Dibrell principal Robbie Hitchcock will sleep on the school roof and maintenance man Paul Newby will ride a bicycle through the halls after fundraising goals were reached at Dibrell’s fall festival.
Hitchcock made a deal to sleep on the roof if students sold 10,000 fall festival tickets for a $1 donation. The school ended up reaching that goal – just barely.
“The contestants in the male beauty pageant raised $874 and they wanted all that money to go toward tickets,” said Dibrell PTO president Wanda Cantrell. “So it was a last-minute push that did it.”
Prior to the male beauty pageant contribution, students had sold 9,254 tickets. With a school enrollment around 450, students sold an average of 20.5 tickets apiece.
Newby said he would ride a bike through schools halls – something most kids would love to do for free – if students sold 8,000 tickets. Students took the ticket sales seriously and as a result the fall festival raised an estimated $15,000, according to Cantrell.
In exhange for the $1 donation, anyone buying a ticket was entered into a drawing for door prizes. The winners of those door prizes were:
$500 cash – Briana Wilder
iPad3 – Pam Wilson
$250 Walmart gift card – Rick Stacy
$100 Foodland Plus gift card – Maria D.
$100 Kroger gift card – Terra Rippe
$100 Shell gas card – Dorothy Bottoms
$65 Gateway gift card – Phillip Sandlin
Four free Little Caesars pizzas – Ernie Austin
Four free Little Caesars pizzas – Michelle Stubblefield
 The student who sold the most $1 donation tickets was Emily Davis. For selling 467 tickets Emily received a $200 VISA card.
 The class that sold the most $1 donation tickets for the door prizes was Mrs. Joyce Adcock’s first grade class. For that honor, the class will get to silly string Mrs. Adcock.