EMINENCE –Shannon Treece will start as prin-cipal of Eminence High/Middle School on July 1, returning as an educator to the county and commu-nity where she grew up.

Treece serves as the director of district support services at the Ohio Valley Educational Cooperative in Shelbyville, providing support to 13 school dis-tricts, including Henry County, in evaluating school program effective-ness, professional devel-opment programs for educators and provide support in designing student achievement pro-grams.

She is a member of the Leadership Shelby Class of 2012.

“It would be misleading to say that I have accom-plished as much as I have on my own. There were a lot of teachers in Henry County that helped me along the way,” Treece said. “A lot of people in Henry County took me into their home when I was growing up.”

She mentions her former coaches Todd Gilly and Tim Abrams who help provide her with sports equipment when she couldn’t afford it in high school.

She attended Kentucky State University and received her undergradu-ate degree in social studies education. After taking an opportunity to teach at Henry County High School first in special edu-cation, and to get her foot in the door by coaching in extra curricular activities, Treece decided to go to UK to get her masters degree in vocational education — along with principal cer-tification while working

full-time.She served as assis-

tant principal at Maurice Bowling Middle School in Owen County and later served as an assistant and interim principal at Owen County High School, doing both jobs for six weeks.

“ I love being able to have a hand in impact-ing students’ lives in the middle and high school age group,” Treece said. “I had more opportunity to work on the student curriculum at the high school.

“ I am very fortunate that the staff believed in me enough to give me a chance. They didn’t have a shortage of applicants.”

According to Treece, she and the staff accomplished the necessary changes there by refocusing the students’ curriculum and improving test scores. When she received the academic index in 2006, a measure of student perfor-mance, the score was 71. By 2008, Treece and her teaching staff raised that score to 80.6 .

The position required nonstop commitment including ball games, band competitions and color guard events to attend. In hindsight, Treece thought a change was necessary.

“I had some really key staff there and we did what we felt was needed to make the changes happen,” Treece said. “When you are in a district where you have done all you could do, you give the focus back to the students and I knew it was time for me to move on.”

She stayed on as princi-pal until Aug. 30, 2011.

When Treece heard that the principal at Eminence Middle and High School announced his resignation, she said she was at first conflicted.

“I love my present

role and the continuous involvement of the posi-tion,” Treece said. “But I have missed the connec-tion students and teach-ers have with learning and growing.”

Treece works with the Eminence Independent School Superintendent Bu d d y B e r r y a n d Instructional Supervisor Thom Coffee regularly as part of an instruc-tional support leadership network. The three already have a working relation-ship and share the same vision.

“Shannon is very inno-vative. She has been a principal before with the track record to prove that she can do the job,” said Coffee, a Shelby County resident. “Some of the big changes in the Kentucky Department of Education have come through the work she has done at OVEC. We needed someone to fill the

big shoes after the loss of Steve Frommeyer. We had to dream big and Shannon was the all-star candidate.”

Treece thought that after time that the desire to have an active connec-tion with students and the classroom would go away but it has only gotten stronger. Her friends thought she was crazy, but for Treece the answer is self-evident.

“When you walk into a classroom of kids, it makes all the difference,” Treece said.

“It’s the energy and vision of the leadership at Eminence that I want to be a part of. The teach-ers and students seemed engaged. The mindset there is everyone wants to make a difference in edu-cation. It’s more the posi-tion of ‘Why can’t we do this?’, which is a very dif-ferent conversation than most school boards.”

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DEATH NOTICES

Joyce Stivers VibbertJoyce Stivers Vibbert, 66, of Shelbyville, died Tuesday

May 1, 2012. She is preceded in death by her son, Dale Baer; brother,

Ronnie Stivers; father, Joseph Stivers.Survivors include her husband, Ray Vibbert of

Shelbyville; sons, Gary Baer of Louisville and Stephon Vibbert of Shelbyville; mother, Mary Frances Stivers of Louisville; sister, Judy Figg of Shelbyville; brothers, James Earl Stivers of Florida, Mert and Mike Stivers, both of Shelbyville.

Funeral service will be 2 p.m. Friday at the Shannon Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Pleasureville Cemetery. Visitation will be 4-9 p.m. on Thursday at the funeral home.

Expressions of Sympathy may be made to Hosparus P.O. Box 35425 Louisville, KY 40232-9892.

Louise Travis Bentley Louise Travis Bentley, 85, of Taylorsville, died on

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at Jewish Hospital Shelbyville.Born in Spencer County, she was the daughter of the

late Ezra and Lilly Richie Travis. She was preceded in death by her brothers, Hubert, Ray, Chester and Orville Travis and her sisters, Laura Travis Nethery and Viola Travis Goodwin.

She is survived by her husband, Thomas Chester (T. C.) Bentley of Lawrenceburg; son, Martin Thomas Bentley of Lawrenceburg; daughters, Sue Carol McAllister of Mount Washington and Brenda Miele of Pleasant View, Tenn.

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church of Taylorsville. Interment will follow in Valley Cemetery. Visitation will be 3-8 p.m. Friday at Hall-Taylor Funeral Home. Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to the Louise Travis Bentley Memorial Fund. On-line condolences may be expressed at halltaylorfuneralhomes.com.

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