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This week we celebrate our 2023 Ponca City High School Homecoming. The Homecoming Court consists of a freshman, a sophomore, and a junior class attendant and three senior class queen candidates. The senior class has chosen the queen from among the senior queen candidates, and the winner will be announced during coronation before the varsity football game on Friday night.

I was watching a sports channel’s scoreboard show recently and a couple of things jumped out at me. In the list of baseball scores was a game played by the Cleveland Guardians. That has been the name of Cleveland’s baseball team for more than a year, but it still sounds funny in my old ears. A little later scores from the NFL were being reported and a result from a game involving the Washington Commanders was mentioned. Again, Washington’s team has been known as the Commanders for awhile now, but hearing it said also sends strange messages to my brain.

Cynthia (Cyndi) Allen was born in Ponca City to T.J. and Peggy Allen. She has one b r o t h e r , Thomas. She spent most of her growing up years in Tonkawa with the exception of a few years in southern Oklahoma. While at THS, Cyndi served as Buccaneer Yearbook Editor, Student Council Secretary, and twirler for the THS Band. She earned membership in the National and Oklahoma Honor Societies, and received recognition as Valedictorian, Who’s Who Among American High School Students, and THS “Most Likely to Succeed.” Cyndi also received the Oklahoma State University Leadership award and was able to participate in the College of Foreign Studies through the University of Madrid, Spain.