Lake Land College Announces Part-Time Fall Semester Honors List Posted on March 8, 2022 Lake Land College is proud to announce that more than 500 part-time students earned academic honors for the 2021 Fall semester. To qualify for the president’s list, a student must have completed six to 11 credit hours in courses numbered 040 or higher per semester, excluding summer term, with a GPA of 3.8 – 4.0. To qualify for the dean’s list, a student must have completed six to 11 credit hours in courses numbered 040 or higher per semester, excluding summer term, with a GPA of 3.65 – 3.79. To qualify for the honor’s list, a student must have completed six to 11 hours in courses numbered 040 or higher per semester, excluding summer term, with a GPA of 3.5 – 3.64. A grade “A” is four points, a “B” is three points, a “C” is two points, etc. The following part-time students have achieved these academic honors: Paige Wendling Altamont President’s List Haley Gates Altamont President’s List Bailey Teasley Altamont President’s List Kaitlyn Parker Altamont President’s List Natalie Pruitt Arcola President’s List Andrew Howell Arthur President’s List Harley Webb Arthur President’s List Noah Switzer Ashmore President’s List Amy Bierman Atwood President’s List Johnathan Kollman Beecher City President’s List Hannah Wells Beecher City President’s List Evelyn Ashley Bethany President’s List Amelia Landreth Bethany President’s List Harle McCausland Bethany Honor’s List Spencer O’Malley Bingham Honor’s List Rosalyn Jones Bloomington President’s List Kianna Sharp Bone Gap President’s List Tyler Robinson Brocton President’s List Steven Dilley Canton President’s List Aaron Glass Canton President’s List Jesus Palacios Canton President’s List Deondre Hill Canton Dean’s List James Rexroad Canton Honor’s List Michael Benbenek Canton Honor’s List Kailynn Drew Casey Honor’s List Calla Roney Casey Honor’s List Sean Sandiford Casey Honor’s List Jan Niccum Champaign President’s List Maliheh Feizi Champaign President’s List Anna Newell Champaign President’s List Anginelle Miller Champaign Dean’s List Sarah Howell Charleston President’s List Andrea Buell Charleston President’s List Brigitte Robinson Charleston President’s List Gage Eveland Charleston President’s List Jeef Kaniki Charleston President’s List Erin Oliver Charleston President’s List Kendrea Dills Charleston President’s List Hailey Simmons Charleston President’s List Torrance Stephens Charleston President’s List Anneleise Buchter Charleston President’s List Brianna Rogers Charleston President’s List Casey Fisher Charleston President’s List Maggie Smith Charleston President’s List Ashton Fifield Charleston President’s List Emma Amaya Charleston President’s List Ava Zheng Charleston President’s List Emma Beurskens Charleston President’s List Jackson Becker Charleston President’s List Nathaniel Matheny Charleston President’s List Nicholas Hawk Charleston President’s List Lauren Elizabeth Gier Charleston President’s List Vincent Di Naso Charleston President’s List Jacob Flight Charleston President’s List Charles Baker Charleston President’s List Melody Bland Charleston President’s List Conner Strode Charleston Dean’s List Kendall Winnett Charleston Dean’s List Josiah Estrada-Drum Charleston Dean’s List Haven Houston Charleston Dean’s List Mikaela Theriault Charleston Dean’s List Jeb Vanatta Charleston Dean’s List Adalyn Wood Charleston Dean’s List Sean Neal-Lunsford Charleston Honor’s List Garrett Storm Charleston Honor’s List Jessica Nathan Charleston Honor’s List Emily Bresnahan Charleston Honor’s List John Kramer Charleston Honor’s List Nicolle Kuyrkendall Charleston Honor’s List Lucas Edgar Charleston Honor’s List Luca Carcasi Charleston Honor’s List Hannah Fisher Charleston Honor’s List Kiley Vanderport Charleston Honor’s List Danny Kuznicki Charleston Honor’s List Kirsten Drake Charleston Honor’s List Catrell Holmes Chicago President’s List Navarrie Bridges Chicago President’s List Sheridan Lyerla Coffeen Honor’s List Misty Curl Cowden Honor’s List Jenny Le Decatur President’s List Ashley Gengler Decatur President’s List Elizabeth Nihiser Decatur Honor’s List Paul Niemerg Dieterich President’s List Maggie Britton Dieterich President’s List Kaley Tolch Dieterich Dean’s List Megan Bierman Dieterich Dean’s List Justin Gephart Dieterich Honor’s List Seth Yager Dieterich Honor’s List Madilyn Brummer Dieterich Honor’s List Vincent Kelly Dwight President’s List Andrew Haley East Moline Dean’s List Colter Liston East Saint Louis President’s List Troy Wright East Saint Louis President’s List Justin Heckrodt East Saint Louis President’s List Jamel Kirkwood East Saint Louis President’s List Paul Williams East Saint Louis President’s List Robert Bennett East Saint Louis President’s List Michael Davis East Saint Louis President’s List DeMario Gordon East Saint Louis President’s List Francisco Cerna East Saint Louis President’s List Blake Capello East Saint Louis President’s List Dane Chandler East Saint Louis President’s List Christopher Beaver East Saint Louis President’s List David Lamar East Saint Louis President’s List Michael Linden East Saint Louis President’s List Donald Hilger East Saint Louis President’s List Patrick Setz East Saint Louis President’s List Marcus Gilliam East Saint Louis President’s List Roger Beavers East Saint Louis President’s List Adam Jones East Saint Louis President’s List Gerrodo Forest East Saint Louis President’s List Klay Hinnerichs East Saint Louis President’s List Matthew Bray East Saint Louis President’s List Jonathan Tanner East Saint Louis President’s List Paul Montgomery East Saint Louis Honor’s List Cameron McClaughlin East Saint Louis Honor’s List Kegan Graham East Saint Louis Honor’s List Tyler Martin East Saint Louis Honor’s List Dane Belton East St. Louis President’s List LeEric Walker East St. Louis President’s List Cairra Leasher Edgewood President’s List Quentin Roley Edgewood President’s List Victoria Caldwell