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Camryn Molnar, daughter ofMark and Terri Molnar,granddaughter of Jake andVonnie Morris, and Zolt andPat Molnar of Gloucester,graduated from the Univer-sity of Mary Washington onMay 8, 2020. She graduatedMagna Cum Laude with a BSdegree in Biology and aminor in Chemistry. In theFall, she will attend VirginiaCommonwealth UniversitySchool of Pharmacy.

Dan and Sharon Parr areproud to announce thegraduation of their son,Aaron Parr, from the Univer-sity of Delaware. Aarongraduated with an HonorsDegree, a Bachelor of Sci-ence degree in Chemical En-gineering. He was also anactive member of his frater-nity, Lambda Chi Alpha. Hehas accepted a position asthe plant engineer with Cov-anta, a company that spe-cializes in sustainableenergy and waste solutions.

Honor Rolls releasedGloucester HighGloucester High School re-

cently released its honor rolls for the third quarter of the 2019-2020 school year. Stu-dents receiving all As during the marking period were:

Seniors—Bayleigh Albert, Kameryn Altizer, Leah Alto, Celeste Barber, Shane Barker, Jenna Bartelli, Erin Bell, Dan-iel Bendit, Macey Berg, Shawnee Berry, Alice Bishop, Nathian Bovidge, Sarah Branch, Tyler Britt, Carson Brooks, Jus-tin Burgess, Kenneth Carter Jr., Patrick Clay, Chloe Cobb, Olivia Cohn, Cannon Cole, Audrey Conner, Makenzie Crites-McDonald, Kristin Del Corso, Chan-dler Dolan, Brianna Domenech, Brianna Douglas, Daniel Driver, Aleigha Free-man, Austin Gauthier, Colin Goetz, Al-lison Goodwin, Dasia Gray, Brooke Haley, Lauren Hall, Elijah Hamilton, Ja-cob Hart, Matthew Haydon, Christine Hicks, Cheyenne Hicks, Julian Hogge, Kayla Hogge, Daniel Hook, Rana Incze, Nicole Jimenez, Hunter-Paige Johnson, Violet Kagey, Mattison Kierulf, Kaylee Klaiss, Brayden Larue, Alyssa Lass, Mat-thew Mallory, Nathan Marsh, Sabrina Marshall, Rebecca McTavish, Ainsley Miller, Logan Monnoyer, Jessica Mun-ley, Kathryn Neikirk, Rhiannon Nolte, Daryn Olsen, Anna Owens, Cameron Owens, Joon Park, Eleanor Pohorence, Ethan Polley, Christopher Potter, Car-oline Putnam, Robert Rekrut, Olivia Rich, Scott Richardson, Malaika Rilee, Logan Rippel, Nicholas Robbins, Ned Rose, Lauren Rudisill, Makaela Seitz, Jeremiah Shaffer, Brianna Simmons, Alyssa Smith, Lokelani Smith, Macken-zie Smith, Thomas Steele, Cole Stevens, Patrick Stone, Jelani Suarez, Mackenzie Sullivan, Cassidy Taggart, Jacob Taylor, Margaret Teagle, Tom Terzich-Waters, Ashley Thompson, Laura Tobin, Ben-jamin Tschirhart, Mary Vaughan, Mary Waclo, Desiree Walker, David Ward, Ka-lyn Ward, Makala White, Chinesha Wil-liams, Elizabeth Winfield, Farren Winter and Brandon Wrenn.

Juniors—Chloe Alsop, Addison Brown, Cody Brown, Kayleigh Brown, Lester Brown, Jared Butler, Johnathan Carpenter, Zachary Carr, Christopher Carter, Kurt Carter, Jonathan Cook, Brandon Corson, Abigail Countiss, Alex-ander Daniel, Kayleigh Davison, Ethan Duke, Aiden Elko, Curtis Evans, Stewart February, Tatum Foster, Trent Fox, Aus-tin Glockner, Michael Greene Jr., Madi-son Gross, Rylan Hankins, Noah Harris, Ellie Hines, Margaret Hodges, Alexan-der Howe, William Hudgins II, Kyleigh Johnson, Mackenzie Jones, Samuel Kagey, Frank Kennedy, Gracie King, Sa-vanna Klaus, Lewis Lawrence IV, Alexis Little, Bryce Lowe, Clair McEntire, Jo-seph Normyle, Victoria Nuzzi, Cara O’Beirne, Kraigory Odom Jr., Ella Poul-son, Jalen Pryor, Hunter Richardson, Leah Robins, Jack Sandahl, Destiny Sawyer, Matthew Shackelford, Jonathan Shao, Caitlyn Shelton, Eden Smith, Au-bree Starnes, Skylar Tenan, Nataleigh Thayer, Elaina Ward, Nevaeh Washing-ton, Emma Williams and Bonnie Wilson.

Sophomores—Alexis Adams, Bay-leigh Andersen, Daniella Asnicar, Ethan Baker, Grace Clark, Hayden Clev-enger, Nancy Colwell, Cecilia Crane, Ian Dorego, Adam Eckstein, Ayden Em-brey, Alexander Goller, Hanna Heaton, Brenna Hendrix, Jacob Jackson, Ol-ivia Jones, Mallory Kerr, Nicolas Lebel, Emma Madre-Adams, Alexa Mann, Caroline Merchant, Nehemiah Mer-ritt, Tabitha Moore, Kai Neff, Elanna Northstein, Esmeralda Perez, Isabelle Pohorence, Ruthanne Proctor, Emily Riordan, Bowen Rose, Lukas Rothen-berger, Kayla Sears, Colton Smith, Kasey Smith, Andrew Teagle, Kylee Thomp-son, Mackenzie Tobin, Savannah Welsh, Zachary White, Ellyana Wilson-Carter and William Wood.

