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Most of Logan's seniors stayed after school Wednesday to sit for the annual Senior panoramic picture, snapped in Judson E. Taylor Stadium by photographers from Prestige Portraits in Hayward and Lifetouch School Portraits . Seniors were asked to show up at 1:50 p.m, but straddlers were still climbing the stairs into the home side stands well after that. Once everyone was in the stands, getting everyone properly positioned and posed took several more minutes. House One Principal Francis Rojas, Logan's former activities director, warned that any hand signals, removed shirts or other unseemly behavior would result in the offending students' images being blotted out of the picture.

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations

The Board of Education on Tuesday night received a presentation outlining student success at Conley-Caraballo High, the District’s continuation and alternative education high school.

Principal Mireya Casarez, accompanied by virtually her entire staff, told the Board that all of them share the belief that “every single student in the building, no matter how or why they got there, is headed for college.” The school’s small size, she added, enables teachers to “get to know” students in a way “most teachers wish they could but can’t.”

From the African-American Registry:
Charles Anderson was born this date in 1907. He was an African-American aviator.

From Bridgeport, Pennsylvania, he was the son of Janie and Iverson Anderson of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Young Anderson was enamored with airplanes and flying from the age of six. Because most flight instructors during that time would not take Black students, he taught himself to fly at the age of 22 in a used plane purchased with his savings and funds borrowed from friends and relatives. He earned a private pilot's license in 1929 and a commercial pilot's license in 1932.

Read more about Charles Anderson, free from BlackWingsOnline.com