Edgewood Honor’s List Jennifer Smith Effingham President’s List Jamie Roberts Effingham President’s List Lara Boggs Effingham President’s List Patrick Sidwell Effingham President’s List Sandra Bryan Effingham President’s List Haven Boone Jr. Effingham President’s List Thomas Schottman Effingham President’s List Alec Stevenson Effingham President’s List Ole Steigberg Effingham President’s List Noah Jones Effingham President’s List Koby Henkelman Effingham President’s List Kaitlyn Burton Effingham President’s List Sam Thompson Effingham President’s List William Blair Effingham President’s List Tobi Albert Effingham President’s List Tori Budde Effingham President’s List Chloe Bushue Effingham President’s List Serena Buzzard Effingham President’s List Alexis Chrappa Effingham President’s List Jackson Doedtman Effingham President’s List Daelyn Dunston Effingham President’s List Gabe Eaton Effingham President’s List Andrei Deaconescu Effingham President’s List Chloe Koester Effingham President’s List Kinzie Kolb Effingham President’s List Joseph Matteson Effingham President’s List Gwendolyn Mihlbachler Effingham President’s List Brayden Pals Effingham President’s List Jada Parsley Effingham President’s List Jonathon Perry Effingham President’s List Krista Phillips Effingham President’s List Karson Pruemer Effingham President’s List Mahum Rauf Effingham President’s List Elizabeth Rickfelder Effingham President’s List Ethan Ritz Effingham President’s List Meredith Schaefer Effingham President’s List Ryker Schneider Effingham President’s List Jarrett Swan Effingham President’s List Britney Walls Effingham President’s List Eden Wendling Effingham President’s List Emily Zhao Effingham President’s List Maria Poston Effingham President’s List Eve Strullmyer Effingham President’s List Lillian Wise Effingham President’s List Henry Kemme Effingham President’s List Juliana Harden Effingham President’s List Tia Probst Effingham President’s List Zane Bailey Effingham President’s List Trygve Bloom Effingham President’s List Riley Cunningham Effingham President’s List Abby Cunningham Effingham President’s List Thad Dillow Effingham President’s List Andrew Donaldson Effingham President’s List Anna Hirtzel Effingham President’s List Kaci Jackson Effingham President’s List Julia Kinder Effingham President’s List Marah Kirk Effingham President’s List Allison Miller Effingham President’s List Ella Niebrugge Effingham President’s List Lillian Waymoth Effingham President’s List Khushi Patel Effingham President’s List Jolin Jiang Effingham President’s List Nina Hakman Effingham President’s List Larisa Jones Effingham President’s List Michelle Hoyos Effingham President’s List Victoria Gormley Effingham Dean’s List Arpankumar Shah Effingham Dean’s List Elijah Wilson Effingham Dean’s List Lindsey Lohman Effingham Dean’s List Logan Bennett Effingham Dean’s List Kc Kuhlman Effingham Dean’s List Samantha Dalton Effingham Honor’s List Emma Budde Effingham Honor’s List Bradly Adams Effingham Honor’s List Drake Katt Effingham Honor’s List Jeridyn Thomas Effingham Honor’s List Evan Williamson Effingham Honor’s List Ali Adams Effingham Honor’s List Chase Eaton Effingham Honor’s List Natalie Lohman Effingham Honor’s List Anna Kabbes Effingham Honor’s List Sophia Clausius Effingham Honor’s List Isabelle Watkins Effingham Honor’s List Joshua Jenson Effingham Honor’s List Keri Cutler Findlay President’s List Kaitlyn Scheitler Findlay President’s List Kelly McGill Findlay Honor’s List Grace Brown Findlay Honor’s List Cale Roley Findlay Honor’s List Luis Viramontes Galesburg President’s List Orlando Ramirez Galesburg President’s List Idius Walker Galesburg Dean’s List Marquis Marrs Galesburg Dean’s List Blake Jennings Galesburg Dean’s List Tisha Fritts Greenup President’s List Emily Carl Greenup President’s List Dakota Swingler Greenup President’s List Kol Newlin Greenup President’s List Alayna Honn Greenup President’s List Owen Ray Greenup President’s List Mackenzie Taylor Greenup President’s List John Ryan Greenup President’s List Cody Gilmore Greenup Honor’s List Larissa Wellbaum Greenup Honor’s List Evan Hayden Greenup Honor’s List Jaelyn Miller Greenup Honor’s List Carly Thornton Greenup Honor’s List Harley Brown Harrisburg President’s List Emily McBee Herrick President’s List Paige McKittrick Herrick President’s List Cassidy Rhoades Herrick Honor’s List Kristen Rake Hidalgo President’s List Isaiah Tapia Hillsboro President’s List Alexander Brady Hillsboro Dean’s List Catlyn Kamphaus Hindsboro President’s List Jackson Hoel Hindsboro President’s List Lucas Roley Humboldt President’s List Joleigh Cougill Humboldt President’s List Dax Stinson Ina President’s List Johnnie Frymire II Ina President’s List Eric Chung Ina Dean’s List Austin Cutright Jacksonville President’s List Morris Shields Jacksonville President’s List Dakota Bucher Jacksonville President’s List Nathaniel McEvers Jacksonville President’s List Jamar Clay Jacksonville President’s List Brian Abel Jacksonville Honor’s List Mitchell Tucker Jacksonville Honor’s List McLain Levine Jewett President’s List Hyuntaek Oh Lafayette President’s List Grace Myers Lerna President’s List Mandy Hanner Lerna Honor’s List Jose Martinez Lincoln President’s List Kiomi Lebron Lincoln President’s List Lori Michelson Lincoln President’s List Brittney Mikesell Lincoln President’s List Brittany Middleton Lovington President’s List Michaela Powell Lovington President’s List Eleni Woll Marshall President’s List Shiana Weiscope Marshall President’s List Kenneth Noble Marshall President’s List Anastasia Turner Marshall President’s List Nicolas Wilson Marshall President’s List Elijah Hiatt Marshall President’s List John Thompson Marshall President’s List Owen Burress Marshall President’s List Gavin Floyd Marshall President’s List Colin Griguhn Marshall President’s List Andrew Miller Marshall President’s List Brandon Healey Marshall President’s List Lauryn Moore Marshall