At every football game student council exchanges a gift of friendship with the student council of the opposing school. At an Abilene High vs. Cooper game the Cooper Student Council and the student council from Abilene High exchanged teddy bears in honor of Rebecca Lawson. Rebecca Lawson, was a 1999 graduate of Abilene High School, and a former member of the AHS student council.

In honor of her service to the student council at Abilene High, and in acknowledgement to her friendship with the student council at Cooper, the two student councils presented her father, Don, and her brother, Jake, with teddy bears. These bears are now symbolic of the new "Becca's Bears" ministry at Meeks Childrens Hospital at Hendrick Medical Center in Abilene.