Freshmen—James Avella, Hope Ayers, Dylan Barrett, Abby Brown, Ain-slee Brown, Rochelle Castro, Kazmir Cole, Levi Cole, Mara Collier, Allison Farley, Cayden Felder, Kareena Fergu-son, Christian Franklin, Danaysha Gray, Shelby Harris, Wilton Hudgins, Chan-dler Johnson, Cheyanne Johnson, Joel Junker, Victoria King, Amber Ko-lenc, Charlotte Lasseigne, Savannah Lewis, Jonathan Maddox, Hanna Ma-rina, Joshua Mayer, Kamila Miles, Anna Miller, Jordynn Mitchell, Hannah Parker, Charles Piercy, Heaven Remski, Quentin Reyes and Kimberly Sweeney.

Students named to the A/B honor roll for the marking pe-riod were:

Seniors—Colby Adams, Greyson Allen-Focht, Sean Atwood, Mariah Au-brey, Evelyn Austin, Shauna Bailey, Nathan Blackwood, Andrea Booker, Brieann Brannigan, Brandt Brophy, Ian

Buswell, Jeremy Carr, Brianna Casey, Aidan Collier, Cierra Conney, Micaela Crayton, Garrett Croxton, Dayannha Curry, Zachary Danforth, Dominic De-lutis, Ashley Dickerson, Joelle Durren, Margaret Dye, Erick Earwood, Em-ily Elam, Alayna Farley, Melody Fergu-son, Kylie Frush, Jalen Gardner, Caelan Geach, Elizabeth Gill, Seth Gornick, Cyjan Gray, Christian Green, Hannah Hamay, Casey Hance, Destiny Har-ris, Michael Harshfield, Lauren Hart-man, Diana Harwood, Cameron Heath, Zachary Hendrix, Matthew Hill, Curtis Hogge, Morgan Hogge, Caitlin Hollo-way, Thomas Horsley, Tanner Hunt, Wil-liam Jenkins, Natalie Jimenez, Jeremy Jordan, Joseph Kawasi, Makenna Keyes, Katelyn Kierulf, Timothy Long, Black-Panther Mason, Tyler Mazzuca, Tyler McClellan, Faith McClelland, Jacob Mc-Donough, Charles McKeller Jr., Alexis McLaughlin, Autumn Moore, Taylor Moore, Destiny-Grace Morales, Christo-pher Morrison, Zane Musick-Williams, Deborah Nix, Cameron Northup, Olivia Oliver, Ryan Osborne, Ethan Parr, Ben-jamin Paul, Jacqueline Petty, Garreth Pyatt, Nekolas Raya-Aguilera, Brandon Razzo, Cameron Ridolfi, Frankie Rodri-guez, Margaret Ronan, Robert Rosario, Taylor Rowe, Toby Salmon, Samuel Scal-pati, Darren Schmidt, Walker Schott, Ashlynn Scott, Keanu Sheppard, Ty-ler Shockley, Allyson Simmons, Gra-cie Smith, Summer Smith, Scott South, Jesse Starcher, Nathan Steele, Luke Sul-livan, Mikaela Thomas, Abigail Thorn-ton, Elianna Tirado, Michael Toms, Maya Torres, Jasmine Trinidad, Aaron Van-Vranken, Trinity Walke, Kaylee Walls, Taylor West, Jordan Whitehurst, Jayden Whiting, Hailey Williams, James Wilson, Talyn Winfrey, Alexzandra Wright and Alyssa Yarka.

Juniors—Destini Baccus, Emily Bard, Faith Bauman, Madyson Bene-field, Nicholas Biggs, Brooke Billhimer, Lainey Blanks, Easton Blodgett, Alexan-dria Bontager, Alice Brannigan, Samuel Briscoe, Christian Brown, Hailey Brown, Avery Cady, Nicholas Carr, Josie Chaf-fin, Pierce Charles, Sarah Coates, Cait-lyn Coltrain, Robert Cox, Abigail Coxe, Aryanna Cuneo, Marissa Defigio, Da-vid Dong, Emily Ezzell, Justin Faris, Mat-thew Fitzgerald, Sebastian Foster, Dylan Freiermuth, William Galloway, Nathan Garner, Jonathan Gore, Olivia Greene, Leighann Harper, Sebastian Harris, Lau-ren Harvey, Julia Hedgecock, Adam Hogge, Brooke Holloman, Hayley Horn, Mahlon Horsley, Hannah Howard, Der-ryl Hunt, Kyle Huskey, Alona Hux, Joshua Ipock, Kaylee Isaksen, Kolin Jen-kins, Marlo Jenkins, Hannah Johnson, Joshua Kuehn, Hailey Lambert, Owen Lanier, Madison Los, Aidan Lynskey, Connor Lyons, Jacob Lyons, Jacob Mad-dox, Amanda Marshall, Kayla Massen-gill, Logan Mills, Bailey Moore, Gavin Morris, Anara Morrison, William Moser, Jordan Mumford, Natalie Nelson, Da-vid Nuttall, Conner O’Beirne, Ryan Ock-uly, Timothy Oliver, Austin Passwater, Justin Petrowicz, Nicole Pinder, Molly Pouchot, Kaitlyn Prevette, Douglas Pruim II, Zachary Ramaglino, Edmund Reisser, Katelyn Rollins, Jordan Scott, Jessica Sears, Paige Sibley, Rachelle Smith, Samuel Smith, Meadow Spears, A’nya Strazdins, Hunter Sturgeon, Ra-chel Swain, Haley Taylor, Meghan Tay-man, Melanie Tew, Thomas Torrey, Veronica Trist, Jordan Trueblood, Caleb Van Houdt, Ryleigh Vought, Marshall Wauhop, Trinity Wells, Johnn West, Ma-rie Wilson, Aiden Wright, Bryce Wyne, Stephanie Yeager and Angelica Zele-don-Munoz.