Dean’s List Sean Harrison Marshall Honor’s List Tyson Kessler Marshall Honor’s List Jenna Clark Marshall Honor’s List Landon Boatman Marshall Honor’s List Kannon Clark Marshall Honor’s List Calvin Lawrence Martinsville President’s List Madison Healy Mason President’s List William Kreke Mason President’s List Hailey Budde Mason President’s List Lydia Warner Mason President’s List Brenda McClain Mason Honor’s List Ladonna Faulkner Smith Mattoon President’s List Julie Gaines Mattoon President’s List Nicole Scott Mattoon President’s List Philip Meyer Mattoon President’s List William Aitken Mattoon President’s List Ramona Arthur Mattoon President’s List Taylor Perosa Mattoon President’s List Braydon Babbs Mattoon President’s List Chester Trueblood Mattoon President’s List Dakota Ashworth Mattoon President’s List Kristina Compton Mattoon President’s List Hannah Morgan Mattoon President’s List Elizabeth Nicholas Mattoon President’s List Maximilian Kersten Mattoon President’s List Mark Elliott Mattoon President’s List Rylan Ard Mattoon President’s List Cole Rowland Mattoon President’s List Raven Pierce Mattoon President’s List Kyle Hanks Mattoon President’s List Heather Golding Mattoon President’s List Blaine Powers Mattoon President’s List Wyatt Webb Mattoon President’s List Kynley Scott Mattoon President’s List Braelynn Barnes Mattoon President’s List Natalie Hardy Mattoon President’s List Katherine Gonzalez Mattoon President’s List Chloe Williamson Mattoon President’s List Brett Porter Mattoon President’s List Josiah Donaldson Mattoon President’s List Aubrie Hout Mattoon President’s List Paige Farmer Mattoon President’s List Nate Huddleston Mattoon President’s List Faith Alvis Mattoon President’s List Katie Clatfelter Mattoon President’s List Jenaya Carter-Wilder Mattoon President’s List Lainey Newby Mattoon President’s List Avery Hankins Mattoon President’s List Rene Beltran Mattoon President’s List Ava Willingham Mattoon President’s List Carrigan Hyland Mattoon President’s List Emma Plunkett Mattoon President’s List Berit Haldorsen Mattoon President’s List Riley Spencer Mattoon President’s List Taylor Kovach Mattoon President’s List Kenneth Middleton Mattoon President’s List Laney Wright Mattoon President’s List Christian Larson Mattoon President’s List Zachary Goetz Mattoon Dean’s List Mackenzie Harford Mattoon Dean’s List Alex Lilly Mattoon Dean’s List LaJewel Harbin Mattoon Dean’s List Micaela Wyllie Mattoon Dean’s List Zoe Meadows Mattoon Dean’s List Jacob White Mattoon Dean’s List Logan Whitney Mattoon Dean’s List Zachary Wetzel Mattoon Dean’s List Gannon Dow Mattoon Dean’s List Tejas Zala Mattoon Dean’s List Matthew Gordon Mattoon Dean’s List William Williamson Mattoon Dean’s List Alexander Pearson Mattoon Honor’s List Mason Birdsong Mattoon Honor’s List Andrew Brinkschroeder Mattoon Honor’s List Calista Fox Mattoon Honor’s List Ethan Bahney Mattoon Honor’s List Andy Mukanya Mattoon Honor’s List Makayla Devall Mattoon Honor’s List Ella Farris Mattoon Honor’s List Faith Niebrugge Mattoon Honor’s List Brock Davee Mattoon Honor’s List Rease Daniels Mattoon Honor’s List Ryleigh Kercheval Mattoon Honor’s List David McLearin Monticello Honor’s List Kaitlyn Boerngen Montrose President’s List Brian Crum Montrose Honor’s List Bryson Harden Mount Sterling President’s List Carlo Bedford Mount Sterling President’s List Esequiel Gonzalez-Banuelos Mount Sterling President’s List Dimitri Johnson Mount Sterling President’s List Javon Tucker Mount Sterling Honor’s List John Douglas Mount Sterling Honor’s List Lance Perkinson Murphysboro President’s List Piper Gentry Neoga President’s List Maggie Clark Neoga President’s List Kaden Young Neoga President’s List Cameron Buescher Neoga Honor’s List Madison Barrow Newman Dean’s List Dustin Kuhl Newton President’s List Taylor Steigerwald Oak Lawn President’s List Ryan Stark Oakland President’s List Alicia McQueen Oakland President’s List Jami Duffy Oakland President’s List Nickalas Canada Oakland President’s List Breann Ard Oakland President’s List Camille Clifton Oakland Honor’s List Hannah Merrifield Oconee Honor’s List Melanie Talagon Olney Honor’s List Jordan Beeson Pana President’s List Kylie Hendrickson Pana President’s List Cassidy Smith Pana President’s List Jaxon Rhoades Pana President’s List Grace Fitzpatrick Pana President’s List Jacob Chaurero Pana President’s List Austin Karbach Pana President’s List Kadan Moon Pana President’s List Kadence Perry Pana President’s List Kassie Weideman Pana President’s List Colin Paschall Pana President’s List Owen Spracklen Pana President’s List Jaidyn Julius Pana President’s List Carsyn Ashley Pana Honor’s List Harley Hedderman Pana Honor’s List Michele Anderson Pana Honor’s List Samuel Holthaus Pana Honor’s List Johnathan Sexton Paris President’s List Sarah Barnes Paris President’s List Jacob McCain Paris President’s List Hunter Cusick Paris President’s List Noah Riggs Paris President’s List Courtney Fleming Paris President’s List Benjamin Wilson Paris President’s List Zachary McDaniel Paris President’s List Chelsea Maschino Paris Dean’s List Patrick Beal Paris Honor’s List Andrea Wilson Paris Honor’s List Jacob Midgley Paris Honor’s List Tayler Gebhardt Peoria President’s List Darrin Reed Pinckneyville President’s List Tyrese Roland Pinckneyville President’s List Cary Dorsey Pinckneyville President’s List Larry Jones Pinckneyville President’s List Alexander King Pinckneyville President’s List Dylan Blackstone Pinckneyville President’s List Karly Stephens Ramsey President’s List Keeley Orzel Ramsey President’s List Abigail Lorton Ramsey President’s List Korina Otto Ramsey Dean’s List Shelbi Eller Ramsey Dean’s List Samantha Challans Ramsey Honor’s List Gracie Braning Ramsey Honor’s List Fernando Montoya Robinson President’s List Carlos Zavala Zavala Robinson President’s List Joshua Whitney Robinson President’s List Keshawn Gilmore Robinson Honor’s List Juan Aguirre Robinson Honor’s List