Page 10 THE VILLADOM TIMES IV • March 7, 2012
Ramsey
Captain Ben Price, a Cobra pilot with the U.S. Marine Corps, recently paid a surprise visit to the second grade classes at Ramsey’s Tisdale School, where his cousin, Riley Becker, is a student in Mrs. Kara Emes’ class. Price recently returned from 10-and-a-half months at sea, the longest deployment at sea in recent history. His family, including Riley’s mother Amanda Becker, traveled
Marine pilot addresses students at Tisdale School
Left: Riley Becker greets her cousin, Marine Captain Ben Price. Above: Kara Emes, Price, and Becker.
to North Carolina to welcome him home. Price decided to surprise his young cousin late last month, and spend time speaking to the children who wrote letters to him while he was deployed. He addressed all of
Tisdale’s second graders and answered the many questions they had for him. “Riley was completely surprised and felt very lucky that he visited her school,” her mother reported.