001foreign I love you test test I'd like to welcome everyone to our letter jacket award program I know there'll be a few people that'll still be coming in as as we're speaking we usually have our award in the fall um unfortunately the storage place that houses all of our jackets burnt um so they had to reorder them redo the entire thing so that's why it was delayed and that's why we're having it in the winter time I would like to first start with congratulating all 67 of our award winners for their dedication and commitment to their activity please give all of them behind me big round of applause thank you I would like to also thank all of our coaches teachers staff and administrators for their support of our extracurricular activities I want to take
002just a moment to explain how to earn a letter jacket and how we get them you must first earn a varsity letter in your sport or extracurricular activity on or after your sophomore year with that being said every sport is different whether it be you had to play so many quarters in a contest or if you're just on a roster so every sport is different and how you earn a varsity letter after earning your varsity letter you get size for a jacket at no cost to the student then the fall of your junior or senior year you'll receive your jacket we have been very fortunate to have First Federal banks sponsor our letter jackets and pay for them through their generosity our students have had the opportunity to proudly wear their jackets with no cost
003to them or their family please give a round of applause to First Federal Bank [Applause] with that being said I want to now turn the program over to our sponsor Jim Saylor who is the president of First Federal Savings and Loan thanks Jim thank you and good morning as Stacy mentioned I'm Jim Saylor from the class of 1976. I'll do a little math for you on that uh I was a freshman exactly 50 years ago in 73 when this building was brand new I'm the president of First Federal Savings of Greensburg we thank superintendent Tom Hunter principal Mr Grant Peters and athletic director Stacy Meyer for letting us sponsor the letter jacket program again this year First Federal is celebrating its 140th year of being in business since 1883 we're the last of the almost
004100 percent locally owned financial institutions in Greensburg we are governed by a five-member board of directors four of us are Greensburg high school graduates director Ross Davis superintendent Tom Hunter and myself our ghs classmates we all feel as though we owe a lot of thanks to our coaches teachers family and friends for encouraging us along the way we are all big Believers in the power of an encouraging word when I was in junior high I participated in football basketball baseball and ran track I was one of the lucky ones that got to play most of the games thinking back over the years I conclude that I had average size and capabilities but in my mind I believe I had above average discipline and work ethic back in the 70s I came from a big family
005seven sisters and a brother and at our household our dad was boss of the household when you were told to do something it was not a suggestion you just did it seemed like when we got started in sports the coaches liked that particular character trade by the time I got out of high school I had dropped Sports participation except for tennis and CYO basketball ever since I was old enough to mow grass shovel snow bail hay I've been working a long list of part-time jobs I was on tennis scholarship in college in addition to that I taught tennis lessons drove a wheelchair taxi delivered Furniture mowed grass and other various part-time jobs during the school year during the Summers I worked 58 hours a week at a factory and in my spare time I taught
006tennis lessons for a little extra money I believe that I benefited greatly by having teacher coaches they were college educated experienced athletes and positive role models our teacher coaches were not whiners or complainers we learned to rely on their experienced instruction and advice we learned that they stood with us no matter how well or poorly we played win or lose we learned the power of their encouraging word we learned honesty and fair play we learned accountability we learn to focus on the positive rather than the negative we learn confidence to compete with others from other communities we learn to do our best work hard and leave it all on the field or the court when I was growing up my grandparents were located in Batesville and annexburg since both sides of my family had big
007families all through it at Family get-togethers we had a lot of sports competition amongst ourselves one of my oldest Sports memories that I want to share with you this morning was at my grandpa's farm in inexburg playing kickball in the grass down by the bathroom outhouse near the entrance to the apple orchard one of my aunts was a young Saint Francis nun wearing her full black nuns outfit on a hot summer day including her hat since that was her home that she grew up in she was comfortable joining in with a competitive kickball game with us kids and she played barefoot and by the time the game was over we were all hot and sweaty including her and you could see some of her hair sticking out from her veil and I remember being concerned
