Conner, Crumrine And Hancock Added To WHS Wall Of Honor

    Three more names were added to the Winslow High School Wall of Honor Tuesday evening, including those of Sam Conner, Sue Crumrine and Harry Hancock.
Sam Conner
   Sam Conner started teaching at Winslow Junior High in 1961 and retired from the district in 1989. He coached basketball and football at Winslow Junior High School and freshman football at WHS.
   He is currently the clock operator at football games. He wrote sports articles for the Winslow Mail and continues to write for The Tribune-News. He has also worked as a correspondent for KINO radio for a number of years.
   Sam is married to Nell Conner, and has two children and six grandchildren.
   He is an avid sports fan, and has been a longtime supporter of the Winslow Bulldogs.
Sue Crumrine
   Although Sue Crumrine was raised an Okie, she counts Arizona as her home since she has lived here twice as long as she lived in Oklahoma.
   Sue’s career in education began on the Navajo Reservation in 1967. She wore many hats during her tenure there, including teacher, athletic director and coach. She coached five sports on the reservation for 16 years, resulting in eight basketball championships and six state volleyball championships.
   She came to WHS 26 years ago, continuing her passion in the classroom and her dedication to extracurricular activities. During her time at WHS she coached for 18 more years, taught business education classes and started the technology department. She has had a great influence on many WHS students, both in the classroom and on the court. In 1996 she became Career Technology Education director, and in 2001, she connected the district with the Northern Arizona Vocational Institute of Technology (NAVIT). The dedication of her efforts toward the CTE de-partment has led to a multitude of new opportunities for students in a variety of career fields. Although she no longer coaches, she is often found scorekeeping at volleyball, basketball, track and cross country events.
   Sue has strived for excellence, and that has brought recognition to the WHS CTE department, as she has been honored by the state in many capacities. In 1995 she was named Arizona State Vocational Teacher of the Year. In 1998 she was recognized as the Arizona Business Education Association’s Outstanding Secondary Business Teacher, and she was a semifinalist for Arizona State Teacher of the Year. In 2001 she was elected president of the Arizona Business Education Association, and she served as board member of the Western Business Education Asso-ciation. In 2003 she was named Distinguished CTE Director by the Arizona Business Education Association. Her dedication to WHS did not go unnoticed by the student body either, as she was named Prom Dedicatee in 2000, An-nual Dedicatee in 2003 and Homecoming Dedicatee.
   She is an active member of the Alpha Eta Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma International Society, a women teach-ers’ society. She has served as president of the chapter for more than half of the 25 years she has been a member. She has served on the state board for this organization, and in 2003 she received the Delta Kappa Gamma Interna-tional Omicron State Achievement Award.
   Sue has announced that she will be retiring in June. Although she will be greatly missed by the students and staff at WHS, her contributions to the field of education and the Winslow community will continue to thrive.
Harry Hancock
   Harry Hancock is a 1945 graduate of WHS. During his high school years, he was the Student Body president in 1944-45, and participated in all three sports available to students in those days, football, basketball and track, letter-ing seven times. He was a member of Honor Society, the WHS Band and the W-Club.
   He was the quarterback his senior year when WHS won the Northern Arizona State Championship game, defeat-ing Flagstaff 26-6. Harry scored the first touchdown. That was also the year that WHS track Coach Olmstead took six men to the Mesa Relay and won. Harry ran hurdles and the quarter mile. He also played at the University of Ari-zona and later in the Marine Corps.
   Harry raised English Bulldogs and took the mascot to the football games in the late 1960s, and Fireball ran up and down the sidelines when the team scored. In 1972 he helped organize the first Bulldog Booster Club in Win-slow, and served as the first president of that group.
   He has also enjoyed watching his six children and 21 grandchildren attend, participate and graduate from WHS. Once a Bulldog, always a Bulldog.