GOOD MORNING…HAPPY FRIDAY!
GHS Cross-Country State Qualifier- Congratulations to GHS Junior, Mary Lyndell Graham on qualifying for the Texas State Cross Country Meet!
RSB3- Graham High School's Rompin' Stompin' Big Blue Band will compete at noon on Saturday in UIL Area Marching Contest to be held at C.H. Collins Stadium in Denton. Good Luck RSB3!
Lady Blues and Graham Steer Tennis- Congratulations GHS Tennis on your Fall Season Honors: Boys Singles- Second Team All-District- Luke Qualls, Scott Grimes, and Jaden Noyola. Girls Doubles- Second Team All-District- Sydney Jensen/Jayden Martin. Mixed Doubles- Second Team All-District- Luke Qualls/Reagan Birdwell. Freshman of the Year- Jade Dospapas. Academic All-District- Jade Dospapas, Josh Gipson, John Upton, Lucas Qualls, Denys Klymenko, Sydney Jensen, and Rebekah McCord.
Lady Blues Volleyball- The Lady Blues have qualified for the playoff and will play a warm-up game at 4:00 pm this afternoon vs Tom Bean at Saint Jo. GO LADY BLUES! The Lady Blues will begin the playoffs next Tuesday vs San Angelo Lake View @ Clyde or vs Levelland @ Merkel.
Graham Steer Football- The Steers will be on the road at Midland Greenwood this evening for a 7:00 pm kickoff. GO STEERS!
Graham Incentive for Teacher Awards Coming Soon- As a result of our STAAR Scores this past year Graham ISD will be awarding approximately $115,600.00 in GIFT Awards. The STAAR/EOC Progress Award Amounts are approximately $32,500.00 and the Distinction Designation Awards are approximately $83,000.00. We look forward to delivering these awards as soon as the calculations are finalized by early December.
Hitting the Links…
I once read an article by Roger Knapp titled, “Golf Lesson With My Daughter”. In the article, Mr. Knapp said that there was a year that he couldn’t wait for golf season to start because this was the year his eight-year-old daughter was old enough to be his playing partner.
He mentioned that the girl’s love of golf began when she was two years old. That was when he bought her a child-sized seven iron. It was, of course, too big for her, but she dragged it around the house for three years. When she was five, Roger began taking the child to the driving range and putting greens with him. After work, they would chip a ball in the back yard…until she began to hit the ball with some authority. The day a Titleist went through the bathroom window, daddy and daughter golf was relegated to the driving range. Mother’s orders!
Finally, the day came when Mr. Knapp invited his daughter to play a round of “real” golf on a “real” golf course. The little girl was so excited! She could hardly wait for Saturday morning. The pair traveled a short way to a “family-friendly” par three-course with slow greens. There was no crowd, and the twosome could take their time. It was the perfect place for a “real” golf game.
On that first day with his daughter, Mr. Knapp learned that golf is a wonderful game for teaching life’s little lessons to a child. For instance, “You must count all strokes, even if you accidentally bump the ball and it rolls an inch.” After the first hole, he was surprised when he told his daughter that she took five strokes. She replied, “Oh no, Daddy. Remember I accidentally hit the ball once. I got a six.” He loved his daughter’s honesty! Check that box, lesson 1 learned!
Later she asked Roger, “Daddy, my ball is behind a bush. Can I move it?” When he told her that a player cannot move the ball; that it has to be played where it lays, he was able to teach another lesson.
As he repaired a divot on the tee, Roger explained that in golf one always leaves the course better than it was found. For the rest of the game, the daughter wanted to repair every divot on every green. Eventually when she was taking too long repairing divots, and they were holding up the play of the group behind them, he taught another lesson about slow play and how your actions can affect others.
For the little girl golf was just fun. Hit the ball as hard as you can, go find it, and hit it again. Who cares what the score is? However, the time his daughter put her ball closer to the pin than Roger, was a red-letter day. Mom heard about that shot!
As I think about it, these lessons are pretty timely. While all of them are good to remember on a golf course, they are good life lessons for all of us. Be honest, deal with life’s events as they come, leave things better than you find them, and be considerate of others. Maybe we should post these “rules” as a reminder for everyone.
Roger writes that after the round, while drinking lemonade and eating candy in the clubhouse, his daughter pushed back her visor and said to her dad, “That was a lot of fun. Let’s do it again soon!”
I pray at the end of each day that you can echo the little girl, “That was fun. Let’s do it again soon!”
HAVE A NICE DAY…TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF AND OTHERS!
CORNY JOKE OF THE DAY:
What do you call a bear with no teeth? (Scroll down for the answer.)
A Gummy Bear!
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