Hi everyone! I am finishing up my sophomore year at Pepperdine University, pursuing a degree in Journalism and Advertising, and truly enjoying every second. In my time at Pepperdine, I have become involved in many different avenues on campus, including working as a staff writer for The Graphic, our student newspaper, volunteering through the Pepperdine Volunteer Center, winning back-to-back championships with my intramural basketball team, and serving as the communications chair for my sorority, Pi Beta Phi. Over the past two years, I have learned that there is nothing quite like being surrounded by selfless, inspirational, ambitious people with unbound potential. I have learned to cherish every cafeteria dinner with housemates, and every car ride sing along down Pacific Coast Highway. I have learned to wake up early just to catch the sunrise, and to always stop and smell the flowers. Most of all, however, I have learned how truly blessed and thankful I am for the town I was raised in. Shallowater High School and organizations like the Shallowater Education Foundation challenged me to chase my dreams, pursue my passions, and to never be afraid to make a difference, and that is something I will forever be grateful for. Thank you so much again for everything!


Warm Regards,
Hannah Almsted

​Because of the Shallowater Education Foundation’s generous donation, we were able to purchase lighting instruments and costumes.  We were able to deviate from standard area lighting to variable area lighting which provided dramatic key lighting.  The new lighting allowed the student technician to produce a greater variety of effects during the performance.  One of our judges, Mike, Schraeder, said, “This is the best designed shows I have seen at a UIL contest in a while and probably the best designed 3A show I have ever seen.”  Design includes lighting, set and costuming.   Students remarked about the foundation’s donations.

Ashlynn Cunningham – Having these lights and costumes have taken our show from good to great.  We’ve really gotten our confidence up because we don’t have to be concerned about all the tangly wires. – the lights are portable and wireless.
Becca Alexander – We were only allowed to have one fundraiser so the lights and costumes were something we wouldn’t have had without the SEF’s generous donation.
Sam Mitchell – Lights add emotion to the performance.  The audience would not “get” the emotion we wanted to portray on stage.
Sydney Bevers – The lights gave us the ability to bring our play to life and take it to the next level.  The lights and costuming add dimension.
Tucker Nelson – The lights add an eerie effect to our show that we could not have done without them.
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Tennessee Williams, the playwright, helped us produce Camino Real as he wrote it – with flashing white light to demonstrate good and innocence and red washes to illustrate chaos and fear.  

Go to http://shallowaterhighschoolcaminoreal.blogspot.com/ and then to 3/21 video, you can see a video of our show and see the lights and costumes you helped purchase.