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Assistant principals hired
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Staff Report
Updated: Jul 2, 2013, 7:00 PM
Published: Jul 1, 2013, 4:10 PM

The Bryan County Board of Education announced Friday the hiring of four assistant principals.
The new administrators will fill vacancies at Lanier Primary, Bryan County Middle, Richmond Hill Primary and Richmond Hill Elementary:
• Dr. Lynnie Brooke Clemens, Lanier Primary. Clemens, currently a second-grade teacher at Mill Creek Elementary in Statesboro. Clemens, is a former Bryan County Schools teacher of the year for the 2004-2005 academic year. She’s been a teacher, functional technology specialist and media specialist in her career.
• Laine Lynch, Bryan County Middle School. Lynch is currently a counselor at BCMS, where she’s worked for the last seven years. She was previously an elementary school teacher for eight years and a middle school counselor for five years.
• Stephen Sirmans, Richmond Hill Primary. Sirmans worked the past 13 years as an elementary school teacher in Coffee County, where he also was a member of the school district’s leadership team and was a 2003-2004 nominee for teacher of the year.
• Karen Smith, Richmond Hill Elementary. Smith is a teacher at RHES, where’s worked the past 11 years. She’s served on various leadership teams during that period.
The BoE went into closed to discuss the appointments and approved them in open session afterward. The names were released Friday in a press release.

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Richmond Hill High School senior Jacey Shanholtzer shows her Dawn Harrington Berry Spotlight Award, which was awarded by the Richmond Hill Community Theatre and includes a $500 scholarship. With her are Tom Harris, Ashlee Farris, Brett Berry and Kim Diebold. The award was created in memory of Dawn Harrington Berry, a long time RHCT member and president who died in 2016. - photo by Photo provided.
Staff Report
Updated: May 17, 2018, 8:11 PM
Published: May 17, 2018, 8:37 PM

Three reports recently presented scholarships

Richmond Hill High School senior Jacey Shanholtzer received the Dawn Harrington Berry Spotlight Award, which was awarded by the Richmond Hill Community Theatre and includes a $500 scholarship. The award was created in memory of Dawn Harrington Berry, a long time RHCT member and president who died in 2016.

Garden Club

The Richmond Hill Garden Club recently awarded a $1,000 scholarship to Katherine Wood and a $500 scholarship to Carly Vargas, both seniors graduating from Richmond Hill High School.

The awards were presented May 8 during Honors Night at RHHS.

Wood plans to attend Green Mountain College in Vermont and major in environmental studies.

Vargas plans to attend Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee, to pursue a degree in either environmental studies or biology.

The garden club awards a $1,000 scholarship annually to a local high school senior who plans to major in a field related to environmental concerns, plants and/or gardening.

This year, due to having two exceptional candidates, the garden club awarded an additional $500 scholarship.

Exchange Club

The Exchange Club of Richmond Hill recently named Caroline Odom as its student of the year.

The club each month during the school year names a student of the month, and the student of the year is chosen from among those winners.

Awards are based on academic performance, community involvement and leadership.

Monthly winners receive $100, with the annual winner getting a $1,000 scholarship.

The Exchange Club has been recognizing students for more than 30 years.

Odom will go on to compete in the Georgia District Exchange Club against students from across the state.

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