Sophomores—Cadence Altizer, Kay-lin Amaral, Virginia Anderson, William Bagent, Tanner Baker, Laurel Bane, Ra-chel Baxley, Leo Berry, Micah Blaylock, Connor Brooks, Cayden Brumm, Daniel Burch, Kaira Burke, Charlotte Buswell, Cabot Call, Makalya Calloway, Grace Chapman, Torri Clarke, Samuel Cook, Genevieve Cooksey, Isabella Dalton, Gaige Davidson, Tyler Dickerson, Lily Dize, Randall Dobson, Haylee Dryden, Brooklynn Dudley, Christian Duke, Jax-son Ellison, Kiera Erickson, Gabriel Es-piritu, Cesar Fajardo-Nieto, Elena Field, Grace Fox, Giovanni Gates, Kayla Gibbs, Marcus Giles, Richard Green, Alania Griffith, Isaac Hancock, Taylor Hawkey, Makayla Hess, Lydia Hicks, Alexander Hogge, Brandon Hogge, Joshua Hook, Ashley Howle, Marie Hutchens, Dana Jenkins, Adrianna Johnson, Dorian Kersey, Haylee Kreiger, Ethan Lyons, Georgina Manti, Duane Marshall, Bri-anna Martin, Clint Matteson, Jacob Mc-Gee, Daniel McTavish, Aaron Miller, Delaja Minor, Karlie Minton, Gabrielle Moore, Raymond Morgan III, Cora Mor-gan, Kailee Morris, Lambert Moulen-belt, Isabella Nolte, Emily Olvera, Elijah Parker, Devin Parrish, Lily Perger, Pace Peterson, Skylee Phippins, Tatiyana Pol-lard, Gage Powell, Rebecca Pratt, Kiley Pryor, Stephanie Riedell, William Roady, Regan Sampson, Judith Saunders, Hunter Shaffer, Jessica Simmons, Hailey

Smith, Carley Somervell, Angelo Stel-lon, Haleigh Tidwell, Gabrielle Tillage, Brandon Tomlinson, Jaeda Torres, Ava Tschirhart, Albina Vasilyeva, Cali Vickers, Brenna Wade, Sirena Wain-wright, Louis Walker, Emily Weekly, Torianna West and Kylee Wicker.

Freshmen—Andrew Adames, Alexia Adams, Cameron Ashley, Ken-dall Billings, Lacy Booth, Leela Booth, Colleen Brownley, Lalanie Caldwell, Mazlyn Cannon, Aniya Carter, Bran-don Carucci, John Cherkauer, Alexis Cruz, Caitlyn Davis, Jaden Driver, Ethan Eisenhauer, Farrah Falkenberg, Ethan Figueroa, Jordan Floyd, Mandy Frost, Ethan Gardiner, Michael Gayle Jr., Frederick Graef, Arenessa Gray, Hadley Griffin, Taylor Guill, Kirsten Hale, Dolores Hall, Jenna Hammer-bacher, Kayden Hawk, Niklas Hen-dryx, Hannah Hoffman, Owen Hogge, Regan Hogge, Amelia Hol-land, Emma Howard, Kayleigh How-ard, Cory Hunt, Adam Isaksen, Faith Isberner, Trinity Jackson, Kayly Ja-cobs, Sheryl Jenkins, Shyne Jessen, Abigail Keithley, Ian Kilby, Danni Knott, Brady Landry, Taylor Loving, Gunner Martin, Melaina Martin, John McCloskey, Connor McDonald, Ca-rissa McMillan, Haeleigh McNeely, Danah Melo, Carter Miclette, Clayton Miller, Kayleigh Miller, Deanna Mitch-ell, Kylie Modispaw, Maxwell Mou-lenbelt, Sarah Olsen, Kailey Ormsby, Nathan Patterson, Jackson Proctor, Hannah Rippel, Joshua Rodriguez Cruz, Evan Sanford, Angelina Schilke, Chet Schlangen, Tristan Schmidt, Re-bekah Schrader, Justin Shackelford, Arthur Shier II, Andrew Showers, Lydia Smith-Hubbard, Kaylyn Stukes, Samantha Tate, Carolyn Thompson, Zachary Thrift, Rayna Valcourt, Vali-ree Vining, Emily Waddles, Declan Wade, Hayden Wagner, Adam Wal-lace, Andrew Ward, Richard Welch III and Destiny Wheeler.

Mathews HighMathews High School

recently released its end-of-year honor rolls for the 2019-2020 school year.

Students receiving all As were:

Seniors—Kamryn Blake, Beverly Foster, Kristen Frank, Lydia Hudgins, Kath-ryn Mew, Alexandra Mills, Ryan Sanderson, Hannah Smith, Matthew Taylor, Jen-nifer Wells and Skyller Wor-ley.

