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Scholarship established in memory of Canfield graduate
By ROBERT CONNELLY
CANFIELD
A scholarship in the memory of a student bowler has been established.
The Jimmie Jarvis Memorial Scholarship was announced this week for a graduating senior from Canfield High School who is on the bowling team and who is going on to college, said Janice Jarvis, Jimmie’s mother.
The fund came from a portion of the proceeds of a bowling night that took place in Jimmie’s name and that will become an annual event. “Jimmie would have wanted me to give something in memory of him to Canfield High School,” an emotional Jarvis told school officials. “I would like to thank the community of Canfield for all the love and support we have received.”
Jimmie Jarvis died June 27, 2014, at age 25 after a 2012 accident left him with a traumatic brain injury from which he never recovered. He was on the Canfield High School bowling team, graduated in 2007 and went on to Youngstown State University, where he graduated in 2011. He was to begin his second year at Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine when he had his accident in August 2012.
School officials also said a plaque honoring Jimmie Jarvis will be placed among the bowling plaques in the high school. “I deeply appreciate that,” Janice Jarvis said.
After that presentation, board president Phil Bova said he previously had thought of having a memorial on campus for students who died young. “I really think we should look into that — just too many [who died early],” Bova said.
Bruce Kirkland, commandant of the Tri-State Marine Corps League Detachment 494, presented certificates of appreciation to each building principal for the Toys for Tots campaign last winter. He said he was told this year was better than a year ago, which featured more than 27,000 toys to 8,300 kids, or about three toys for each child.
The board unanimously approved three teachers for retire/rehire. They are: Sherry Creighton, a business teacher at Canfield High School; Nancy Hulea, art teacher at Canfield Village Middle School; and Mary Lou Thacker, sixth grade at CVMS.
Each had earned $77,979 this year, and those salaries will go to $38,166 next school year. Thacker and Creighton have been with the district 35 years, and Hulea has been with Canfield schools for 40 years.
District Treasurer Pattie Kesner said there were no buyouts of unused sick time or vacation time.
Superintendent Alex Geordan said that each teacher went back through the interview process and was recommended by building administrators to be rehired. “It’s definitely a year-to-year basis,” Geordan said.