Elyria High Honors Reading engages adults and teens
Elyria High School's 12 year Honors Reading program expands with adults joining students in lively discussions of Great Books. About 190 participate this year, with 85 sophomores 55 juniors and 50 seniors. leaders include Shirley Sprague and Nina Jewel Baker.
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Elyria High School
Elyria Kiwanis
Association
Alice Stofer
EHS
Shirley Sprague
Nina Jewel Baker
William Shakespeare
Deputy Carl Crapo helps others beyond duty in Wellington
Lorain County Sheriff’s Deputy Carl L Crapo known for kindness helps a boy named Kevin Carlson injured on Oberlin Road and a Cleveland woman who forgot her glasses after an accident. Crapo, praised by Sheriff Vernon Smith, joined the force in 1964 and later led the department’s photography lab, qualifying as an expert witness in criminal cases. He enjoys fishing and photography and is active in church and local clubs.
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Cleveland
Lorain County
Crapo
Sheriff's Department
Vernon Smith
Eastman Kodak Co
Rochester N.Y
Wellington
Crape
Crapes
Quarry Road
Virginia
Brian
Carrie
Scott
Intellectuals and the middle class in a cold war
Eric Hoffer argues that a global struggle pits the educated intellectuals against the middle class, portraying intellectuals as self appointed elites who seek power, reshape society, and distrust practical action. He warns of power’s corrupting influence and foreshadows socialism without socialists in America.
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America
Napoleon
Asia
Africa
Latin America
Britain
Western Europe
Tycho Brehe
Otto Rank
Freud
House trailers to play vital role in lunar project
The plan envisions four mobile quarantine trailers to shield returning astronauts from Earth microbes. Three units head to the splashdown recovery area with a standby fourth, delivering astronauts via tunnel into a sealed, 25 foot living facility for up to five days.
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Moon
Earth
Melpar, Inc
Sf Wedictine Abtrective Aly Broker
NASA
Paet Baelaa
Houston
The
Space Center
Virgin Isle St. John charms travelers in the Virgin Islands
The article highlights St. John as the least altered of the three main Virgin Islands, with 9,486 acres inside Virgin Islands National Park and a history from colonial estates to slavery ending in 1848. It notes the island’s tranquil appeal, its transfer to the United States in 1917, and a popularity that drew 650,000 visitors, led by the foresight of a single benefactor and the steady trade winds.
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Washington
Virgin Islands
St. John
Green Island
Virgin Islands National Park
ST. Sohn
Coral Bay
John
Mitchell
Fredericks Vaern
United States
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Somerset Maugham
American Association of University Women
AAUW
First Congregational Church
Deputy Carl Crapo
Wellingtonian
Eichter
C-T
Sabbath
Charles Town
W. Va
West Virginia
State Senate
House of Delegates
Man
Smith
Crapos
Carl Crapo
Briza
Front
Rear
Eric Hoffer
Manned Spaceflight Center
Texas
Ken Sommer
Sommer
Elyria
Virgin Isle
New York
St. Thomas
St. Croix
San Francisco
UPI
Veterans Administration
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