OBA students compete at contest



Oklahoma Bible Academy took several choirs, solos and ensembles to Northwestern Oklahoma State University Feb. 27, to participate in District II contest.

Results included seventh- and eighth-grade girls, straight superiors in concert and superior in sight-reading; seventh- and eighth-grade boys, excellent in concert and superior in sight reading; high school girls, straight superiors in concert and superior in sight reading; high school mixed chorus excellent in concert and superior in sight reading.

OBA high school girls qualified for state.

Sixteen choirs participated. Only nine superiors were give in sight reading. OBA received four and is the only school with multiple groups to sweep in sight reading.

High school soloists who received superior and qualified for state are Bridget Shuck, Micah Esau, Megan Simmons, Alex Kroll and Cooper Couch.

Seventh- and eighth-grade students who received superior in performance were Broxton Busenitz, Harley Downing, Asre Edgar and Jessica Dickinson.

Boy’s quartet members are Broxton Busenitz, Harley Downing, Patrick Yarbrough and Nick Volpe. Girl’s duet members are Whitney Maple and Taylor Williamson. Choir director is Dennis Lauderdale.







Trivia Challenge slated March 26



Trivia Challenge is an opportunity for adults to compete for the title champions of trivia. The 18th annual event is 6:30 p.m. March 26 at Kremlin-Hillsdale school.

To enter, find four people 21 or older to be on a team, choose a team name and send a $40 entry fee, along with team name, contact person and phone number to KHS Trivia Challenge ’07, P.O. Box 189, Kremlin, OK 73753, or call Roger Gossen at 874-2465 or 874-2281.

Last year, 12 teams from all around Garfield and Grant counties participated. All proceeds from Trivia Challenge go to Kremlin-Hillsdale High School National Honor Society and help fund the KHHS Academic Bowl team. The students from NHS and the academic team write the questions and serve as moderators, judges, scorekeepers and timers.







NWOSU to observe spring break



Northwestern Oklahoma State University spring break begins Monday.

NWOSU classes will be dismissed for the entire week, and offices at the three campuses, in Alva, Enid and Woodward, will be closed Monday through Thursday. Offices will be open for normal operating hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 23.

Classes will resume March 26.







First Ranger Research Day March 30



Dr. Stephen Painton, 1969 Northwestern Oklahoma State University graduate, will be the keynote speaker at the first Ranger Research Day March 30.

Painton is director of the John W. Keys Speech and Hearing Center and associate professor and undergraduate coordinator for the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, all at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.

During Ranger Research Day, students, faculty and staff will display posters outlining research they have performed. Each poster will include an abstract, short introduction, aim of the study, results and discussion.

The posters will be on display in the Student Center Ballroom on the Alva campus 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Painton will speak at the Ranger Research Reception at 2 p.m. in the Ranger Room of the Student Center. The public is invited to both view the posters and attend the reception.

A native of Hardtner, Kan., Painton was reared primarily in Alva and attended Washington Elementary School, Alva Junior High and graduated from Alva High School in 1965.

At Northwestern, he majored in speech and biology, played baseball and was active in Student Government Association. While a student there, he was convinced by speech instructor John Barton to pursue a career in audiology.

After completing a master’s degree at the University of Oklahoma in education of the deaf, Painton served two years in the Army. He then returned to OUHSC to begin a doctoral program in audiology.

When his degree was complete, he joined the faculty at Northeastern Oklahoma State University, teaching speech-reading, audiology, exceptional children, speech mechanisms and manual communications. He also developed a graduate program in speech-language pathology to meet American Speech and Hearing Association standards.

Painton also owned and operated Northeast Oklahoma Hearing Center in Tahlequah for three years and served for one year as audiologist with W.W. Hastings Indian Hospital and four years as an audiology consultant with Cherokee County Health Department while in Tahlequah.

He then became associate professor and chairman of Department of Communicative Disorders at East Tennessee State University. He taught phonetics, aural rehabilitation and pediatric audiology and administered three degree programs.

From 1990 to the present, Painton has been with OUHSC. Until 1995, he was associate dean of the College of Allied Health, then was named to his current position as clinic director. He oversees all aspects of the audiology and speech-language pathology clinics.

Painton is a member of American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, American Academy of Audiology, American Auditory Society and Oklahoma Speech and Hearing Association.

He has authored and co-authored a number of articles concerning hearing aids and all aspects of auditory problems and diseases in adults and children.

Painton and his wife, Sue, have two sons, Randy and Cory. She is clinical manager of Columbia-Presbyterian Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facility in Oklahoma City.