Kenneth Westmorland Robinson Honor’s List Eduardo Carrillo Robinson Honor’s List Adam Martinez Saint Charles President’s List Sondra Chamberlin Saint Elmo President’s List Kelly Werner Saint Elmo Honor’s List Bailie Duckwitz Saint Elmo Honor’s List Caleb Harpster Saint Peter Honor’s List Tyler McDowell Salem Dean’s List Cortney Cole Shelbyville President’s List Chloe Arebalo Shelbyville President’s List Emma Cook Shelbyville President’s List Paige Hubner Shelbyville President’s List Rhonda Lambes Shelbyville President’s List Stephon Hambrick Sheridan President’s List Steve Chung Sheridan Dean’s List Shawn Castleman Sheridan Dean’s List Brandon Blasa Sheridan Honor’s List Mark Galloway Sheridan Honor’s List Latrey Ferguson Sheridan Honor’s List Trevor Stewart Sheridan Honor’s List Kylie Doty Shumway President’s List Chase Kiefer Shumway Honor’s List Danielle Deters Sigel President’s List Max Niebrugge Sigel Honor’s List Alison Beard Sullivan President’s List Jessica Voyles Sullivan President’s List Kelsie Winings Sullivan President’s List Stephanie Sample Sullivan President’s List Savannah Hagerman Sullivan President’s List Derek Arbogast Sullivan President’s List Mary Helfrich Sullivan Honor’s List Jonathan Williams Sumner President’s List Terrance McDaniel Sumner President’s List Isaiah Garrett Sumner President’s List Jereth Gregory Sumner Honor’s List Eddie Williams Sumner Honor’s List Dontarries Williams Sumner Honor’s List Deangelo Collins Sumner Honor’s List Roberto Estrada Taylorville President’s List Ronald Johnson Taylorville President’s List James Moreno Taylorville President’s List Jay Hanks Taylorville President’s List Robert Hany Taylorville President’s List Jessica Deters Teutopolis President’s List Aubrey Collins Teutopolis President’s List Paige Kerner Teutopolis President’s List Joseph Ruholl Teutopolis President’s List Jill Heuerman Teutopolis Dean’s List Eli Copple Teutopolis Honor’s List Kendall Schmidt Teutopolis Honor’s List Madison Goldstein Teutopolis Honor’s List Christopher Lewis Toledo President’s List Lucinda Adamson Toledo President’s List Skylar Stewart Toledo President’s List William O’Dell Toledo President’s List Ethan Shirley Toledo President’s List Alissa Veach Toledo Honor’s List Claire Jackson Toledo Honor’s List Madison Walsh Toledo Honor’s List Lainey Hicks Tower Hill President’s List Alexia Eversole Tower Hill President’s List Allison Simpson Tower Hill President’s List Owan Patton Tower Hill Honor’s List Abigail Duzan Tuscola President’s List Haley Kramer Tuscola President’s List Joshua Boldrey Vandalia President’s List Willie Smith Vienna President’s List Daniel Seaberg Vienna President’s List Olajawon Claiborne Vienna President’s List Floyd Overturf Vienna President’s List Kevin Wheat Vienna President’s List Felix Whiteside Vienna President’s List Tanikqua Holmes Watseka Honor’s List Clair Davis Watson President’s List Mattie Angel Watson President’s List Adelyn Hagy Watson President’s List Kinsey Koester Watson Dean’s List Samantha Hicks Watson Honor’s List Grace Mason Watson Honor’s List Elizabeth Reyes West Des Moines President’s List Brittany Bender West Union Honor’s List Jayden Boone Westfield Honor’s List Ashley Voris Windsor President’s List Robert Brown Windsor Honor’s List -30-
Academic Challenge regional competition held at Lake Land College Posted on The regional Academic Challenge was recently held at Lake Land College and several local schools came together to battle in biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering graphics, English, mathematics and physics. Mattoon, Paris and St. Anthony high schools were victorious in their divisions and took home the regional championship titles. All teams will advance to sectionals due to the challenges presented by COVID and the weather. The 300 St. Anthony’s High School team included Sean Bailey, Mason Bloemer, Ivan Daiber, Andrei Deaconescu, Sam Deters, Griffen Elder, Matt Herzing, Elizabeth Kabbes, Maria Poston, Macy Reitz, Ada Rozene, George Scheidemantel, Bridget Sudkamp and Conlan Walsh. The students on the 700 Paris High School team included Rebekah Alexander, Braydon Atkinson, Noah Dundas, Sophie Givan, Abby Grubb, Greta Hall, Ty Jones, Bryan Kohlmeyer, Cooper Kuglin, Chloe Martin, Bryce McGrath, Kenny Smith, Lily Smittkamp, Ethan Vice, Hunter Cash, Devin Milner, Kiley Ryan, Will Templton, Mason Tegler, Graham Templeton and Macie Thomas. The 1500 Mattoon High School team included Ephraim Annis, Chase Armstrong, Zoe Barton, Rene Beltran, Cooper Bergstrom, Josh Carter, Jada Cobb, Josiah Donaldson, Gannon Dow, Sam Ferrar, Berit Haldorsen, Aubrie Hout, Kris Jacobs, Keenan Kersh, Piper Klinghammer, Skyler Mansfield, Lauryn Samuelson, Dalton Short, Hannah Stroud, Halle Stanley and Olivia Welch. Not pictured was Junior Varsity Team Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond. The following students earned tuition waivers: PHYSICS Teutopolis High School Paul Niemerg PHYSICS Teutopolis High School Peyton Tegeler MATH Neoga High School – Varsity Lindsey Beals MATH St. Anthony High School Elizabe Kabbes ENGLISH Neoga High School – Varsity Shaylee Vondrak ENGLISH Paris High School – Varsity Lily Smittkamp COMPUTER SCIENCE Mattoon High School – Varsity Dalton Short COMPUTER SCIENCE St. Anthony High School Andrei Deaconescu CHEMISTRY Cumberland High School – Varsity Elijah McElravy CHEMISTRY Shelbyville High School – Varsity Bo Hilbert BIOLOGY Martinsville High School Alex Schaljo BIOLOGY Neoga High School – Varsity Myah Wright ENGINEERING GRAPHICS Mattoon High School – Varsity Josiah Donaldson ENGINEERING GRAPHICS Shelbyville High School – Varsity Isaac Chambers The following students earned individual awards: BIOLOGY Martinsville High School Alex Schaljo 1st BIOLOGY Neoga High School – Varsity Myah Wright 2nd BIOLOGY Cumberland High School – Varsity Maggie Smith 3rd BIOLOGY Shelbyville High School – Varsity Isaac Chamberss 1st BIOLOGY Paris High