The News Review:
- Joe Strauss Live
- Arts Corps finds willing recruits in needy schools
- In the Classroom: Take a peek into an FV ballet class
- Massaro: Bowen still hits high notes
Joe Strauss Live
St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Jul 11, 2007
Everybody up! Let’s see. It’s the All-Star break. MLB’s feel-good midsummer classic has just played out and everybody is feeling good looking toward the second half. Right? I’m sure there are questions about what’s ahead what’s behind and what the heck just happened in San Francisco Tuesday night. So let’s get into this week’s edition of JSL!!!Joe Strauss: All right. Everybody up! Let’s see… Again I wasn’t at the event. I hope to understand more later today. Frank: Everyone always seems to dance around this question or just not answer it on these forums. If (and a BIG if) LaRussa leaves after this year would quendo be his replacement? It just makes sense to me that he be the next manager for all the right reasons. He is a guy who seems to want to work with the younger players. Look what he as done with Albert a 1st base defensively? Enough said.
Arts Corps finds willing recruits in needy schools
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Jul 11, 2007
In this era of tight school budgets arts classes are often the first to get cut. For the last seven years though a 10-person non-profit has restored these losses at Seattle’s most cash-strapped schools. Seattle-based Arts Corps runs a break-dancing program at Denny Middle School urban dance instruction at Sealth High School sculpture lessons at Madrona K-8 basic painting at Bailey Gatzert Elementary and animation lectures at the Frye Art Museum. At Kimball Elementary on Beacon Hill 10-year-old Brita McAuliffe would rather spend afternoons in Monad Elohim’s drumming class than at home where television and computers can eat up hours. “TV is just sucking your brain out” Brita said a few minutes before she began dancing and drumming in the school’s common area. Brita is one of more than 1400 students learning to drum paint and create in Arts Corps classes which try to nurture a student’s development outside the pressure of WASL tests book reports and science projects. “You are welcome to be exactly who you are and respect each other and not feel like you have to conform” said Arts Corps founder Lisa Fitzhugh a one-time policy wonk who sprinkles references to quantum physics and the Dalai Lama into conversations about third-grade art.
In the Classroom: Take a peek into an FV ballet class
CRegister – Jul 11, 2007
Currently she teaches more than 200 children multiple forms of dance. The View asked her a few questions about the Academy and why she teaches. Q: Do classes lose attendance in the summer? A: Usually our current students take a break and then we have other students enroll for the first time. ur goal is to keep the summer kids in there longer than just the summer. I usually tell them there’s a recital in December and the kids look at the pictures of the recitals on the wall and they say “I want to do that. ” Q: Why did you start teaching for the Clubhouse Academy? A: I moved up here to dance at Cal State Fullerton.
Massaro: Bowen still hits high notes
Rocky Mountain News – Jul 11, 2007
“But 11 months and twoweeks into my year the war came. At war’s end he was in Manila Philippines playing at theofficer’s club. “ne night a lady officer was dancing with another officer” hesaid. He and the female officer made eyes at each other. During a breakthey staggered together near the pool thought it was inviting andjumped in. “f course from then on I was never able to play the officers’club again” he said. He came home and worked in New York for a while triedCalifornia until his money ran out and then came to Denver where ArmyAir Forces buddy Vern Byers’ dad owned a couple of clubs.