Woodington Blankets
Granton School District With Kindness
Granton School Board president Theresa Hasz and district
superintendent
Scott Woodington
hold up a quilt that Woodington’s wife, Jill made for the district.
It is made out of donated T-shirts. It
was a gift to the district on the eve of
Woodington’s retirement from the district.
Ryan Spoehr/Clark County Press
By Ryan Spoehr
As he gets ready to
depart the Granton School District, retiring administrator Scott Woodington left
a parting gift at the June school board meeting.
At the June 8 meeting,
Woodington presented a quilt with the Bulldogs logo and school colors to the
school board.
“This is kind of my
last gift to the district,” Woodington said.
The quilt was made by
Woodington’s wife, Jill. Woodington is about to retire from his superintendent
role.
“I had little to do
with this other than bringing it here,” Woodington said.
Woodington came up
with the idea, but Jill has made many quilts like this over the years.
Jill makes them out of
t-shirts. Most of the time, Woodington said, they’ve been made of sports
t-shirts, but other times they’ve been music or play related.
“So, whatever it was
they felt was valuable and sentimental to them,” Woodington said.
Woodington reached out
to some staff members to see if they could collect shirts last summer because he
knew he would be retiring after the 2019-20 school year and he and his wife
wanted to get a quilt to Granton prior to his departure.
He hoped he could get
not only t-shirts, but some throwback shirts as well.
“Some people, like me,
hold onto t-shirts and have then sit on a shelf for years. I kind of collect
them. I was the coach on the 1997 state championship football team in Glenwood
City, so I have a shirt that I bought that I’ve never worn. It just sits on the
shelf. I was hoping to find things like that, or some old FFA shirts or
something like that,” Woodington said.
Annette Woller of the
district made a Facebook post to get the word out that Woodington was looking
for old Granton t-shirts to make the quilt.
“My wife has much more
of an artistic touch than I do,” Woodington said. “She cuts out the different
emblems and the different things on the shirts and pieces it together. Sometimes
you get ones that are all the same because most of the t-shirts, unless they are
the little kids shirts, they’re all pretty close to the same even if it is a
medium versus an XL.
“By the time you cut
it out and put it together, there’s not much of a difference. With this one, we
had kids’ ones and other stuff too. Then, she just put it together and quilted
it.”
With this quilt, Jill
did the backing black and the spread orange. She then put the Granton Bulldog
paws on it as the design.
“She does a great job
on that,” Woodington said.
At the board meeting,
school board members were full of joy and appreciative of the kind gesture from
the Woodington’s.
“That is awesome,”
school board member Paul Knoff said.
“That was very nice,
and we appreciate your years of service to the district,” board president
Theresa Hasz said.
Dennis Kaczor will
take over for Woodington as district administrator next month. He spent the last
four years as the district administrator for the Herman-Neosho-Rubicon School
District in rural Dodge County in the southeastern part of the state just off
I-41 between Milwaukee and Green Bay.
Woodington became the
Granton Superintendent in summer 2017.
Clark County Press, Neillsville, WI
June 17, 2020
Transcribed by
Dolores
M. Kenyon, June 18, 2020.
Web page by
James W. Sternitzky PhD,
June 19, 2020.
