The James Logan Courier

MISCELLANEOUS

MISSED YOUR PICTURES? Buy your picture package on September 3, 2008.

P.E. clothes will be available for sale today & Friday at lunchtime and after school. Location: Colt Court at double doors to Student Services Center.

Lockers: If you will not be using the locker assigned to you, fill out a locker problem form (available in the Student Services Center) indicating you will not be using the locker and it will be reassigned. If you do not do this, you will be responsible for the locker if you are using it or not.

CLUBS

Would you like to attend the inauguration of our next President this January? Join CLOSE UP and spend an exciting week in Washington, D.C. See Ms. Lombardi ASAP in Room 71 for information.

By Kim Andrew Elliott, International Broadcasting Bureau Research Analyst

If you go to my website about international broadcasting (kimandrewelliott.com) and search on “jazz,” you’ll see several entries about musicians who were inspired by Willis Conover’s jazz broadcasts on the Voice of America. They listened in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, as expected, but also in India, Cuba, Sweden – all over the world, actually.

My own first memories of Willis Conover were as a teenaged shortwave listener in Indiana. When I began working at VOA in 1985, I considered it a perk to encounter the famous international broadcaster in the corridors. Willis always had a smile and a hello for me. I don’t think he ever knew my name.

From ncnewspapersineducation.org:
By Roy Parker Jr.

Robert Lee Vann (1879-1940) rose from the cotton field to become founder-editor-publisher of the Pittsburgh Courier, which by the early 1930s counted 250,000 readers across the country, the largest circulation of any black-owned newspaper in history, and one of the few newspapers of any kind to have a national circulation.

Vann managed to acquire a first-rate education at Virginia Union University and Western University in Pennsylvania,and was licensed as a lawyer in that state in 1909.


Learn more about Robert Lee Vann, free from ExplorePAhistory.com