I was at the high school getting a couple of photos. Piper Phillips was there practicing for the play. She came up to me and said, "Are you from the newspaper?" I knew right away what she wanted to talk to me about. I said I was, and she said she had the picture in her backpack. I asked to see it, and she smiled really big and went to get it. I wondered if I could take her picture, so we went into the hallway. Don Schrock, the Superintendent, was walking the halls, stopped and looked at her picture and letter. He told her, "That's great!" She smiled again. I'm pretty sure she would have usually been a little shy. But this was so huge! He patted her on the head and kept walking.
Piper Phillips told me, "I asked him if he could give me an autograph. And he said ok. I chose to write to him because my family.... they really.....My family voted for him, and I wanted him to know that they cared for him. I can't remember what else I said in my letter."