Juniors—Grace Ban-durco, Kylie Berry, Abigail Hudgins, Alejandra McCur-ry, Brittany Ottarson, Den-nis Wood, Jennifer Young and Lillian Young.

Sophomores—Kelly Britt, Carson Brown, Joice Small and Joshua Wathen.

Freshmen—Ethan Hud- gins and Emily Theil-Goin.

Students making the A/B honor roll were:

Seniors—Ellie Armistead, Brooke Barefoot, Quinton Dixon, Hannah Hirschberg, Jovan Johnson, Ashton Ness, Jack Perry, Michaela Slaugh-ter, Jeremiah Velez and Christian Wil-liams.

Juniors—Mahaila Burton, Cody Carnes, Sophie Gibson, John Green, Lauren Hudgins, Connie Johnson, Violet Krikales, Jackson Putt, Brian Robinson, Kelsey Ryan, Melissa So-chor, Samuel Thomas, Stacie Thomas and Lanazia Whalen.

Sophomores—Liam Barnes, Grayson Camp, Hannah Canady, Makayla Church, Kandace Curko, Brandon Gandee, Richard Hogge, William Hospodar, Charity Hudgins, Jordan Hunley, Riley Jarvis, Gabriel Lang, Emily Lewis, Miles Maggion-calda, Hadyn McMurtray, Kathleen Moran, Daniel Moughon, Cameron Stearns, Emily West, Cole Wheeler, Dylan White and Kathleen Winters.

Freshmen—Dawson Adams, Sarah Ashbaugh, Sandra Baer, Lil-lian Copeland, Zayle Darby, Savan-nah Hartlove, Alyson Jackson, Faith Lewis, Chelsea Lowe, Massimo Mas-tromano, Natalie McDevitt, Anna-belle Morgan, Clayton Owens, Anna Raub, Rianna Richmond, Cora Rowe, Aleksa Slavkovic, Justin Smith, Cole Thacker, Robert Trotman and Tara White.

GREA awards four $1,000 scholarships

The Gloucester Retired Edu-cators Association has award-ed four $1,000 scholarships from two funds to Gloucester High School seniors.

Receiving $1,000 from the GREA is Maggie Ronan, who plans to attend James Madi-son University for a major in communications disorders and speech and language edu-

cation.GREA also presented three

$1,000 scholarships from the Carris Harris Memorial Schol-arship, saying that Harris was a devoted member who died in 2018. Her family set up the scholarship fund.

Recipients of the Harris scholarships are Mary Waclo, who plans to attend Rappa-

hannock Community Col-lege to study education; Taylor West, who will at-tend JMU to major in psy-chology/school counseling with a minor in music; and Hailey Williams, who will attend JMU to study vocal music and theater.

Maggie Ronan Mary Waclo Taylor West Hailey Williams

Governor’s School students recognized for research projects

Local Chesapeake Bay Governor’s School students recognized for their research by the Virginia Junior Academy of Sciences included, from left, Patrick Stone, Caela Gilsinan and Justin Burgess of Gloucester, and Sierra Funk of Middlesex.

Students at the Chesa-peake Bay Governor’s School continued to be involved in various scientific research symposia and competitions throughout the spring semes-ter in spite of school closures due to coronavirus pandemic restrictions.

Many events were held on-line, with students adapting and responding to the new challenges, according to a press release from instructor Sara Beam.

A number of students at the Glenns campus were rec-ognized for their exemplary research during this year’s CBGS Science Symposium at Virginia Commonwealth Uni-versity.

Gloucester residents Bri-ana Pollard and Patrick Stone were recognized for their pa-pers titled “The Stability of Biocides in Antifouling Bot-tom Paint and Toxic Effects in Nearby Waters” and “Large Scale Climate Oscillations’ Ef-fect on River Discharge in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed,” respectively. Middlesex resi-dents Sydney Funk and Jaden Reed were recognized for their research on “Point or Non-point? Bacterial Pollution and Water Quality in Urbanna

Creek” and “The Angle of Im-pact: The Hunt for the Best Basketball Shooting Form,” respectively.

Other students recognized were Annabelle Brame and Sam Robinson of New Kent and Elissa Smith of King and Queen.

Four local students were chosen from the Glenns cam-pus to present their papers at the Junior Science and Hu-manities Symposium spon-sored by the federal Depart-ment of Defense and hosted this year by Longwood Uni-versity. They presented their studies via Webex confer-ences to judges and an on-line audience, with intense question-and-answer sessions following their presentations.

Student presenters were Kristen Frank of Mathews, “Assessing Oyster Reef Resto-ration and its Effect on Nearby Oyster Spat Recruitment” and three Gloucester students—Justin Burgess, “Carbonate Dissolution Rates in Varied Substrates in a CO2 Enriched Environment”; Nathan Marsh, “Random Number Genera-tion: Does Human Influence Change the Outcome”; and Patrick Stone, “Large Scale Climate Oscillations’ Effect on

River Discharge in the Chesa-peake Bay Watershed.”