School – At-Large Graham Templeton 2nd BIOLOGY Paris High School – Varsity Greta Hall 3rd BIOLOGY Mattoon High School – Varsity Ephraim Annis 1st BIOLOGY Mattoon High School – Varsity Samuel Ferrar 2nd BIOLOGY Mattoon High School – Varsity Jada Cobb 3rd COMPUTER SCIENCE St. Anthony High School Andrei Deaconescu 1st COMPUTER SCIENCE St. Anthony High School Eric Deters 2nd COMPUTER SCIENCE Altamont High School Sydney Feldkamp 3rd COMPUTER SCIENCE Altamont High School Ethan Lemke 3rd COMPUTER SCIENCE Casey-Westfield High School Dylon Craig 3rd COMPUTER SCIENCE Casey-Westfield High School Blake Ramsey 3rd COMPUTER SCIENCE Cumberland High School – Varsity Dagon Smith 3rd COMPUTER SCIENCE Paris High School – Varsity Cooper Kuglin 1st COMPUTER SCIENCE Shelbyville High School – Varsity Garrett Endsley 2nd COMPUTER SCIENCE Teutopolis High School Peyton Tegeler 2nd COMPUTER SCIENCE Paris High School – At-Large Devin Milner 3rd COMPUTER SCIENCE Shelbyville High School – Varsity Michael Tomlin 3rd COMPUTER SCIENCE Mattoon High School – Varsity Dalton Short 1st COMPUTER SCIENCE Mattoon High School – Varsity Gannon Dow 2nd ENGINEERING GRAPHICS Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond High School – Vars Daylon Stutzman 1st ENGINEERING GRAPHICS Casey-Westfield High School Lucas Roberts 2nd ENGINEERING GRAPHICS Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond High School – JV Jewelyonna Hutchcraft 3rd ENGINEERING GRAPHICS ENGINEERING GRAPHICS Shelbyville High School – Varsity Isaac Chambers 1st ENGINEERING GRAPHICS Paris High School – At-Large Hunter Cash 2nd ENGINEERING GRAPHICS Paris High School – Varsity Ty Jones 3rd ENGINEERING GRAPHICS Mattoon High School – Varsity Josiah Donaldson 1st ENGINEERING GRAPHICS Mattoon High School – Varsity Gannon Dow 2nd MATH St. Anthony High School Elizabeth Kabbes 1st MATH Neoga High School – Varsity Lindsey Beals 2nd MATH St. Anthony High School Samuel Deters 2nd MATH St. Anthony High School Matt Herzing 2nd MATH St. Anthony High School Bridget Sudkamp 2nd MATH St. Anthony High School Conlan Walsh 2nd MATH Neoga High School – Varsity Brooke Kenworthy 3rd MATH St. Anthony High School Andrei Deaconescu 3rd MATH St. Anthony High School Ada Rozene 3rd MATH Paris High School – Varsity Lily Smittkamp 1st MATH Teutopolis High School August Siemer 1st MATH Shelbyville High School – Varsity Alex Fisher 2nd MATH Paris High School – Varsity Noah Dundas 3rd MATH Paris High School – Varsity Chloe Martin 3rd MATH Shelbyville High School – Varsity Bo Hilbert 3rd MATH Teutopolis High School Olivia Copple 3rd MATH Teutopolis High School Paul Niemerg 3rd MATH Mattoon High School – Varsity Dalton Short 1st MATH Mattoon High School – Varsity Samuel Ferrar 2nd MATH Mattoon High School – Varsity Zoe Barton 2nd MATH Mattoon High School – Varsity Josiah Donaldson 3rd MATH Mattoon High School – Varsity Olivia Welch 3rd ENGLISH Neoga High School – Varsity Shaylee Vondrak 1st ENGLISH Martinsville High School Alex Schaljo 2nd ENGLISH St. Anthony High School Thomas Chojnicki 3rd ENGLISH Paris High School – Varsity Ethan Vice 1st ENGLISH Paris High School – Varsity Lily Smittkamp 2nd ENGLISH Teutopolis High School Katherine Kingery 2nd ENGLISH Teutopolis High School Aubrey Collins 3rd ENGLISH Mattoon High School – Varsity Ephraim Annis 1st ENGLISH Mattoon High School – Varsity Chase Armstrong 2nd ENGLISH Mattoon High School – Varsity Hannah Stroud 3rd PHYSICS St. Anthony High School Bridget Sudkamp 1st PHYSICS Altamont High School Julianne Berg 2nd PHYSICS Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond High School – Vars Daylon Stutzman 2nd PHYSICS Cumberland High School – Varsity Claire Jackson 2nd PHYSICS Cumberland High School – Varsity Denton Nebel 2nd PHYSICS Stewardson-Strasburg High School Dane Durbin 2nd PHYSICS Altamont High School Myra Duncan 3rd PHYSICS Mattoon High School – At-Large Isabel Spear 1st CHEMISTRY Cumberland High School – Varsity Elijah McElravy 1st CHEMISTRY Casey-Westfield High School Connor Yates 2nd CHEMISTRY Cumberland High School – Varsity Michael Beaumont 2nd CHEMISTRY St. Anthony High School Sam Deters 2nd CHEMISTRY St. Anthony High School Maria Poston 3rd CHEMISTRY Shelbyville High School – Varsity Bo Hilbert 1st CHEMISTRY Paris High School – Varsity Cooper Kuglin 2nd CHEMISTRY Paris High School – Varsity Ethan Vice 3rd CHEMISTRY Mattoon High School – Varsity Cooper Bergstrom 1st CHEMISTRY Mattoon High School – Varsity Piper Klinghammer 2nd CHEMISTRY Mattoon High School – Varsity Hannah Stroud 2nd CHEMISTRY Mattoon High School – Varsity Kris Jacobs 3rd -30-
Sarah Bush Lincoln Invests In Lake Land College Nursing Programs Posted on March 3, 2022 Sarah Bush Lincoln is investing in the workforce of the future through financial support of Lake Land College Nursing programs with generous scholarships and new training opportunities. Pictured are Sarah Bush Lincoln President & CEO Jerry Esker and Lake Land College President Josh Bullock. “We are extremely grateful to Sarah Bush Lincoln for its generous support and commitment to our students. The scholarships will make the path to a nursing career possible for many students as well as support those who are engaged in the rigorous program,” Division Chair Allied Health/Nursing Instructor Erin Swingler said. “Both of our organizations are dedicated to providing excellent service and support to prepare our Lake Land College students for rewarding careers in healthcare.” SBL President and CEO Jerry Esker said, “We are very pleased to provide this assistance to Lake Land College’s Health Services programs. We are a growing organization committed to caring for our community. When we can help grow local talent, and recruit them to care for our patients, then the community is in a much stronger place. We are grateful to Lake Land College’s commitment to filling local healthcare needs by developing excellent educational programs. Over the years, we have employed many of its graduates