The James Logan Courier

MISCELLANEOUS
Students, do you need to repeat a class over the summer? Applications for summer school are now available in your House Office. They are pink in color. Space is limited, so apply early. Applications are processed on a first-come, first-served basis. All applications turned in by the April 30 deadline will be given priority. Please submit completed applications to your counselor for review. Seniors, make sure to complete a Senior Contract as well.

Attention AP students: Time to sign up for AP testing. Come to the main office windows in Colt Court between February 28 and March 18. See Sarah Muse to pay for your exams at lunch or after school until 3:50 p.m. Your AP teacher has detailed information.

Attention TAs: TA passes are ready for periods 0 through 7. Please pick yours up from Mrs. Whitaker during your TA period only.

By Tish Wells
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

There is a lot to like in "Couture in the 21st Century," a collection of essays by prominent fashion designers edited by Deborah Bee, and produced in conjunction with the British department store, Harrods.

It's an excellent way to get a feel for the history of the century-and-a-half-year-old fashion industry started by Charles Worth in the mid-1800s.

However, it also provides some stark contrasts between the past and the present that might have been inadvertent.

From wikipedia:
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut who on 12 April 1961 became the first human to journey into outer space.

Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk (now in Smolensk Oblast, Russia), on 9 March 1934. The adjacent town of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin in 1968 in his honour. His parents, Alexey Ivanovich Gagarin and Anna Timofeyevna Gagarina, worked on a collective farm. While manual labourers are described in official reports as "peasants", this may be an oversimplification if applied to his parents — his mother was reportedly a voracious reader, and his father a skilled carpenter. Yuri was the third of four children, and his elder sister helped raise him while his parents worked. Like millions of people in the Soviet Union, the Gagarin family suffered during Nazi occupation in World War II. His two older siblings were deported to Nazi Germany for slave labour in 1943, and did not return until after the war. While a youth, Yuri became interested in space and planets, and began to dream about his space tour which would one day become a reality.

Learn more about Yuri Gagarin, free from ispyspace.com.