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Todd Thompson, Cypress Falls High School assistant football coach, was named the new athletic coordinator and head football coach at Langham Creek High School.

Thompson replaces Paul “Mac” Woodfin, who will retire following the end of the 2008-09 school year. Woodfin served 43 years as a coach —17 of those at Langham Creek—and seven years as Lobos’ athletic coordinator.

A four-year letterman at Rice University, Thompson came to Cypress Falls in 1998 as the offensive line coach and was promoted to offensive coordinator in 2003, a position he has served in for six seasons. He has also served as the head track and field coach and head boys ’ golf coach.

Mike Jarrar of Jarrar & Company Inc. was recognized by the Cy-Fair ISD Board of Trustees as the Top Volume Buyer at the 2009 CFISD Livestock Show and Sale during its regularly scheduled meeting on May 11.

In honor of Jarrar’s support of Future Farmers of America students within the district, David Reynolds, coordinator of technology education and agricultural science, presented him with the third annual Top Volume Buyer Buckle. The buckle is awarded each year to honor the Top Volume Buyer.

Jarrar invested $77,350 in student projects at the show—the largest contribution by any one buyer this year. The Cy-Fair community gave a combined total of $510,740 at the Premium Sale, Freezer Sale and in donations to students.

Cypress-Fairbanks ISD and the Partners In Education department honored outstanding district volunteers as part of National Volunteer Month.

In addition to three state winners from the Texas Association of Partners in Education 2009 Education Partnerships Conference, Cy-Fair ISD also had four district volunteer and business partner award winners: Pate Engineers Inc., was the Cy-Fair ISD STEM Business Partnership Award winner. Pate adopted Dean Middle School, and has served on its Campus Performance Objectives Council and provided value input for Dean ’s Campus Improvement Plan; Lisa Mayer, who produces the Cypress Creek Cougar Link, won the Cy-Fair ISD Innovation Partnership Program Award. The Cougar Link is a weekly E-newsletter that provides updates and information to nearly 1,000 subscribers; Mustang Engineering, L.P., won the Cy-Fair ISD Academic Impact Business Partnership Award. Mustang Engineering made a commitment to adopt Watkins Middle School and hold to that commitment for three years. The partnership began with an initial $10,000 donation, which was applied to enhance math and science instruction; and The Champions Sunrise Rotary Club won the Cy-Fair ISD Academic Impact Community Partnership Award. Through the Rotary club ’s “Pedaling to Success” initiative, Yeager Elementary School students in grades 2-5 will be awarded a new bicycle at the end of each semester if they have perfect attendance and good grades.

The TAPE state award winners were presented to: CH2MHill Engineering, TAPE Career Education Business Partnership Award; Don Bollwinkle, TAPE Wisdom Individual Partner Award; and Clariza Rath, TAPE Role Model Individual Partner Award.

Outstanding volunteers are: (l-r) Don Bollwinkle; Clariza Rath; Robert Thompson and Harold Underwood, CH2MHill Engineering, Holbrook Elementary School partners; Lisa Mayer; Irene Meadows, Pate Engineers Inc., Dean Middle School partner; Sharon Paul, Mustang Engineering, L.P., Watkins Middle School partner; and Christian Ettienne, Champions Sunrise Rotary Club, Yeager partner.

Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center Hospital in Houston has been named to Tenet Healthcare Corporation’s 2009 Circle of Excellence. The Circle of Excellence honors Tenet hospitals that have achieved the highest levels of quality, service and operational performance. Key metrics used to evaluate the hospitals were patient, physician and employee satisfaction scores, clinical quality and financial performance.

“The hard work, determination and commitment of the employees at Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center Hospital made 2008 a great year for the hospital, ” said Stephen L. Newman, M.D., Tenet’s chief operating officer. “I’m proud of everything that they’ve accomplished and am thrilled to honor them with Tenet’s Circle of Excellence Award.”

Dr. Newman also recognized Cypress Fairbanks Chief Executive Officer Terry Wheeler, who marked his 20th anniversary with the company in 2008.

(L-R) Bob Smith, Tenet Healthcare Corporation’s senior vice president of operations (Central Region); Trevor Fetter, Tenet Healthcare Corporation ’s president and chief executive officer; James Wright, Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center Hospital ’s chief financial officer; Terry Wheeler, Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center Hospital ’s chief executive officer; Jay Krishnaswamy, Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center Hospital ’s chief operating officer; and Stephen L. Newman, M.D., Tenet Healthcare Corporation ’s chief operating officer and interim chief medical officer.