POPLAR BLUFF, MO (KFVS) - New Beta Club officers were elected during the Poplar Bluff High School Beta Club’s closing meeting earlier this month.

Alexa Miller  was elected secretary. Aarti Parekh ran unopposed and was named treasurer.  Tristan Moncier won the vote of vice president for the 2013/14 school year.

Not pictured is Ridge Hester, who will serve as president next school year.

According to the school, the Beta Club had 90 members this year, collectively serving over 210 hours of community service, and raising about $2,200. 

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POPLAR BLUFF, MO (KFVS) - May is Better Hearing and Speech Month, according to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

In accordance, the Poplar Bluff R - I school district has chosen this month to recognize it's speech teachers.

The team of speech-language pathologists at Poplar Bluff Schools play a crucial role in helping the district reach its mission: Achieving excellence through learning: every child, every hour, every day.

This year, Donna Baller of the 5th & 6th Grade Center was named Middle School Grade Span Teacher of the Year.

The previous school year, Judy Seawel of the Kindergarten Center was named District Teacher of the Year.

POPLAR BLUFF, MO (KFVS) - Adrienne Burfield of the Poplar Bluff High School Class of 2013 has been awarded a $15,000 annually renewable scholarship in the University of Alabama - Birmingham Honors Program, where she plans to pursue her professional degree in medicine so she can enter the pediatric care field.

Burfield, 18, will graduate high school with 74 credit hours from Three Rivers College, having maintained a 4.0 GPA at the secondary and higher education institutions, respectively.

In December, she was the first student to complete her associate degree requirements through College Now, a dual credit program between the community college and PBHS.

On top of the necessary 62 credits, Burfield opted to continue to take college courses this spring semester.