The James Logan Courier

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Yearbooks are on sale for $90. Come by Room 44 after school to buy yours. Hurry, because supplies are limited.

Need Driver’s Ed? There will be two sessions this summer at the Adult School. The first session is June 20, 21 & 22. The second session is August 8, 9 & 10. Cost is $125. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for an application or details.

Do you love to sing and dance? Choir auditions are May 10-13. Advanced Choir and Jazz Choir are Tuesday, May 10th. Show Choir is May 12 & 13 (Thurs. & Fri.) For Show Choir you must attend both days. Join our championship teams.

Courier Staff Report

The Washington Redskins picked Logan Class of 2007 Alum Dejon Gomes in this year's National Football League draft, making him the 146th player picked overall.

Gomes was one of three Nebraska players chosen by the Redskins in the draft's fourth round.

In an interview on ESPN radio, Gomes immediately endeared himself to fans by calling Redskin's arch-rival Dallas Cowboys "losers."

From wikipedia:
Septima Poinsette Clark (May 3, 1898–December 15, 1987) was an American educator and civil rights activist. Clark developed the literacy and citizenship workshops that played an important role in the drive for voting rights and civil rights for African Americans in the American Civil Rights Movement." She became known as the "Queen mother" or "Grandmother of the American Civil Rights Movement" in the United States.

Clark was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1898. Her father, Peter Poinsette, was born a slave on the Joel Poinsette farm between the Waccamaw River and Georgetown. After the Civil War, he got a job as a caterer. Her mother, Victoria Warren Anderson Poinsette, was born in Charleston but raised in Haiti by her uncle, who took her and her two sisters there in 1864. Victoria Poinsette had never been a slave. She returned to Charleston after the Civil War and worked as a launderer. Clark's mother did not work directly for whites, and refused to allow their daughters to work in white houses in order to protect them from sexual harassment.

Read an interview with Septima Clark, free from the Documenting the American South project of the University of North Carolina.