008that we had broken some kind of rules and that God was going to be unhappy with us for getting his nun all sweaty as the years went by I got to attend my aunt's sister Helen's retirement after she had worked for a principal for years at her 60-year work anniversary Jubilee at Oldenburg she made some profound candid comments to me that day from one generation to the other and a few years later one of my cousins Kathy who was a Batesville school teacher and I were sitting with sister Helen near the end of Helen's life at the hospital Helen had her eyes closed while Kathy and I visited that August at the start of the school year and I said to Kathy I bet your job is getting more difficult now that there's not as
009much difficult discipline in the schools as when we came through my aunt sister Helen opened her eyes wide and pulled Kathy and I down close and whispered we all do better with discipline one of the little Side Story of that same era when I was growing up and one of my earliest Sports memories when I was in grade school we were playing sports on the playground and for whatever reason it was City kids versus the country kids and one day two big guys about four years older than me came up to me on the playground and each of them picked me up by my arms in front of my friends and said the principle sister Conrad wants to see you [Music] as it turns out I mean I was just a kid playing sports out
010on the playground but as it turns out even if no one gets in a fight when you play aggressively and you have student body pileups and a lot of competition amongst the young boys you end up with a lot of face injuries a lot of black eyes and fat lips and busted noses and that's a little hard for the principal to explain that to some of the parents because it looks like she doesn't have control of things well I remember when uh sister Conrad finished reprimanded me that day the last thing she said to me was if I don't get it under control she'll have to call my dad I understood and that was the end of that now some 50 years later as a grown-up when I go to the graveyard at Oldenburg to
011visit my aunt sister Helen right behind the academy Field House I glance over a few rows and I see my former principal sister Conrad the grave also and you might be surprised but I actually thank both of them for highlighting the importance of discipline and the importance of living your life by the Golden Rule it all seems like yesterday my opinion based on my experiences along the way is competitive Sports participation creates good times and lifelong memories one more time we want to thank the school administration for letting us be a part of the program and we certainly thank June rigney for all of the detailed administration of the program and without further delay we turn the program back over to Mr Grant Peters thank you [Applause] thanks for being here this morning and thanks
012for those tuning in online once again I'd like to say congratulations to the 67 letter jacket winners this morning now I'm going to read the names one by one I'm going to try to do it with the right pace for pictures for getting this done and all other needs out there you ready you ready all right you guys gonna shake hands okay they'll walk they'll walk behind me okay all right Shelby Abel Kerrigan Acton Carly Adams Justin Adkins Isaiah Anderson Mackenzie Austin Addison Barnes Pettit Justin badle Eva Bauer Robert Browning Wilson Bullard Macy boltman Morgan Kane Angela Cates Wyatt Clifford Blake Collins Janae cummer Alexis Condon Cheyenne cordray Lily Correa Emily coy Hannah crowl Robert eisert Olivia Evans Emma Flynn Shelby forkert Ali Foster Thomas Gorman Gabriel Gregory Jesse Hadler Braylon Hahn Jacob Hawkins Peyton
013Howard Jacob Howell Emery Jackson Braden Kelso Bryson Kelso Oakley keppel Kayla Kramer Milana Kramer Molly lips Adriana litmer Bradley Lutz Granger Maxwell Carson McCord Bryce McQueen Owen Meadows Preston Merritt Claire knobby Gavin Owens Parker Phillips Annie Pumphrey Justin Ramer Caitlyn Roselle Cameron Schwartz Macy Simmons Hunter springmeyer Owen Stevens Lexi swango Jake Taylor Adam Underhill Elliot Weber Cooper Williams Ava Wilmer and Leland Workman congratulations to the 67 letter jacket winners [Applause] these student athletes continue the long tradition of athletic success determination character and grit at Greensburg Community High School this type of event and acknowledgment is a shining example of the great effort and potential of our students here great job to all 67 recipients one more round of applause for all of them please I would also like to shine a light on First Federal
014Savings and Loan the generous contribution that these jackets are given to our students is amazing and it's also I don't believe it's it happens in every school district and I don't think that Jim gets enough credit for that so thank you Jim Saylor thanks John thanks also I'd like to say thank you to our staff our coaches our parents and also all other stakeholders of gchs Athletics and the school in general without us working all together an event like this wouldn't be possible so thank you to all of you this concludes today's ceremony thank you for joining us I would like to ask the letter jacket recipients to head to the gym just for a photo opportunity