The Virginia Junior Acad-emy of Sciences had to fore-go the formal presentation portion of the competition and scored only the submit-ted manuscripts. In a recent online awards ceremony, Stone won first place in En-vironmental Science for his paper titled “Large Scale Cli-mate Oscillations’ Effect on River Discharge in the Chesa-peake Bay Watershed.” The second-place winner in Envi-ronmental Science was Caela Gilsinan of Gloucester, whose paper was titled “Can Oyster Aquaculture Provide High Quality Habitat in the Chesa-peake Bay?”, while third place was taken by Sierra Funk of Middlesex for her paper ti-tled “Observations on Tidal Currents and Circulation in Urbanna Creek.” Burgess of Gloucester took an honorable mention in Chemistry for his paper, “Carbonate Dissolution Rates in Varied Substrates in a Carbon Dioxide Enriched Environment.” These stu-dents’ papers are still under review for special awards and scholarships that will be an-nounced later this summer.

Gloucester appoints five new teachers

The Gloucester School Board appointed five new teachers for the 2020-2021 school year during its June 9 electronic meeting.

The new appointees includ-ed Laura Chernow of Round Hill, who will teach English at Gloucester High School, Kyle Davis of Gloucester, who will teach auto mechan-ics at GHS and Lauren Epling of Gloucester, who will teach third grade at Botetourt El-ementary.

Also, Logan Howlett of Dut-ton, will teach special educa-tion at Achilles Elementary and Dante Perry of Tarboro, North Carolina, will teach choral music at Peasley Mid-dle School.

The board accepted resigna-tions from Abingdon Elemen-tary Assistant Principal Eliza-beth Galbreath, GHS school counselor Leandra Doane and GHS special education teach-er Travis Patrick, all effective June 30.

Resignations were also ac-cepted from GHS Spanish teacher Jacob Williams, GHS mathematics teacher Lana Mecca, Achilles fourth grade teacher Beth Bauben, Bo-tetourt third grade teacher Patricia Burchill and part-time speech pathologist Erin Moore, all effective at the end of their 2019-2020 contract years.

Resignations were addition-ally accepted for support ser-

vices employees Alicia Spen-cer, effective June 1; Kristine Lamm, effective June 4, and Charity Ungard, effective June 11.

A coaching resignation was also accepted from GHS head girls varsity basketball coach Amy O’Neil, effective May 6.

Retirement was approved for support employees Diane Hearl, Kenneth Peterson and James Torbert, all effective July 1.

CCS hosts Zoom ‘Coffee with Admission’ events

The Admission office at Christchurch School in Mid-dlesex County will host a Zoom “Coffee with Admis-sion” virtual event each Fri-day morning at 9 o’clock (ex-cept July 3) to answer any and all questions about the school’s enrollment and edu-

cational offerings. To participate, sign up at

www.christchurchschool.org/coffee-with-admission or e-mail Assistant Director of Ad-mission John Dehm directly at [email protected].

GCPS alters meal delivery

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Currently, Mathews County and the rest of the state are in Phase II of the governor’s reopening plan, which limits congregations to 50 or fewer people. Given those param-eters, it would be difficult to hold many necessary school functions, like school lunches.

However, Welch said that she hopes that Phase III could begin as soon as three or four weeks, depending on the spread of the coronavirus. While there is no announced number for gatherings per-mitted under Phase III at pres-ent, the figure of 100 has been tossed around, she said.

Referring to the governor’s “Recover, Redesign, Restart 2020” plan that was released last week, Welch said that “this is guidance. It’s not codi-fied. It’s not regulatory.” And it leaves much of the imple-mentation decisions up to each locality.

She said that the division’s leadership team is looking at a number of options, includ-ing a hybrid approach which would involve both an in-classroom component along with distance learning.

A number of different sce-narios have been discussed as far as alternate days or weeks in and out of the classroom, although “we have not at this point pinned down a sched-ule,” Welch said. It appears that the division will not be able to have all students in the building at the same time, she said.

Working out any schedule will be a difficult task, made harder when taking in consid-eration child care, both for teachers and employees, and the public. Mathews, Welch said, doesn’t have a licensed child care provider in the county, something she called “shameful.”

If a number of teachers ap-ply for emergency Family and Medical Leave because of a child care issue, “we are going to be in a world of hurt,” she said.

School operations will look much different in the fall, with efforts made to keep every-one at least six feet apart, the use of face masks and health screenings. Although masks won’t be mandated for stu-dents, they will be encour-aged, the superintendent said.

At the same time, the divi-sion needs to be prepared for the worst in case “the curve goes up” and Mathews schools are forced to close their doors and operate en-tirely virtually once again, Welch said. She said that it involved a “massive learning curve” for teachers to tailor their instruction entirely on-line, and steps need to be tak-en to be prepared if that need arises again.

Thanks to CARES Act fund-ing, the school was able to purchase enough Chrome-books so that the division has the means for every child to have one to work remotely, she said. She praised the work of her teachers over the past few months as they adapted to the new instructional mod-el.

Right now, the school ad-ministration is “taking a tre-mendous amount of input from everybody,” Welch said. A division leadership meeting was held Monday on reopen-ing schools and a planning meeting with school board

members, county supervi-sors, the Virginia Department of Health and Mathews Coun-ty Sheriff’s Office will be held today to receive more input.

Additionally, in the coming weeks surveys will be going out to parents, employees and the community “to get a feel for how people are thinking.”

But whatever path is taken, she said, “every decision mov-ing forward must be about the child (the child’s health and safety) … and their educa-tion, period.”

“We need to do everything to get back to the classroom … in a controlled manner,” school board chair John Priest said. If the schools were to open as normal, the chairman said his main con-cern would be over exposing parents and grandparents if the school were to become a vector for the virus, which is why Mathews needs to ad-here to CDC guidelines.

