The Royse City ISD Education Foundation held their first annual Top Dogs Spectacular on Tuesday night at Occasions at Stone River in Royse City.  The event was emceed by Foundation Vice President Jeff Hays, in honor of Royse City High School students who excel in academics, extra-curricular, and leadership and their most influential teacher.  The students and teachers were presented awards by Foundation Director Ouida Baley and Foundation President Scott Muckensturm.

The Royse City High School Top Dogs and their Most Influential Teacher for 2010 are:

Mallori Baumann – Coach Bruce Bradley, World History, Royse City HS

Ben Cahill – Josh Hamilton, Debate Royse City HS

Jocelynn Denham – Coach Jo Ann Guilford, RC Middle School Athletics

James Drakes – Chandra Caffee, AP English, Royse City HS

Andy Farrar – Lisa Posey, AP English, Royse City HS

Camille Flores – Dale Brewer, 7^th Grade Science, Royse City MS and Anatomy, Royse City HS

Kyle Hammonds – Scott Tipton, Theatre Arts, Royse City HS

Heather Hebron – Dean Bouras, Band Director, Royse City HS

Ashley Lay – Chef Cindy Clark, Culinary Arts, Royse City HS

Jennifer Lehfeldt – Daryle Smith, Physics, Royse City HS

Wade Mathis – Kimberly Yeager, English, Royse City HS

Russell Newsom – Vicki Coker, Biology, Royse City HS

Lauren Pettitt – Robert Mora, Spanish, Royse City HS

Selina Rainey – Ashley Dodson-Jones, Housing & Interior Design, Royse City HS

Brittany Rogers – JoLynn Morman-Harper, Student Council, Royse City MS

Dani Sanders – In Memory, Ronnie Wood, 8^th Grade Science, Royse City MS

Rebekah Schehrer – Tarryn Coy, AP Calculus, Royse City HS

Zach Trette – David Skidmore, AP US Government, AP US History, AP Macro Economics, Royse City HS

Kelly Van Dyke – In Memory, Ronnie Wood, 7^th & 8^th Grade Science, Royse City MS

Brian Vance – Coach Russ Stovall – Coach, Teen Leadership and Health, Royse City HS

The senior students and their families were treated to a delicious dinner prepared by Chef Zach and the Royse City High School Culinary Arts Class.  The Occasions staff worked with our Interior Design students to help us create an elegant venue to host the event.

The Royse City ISD Education Foundation would like to thank their sponsors for making the occasion possible.  American National Bank of Texas-Royse City, Pete & Rhonda Black, Farmers Electric Cooperative, Fish Camp-Bobby and Marti Crowell, Congressman Ralph Hall, Randy and Mary Alice Hancock, Kari Hargrave-State Farm Insurance, Rich and Tammie Lewis, David and Shirley Magness, McLeroy Law Firm, Muckensturm Family, Dr. Michelle Munn-Eye Care of Royse City, ONCOR Electric Delivery, Royse City Early Bird Rotary Club, and Texas Leadership Bank.

The Foundation is already beginning plans for 2011 Top Dogs Spectacular!  Make your plans to attend and spend a very special evening with RCHS students and their most influential teachers.

Top Dogs Spectacular – May 11, 2010 – 6:30 PM – Occasions at Stone River       

The Top Dogs Spectacular honors the top 20 Graduating Royse City High Seniors for their achievements in the classroom, school and in the community.  Scholars are selected based on criteria that includes grade point average; number of honors; advanced placement; community service and leadership skills.  These student are truly the Top Dogs in our community.

The banquet allows the top 20 scholars to pay tribute to those educators who had the most positive impact on their life.  The Royse City ISD Education Foundation salutes these fine educators and thanks them for sharing their time, talents,  knowledge, creativity and love of learning with our youth. They make a difference in our schools and community, one student and one class at a time.

Founding Donor Reception – April 11, 2010 2:00 PM – Royse City High School Fine Arts Center

The Royse City Education Foundation takes a moment to honor and recognized our Founding Donors for their help in giving our foundation a great start!

Thursday, January 28^th may have been a gray and dreary day outside, but in the halls of Royse City ISD campuses the smiles and faces shone brightly!

The Royse City ISD Education Foundation gave over $29,400 in teacher grants on Thursday during this first year of their development. The Foundation Grant Patrol paraded onto campuses with balloon bouquets, big checks and cheers to present teachers with their grant award.  It was such an awesome day for all those involved and the Foundation has More Money to give away!

Beginning in the 2010-11 school year, in order to give teachers more time to set up their grant projects, the Foundation will call for grants on September 1, 2010.  The deadline to submit grants to the foundation office will be October 1, 2010.   So teachers this summer put on your thinking caps and get ready to apply for your chance to win! 

The Royse City ISD Education Foundation will resume their fund raising efforts next fall to continue making innovative and creative programs a reality for Royse City ISD teachers and students! 

There were 16 grants awarded, with 50 teachers associated with those grants.  The grant programs will inspire creative and innovative learning for 1,787 students.  Congratulations to following teachers for their innovative efforts!

Grant Awards 2010

The Royse City ISD Education Foundation held its’ Founders Drive Dinner on Friday, November 6, 2009 at Occasions at Stone River.  In this start up year of the Foundation the Board of Directors set a fund raising goal of $100,000, with hopes to have raised half that amount by November 6^th.  Thanks to the generosity of local citizens and businesses Ruth Cherry, President of the Education Foundation, announced gifts and pledges totaled $176,491.71, during the Founder’s Drive!  Some of the funds came from multi-year pledges and $45,808 was received in designated funds that will be used for two RCHS Senior student scholarships. The Founding Donor Campaign ended on January 15, 2010.  The RCISD Education Foundation Directors would like to thank all those who so generously gave to support Creative and Innovative Education at Royse City Independent School District!

The Royse City ISD Education Foundation is beginning their Founder’s Drive on August 28, 2009.  This is the first year of our foundation and the only opportunity for you to become a founding donor.

The Founder’s Drive Kick-off Dinner is Friday, November 6^th at 6:30 PM at Occasions at Stone River, Royse City, Texas.

If you are interested in becoming a Founding Donor or attending the Foundation Dinner please contact Jo Nell Mellody at 972-636-2413.

The Founder’s Drive will end on January 15, 2010.