Eight seniors from San Marcos Academy were selected to serve as pages for the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting in Houston Nov. 15-17.
The group included Kristi Allison and Alyona Hansen of San Marcos, Daylon Hethcock of Lockhart, Alyssa Shallenberger of Buda, Alex Vletas of San Antonio, Connor Horak of El Paso, Steve Kang of Seoul, Korea and Trina Gao of China.
Academy students have served as pages for the BGCT annual meetings the past 37 years. Their duties include manning the microphones and relaying motions during the three general sessions of the annual meeting.
San Marcos Academy is the only secondary school supported financially by the BGCT, which also supports nine accredited universities, including Baylor, Hardin-Simmons and Dallas Baptist. The BGCT also approves the appointment of academy trustees.
Although affiliated with the BGCT, San Marcos Academy is not associated with any church. The Academy was chartered by a group of local citizens in 1907 as a non-profit Texas corporation. For the past 102 years, the academy has been a completely autonomous local institution, accepting students of all faiths, creeds and ethnic origins.
As part of its commitment to the local community, the academy issues approximately $300,000 in financial assistance to day students from the San Marcos area and, with a total budget of more than $7 million, is a major contributor to the local economy, SMA officials said.
As a college preparatory school, SMA is fully accredited by the Southern Association of College and Schools.
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Eight seniors from San Marcos Academy served as pages to the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting in Houston Nov. 15-17. The group included Kristi Allison of San Marcos, Alyssa Shallenberger of Buda, Alyona Hansen of San Marcos, Trina Gao of China, Daylon Hethcock of Lockhart, Alex Vletas of San Antonio, Connor Horak of El Paso and Steve Kang of Seoul, Korea.
November 21, 2009
SMA sends pages to Baptist General Convention
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