“Some of our children are raised by their grandparents,” Priest said, and that is why he is leaning toward a hybrid model. At the same time, he said, “I think they (the stu-dents) need to see their teach-ers at least weekly.

“Whatever we do is going to cost us more,” Priest said, from the costs incurred by ex-tra bus runs to the additional cleaning and sanitizing costs. “I’m afraid of running out of funds by the end of March,” he said.

“Every aspect of school op-erations has been affected (by the virus). And every aspect of school operations will have to change,” Welch said.

Teachers of the YearTuesday’s meeting returned

to a bit of normality as presen-tations were held for the 2019-2020 Teachers of the Year, as well as naming architect Frances Hudgins of Hudgins Design Collaborative to the Virginia School Boards Asso-ciation 2020 Business Honor Roll and the introduction of the new student liaison for 2020-2021.

While previously an-nounced, the Teachers of the Year (Jessica Newsome at MHS; Mary Bigger at THMS and Amy Shaw at Lee-Jackson Elementary) had not been for-mally recognized before Tues-day. The process for selecting Teachers of the Year starts in January and normally cul-minates in the presentation at the board’s April meeting. Those selected are chosen by their peers for the honor.

Each of the teachers was pre-sented with a gift basket from a number of Mathews area merchants. Those providing gifts included the Bay School of the Arts, Chesapeake Bank, Chick-fil-A, Donk’s Theater, Gloucester-Mathews Gazette-Journal, Grover’s Auto Repair, Hair Creations, Linda’s Diner, the Daily Grind, Dr. Ben Len-non, Mathews Lions Club, Mathews Pharmacy, Mathews Family YMCA, M&M Building Supply and Garden Center, Shun Xing Restaurant, Sub-way, Unique Design Florist, the school board, the schools and the cafeteria staff. They also received stools with each school’s logo custom en-graved by Welch.

Hudgins was named to the VSBA Business Honor Roll in recognition with her work, along with MHS students, in designing the security ves-tibule that was recently in-stalled in the high school’s main entrance. she said that

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Mathews Teachers of the Year for 2019-2020 were recognized by their principals on Tuesday evening. Here from left, Mathews High School principal Alexis Foster stands next to his school’s TOY Jessica Newsome; Thomas Hunter principal Laurel Byrd is with her TOY Mary Bigger and Lee-Jackson TOY Amy Shaw is with her school’s principal, Drew Greve.

He said the survey will help guide staff members as they continue to shape plans for the fall.

In other business during the meeting, the board ap-proved student fee for the 2020-2021 school year. All

GHS seniors and their parents should arrive be-tween 8:30 and 9:45 a.m. in the GHS student parking lot and will be lined up, with social distancing between vehicles, to receive the pro-cessional.

Community members who want to participate should meet at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in their vehicles at the old Page Middle School site where the procession will form. It will be led by a Gloucester Sheriff’s deputy from the old Page site and up Route 17 to Short Lane.

At Short Lane, the pro-cession will turn right and travel to the GHS student parking lot where it will en-ter and drive around the as-sembled seniors and their parents at approximately 10 a.m.

Organizers said all se-niors, their parents and community members must remain in their vehicles while at GHS and cars should be decorated prior to coming to the school.

District overall has record-ed 586 total cases since the pandemic began, with 46 patients hospitalized and 10 deaths as of Wednesday morning.

The most impacted lo-cality in the district con-tinues to be Richmond County, which had two outbreaks (one at the Haynesville Correctional Facility, which has result-ed in 256 inmate cases and three staff cases) and has seen 294 overall cases, 11 hospitalizations, and six deaths. There were no ad-ditional cases this week in King and Queen County, where an outbreak caused a sudden increase in cases last week.

was a three-year project, and two of those students who helped on the design are now studying architecture in col-lege.

Board members were also introduced to rising senior Jackson Putt, who will be tak-ing over the job as student representative on the school board from Jack Perry, who graduated on June 7.

In other news, the board unanimously adopted a reso-lution affirming the division’s commitment to an inclusive environment for all. “We can-not be silent,” part of the resolution read. “We urgently must act to stop the injustices that harm and anguish all mi-norities, who are our family, friends, neighbors, students, staff members and fellow Americans.”

Following a closed meeting, the board took the following personnel actions: approving the resignations of Lee-Jack-son teacher Lauren Epling, MHS teacher Melissa Seidl, school nurse Karri Murphy and MHS custodian Michelle Forrest, as well as the ap-pointment of THMS teacher Lana Mecca—all for the 2020-2021 school year.

The school board will hold its end-of-year meeting, to close the books on the 2019-2020 school year, at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, June 30, in the MHS media center. A school board retreat will be held at an as-yet unspecified date this summer and the board’s next monthly meeting will be held at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, July 21, also in the MHS media center.

As of Wednesday morn-ing, the statewide total of COVID-19 cases was 55,775, with 2,457 of those cases list-ed as probable. The cumula-tive number of people hospi-talized with the illness was 5,692 as of Wednesday, with 31 of those probable. Thus far, 1,583 Virginia residents have died from COVID-19, 105 of them listed as prob-able for the illness.

With 491,884 PCR tests having been conducted statewide for the virus, the percent positive rate had decreased to 7.3 percent as of Wednesday morning, well below the 10 percent rate that indicates the state is conducting enough tests. The Three Rivers District has

conducted 6,513 such tests and has a 2.4 percent posi-tive rate.

