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Top spellers
Oakndge Elementary School has announced the names of the spelling bee
winners. The winners from left are, from left, Catrina Curry, first place; Savannah
Cravens, third place and Robert Shook, second place. The spelling bee was un-
der the direction of second grade teacher DeEllen Bush.
SHS grad tabbed for
OU leadership program
Special to the Herald
Elizabeth Wille, daughter of
Michael and Karen Wille of Sapulpa,
has been selected to participate in the
JC Penny Leadership Program at the
University of Oklahoma.
The program, designed for stu-
dents who have demonstrated leader-
ship both scholastically and in
extracurricular activities, is open only
to a select number of students. The
program is composed of an innova-
tive group of business students, most
of whom are from Oklahoma.
Only 3 percent of the Business
College students — that’s around 150
in all — are in this program.
Several chief executive officers of
major businesses will visit the group
throughout the year as guest speakers,
and the leadership students will also
attend weekend trips to various states
with companies like Ernest & Young
or the Arthur Anderson company.
"One of the advantages for the JC
Penny Leadership Program,” said
Karen Wille, “will be to give students
a chance to see what it’s like to work
in the real world — and that's some-
thing my daughter is quite excited
about. Since going to OU she's partic-
ipated in the President's Leadership
Class, and has met OLJ president
David Boren.
The class has been a real plus
scholastically, and she’s learning
quite a bit about business. She plans
to major in the business marketing
field."
And others have recognized her
abilities in business and leadership.
Her recent selection as one of three
freshmen from the University of
Oklahoma’s Michael F. Price College
of Business to be a member of the
Penny’s program, Wille, a 1998 grad-
uate of Sapulpa High School, has uti-
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stantly busy.
The President's Leadership Class,
consisting of 108 freshmen, were
selected in their senior year of high
school. The class meet weekly to dis-
cuss leadership on campus and partic-
ipate in many different activities.
This year one of the highlights for
the organization was having Britain’s
former prime minister Margaret
Thatcher pay them a visit. The group
had also toured other businesses,
including the governor’s mansion and
president Boren's home.
Her community and volunteer pro-
grams have included Special
Olympics and Meals on Wheels.
Scholastically she was named to the
Dean's Honor Roll of the fall semes-
ter, placing her in the top 10 percent
of her class.
Wille's father is president of the
Sapulpa Board of Education.
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levins, and back row. from left. Wanda Hudson and Roberta Christensen
18-year-old vituoso makes
time to connect with kids
NEW YORK (AP) — Hilary Hahn
seems to take center stage among ele-
mentary schoolers with the same
enthusiasm she does performing in
the world's best-known concert halls.
Standing on the threshold of what
critics assure will be an outstanding
career, the 18-year-old virtuoso vio-
linist took time out between New
York Philharmonic performances to
meet Monday with fourth- and fifth-
graders struggling to make their
instruments sing as hers does
The meeting was the first for Hahn
and the students of PS. 183, but sev-
eral felt they knew her already. The
kids have been following her career
via the World Wide Web.
And they came prepared with
questions.
Why did she pick the violin?
How does she memorize all that
stuff?
How much does she practice?
"You only have to practice on the
days that you eat," she told them, par-
roting the rule a violin teacher once
gave her. "It's like sleeping or breath-
ing.”
Hahn is in town for a two-week
stint at Lincoln Center, where she is
performing four days with the phil-
harmonic at Avery Fisher Hall and
two with a chamber group in Alice
Tully Hall It's her second appearance
with the philharmonic, the first com-
ing when she was 14 and was asked to
stand in for Midori, another violinist
who gained international acclaim in
her teens.
By that time, Hahn had already
spent several years training at
Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of
Music, where the curriculum is
designed so students can practice sev-
eral hours each day and travel to per-
form.
At the Upper East Side elementary
school she visited Monday, Hahn
treated 11 children to the Andante and
Allegro sections of Johann Sebastian
Bach's Sonata in A Minor, and also
showed them a quick bedtime exer-
cise she used to do every night.
The kids, several toting violin
cases themselves, sat mesmerized as
Hahn swayed in time with the music
and her fingers (lew across the
strings.
Despite her encouragement, only
10-year-old Lucy Tung was brave
enough to crack out her own instru-
ment.
The fifth-grader whispered to her-
self when she made a mistake, but
Hahn greeted the finish with a warm
smile and hearty applause.
"It’s not that easy, it's hard to mem-
orize," the girl said.
"You're on your way," Hahn
assured her.
UCLA teaching aides
vote to join UAW
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Graduate
students at the University of Califor-
nia at Los Angeles have voted to
unionize, paving the way for unions
to form at the seven other university
-ampuses
The 718-269 vote, which took
place March 9-11, affiliated the
1 CI.A union with the United Auto
Workers.
It's a historic victory for academ-
ic student workers," said Connie
Ka/za, a UCLA teaching assistant and
spokeswoman for the new Student
Association of Graduate Employees-
i AW
Ihe University of California will
'■operate fully with SAGE-UAW and
vs ill bargain in good faith," Chancel-
lor Albert Camesale said.
