The James Logan Courier

By Beatrice Esteban, Courier Editor-in-Chief

A hole in the district budget has prompted Logan students and the New Haven community to raise money for co-curricular and extracurricular activities threatened by the statewide budget deficit.

In a staff email sent last Thursday, Principal Amy McNamara said that the New Haven Boosters Association and New Have Schools Foundation has teamed up to help raise funds for the district.

The Schools Foundation is currently accepting tax-deductible donations and has agreed to give all money raised in the next two months to co-curricular programs at Logan and the rest of the district.

MISCELLANEOUS

No TDAP, No schedule! A new State law now requires that all incoming 7th to 12th graders get a whooping cough booster shot, called Tdap, before entering school. You will not be able to get your schedule or be able to start school next year until you receive the shot and documentation is brought to the school office! Have your parents contact your doctor now to schedule this booster shot. If you have any questions about the shot or where to get it, please see the staff member in charge of immunizations in the office.

Need Driver’s Education? Your place is at the Adult School. Cost is $125. There will be two sessions offered this summer. Session 1 is June 20, 21 & 22. Session 2 is August 8, 9 & 10. Applications are now available in your house office or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)

It's been a long time — 10 years — since we last saw Aya Brea in "Parasite Eve II," and for those who cared about the games she was in rather than Aya herself, this likely isn't the homecoming you had in mind.

Officially, "The 3rd Birthday" marks the continuation of the "Eve" storyline, an opera of mutated monkeys, genetic engineering and spontaneous combustion that's entirely too bizarre to explain succinctly. Unofficially, it doesn't much matter: Only a few other characters make the crossover from "Eve" to "Birthday," and while there are definite ties to the past — Manhattan and Christmas Eve really do not mix in Aya's world — the new storyline feels more like a fresh crisis for a familiar face than something reliant on events whose explanations exist in a decade-old game.

From wikipedia:
James Thomas "Cool Papa" Bell (May 17, 1903 – March 7, 1991) was an American center fielder in Negro league baseball, considered by many baseball observers to have been the fastest man ever to play the game. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.

Born May 17th, 1903, in Starkville, Mississippi, Bell joined the St. Louis Stars of the Negro National League as a pitcher in 1922. By 1924, he had become their starting center fielder, and was known as an adept batter and fielder, and the "fastest man in the league". After leading the Stars to league titles in 1928, 1930, and 1931, he moved to the Detroit Wolves of the East-West League when the Negro National League disbanded. Detroit soon folded, leaving Bell to bounce to the Kansas City Monarchs and the Mexican winter leagues until finding a home with the Pittsburgh Crawfords in the reorganized NNL. In Pittsburgh, he played alongside Ted Page and Jimmie Crutchfield to form what is considered by many to have been the best outfield in the Negro Leagues.

Read an 1970 interview with Cool Papa Bell, free from the University of Missouri-St. Louis' Western Historical Manuscript Collection.