According to the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare As-sociation, which provides daily figures for the number of people in hospitals, 938 people across Virginia were hospitalized with COVID-19 as of Wednesday morning, and the cumulative total of patients who had been treat-ed and released was 7,429. Of those currently in the hospital with the illness, 625 were confirmed and 313 were pending confirmation. There were 249 patients in the ICU and 120 on ventilators. With 2,980 total ventilators in hos-pitals, a total of 603 were in use for all illnesses com-bined.

of the fees remain the same as the previous year except the $10 technology fee for all stu-dents was increased to $20.

The board also approved the non-resident tuition fee of $5,019 for the 2020-2021 school year, remaining the same as for the past school year.

In addition, the board ap-proved a 2020-2021 school calendar. The calendar as unanimously adopted has the school year beginning for students on Sept. 8, gradua-tion on June 12, and the final day of school for all other stu-dents on June 16.

In its final action during the meeting, the board unani-mously adopted a resolution

condemning racism and af-firming the division’s commit-ment to an inclusive school environment for all.

It was also announced that the school division would move to its summer hours beginning Monday. From June 22 to Aug. 21, the school di-vision’s offices will be open Monday through Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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YMCA members practice social distancing while enjoying the wellness equipment at the Mathews Family YMCA at Hudgins.

Mathews YMCA reopens as part of Phase 2; Gloucester Y, not yetThe Mathews Family YMCA

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and safety challenges of COVID-19, the YMCA provid-ed child care for first respond-ers and emergency services workers through he regional hub at the Middlesex Family YMCA, and held a food drive in support of Hands Across Mathews efforts with families in these communities.

The YMCA never stopped providing virtual group exer-cise classes led by local and familiar instructors, and the YMCA made many wellness check-in calls with their ac-tive older adult members. But what the YMCA couldn’t do until June 5 was open the facilities. Throughout the past few months, the main YMCA facility was closed to slow the spread of the virus.

Gov. Ralph Northam’s exec-utive orders to move forward with the Phase 2 reopening provided the YMCA a green light to begin facility opera-tions again with a safe capac-ity.

“We are elated to open our doors once again,” said Buzz Lambert, center executive for the Mathews Family YMCA.

“We look forward to recon-necting in person with our loyal members when they are comfortable to return to their ‘Third Place.’”

The YMCA has set up a safety station to check tem-peratures for everyone upon entry, instituted aggressive cleaning measures through-

out the building, and created appropriate space between machines and equipment to promote social distancing.

“Our staff are all-hands-on-

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open, we shut down from 1-3 p.m. for deeper cleaning. Ev-ery protective measure and best practice for social dis-tancing is being followed.”

“While we all wait for the threat of COVID-19 to pass, it is important for our members to begin safely enjoying those facilities and programs that help them stay connected to their community,” Lambert added.

“During the Phase 2 re-opening plan for Virginia, the YMCA Express at Gloucester facility is not open at this time,” according to center ex-ecutive Jamal Williams.

However, Williams said, “the YMCA is excited to be hosting our Summer Day Camp program for children, which began June 15. We started our camp off with the theme, ‘Under the Sea,’ and the children have been engaged in many fun water-learning opportunities. Our team is leading each of the campers to practice social distancing, and we have worked hard to make sure our camp is clean, safe, and healthy.”

Hitting against the pros: Mathews ALLSTARS rememberedBY LARRY CHOWNING SOUTHSIDE SENTINEL

The November 15, 1990 “Do You Remember?” column in

the Gloucester-Mathews Ga-zette-Journal featured a photo of the Mathews ALLSTARS semi-pro baseball team with Syd Thrift, first baseman and

PHOTO COURTESY OF WILLIAM HUDGINS

William C. “Little Bill” Hudgins, with young son Charles in 1951, when he played for the Mathews ALLSTARS semi-pro baseball team.

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The Mathews ALLSTARS 1952 baseball team was managed by baseball legend Syd Thrift from Locust Hill in Middlesex County. Thrift became general manager of the National League Pittsburgh Pirates. The team members included, front from left, Ed Caiseak, shortstop; Thrift, first base and manager; Elton Hudgins, utility player; Dale Forrest, second base; Everett Diggs, catcher; Ellis Hudgins, business manager. Back row, from left, Joe Lonnett, catcher; Horace Haywood, right field; Ed Jackson, center and left field; Warren Trusch, third base; Dick Hudgins, pitcher, and Chuck Churn, pitcher and outfield.

manager, on the front row.Thrift would go on to be-

come general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates and hold front office positions for sev-eral major league teams. In the photo, Thrift and Elton Hudgins are holding the Tide-water League 1952 champion-ship trophy.

E. Hudgins and his wife Jane were organizers of the team. Hudgins was a utility player and helped manage the championship team. The ALLSTARS home field was at Mathews High School.

During the Korean conflict, Thrift was stationed at Fort Eustis in Newport News from 1950 to 1953 and was man-ager/player of the Ft. Eustis Wheels. In the championship photo, Thrift, front row sec-ond from left, shows off his Ft. Eustis (E) on his hat.

The war had increased the need for recruitment of Amer-ican boys into the service. Major league baseball players were being drafted and sent to military stations around the country.

As manager of the Wheels, Thrift scheduled games, orga-nized practices and pitched and played first base. During those years, some big name players came to Ft. Eustis. Vernon “Deacon” Law, a tal-ented 21-year-old pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates; Joe Lonnett, a catcher with the Philadelphia Phillies organi-zation, and William Howard “Willie” Mays Jr., who went on to become a famous cen-ter-fielder with the San Fran-cisco Giants, all played for the Wheels.

