed to meet a broad spectrum of community needs.
This is the seventeenth year PTC has met and even exceeded the rigorous standards required in student retention, placement, quality program instruction, recruitment and guidance, assessment capabilities, and diverse business and industry training programs.
“The Gold Star recognition is a challenge to attain and represents a high level of excellence in programs and services. At Pioneer Tech, we continue to focus on our mission of ‘enhancing lives and securing futures,’ and for 17 years it has resulted in gold star performance. I’m extremely proud, that through a focused, collaborative effort, our team again attained this achievement,” commented Traci Thorpe, PTC Superintendent/CEO.
Gold Star School recognition is for 12 months and each school must go through the application process each year. The award, sponsored by the OKACTE, was presented during the annual Oklahoma Summit. Founded in 1973, Pioneer Tech assists students and businesses in Kay County, as well as parts of Osage and Pawnee Counties. For more information about their programs and services, visit www.pioneertech.edu.
Hillcrest Ensemble to perform at Full Moon Concert
“Hillcrest Ensemble” will perform “The Great American Songbook” at the upcoming Full Moon Concert Friday, Sept. 13 in Tonkawa Centennial Park, 301 East Grand in Tonkawa. Eight area musicians will present American Standards – including classics such as Blue Moon, Heart and Soul, Sentimental Journey, Georgia on my Mind, All of Me, In the Mood, On the Sunny Side of the Street and more popular favorites. Come enjoy Tonkawa’s Full Moon Concert and hum along to tunes that have lasted the test of time!
Members of the Hillcrest Ensemble are Denise Jones, clarinet; Paul Parma, bass; Kevin Roe, tenor saxophone; Larry Lenhart, guitar; Suzi Lenhart, vocals; Mary Jane Barraclough, soprano; Mike Seals, jazz piano and Don Long, drums.
Denise Jones received her BFA degree in Music Education from Wichita State University and taught band for two years in Wichita and twenty-six years in Ponca City. She played bassoon with the Mariah Trio and with various local groups, and serves on Arts Adventure Foundation board of directors. Denise and her husband Stan reside in Ponca City.
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