The James Logan Courier

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It’s almost summer, the sun is out, and the weather is warm. But remember, this is school, not the pool! Please dress appropriately for school; tops must have straps and cover cleavage, the stomach and midriff, and bottoms not too short. This goes for both boys and girls. Please review our Student Handbook for specifics. Thank you!

Yearbooks are now on sale! From May 9 until May 25, prices are $65 with ASB and $75 without. After May 25th, prices are $80 with ASB and $90 without. Get yours before prices increase.

Former Cesar Chavez Middle School students: Is your blue promotion gown just taking up space in your closet? Make them useful again by donating it to a current 8th grader. Bring your promotion gown to House 1 in Colt Court.

By Carolyn Kellogg
Los Angeles Times (MCT)

FADE IN: A car idles in the foggy pre-dawn, pointed at the end of a cul-de-sac. Inside, an attractive 30-ish couple, DAMON and AMY, are worn from travel. She is dark-haired, pale-skinned and tense, and she leans against the passenger window. Behind the wheel, he carefully watches her mood as they evaluate the appearance of an owl in front of them. Good omen or bad? They can't decide, and continue on, lost.

This is the opening scene of "Rain Dragon," the second novel by Jon Raymond, who earned devoted fans with 2004's "The Half-Life." Since then, he's gone into screenwriting, earning an Emmy nomination for his work on the 2011 HBO miniseries "Mildred Pierce."

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

The Board of Education on Tuesday night approved a plan to designate the District’s Independent Study Program as its own school, to be located on the campus of the New Haven Adult School.

The Independent Study Program, currently headquartered at the Cabello Student Support Center, includes independent study for James Logan High students as well as independent study for kindergarten through eighth grade students and home schooling for kindergarten through 12th grade students. It is estimated that the new school will serve about 300 students, the vast majority in grades 9 to 12.

From Wikipedia:
Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.

Terkel was born to Samuel Terkel, a Russian Jewish tailor and his wife, Anna Finkelin in New York City, New York. At the age of eight he moved with his family to Chicago, Illinois, where he spent most of his life. He had two brothers, Ben (1907–1965) and Meyer (1905–1958).

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