Almanac Class 10

[Adabella Frierdich]

Thespring 2022 was both exciting and, admittedly, anxiety-inducing. After two weeks online, students and faculty returned fully in-person instruction and events. For many students, including myself, the return to the classroom was strange. The majority of my undergraduate experience to that point had happened online. I was evicted from campus during my freshman spring; suddenly I had to leave my dorm and friends in the U.S. to return home to Germany. There, I spent two semesters online with a six-hour time difference, and another attending Zoom classes from my off-campus apartment in Philly. In spring 2022 I was a junior finally getting back to the college experience I dreamed I would have.

Being around my classmates encouraged me to learn from and with them. In particular, I was able to pursue my academic interests and passions with renewed vigor. Through those short interactions before class, I found an amazing project group. Working on the project in-person, we were able to stage a court hearing rather than a standard PowerPoint presentation. The project not only solidified my understanding of class concepts, but also made learning fun again. Later, that project group turned into a study group for the final and a movie excursion unrelated to the class. College is both an academic and a social endeavor, and in-person learning allowed me to connect these aspects of the Penn experience.

This essay continues the series that began in the fall of 1994 as the joint creation of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Lindback Society for Distinguished Teaching. See -about-teaching-and-learning-archive for previous essays.

Some of the class will be on your feet, but you will also have plenty of rest time in the taproom. Please wear comfortable, closed-toe shoes. You will need non-slip footwear in the brewery. Sandals and flip-flops are not allowed.

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I'm not a CSS boffin, so I tried using containers and set the width, etc. but that did not make a difference. I also see there is a white-space CSS element that is set to pre-wrap, but should be set of normal. How do I go about setting just this items CSS? Or is there a better way to solve the challenge?

You probably already have a container (div) which wraps all of your content. All you need to do is give it a class, and in your css files say that the contents of that class should have X and Y properties.

I wish I could issue you all a "Mark as Solution" as all were helpful, but since I can't I'll give it to Mariano since he got me the furtherest. Funny how just a simple dot can throw a spanner in the works. Happened to me two days ago when I was setting up a DNS record. The dots are out to get me!

How fitting it was, then, that on July 8 and 9 the woman who came up with the name for the first yearbook jetted across country from her home in western New York to join other members of the Kenai High School Class of 1961 for a 50-year reunion.

At a Friday dinner at Paradisos Restaurant in Kenai and a Saturday picnic on the old Cotton Moore homestead in Sterling, class members, now mostly in their late 60s, united to celebrate old times and catch up on more recent ones.

Wilson, who was born in 1943 in a house on Mission Avenue in Kenai, and whose family continues its long history in the area, was well aware of the important ties between the fishing village that Kenai had been before statehood and the river that lured the salmon home each summer.

she was once allowed to toll the large bell on the roof, for the new one in the early 1950s. She remembered all of the students placing their chairs upon their heads one day at the old school and then marching down the street to the new one, a building which currently houses the Kenai Boys and Girls Club and Aurora Borealis Charter School.

Of the 30 graduates still living, 20 attended the reunion festivities, many of them with spouses or significant others. The dinner drew about 70 individuals, while the picnic drew about 80. Also in attendance were a smattering of former teachers, a bus driver, a school board member, and other students who also attended either Kenai High School or the Kenai Territorial School through the spring of 1964.

Falkenberg, without whom, according to several attendees, the get-together never would have taken place. Falkenberg put together a six-person committee more than a year in advance of the event, and the number of volunteers grew as the reunion dates drew nearer.

into town to the Sky Bowl, where a school bus driven by Dan France would pick them up and drive them into Kenai. During their junior and senior years, the bus route expanded to include Sterling, but the journey was just as long.

McFarland said that she occasionally rowed a boat down the lazy waters of the Moose River to the bridge to catch a ride, and on cold winter days she was even known to skate down the meandering ribbon of river ice to the main road.

Henley had transferred from Tustumena Elementary School, where she was helping to run a small pilot high school program, to KHS during the 1959-60 school year after being asked to teach some typing classes.

In some cases the best of the mortarboards run in families. John and Delores Lindeman produced three valedictorians, Ronna, Kristi and Kelly, and a salutatorian, Angela. Frank and Roswitha Miller had two valedictorians, Erica and Tristan, as well as two salutatorians, Sonja and Norbert. Sonja is one of the more interesting girls to grace this list. For many years she has been a member of a convent, the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in Wichita, Kan.

Salutatorian Shirley Wilson married Butch Schollenberg, and they have valedictorian Katie and salutatorian Jason. In 2009, Jason Schollenberg married Whitney Leman, to become the second pair from our list to wed.

Sen. Bob and Sue Palmer thrice put their name on the list. Their Dave and Kathy were salutatorians and their Sandy was valedictorian. Floyd and Marion Blossom had Martha and Kathleen, who were valedictorians.

Ernie and Laura Lee Tiemann had Nancy, who was a valedictorian, and Sally, a salutatorian. Elmer and Barbara Banta had Nancy, who was a valedictorian, and Betty Jean, a salutatorian. Lionel and Esther Haakenson had Robert and Mary, both valedictorians. Bud and Pauline Benson had Audrey and Karen, who were valedictorians.

Achieving academic honor is, of course, no guarantee for a successful life. Some of the people on this list have had struggles, and one is sadly dead after a party that went awry. But topping the mortarboard class is a lasting honor that, for many, was a step forward in a meaningful life.

Getting to the classroom has been a struggle for students like Laura, 15, who just finished her freshman year at East Palo Alto Academy (EPAA). She has had heart palpitations and difficulty sleeping since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Her anxiety is worse on days when her best friend won't be at school. She was absent from one class 28 days during the 2022-23 school year. We agreed not to publish Laura's real name, to protect her privacy.

For a long time, test scores have slumped at schools in the area, which lies in the shadow of Stanford University and neighboring wealthy Silicon Valley school districts on the other side of Highway 101. But last school year, something else concerning happened: there was a huge jump in the number of students who weren't coming to school at all.

Laura is among the skyrocketing number of students in the East Palo Alto area over the last two years who have been chronically absent, which the state defines as missing 10 percent or more of the school year. The state began collecting and publishing chronic absenteeism data from schools during the 2016-17 school year.

East Palo Alto Academy, a small charter high school, saw a chronic absenteeism rate of 199 out of 355 students (56 percent) during the 2021-22 school year, according to state data. Numbers improved this school year, with 111 of 290 (38 percent) students chronically absent as of mid-May, according to Sequoia Union High School District data.

This one district is just one example of a nationwide issue. In 2021-22, 6.5 million more students across the U.S. missed at least 10 percent or more of school days than in 2017-18, according to an Attendance Works analysis.

The schools in the Ravenswood district serve an especially diverse, low-income area of the Bay Area. Some 86 percent of students in the district during the 2021-22 school year met the definition of socioeconomically disadvantaged, which means that they are eligible for free or reduced priced meals or have parents or guardians who did not receive a high school diploma. Nearly 47 percent of district children have experienced homelessness. At EPAA, 81 percent are from low-income households.

Students miss out on foundation skills that impact them forever when they miss school, including learning to socialize with their peers, said Sara Stone, Ravenswood's assistant superintendent of teaching and learning.

"When students are chronically absent, no matter what the issue is, you're missing out on learning," she said. "School is about giving kids the keys to the locks that are going to be in front of them in their lives."

Children who are chronically absent in preschool, kindergarten and first grade are much less likely to read at grade level by the third grade, according to U.S. Department of Education data. Students who cannot read at grade level by the end of third grade are four times more likely than proficient readers to drop out of high school, according to the Department of Education.

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