It is unclear just how Thrift became manager of the ALL-STARS in 1952 but certainly the Mathews players knew of Syd Thrift who had played against him when he was a pitcher at Syringa High School in Middlesex County. Thrift graduated from Syringa in 1945 where he had been an outstanding left-handed pitcher.

When Thrift came to the ALLSTARS, he brought with him Lonnett and Chuck Churn, a pitcher and outfield-er who had signed with a ma-jor league team.

RecollectionsWilliam Hudgins, 91, of

Peary in Mathews County, played against Thrift when Hudgins was at Mathews High School from 1943 to 1946. Hudgins also played for the Mathews ALLSTARS for five years from 1947 to 1951.

“I missed the big year (1952) when Syd Thrift man-aged the team,” he said. “I was playing for Mathews High School when Elton (Hudgins) recruited me my senior year to play for the ALLSTARS. I played with the ALLSTARS for five years.”

During World War II, fuel was being rationed and travel was restricted so for most of

Hudgins’s high school years the Mathews baseball team played schools that were nearby. “We played Syringa High School and Christchurch School (both in Middlesex County) over and over be-cause they were close to us,” he said.

“When I was in high school, Syd was the best left-handed pitcher I had to face,” said Hudgins. “Fred and Ed Crit-tenden played for Syringa and Fred was one of the best high school shortstops I played against.

“Christchurch School had a strong athletic program and I don’t think we ever beat them in baseball and I know we never beat them in basket-ball,” said Hudgins. “They had a nice ball-field and a gymna-sium. At Syringa there was a short left-field and we would hit the ball across the road all the time,” he said.

ALLSTARSWhen Hudgins went to play

for the ALLSTARS in 1946, he played on all kinds of ball-fields. “We played at the old Deltaville School grounds when we played Deltaville,” he said. “Part of the old school building was in the field of play. If you hit the ball 250 feet to right field, you would hit

the school.”Deltaville Ball Park was built

in 1948 which was quite an improvement over the school field, he said. “We played a lot of games at Deltaville and some we would win and some we lost.”

A Cobbs Creek baseball field was even worse than the Deltaville School field. “The entire Cobbs Creek school was in fair play in left field,”

he said. “It was closer to home plate than the Delta-ville school and we’d whack the heck out of the clapboard on the side of that building.”

The ALLSTARS played a team nicknamed “Grind-ers Switch” in Guinea Neck. “When the water was high, we needed to put our boots on to play down there,” said

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Mathews broadband group seeks grantBY SHERRY HAMILTON

The Mathews County Broad-band Advisory Board, meeting virtually on Tuesday, voted to proceed with an application for a Virginia Telecommuni-

cations Initiative grant from the Virginia Department of Housing and Community De-velopment in cooperation with Atlantic Broadband and Middlesex, Lancaster and Caroline counties.

The board is working out the details, chairman Judy Rowe said, and does not yet have specific information on how many residents or what areas of Mathews might be impacted by the grant.

Carol Steele, Assistant County Administrator for Gloucester, said VATI grants don’t allow funding for any project that has greater than 10 percent broadband ser-vice overlap in the project area. However, she said that small adjustments are pos-sible. She said that a “served” area is one in which service already exists or is available without additional cost.

Steele said that it’s “a huge asset” for Mathews that At-lantic Broadband has provid-ed the board with a coverage map of the county, which will help the county identify areas that qualify for the VATI grant.

Rowe said the board wants to use any funding it obtains to build out as much as pos-sible, so it needs to make sure the new project doesn’t com-pete with a project already underway in cooperation with Gloucester and Middle-sex counties.

The board hopes to hire a consultant to help manage grant applications and expen-ditures and to look at the pos-sibility of obtaining federal grants for broadband, said Rowe, adding that there was a possibility that federal CARES Act funding could be used to help pay for such vertical as-sets as towers and poles.

However, with Dec. 31 the deadline for CARES Act ex-penditures, Mathews County Administrator Mindy Con-ner said she wasn’t sure that there was enough time to get vertical assets in place, “but if we can, it’s certainly a prior-ity.” She cautioned that if the $770,000 the county received from the CARES Act is not

spent in a way that’s allowed, it will have to be paid back.

Conner said that some of the CARES Act funding will be spent to provide grants to lo-cal businesses that couldn’t access other federal funds for assistance during the COVID-19 shutdown. The board of supervisors has al-ready set aside $110,000 for that purpose. In addition, it appropriated $168,000 extra to the school system to pay for providing food to stu-dents not in school, and Con-ner said it’s not clear whether the schools will receive fund-ing to cover those costs or whether the money will have to come from the county’s portion of the funding.

Chris Hall, legislative assis-tant for Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Montross), was in on the call as well, and he said the Con-gressman and his team are trying to convince the U.S. Department of Treasury to see the CARES Act funding as a way build out broadband to provide telehealth services. He said his office would pro-vide letters of support for the county’s applications for VATI funding.

Steele said she had a meet-ing scheduled with represen-tatives of Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine to discuss the issue, as well. She said that distance learning should also qualify for CARES Act fund-ing. Rowe said that work-from-home opportunities are important, too.

Asked if the map provided by Atlantic Broadband could be made public, Mathews County Technology Director Charles Huntley said it was confidential information. However, Steele said that any maps the county itself develops may be made pub-lic and should be put on the county’s website, along with an Excel file, so county resi-dents can readily see if they are in an unserved area.

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