Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 November 2000 — Page 8

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THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2000

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You ore invited (and encouraged to attend): Mm □(Umeafflom □QstfemQmqj s©ssQom TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 AT 7 RM.

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Tlie Board of Directors, Administration, Faculty, Students and Parents of CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL cordially invite you to attend our OPEN HOUSE Thursday, November 16, 2000 5:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m.

5:30-7:30 Dinner, Tours, Department Presentations 7 - 45-8:30 Feature Presentation in the Robert V. Welch Student Activity Center “Experience the Tradition ”

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NABSW announces 2000 scholarships The Indianapolis Chapter, NABSW is pleased to announce the 2000 scholarships to support the academic achievement of Afri-can-American scholars who have a demonstrated commitmehl to our community. Applications are due Nov. 20 and awards will be announced during a Dec. 11 Chapter meeting/Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration. One award will be made for the first Dr. Gayle J. Cox Scholarship. If you have any questions for the rules of eligibility, call the Chapter’s voicemail 767-5502. UNCF Black Tie Gala On Dec. 9, Mayor Bart Peterson along with an honorary committee of Indianapolis area school superintendents will host The Mayor’s Ball: A Celebration of Educational Excellence, to benefit the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). This signature black tie gala event will be held at the Vincennes University Aviation Technology Center from 6 until 10 p.m. and is being hosted by UNCF, in conjunction with the office of the mayor and a planning committee of community leaders. For more information on the ball and volunteer opportunities call the Indiana UNCF office at 283-3920.

After-school programs After-school programs for children and youth are continuing at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Multi-Service Center. The programs will continue through June 8, 2001. There will also be activities scheduled over winter and spring breaks. The programs, for ages 5 to 15, meet daily from 3 to 6 p.m. and on some Saturdays. Cost is $ 15 per week or $60 each month. There are opportunities for financial assistance if needed. Stop by the center located at 40 W. 40th St. or call 923-4581 Ext. 246 for school age child care or Ext. 234 for the teen program. Minority Teacher and Special Education Services Scholarship Program The Minority Teacher and Special Education Services Scholarship Program 2000-2001 is offering scholarships for minority students (defined as Black or Hispanic) seeking teaching certification, special education teaching certification, or occupational or physical therapy certification. The application deadline is set by each institution. For more information, scholarship guidelines or an application, call the State Student Assistance Commission of Indiana (SSACI) at 232-2350. Looking for classmates Arsenal Technical High School class of 1970 is planning their 30th reunion for November 25. We are having trouble locating classmates. Coordinators of this event would

like for those who see the notice to contact Mary Alice Durrett at 5427507. E-mail: [email protected]. or Velora Mansfield Anderson 3871964. E-mail: [email protected]. Shortridge class of 1961 seeks classmates In preparation for its 40-year reunion activities in June 2001, the reunion committee for the Shortridge High School class of 1961 is actively seeking lost memners. Addresses and contacts are missing for about 200 classmates. Members of the class of 1961 are urged to contact Ellen Brodey Simon at 257-6968 or by e-mail: [email protected]. Ron Brown Scholarship program The Ron Brown Scholarship is open to African-American high school seniors who are academically talented and highly motivatal. Applicants must be able to demonstrate excellent academics, exertional leadership potential, financial need and impact theircommunities through activities and setvice to others. Candidates must be pursuing full-time undergraduate degrees. Awards are $10,000 pfcr year for four years. For more information. call (804) 964-1588, cqptact the sponsor by e-mqjj: [email protected] or log oi^o www.RonBrown.org. Ron Brown Scholarship Program, 1160 Pepsi Place, Suite 306-B, Charlottesvife, V A 22901. ,rl ni ,b V/

