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Sunday, January 24, 2010


MISCELLANEOUS
Our first scholarship winner of the year is Nick Staib. Congratulations Nick for winning the Comcast Leaders & Achievers Scholarship!

Drop-In homework/tutoring in Room 77. Daily before school 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., Tuesday-Friday 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., and Saturdays 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Need Drivers Education? Your place is the Adult School! Cost is $125. April 5, 6 & 7, M – W, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details. Hurry, classes fill up fast!



Bubble Jim by Sabina Singh, Courier Comics Editor
©2010 Sabina Singh/Courier Comics

Daily Life by Anjelica Ramos, Courier Staff Artist
©2010 Anjelica Ramos/Courier Comics

From wikipedia:
Andrew Ellicott (January 24, 1754 – August 28, 1820) was a U.S. surveyor who helped map many of the territories west of the Appalachians, surveyed the boundaries of the District of Columbia, continued and completed Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant's work on the plan for Washington, D.C., and served as a teacher in survey methods for Meriwether Lewis.

Andrew Ellicott was born in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania as the first of nine children of Joseph Ellicott (1732 – 1780) and his wife Judith (née Blaker or Bleaker, 1729 – 1809). The Quaker family lived in modest conditions; his father was a miller and clockmaker. Young Andrew was educated at the local Quaker school, where Robert Patterson, who later became a professor and vice provost at the University of Pennsylvania, was his teacher for some time. Andrew was a talented mechanic like many of the family and showed some mathematical talent, too.

Read Andrew Ellicott Douglass and the Giant Sequoias in the Founding of Dendrochronlogy by Donald J. McGraw, free from treeringsociety.org.