who have moved into leadership roles.” Pictured are Lake Land College Division Chair Allied Health/Nursing Instructor Erin Swingler, Sarah Bush Lincoln President & CEO Jerry Esker, Lake Land College President Josh Bullock, LPN to ADN Nursing student Taneesha Waggoner, Nursing student Serenity Parrent and Lake Land College Nursing Instructor/Director of Nursing Programs Cheryl Beam. Sarah Bush Lincoln’s investment will fund scholarships to assist Lake Land College Associate Degree Nurse or Practical Nursing students. The scholars will be honored at a special ceremony in which Sarah Bush Lincoln leadership will have the opportunity to meet the student recipients. Additionally, some monies will be set aside as an emergency fund for health services students with needs outside of tuition and related fees including nursing kits, scrubs, testing fees and other school-related items. “Lake Land College greatly values its long-standing partnership with Sarah Bush Lincoln. We are grateful for the generous financial investment, and appreciate the organization’s gifts of time and talent that enhance the educational experience. The college looks forward to continuing to explore partnership opportunities to develop a highly-skilled and successful healthcare labor force who work and live in our communities,” Lake Land College President Josh Bullock said. Lake Land College’s nursing programs are accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) and are ranked third in the state by Nursing Explorer. One of the reasons for this continued success is the long-standing partnership with Sarah Bush Lincoln that provides clinical experiences to students. With the expanded partnership, Sarah Bush Lincoln’s investment will be used to support a new state-of-the art simulation center for the nursing programs. “With Sarah Bush Lincoln’s support, the nursing program will upgrade current campus lab spaces and create a new simulation center that will allow students to experience realistic patient care in a safe learning environment,” Nursing Instructor/Director of Nursing Programs Cheryl Beam said. “Interactive simulation engages students in learning while reinforcing skills and promoting clinical judgment to better prepare them to enter practice.” In addition to benefitting the nursing programs, Sarah Bush Lincoln’s investment will positively impact students in the Emergency Services and Medical Assisting programs with funds going toward the purchase of an ambulance simulator, new skeletons and organ models. For more information about the nursing programs offered at Lake Land College, contact Swingler at eswingler@lakelandcollege or 217-234-5448. -30-
WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH Posted on March 2, 2022 By Darrius Frazier March 1 In 1692, the Salem Witch Hunt begins at the Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne and Tituba, an enslaved woman from the Barbados, are charged with the illegal practice of witchcraft (Editors, 2021). The ensuring witch trial which lasted until May 1693, witnessed that out of 200 people accused of being witches; thirty were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging, including fourteen women and five men; one man, Giles Corey, was killed by pressing for refusing to plea; and at least five people died while awaiting sentencing in jails (Snyder, 2001). In 1978, Women’s History Week is first observed in Sonoma County, California. (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). In 1987, the U.S. Congress passes a resolution designating March as Women’s History Month. (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). March 2 In 1903, the Martha Washington Hotel opens in New York City, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). In 2022, the Lake Land Lady Lakers will host the Spoon River College Lady Snappers at 6:00 PM at the Laker Fieldhouse for a post-season match-up (Lake Land College, 2022). March 3 In 1887, Anne Sullivan begins teaching six-year-old Helen Keller, who lost her sight and hearing after a severe illness at the age of 19 months. Under Sullivan’s tutelage, Keller flourished, eventually graduating from college and becoming an international lecturer and activist. Sullivan, later dubbed “the miracle worker,” remained Keller’s interpreter and constant companion until the older woman’s death in 1936 (Editors, History.com, 2021). In 1913, Women’s Suffrage Parade was held in Washington, DC, where over 8000 women gathered to demand a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to vote (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). March 4 In 1917, Jeannette Rankin (R-MT) took her seat as the first female member of Congress as a member of the House of Representatives (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). In 1933, Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). March 5 In 2022, the Lake Land’s Lady Lakers Softball team will host the Shawnee Community College Lady Saints in their home opener. The home opener will be a double-header with first pitch at NOON and the second game at either 2:00 PM or thirty minutes following the conclusion of the first game. The home opener is pending the outcome of the weather (Athletics, 2022). March 6 In 1986, Georgia O’Keeffe, the artist who gained worldwide fame for her austere minimalist paintings of the American southwest, dies in Santa Fe at the age of 98 (Editors, Georgia O’Keeffe dies, 2020). March 7 In 2010, Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to win an Academy Award for best director, for her movie “The Hurt Locker,” about an American bomb squad that disables explosives in Iraq in 2004. Prior to Bigelow, only three women had been nominated for a best director Oscar: Lina Wertmueller for 1975’s “Seven Beauties,” Jane Campion for 1993’s “The Piano” and Sofia Coppola for 2003’s “Lost in Translation” (Editors, Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first female