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The Brazoswood Choir is a Texas High School vocal ensemble located in Clute / Lake Jackson and directed by Bill Few and Butch Broom. Concert activities fill the academic year with Classical through Contemporary songs. Performance repertoire for TMEA and UIL competition includes both sacred and secular music.
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Brazoswood High School serves the communities of Clute, Lake Jackson, and Richwood. It has an enrollment of approximately 2,800 students. From among the 175 course offerings, students must earn 26 Carnegie units for graduation. The offerings include a variety of advanced courses in English/Language Arts, Social Studies, Mathematics, Science, Business, and Fine Arts. Additionally, many industrial and vocational offerings are available on campus or at the area vocational schools. Students are offered eight credits per year on a block scheduling system or four classes per day or eight classes every two days. Our belief is a shared accountability to achieve excellence in a diverse and safe learning environment. Extracurricular activities include a wide range of subject and interest-related clubs, as well as choir, band, orchestra, drama, drill team, cheerleaders, pep squad, speech and debate, newspaper and yearbook, student government, art, etc. Interscholastic competitions are offered in academic areas (Scholastic Bowl, debate, etc.) as well as in sports (baseball, basketball, cross country, diving, football, golf, power lifting, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track, volleyball, water polo, and wrestling). More than eighty percent of our students participate in one or more extracurricular activity. Daily tutorial time provides opportunities for students to seek help from teachers, study, or attend club meetings. Clubs or activities are added upon a student request and faculty sponsorship.
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The high school opened in September 1969, and Gene Marcum was the first principal. Since the first year had no senior class, the first graduating class from Brazoswood was the class of 1971. The faculty consists of 182 professional staff members, with an average of seventeen years of teaching experience. Twenty one percent of our teachers have Master's Degrees. The facilities are situated on a 100-acre campus in the Brazosport area located approximately 50 miles south of Houston on the Gulf Coast. Brazoswood is an ethnically diverse school. The student body consists of 60% Caucasian, 8.2% African American, 28.7% Hispanic, and 3.1% Asian/Other.
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Nicole Lynn Armand
In Loving Memory
Nicole Lynn Armand, 16, of Lake Jackson went to be with her Lord on Friday, August 15, 2008, after losing her long and courageous battle with Ewing's Sarcoma cancer. She was born November 28, 1991, in Galveston, Texas.
Nicole attended Brazoswood High School where she was a cheerleader and a member of the choir. Her favorite quote, “God created you so you could make your life count, not so you could count the days of you life,” was very evident in her actions. She participated in Habitat for Humanity, Walk for Life and loved her job at His Love Christian Counseling.
Nicole had an unwavering faith in God and had a gift of grace and love. The Bible says in Proverbs 17:22 "A merry heart doeth good like medicine" and Nicole's dream for her life was a career in medicine. Indeed without the formal training and education she dreamed of in medicine, her life was medicine to the souls of everyone she met.
Nicole is survived by her parents Sandra Armand-Wells (David) of Lake Jackson and John Armand (Karen) of Austin; brother, Nathan Armand of Burnet; grandparents, Donald Armand (Janice) of Lake Jackson, Robert Chavez of Richwood and Linda Chavez of Victoria; and many aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.
The family will receive friends Monday, August 18, 2008, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Family Life Church, 220 Lake Road, Lake Jackson. Funeral Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, August 19, 2008, at Family Life Church with Pastor Craig Taylor officiating.
Pallbearers will be David Hopkins, David Manning, Thomas Garcia, Doug Dayton, James Guenther and Jim Onxley.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in memory of Nicole to CureSearch National Childhood Cancer Foundation, 4600 East West Highway, Suite 600, Bethesda, MD 20814-3457 or (800) 458-6223.
Published August 18, 2008
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