COLMESNEIL – Traditionally, signing day for high school seniors is a time to recognize seniors who can sign a binding letter of intent to play sports for a collegiate program. For Colmesneil High School seniors, on last Wednesday, their academic achievements, and readiness to go into the workforce or the military, were recognized.
CHS interim principal Becky Yates said that the signing day event to honor seniors who have been accepted to colleges, as well as trade schools and into branches of the military was a way to give recognition.
All students, Yates said, deserve recognition, post-secondary.
Senior class sponsor Coty Squier officiated at the event in the R.B. Moffett Gymnasium, along with Yates, and recognized each graduating senior, and named whatever collegiate institution or career, or military, pathway the student had committed to, each to loud applause from a packed house of family and friends.
Here is a list of the students recognized and the institutions and/or career or military paths they have committed to:
Blanton Johnston – Has committed to the United States Marine Corps
Alyssa Davis and Jaclyn Butler have signed up with the United States Navy
Madalyn Lott has been accepted to Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches
Daniel Hoover and Shane Hand have been accepted to study at Panola College in Carthage
Karolina Perez and Massimo Cuellar are headed to Texas Tech University in Lubbock
Allie Hamilton was accepted to Houston Community College
Sonya Moffett and Daisy Salge were accepted to Angelina College in Lufkin
River Squier, Danielle Pittman, Lillian Jalomo and Leane Jalomo were all accepted to schools in the Texas A&M system. Squier will attend Texas A&M’s flagship campus in College Station. Pittman is headed to the Galveston campus. Lillian Jalomo will attend Blinn and Leane Jalomo was accepted to the Corpus Christi branch.
Several CHS seniors were accepted to Sam Houston State University in Huntsville. Shane Surber; Allie Pierson; Lillian Ballesteros; Elisha Ellis; Chloe Carnley; Grayson Brown and Hogan Ueckert will all attend SHSU. Surber and Pierson both were recently named Smith-Hutson scholars through the university’s prestigious scholarship program.
Zac Mitchell will attend M. Weeks Welding school and Tyler Reynolds will attend the Tech Zone HVAC School with the goal of eventually taking over the family business of Reynolds Heat and Air.