director to win an Oscar, 2021). March 8 In 1917, in the midst of World War I, International Women’s Day was established as a result of protests in the U.S. and Europe to honor and fight for the political rights for working women (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). In 2014, National Catholic Sisters Week was established to raise awareness of the contributions of Catholic sisters (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). March 9 In 1959, the Barbie doll makes its debut at the American Toy Fair in New York City. Since 1959, over one billion dolls in the Barbie family have been sold around the world (Editors, The Barbie doll makes its debut, 2021). March 10 In 1997, the fledgling Warner Brothers (WB) television network airs the inaugural episode of what will become its first bona-fide hit show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Though ratings peaked during the second and third seasons, the show was consistently well reviewed by critics throughout its six-and-a-half-year run. Buffy’s success helped establish the network as a staple among teenage and young adult TV viewers. After 2001, Buffy moved to the WB’s competitor, United Paramount Network (UPN) (Editors, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” premieres on the WB, 2021). March 11 In 2003, the backlash of the Dixie Chicks, among one of the famous all-female country music bands, begins as a result of their public criticism of U.S. President, George W. Bush, against the preparation of the United States’ second war against Iraq (Editors, The Dixie Chicks backlash begins, 2021). The backlash, mainly consisting of country music bands and listeners who were mostly conservative and support the policies of the Bush administration, was immense. The Dixie Chicks were blacklisted by thousands of country radio stations, received death threats, and were criticized by other country musicians. The backlash damaged sales of the Dixie Chicks’ music and concert tickets and caused them to lose corporate sponsorship (Campbell, 2003). Also in 2003, 15-year-old Elizabeth Smart is finally found in Sandy, Utah, nine months after being abducted from her family’s home. Her alleged kidnappers, Brian David Mitchell, a drifter who the Smarts had briefly employed at their house, and his wife, Wanda Barzee, were charged with the kidnapping, as well as burglary and sexual assault. The kidnappers were eventually sentenced to federal prison with Mitchell currently serving a life sentence (Networks, 2021). March 12 In 1912, Juliette Gordon Low assembled 18 girls together in Savannah, Georgia, for the first-ever Girl Scout meeting (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). In 1993, Janet Reno is sworn in as the first woman U.S. Attorney General (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). March 13 In 1986, Susan Butcher won the first of 3 straight and 4 total Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Races in Alaska (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). In 2020, shortly after midnight, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American emergency medical technician, is shot and killed by police in her Louisville, Kentucky apartment after officers busted through her door with a battering ram. Following Taylor’s death and subsequent national protests, no-knock warrants were banned in Louisville in an ordinance known as “Breonna’s Law.” The city also agreed to pay her family a historic $12 million in a wrongful-death lawsuit settlement (Editors, Breonna Taylor is killed by police in botched raid, 2021). March 14 In 1913, the Women’s Suffrage Parade in Washington, D.C. took place, where more than 8,000 women gathered to demand a constitutional amendment guaranteeing their right to vote (Merinuk, 2022). March 15 In 1977, civil rights leader and veteran Mississippi voter rights worker, Fannie Lou Hamer died in Mound Bayou, Mississippi at age 59 (Black History Today , 2022). March 16 In 1970, Motown soul singer, Tammi Terrell, died of complications from the malignant brain tumor that caused her October 1967 collapse onstage during a live performance at Virginia’s Hampden-Sydney College. Terrell and Marvin Gaye enjoyed a string of four straight hits with some of the greatest love songs ever recorded at Motown Records (Editors, Motown soul singer Tammi Terrell dies, 2019). March 17 In 1910, Camp Fire Girls is established as the first interracial, non-sectarian American organization for girls (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). In 1917, Loretta Perfectus Walsh became the first woman to join the navy and the first woman to officially join the military in a role other than a nurse (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). March 18 In 1999, three women, Carole Sund, Juli Sund and Silvina Pelosso, were murdered at the Yosemite National Park in California. Carole’s and Silvina’s remains were found in the trunk in a charred rental car. Juli Sund’s body was found thirty miles away a week after the car was found. Cary Stayner eventually plead guilty to the three murders along with a murder of another woman, Joie Ruth Armstrong, and was sentenced to death (Editors, Three women are murdered at Yosemite, 2021). March 19 In 1999, law enforcement officials discover the charred bodies of forty-two-year-old Carol Sund and sixteen-year-old Silvina Pelosso in the trunk of their burned-out rental car, a day after the vehicle was located in a remote area several hours from Yosemite National Park. Cary Stayner, a handyman at the lodge where the women were last seen a month before, later confessed to their murders as well as those of two other women and was sentenced to death (Editors, Bodies found in Yosemite serial killer case, 2021). March 20 In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published and becomes the best-selling book of the 19th century (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). March 