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On Friday, faculty and staff at Troup High School were rewarded for their hard work with a barbecue lunch provided by the Troup High Alumni Association. 

The alumni association hosts the barbecue each year at the end of Teacher Appreciation Week.  Several members provided food to staff all week, but the annual BBQ is always the highlight.

THS Principal Chet Stewart said the luncheon is just one of the ways the alumni association helps the school and its staff and students.

“Every year they are a part of Teacher Appreciation Week, but periodically throughout the year, they also do some things to help the teachers,” Stewart said. “They sponsor our Hall of Pride ceremony that we had about a month ago now, and so they do a lot for students in school.”

Along with the barbecue, the THS Alumni Association also gives out three annual scholarships, including the Ellis Cadenhead Citizenship Award, given in recognition of the former county commissioner and Troup High alumnus.

Cadenhead still helps with the barbecue. He said this year they got a head start on it and began smoking the barbecue for the sandwich plates they gave teachers at home rather than at the school.

“They pretty much fed the teachers all week long,” Stewart said. Zsa Zsa Heard, who was a Hall of Pride inductee this year, fed the teachers on Monday from Taco Express. On Tuesday, the class officers fed us breakfast. “The FCCLA did breakfast, and then yesterday, PTO fed us lunch from Sloppy Pig. So it’s been a great week for teachers.”

“It’s just a small token of appreciation for them for the work they do all year long. It’s not enough, but it’s something,” Stewart said.