The Dickinson High School Diamonds Dance Team is encouraging everyone to "Think Pink for Cancer Awareness" with a "pink out" at the October 24 football game against Friendswood High School.

Pink t-shirts are being sold for $20 each at the October 10 football game to be worn on October 24. A portion of the proceeds will go to cancer awareness.

For more information or to pre-order a t-shirt, contact Tywila Rogers at 832-340-0131 or Valarie Montgomery at 832-425-9065.

McAdams Career Day

McAdams Junior High will host a College and Career Day the morning of Tuesday, October 21. They are inviting professionals, as well as local colleges and individual departments, to participate. If you are interested in participating, contact Melissa Laws at 281-229-7194 or email mlaws@dickinsonisd.org.

Week of October 6, 2014

The Union Pacific Railroad and the Texas Department of Transportation will be closing FM 517 at the railroad tracks in the middle of Dickinson on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 14-15. They will be making improvements to the railroad crossing, which will require closing the road to both eastbound and westbound traffic. Highway notification signs and detour signs will be posted in the area.

This closure will result in detours and delays for Dickinson ISD school buses on these two days.

Although buses will leave the transportation facility early on Tuesday and Wednesday, some buses may actually be late in picking up your children because of the detours. However, some buses may arrive at bus stops a few minutes early. It is impossible to predict traffic patterns on these days, so please be patient.

In the afternoon, some buses may be late in dropping off students because of the detours. Please be assured that all buses will complete their routes, but times will be impacted for Tuesday and Wednesday.

Varsity Gator football to play
Clear Falls 7 p.m. Friday at home

Sporting a 5-0 record (2-0 in district), the Dickinson High School varsity football team will welcome Clear Falls High School for a 7 p.m. Friday, October 10 game in Sam Vitanza Stadium. The McAdams Junior High football teams will be recognized before the start of the game by running out of the Gator tunnel on the football field.

Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Field House from 8 a.m.-12 noon Friday morning. Home game tickets purchased in advance are $8 for reserve seating, $6 for adult general admission and $4 for student general admission. Tickets purchased at the gate are $10 for reserve seating and $8 for general admission. No student tickets are available at the gate.

DHS Marching Band prepares for
UIL Region Contest October 18

Gator Band Congratulations to the Dickinson High School Gator Marching Band for earning sixth place out of 30 bands competing at the Galena Park ISD Marching Band Festival this past Saturday.

The band is now making final preparations to perform at UIL Region Marching Band Contest on Saturday, October 18 at the Pearland ISD Stadium, "The Rig," located on the Pearland High School campus at 3775 S. Main.

The DHS Band will perform at 11:15 a.m.
Admission is free. Come out and support our Gator Band!

Students to learn about Dickinson history through coin collection for founder statues

Rancher Founder Statue What was life like in the City of Dickinson in the mid 1800's? Next week, Dickinson ISD students will get to be part of a community project honoring the city's heritage and learning how ranchers, farmers and shopkeepers played an integral role in the early years of the Dickinson area.

In the early days, the land and water in the Dickinson area was good to ranchers and farmers, who would raise cattle in the grassy prairie and work the fertile land to grow enormous amounts of strawberries, figs and vegetables. As the years went by, some of the settlers quit farming and became shopkeepers. Their shops provided daily staples and supplies that the settlers needed.

Dickinson ISD will be working with the Dickinson Historical Society, during the week of October 13-17, on a "Students for Statues" coin collection. About five years ago, the Dickinson Historical Society started working with the art students at Dickinson High School to create renderings of a rancher, a farmer and a shopkeeper. The plan was to turn these renderings into life-size bronze statues for a display near Dickinson City Hall. The first of the three statues, the rancher, was created and unveiled earlier this year and money is continuing to be raised to fund the other two statues.

"Up until now, the project has relied on donations from community members and businesses; however, the Historical Society is excited to offer students a chance to feel ownership of this monumental project while sharing with students a little history about the area and how dedication, hard work, morals, ethics and determination helped to establish the community of Dickinson," said Mary Dunbaugh from Dickinson Historical Society.

McAdams Junior High social studies teacher Donnie Thomas is taking the project one step further and turning the lesson and coin collection into a project for his History Club students. They will be putting together a video that can be shown to students and used by the Historical Society to showcase the history of Dickinson and how the rancher, farmer and shopkeeper fit into the early days of the community. They are also making posters to promote the coin collection with students and staff.

Social studies and history teachers at each school will talk to the students during the week about the history of Dickinson and then give everyone a chance on Thursday and Friday, October 16-17, to place donations in collection jugs which the Historical Society will place at the schools. Every penny, nickel, dime and quarter collected will be used for the monument project.

DHS Theatre Department to show off new auditorium renovations with fall play next week

The Dickinson High School Theatre Department is proud to present the play Arsenic and Old Lace at 7 p.m. October 16, 18 and 20 at 2:30 p.m. October 19 in the newly renovated Dickinson High School Auditorium.

This will be the first show of the year for the Theatre Department at DHS. Directors Laurel Powell and Marisa Burrows have a great list of shows for the 2014-2015 Season in the new and improved auditorium at Dickinson High School. The auditorium was renovated this past summer with new seating, lighting, sound, and a new light and sound booth, as well as extra room for production.

"We are extremely proud of this new facility," Powell said. "It gives us a theatre that we can be proud of as well as new and updated technology for our technical theatre students. It is a beautiful theatre to work in every day. The students are excited about the changes and additions and are eager to show it off to the community. We want everyone to come out and support these students in their productions all year and enjoy our new space with us."

Arsenic and Old Lace was written by the American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. It has become best known through the film adaptation starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra. The play was directed by Bretaigne Windust, and opened on January 10, 1941. On September 25, 1943, the play moved to the Hudson Theater. It closed there on June 17, 1944, having played 1,444 performances.

The play is a farcical black comedy revolving around the Brewster family, descended from the "Mayflower," but now composed of insane homicidal maniacs. The hero Mortimer Brewster, played by senior Hayden Todd, is a drama critic who must deal with his crazy, homicidal family and local police in Brooklyn, NY, as he debates whether to go through with his recent promise to marry the woman he loves. His family includes two spinster aunts, Abby (Samantha Jaramillo) and Martha (Adriana Etie) who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with a glass of home-made elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine, and "just a pinch" of cyanide; a brother who believes he is Theodore Roosevelt (Sam Brown) and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar of the Brewster home (which then serve as graves for the aunts' victims); and a murderous brother, Jonathan (Kell Bernard) who has received plastic surgery performed by an alcoholic accomplice, Dr. Einstein (a character based on real-life gangland surgeon Joseph Moran) played by Colton Powers, to conceal his identity and now looks like horror-film actor Boris_Karloff (a self-referential joke, as the part was originally played on Broadway by Karloff). The film adaptation follows the same basic plot, with a few minor changes.

Other shows this season by the department are Rabbit Hole on December 11-13, the musical 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee on January 23-26 and the award winning UIL One Act Play in the spring.

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