Texas City remembers 1947 ship blasts with ceremony
Forty years after the Grand Camp disaster at the Texas City docks, survivors, city and industry leaders gather at City Hall for a noon memorial. The 45 minute service will showcase CAER sirens, fire equipment displays, and a Life-Flight helicopter as Galveston and Houston media join in the tribute.
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Texas City
America
Grand Camp
Texas City Terminal Railway Co
Gulf Coast
United States
Texas City City Hall
Ninth Ave. N
Rotary Pavilion
la Marque
Galveston
Houston
Emmett Lowry
Lowry
Houston- Galveston
UH CL ranks top three in Texas college retention
UH CL is third among public universities in Texas for first year retention at 82.5 percent, trailing only UT Austin and Texas A&M. The survey shows UH CL leads in Hispanic student retention at 80.9 percent and white student retention at 83.9 percent, with black retention at 59.9 percent.
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Houston
University of Houston-Clear Lake
Texas
Uh-Cl
University of Texas At Austin
Texas A&m University
College Station
C. van Wyatt
Coordinating Board of
The
Texas College and University System
Office For Civil Rights
U.S. Department of Education
UHCL
A&m
A&m Galveston
Ut-Austin
Uh-Clear Lake
Dickinson senior wins physics division at Galveston Science Fair
Nathan Yanasak of Dickinson High School topped the senior physics division and placed second overall among 500 plus entrants from Galveston area districts. His project, Binaural Beat Effect on the Electroencephalograph, explored how sound influences brain waves. Yanasak plans physics study at UC Berkeley or University of Chicago, with multiple scholarships and a paid summer voyage aboard the Texas Clipper.
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Patrick Phipps
Dickinson
Nathan Yanasak
Galveston
Yanasak
University of California-Berkeley
University of Chicago
Woman's Auxiliary
Union Carbide Corporation
Navy Science Award
Texas A&m University
Texas A&m At
Rio de Janiero
Trinidad
Bahamas
Jamaica
Dickinson High
Junior Engineering and Technical Society
Expanded lab time boosts Texas City middle school science
Blocker Middle School eighth graders benefit from a policy increasing lab time to two days weekly under Texas City Independent School District science regulations. Eighth grade earth science explores the earth's place in the universe while earlier grades cover life science and general science topics. Dyson notes hands on labs deepen understanding and foster problem solving.
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Texas City
Blocker
Texas City Independent
Kathy Dyson
Dyson
Simpson's dream becomes reality at College of the Mainland
Texas City student Terrell Simpson earns an associate in applied science from COM this summer and will depart for Texas A&M on a 5000 scholarship this fall. He recalls a slow start in school but credits COM with building confidence and revealing his math and chemistry talents, inspired by a trigonometry course and a supportive instructor.
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Texas City
College of the Mainland
Terrell Simpson
COM
Texas A&m
Simpson
Louisiana
West
la Marque High School
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Blocker Junior High
David Howard
Stephanie Martinez
Waine Morris
Jennifer Bradley
Tajuana Ford
Wayne Lucas
Polly Johnson
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