Before Monday's announcement,
■ here were 18 institutions, including
ihe universities of Michigan and Wis-
consin, with unionized teaching aides,
according to 1997 statistics by the
Chronicle of Higher Education.
Graduate students, who often teach
.mall groups of undergraduates, grade
papers and tutor, typically work 15 to
20 hours a week and earn about
f 15 (MX) a year.
UC assistants walked off the job in
December, the fourth such strike in
six years and the first involving all
UC general admissions campuses.
They agreed to a 45-day "cooling off
period just before final exams.
Herald Photo by JIMMY PRIDE
Mounds students
Mounds Students of the Month for February are front row, from left, Taylar Manzanares, Dillion Waterdown, Brandon
Bartmier and Johnathan Johnson; second row, from left, are Candra Armitage, Joslin Brower, Stehanie Delaney, Melissa
Bennett, Ramsey Hamilton, Cody Garman and Cody McIntosh (a January Student of the Month); third row, from left, are
Cassie Honeycutt, Kelsey Jones, Brandon Evans Hannan Wadsworth, Alex Raley, TJ Hamilton and Adam White; fourth row,
from left, are Justin Matthias, Sarah Deramus, Kellie Swinford, Jessica Butler; Bryan Gant and William Hays.
MIT admits claim
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) —
Female faculty at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology for years
were systematically shortchanged in
areas ranging from promotions and
salaries to office space and access to
research money, according to a report
issued by the school.
The report, five years in the mak-
ing, found that female professors at
MIT's School of Science suffered
unintentional discrimination But it
also lauded administrators for taking
several measures to address
inequities once they were revealed.
”1 believe that in no case was this
discrimination conscious or deliber-
ate," Science School Dean Robert
Birgeneau said in the report.
Speaker’s education
program advances
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — House Speaker Loyd Benson's education
reform package is zipping through the legislative process, as Senate leaders
point to making final decisions in a joint conference committee.
House Bill 1759 passed Sen. Penny Williams' education committee on
Monday by a 15-0 vote. It was largely in the same form that passed the
House but included new proposals on teacher pay and kindergarten by Sen-
ate President Pro Tempore Stratton Taylor.
The bill creates a "diploma of_
The bill creates a
“diploma of
honor” program
for students who
take four units of
English, three
units each of math,
social studies and
science and one-
half unit in tech-
nology.
honor" program for students who take
four units of English, three units each
of math, social studies and science
and one-half unit in technology.
Students who pass that curriculum
qualify for two years of free college
tuition. Senators amended the bill to
allow students to attend private col-
leges, in addition to public institu-
tions.
Others proposals include school
choice and expansion of charter
schools.
Added to the House plan were pro-
posals by Taylor to expand kinder-
garten from a half day to a full day
and to set a goal of reaching the
regional average of teacher pay by the
2(X)4-05 school year.
Questions have been raised about
how the state can fund such education
improvements in a tight budget year.
Sen. Cal Hobson, D-Lexington,
said the state does have growth dol-
lars and can increase education fund-
ing significantly if leaders have the will to do so.
"We can do it if we care as much about this subject as we do about a bil-
lion-dollar road program," Hobson said.
He referred to a $1 billion highway plan pushed through the Legislature
two years ago with Keating's strong backing.
At Monday's Education committee meeting, senators rejected an amend-
ment by Sen. James Williamson, R-Tulsa, that would have required students
to take a 4-by-4 curriculum to qualify for free college tuition.
Sen. Johnnie Crutchfield, D-Ardmore, said Williamson's proposal was a
"slick" way to get Gov. Frank Keating's education plan back on the table
Keating has proposed requiring all high school students to take four years
of math, science and social studies, in addition to the now-required four
years of English, before they could graduate.
A watered-down 4-by-4 proposal was included in the Senate education
package now in the House.
Critics say Keating’s proposal would be too costly and restrictive. Some
educators say it would increase the high school dropout rate.
Last week, the Republican governor wrote Ponca City School Superin-
tendent William White, saying he was "flabbergasted" that White would pre-
dict at a Senate committee meeting that the dropout rate would balloon
under Keating's 4-by-4 curriculum
White said 10 percent of students could not pass some advanced math
and science courses.
Keating, in his letter to White, said Ponca City had a graduation rate of
72.3 percent, while El Reno, which has a form of 4 by-4, has a graduation
rate of 75.6 percent.
But figures supplied by the Department of Education showed Ponca City
excelled in other areas without the benefit of 4-by-4.
Keating says 4-by-4 is needed to increase ACT scores. But according to
a state report for the 1996-97 school year, Ponca City's ACT score was 22.2,
above the national average, while El Reno's was 20.4.
Ponca City's math test scores were 74 percent, compared with El Reno's
49 percent. Science scores were 77 for Ponca City and 69 for F.I Reno. Also,
Ponca City's remediation rate was 10 percent lower than El Reno's.
Hobson referred to that data in his own letter to White, praising him the
educator for his candor before Hobson's education appropriations subcom-
mittee
"It seems to me that this data proves that the citizens of Ponca City should
be proud of their school system," Hobson wrote.
"And to think you students accomplished all of this without a mandated
4-by-4 curriculum."
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