Bixby High School Students Honored By Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence
Leland Melvin, left in the photo, a former Space Shuttle astronaut and the keynote speaker for the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence Academic Awards Banquet, congratulates Madison Rice, an Academic All-Stater from Bixby, prior to a foundation’s awards ceremony, held recently in Tulsa.
Rice, a 2019 graduate of Bixby High School, was among 100 outstanding seniors from Oklahoma public schools who were honored by the foundation as Academic All-Staters. She received an Academic All-State scholarship sponsored by Mabrey Bank.
In addition, Bixby High School teacher Gerald Davenport congratulated Hayden Spillars, also an Academic All-Stater from Bixby, during the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence Academic Awards Banquet in Tulsa.
Spillars, a 2019 graduate of Bixby High School, was among 100 outstanding seniors from Oklahoma public schools who were honored by the foundation as Academic All-Staters. He received an Academic All-State scholarship sponsored by Kerr-McGee Corp. The Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence is a statewide nonprofit organization that recognizes and encourages academic excellence in Oklahoma’s public schools. Davenport, a physics teacher, was Spillars’ honored teacher guest at the banquet.