Teachers needed; we must help educate our children

Many of the readers of this column remember the days when your schoolteacher, principal, and guidance counselor lived in your community. The days of seeing your school personnel living.inypuiv neighborhoods is all but over. Those teachers who teach in' the inner city public schools very seldom live near the schools in which they teach. In the suburban school districts, generally some of the teachers live in the same townships in which they teach. When a majority of students are African American and Hispanic, but are being taught by teachers, principals, and guidance counselors, who do not reside in their community (and are not of the same ethnic group), we lessen the likelihood of giving these students role models, mentors, and “surrogate parents.” Not that those in another ethnic group cannot fill these positions; our children need to see more of “their own” in these positions. In the next 10 years, America will need to hire 2.2 million new teachers. In Indiana alone, more than 44,000 will need to be hired. Many of the baby boomers will be retiring, and the need for new teachers is increasing every

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year. More than 60 percent of the teachers in the classroom are over 50 years of age. Maybe the position that is needed most, the one that will have the greatest effect on our children, is that of a guidance counselor. In the next 10 years, we will also be facing more and more broken homes, dysfunctional children, students being labeled with learning and emotional disabilities, and students on some form of medication. The job of the classroom teacher and most importantly, that of the School guidance counselor, will be very important to the success of our children. With the millions of school staff that will be replacing the “baby boomers,” how’ many of them will be African American and Hispanic? We often blame the schools for the poor quality of student work that we are receiving. We

also put a lot of blame on the parents. We can improve the quality of work by becoming ,, t “qualified” and certified to teach, and by getting degrees that allow us to become guidance counse-* 1

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»i (I j t. .home Jife and pareft( a! S j3 involvehient that the sfiidentsWill have in the next 10 years will ^ i become more and more unstablei There- seems to.be more of a shift towards privatizing schools and<j allowing the public schools to j £ crumble and fail. ^ Every student will not receive^ vouchers and all of them cannot^ afford to attend a private schoor of their choice. The community is going to 03 have to deal with our children - B one way or another. We can become teachers, guidance counselors, and principals in thj)r schools and help them succeed «t even higher rates. Or we can continue to allow them to take the downward 3 spiraled path that they are 3 currently on. and deal with them on the street; uneducated, unemployed, unsupervised, and very unpleasant to be around. Remenpiber. their future is our future. . Semi your comments to me df: [email protected] or write me at: 9701 E. 63rd St.'r Indianapolis, IN. 46236. Or call me at (317) 393-2188.

Town hall meetings to focus on IP£

Special to The Recorder The Indianapolis Public Schools is one of 10 school districts from across the country that has received a $250,000 planning grant from the Carnegie Corp. of New York to encourage reform in our high schools. The district will, with community input, create a blueprint for systemic improvement at the

secondary level. If the IPS planning grant is accepted by the Carnegie Corp.. IPS will be awarded an $8 million grant to institute the reform. It is critical that IPS hear from all segments of the community during a series of town hall meetings in schools to discuss this initiative. All meetings begin at 7 p.m. The meeting schedule is:

Nov. 9 at Arlington, 4825 Arlington Ave. Nov. 16 at Arsenal Technical, 15(H) E. Michigan St. Nov. 29 at Broad Ripple, 1115 Broad Ripple Ave. Dec. 13 at Northwest, 5525 1 ' W. 34th St. H Dec. 14 at Key Learning n* Community, 777 S. White River Pkwy. iw

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Anderson to build $15.4 million wellness center

ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) —

Anderson University is poised to launch the largest construction project in its 83-year history. Construction is expected to begin early next spring on a nearly 121,000-square-foot wellness center that will house a host of athletic and fitness facilities. The project has an estimated price tag of $15.4 million.

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President James L. Edwards said. The building will connect an existing gymnasium and natatorium. The university’s swimming

facilities will also receive significant remodeling. The physical education and athletic departments will be

housed together at the center. It

will also feature a fieldhouse an<) new facilities for training, sports medicine and rehabilitation. The university is within aboui $1.4 million of the total cost of the project. Much of the money was raised from alumni and other

donors.

"This project will take us where we need to be," senior vice president Ron Moore saidk}' “This school is going places.” ’ j