HENDERSONVILLE — McCarthyism, the Lusitania, Executive Order #9066 and Diane Nash – what do all these have in common? They are all topics related to the 2018 National History Day theme: “Conflicts & Compromises in History.”
Furthermore, they are all research projects that qualified for state competition at the March 17 Western North Carolina regional event held at Western Carolina University and completed by students under the guidance of National History Day Teacher Ambassador Yvonne Krowka at Immaculata School.
Patrick Jones, a freshman at Hendersonville High School, took first place in Senior Division Individual Performance; seventh-graders Emma Sevier, Emma Slebonick and Johanna Montano won third place in Junior Division Group Website; seventh-graders Blakely Morgan and Noah Pavao won second place in Junior Division Group Documentary; and eighth-grader Jane Maddock won first place in Junior Division Individual Website.
These students are among the top out of 500,000-plus students who did National History Day projects across the nation.
This challenging program guides students in analytical and critical thinking, research writing, and technological presentations preparing them for advanced opportunities in academics and careers.
Pictured are (from left): Jane Maddock, Blakely Morgan, Noah Pavao, Johanna Montano, Emma Slebonick and Emma Sevier. (Not pictured is Patrick Jones.)
— Photo provided by Meredith Y. Canning and Yvonne Krowka
CHARLOTTE — Students at Charlotte Catholic High School organized a school-wide prayer service Friday morning to commemorate the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting, as well as to honor all the lives lost in school shootings.
The prayer service at Keffer Stadium featured a procession of students and teachers – all dressed in black – representing 172 students, 33 teachers, 8 administrators, and 2 security officers who have lost their lives in school shootings.
After they lined up on the field in front of the student body, student organizers of the prayer service read the names of the schools affected and the number of students and teachers killed at each school.
The prayer service was organized as thousands of schools across the country staged a Walkout Day to mark the shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado on April 20, 1999, in which 13 people were killed.
The prayer service was the second such effort organized at Charlotte Catholic High School this year in response to gun violence in schools.
During a National Student Walkout Day on March 14, students at several Catholic
schools in the Diocese of Charlotte chose to pray rather than walk out of class.
The action was organized on the one-month anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
At Charlotte Catholic, student council members led the school in prayer over the loudspeakers before several classes, remembering each of the victims of the Parkland high school shooting on Feb. 14.
— Catholic News Herald. Carolyn Tillman contributed. Photos provided by Carolyn Tillman.
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