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Beautification & Landscaping

TOM INMAN

Tom Inman- Leopard's Den As the Student Council and teachers of Lindsay High School note, sometimes we need to see familiar things through “new eyes” in order to awaken to the possibilities for improvement. Their new eyes came in 1998 in the form of a new principal, Tom Inman (pictured below).

Soon, lockers and restrooms were cleared of graffiti and attitudes about graffiti were topics of discussions with students. Fresh coats of paint, weeded flower beds, new benches, attractive landscaping and other improvements renewed and refreshed the 45-year-old school building and campus.

Tom Inman -principal- Lindsay High School Tom Inman not only led these efforts, he also helped to establish a newly-built “Leopard Den” (pictured above), a welcomed place for students to hang out during free periods. A judge called him “a role model who obviously relates to and appreciates young people.”

Not only is the facility greatly improved, so are the attitudes, behavior and dress of the prideful students. TOM INMAN IS A PRINCIPLED MAN WHO IS GOOD NEWS FOR OKLAHOMA’S ENVIRONMENT!


Education & Promotion

Vicky Arnold VICKIE ARNOLD

It’s perhaps the best kind of environmental partnership – use one good project to fund another. Eleven years ago, Vickie Arnold began taking her fifth and sixth grade science students in Hooker beyond the classroom to the hands-on excitement of recycling aluminum cans and then planting trees with the cash proceeds.

FFA student tree planters
Vicki Arnold with a group of FFA student tree planters.
 		This year alone, the students turned a quarter-ton of cans collected from homes, bar ditches and workplaces into enough money to purchase and plant six trees. While most of the trees beautify the school grounds, Mrs. Arnold’s students also have added trees in many other locations, most notably in Hooker’s Bird Sanctuary Memorial Park.

One judge requested that Mrs. Arnold be cloned, with copies sent for each county in his state. “What a great teacher,” he crowed. “I like the way recycling also pays benefits for beautification.”

With literally growing reminders of their impact on the planet, the students know that VICKIE ARNOLD’S DEEP-ROOTED LESSONS ARE GOOD NEWS FOR OKLAHOMA’S ENVIRONMENT!


Environmental Improvement

MARIA WILKINSON

Maria Wilkinson- Recycle a Bicycle A surprisingly massive recycling project was born on Earth Day 2000 when Ardmore’s Maria Wilkinson saw a repairable bicycle discarded by a dumpster, slated for the crusher. In short order, she had contacted the Optimist Club, become a member, and immediately started them on a bike repair project.

About 40 bikes were collected over the summer and news stories brought in even more bikes and volunteers from all segments of the community, ranging in age from 7 to 80. Maria Wilkinson Maria’s project now has expanded its work space and has volunteers working twice a week all long to keep up with the donated bicycles.

The project so impressed bicycle-maker Huffy in February that the company donated half a semi load of parts that was delivered 1,100 miles to Ardmore at no cost on a Wal-Mart truck. Our judges called Maria’s work “magnificent” and said she has put “a human face on the reclamation of a ‘waste’ product.” MARIA WILKINSON PEDDLES GOOD DEEDS AND GOOD NEWS FOR OKLAHOMA’S ENVIRONMENT!






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