21 In 1986, Debi Thomas becomes first African American woman to win the World Figure Skating Championship (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). March 22 In 1893, the first women’s college basketball game is played at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. With each made basket counting as one point and the game lasting two 15-minute halves, a sophomore class team prevails over a freshmen team, 5-4 (Editors, First women’s college basketball game played, 2021). In 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Senate and sent to the states for ratification. The Equal Rights Amendment was to provide for the legal equality of the sexes and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex (Editors, Equal Rights Amendment passed by Congress, 2021). March 23 In 1917, Virginia Woolf establishes the Hogarth Press with her husband, Leonard Woolf (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). In 2011, actress Elizabeth Taylor, who appeared in more than 50 films, won two Academy Awards and was synonymous with Hollywood glamour, dies of complications from congestive heart failure at a Los Angeles hospital at age 79 (Editors, Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79, 2021). March 24 In 1603, after 44 years of rule, Queen Elizabeth I of England dies, and King James VI of Scotland ascends to the throne, uniting England and Scotland under a single British monarch (Editors, Queen Elizabeth I dies, 2020). In 1996, Shannon Lucid became the first female U.S. astronaut to live in a space station when she transferred to the Russian space station, Mir, from the U.S. space shuttle, Atlantis, for a planned five-month stay. Her 188-day sojourn aboard Mir set a new space endurance record for an American and a world endurance record for a woman (Editors, Astronaut Shannon Lucid enters Mir space station, 2020). March 25 Gloria Steinem, women’s rights activist and journalist, founding editor of Ms. Magazine, helped found National Women’s Political Caucus, the Women’s Action Alliance, and the Coalition of Labor Union Women, was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1934 (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). Lillian E. Fishburne, the first African-American female to hold the rank of Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, was born in Rockville, Maryland in 1949 (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). March 26 Virginia (Toni) Caraballo, who supported activism in behalf of women’s issues, active in National Organization for Women (1968-87) and co-authored the Feminist Chronicles 1953-1993, was born in Queens, New York in 1926 (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman in the U.S. Supreme Court when she was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, was born in El Paso, Texas in 1930 (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to become the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2007, was born Nancy Patricia D’Alessandro in Baltimore in 1940 to an Italian-American family (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). March 27 Effa Louise Manley, co-owner and manager with husband Abe of the Negro League baseball team the Brooklyn Eagles (1935-46), supported integration with the NAACP, worked hard to get Negro League players included in the Baseball Hall of Fame, was born in 1897 in Philadelphia (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). Sarah Lois Vaughan, world renown jazz singer and pianist known as the “Divine One,” was born in 1924, in Newark, New Jersey (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). March 28 Clara Lemlich Shavelson, a Jewish immigrant from the Ukraine, labor activist, suffragist, and consumer advocate, a leader of the Uprising of 20,000, a labor strike of shirtwaist workers in New York’s garment industry in 1909, was born in 1886. March 29 Pearl Mae Bailey, jazz and blues singer, won amateur contests in Harlem and Philadelphia when she was 22, sang with Cab Calloway in 1945, starred in movies, goodwill ambassador for United Nations in 1979, was born in 1918 in Newport News, Virginia (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). March 30 Dr. Charlotte Johnson Baker, the first woman physician to practice medicine in San Diego, California, practiced obstetrics and gynecology at St. Joseph’s Hospital was born in 1855 in Newburyport, Massachusetts (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). March 31 In 1776, Abigail Adams writes to her husband, John Adams, urging him and the other members of the Continental Congress not to forget about the nation’s women when fighting for America’s independence from Great Britain (March Highlights in US Women’s History, 2021). Bibliography Athletics, L. L. (2022). Lake Land College Athletics. 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Lake Land College announces new financial aid program Posted on February 23, 2022 The new Lake Land College Laker+ program maximizes qualifying students’ financial aid opportunities to cover tuition and fees plus provides support for living expenses. This program will go into effect immediately and will be available to students enrolling in Summer and Fall 2022. Because Lake Land College is such a great value and can offer numerous financial assistance options, students often receive refunds of their assistance that can be used to cover housing, gas, food and other college expenses. With Laker+, financial aid is applied in a stackable format. After the cost of tuition and fees are covered with financial assistance, the remaining funds are refunded to students. Students who receive aid have their tuition and fees covered first with the MAP grant, institutional funds and scholarships, then the federal PELL grant. What this means for students who have 0 expected family contributions (EFC) as determined by the FAFSA, is that they often will receive a refund check or direct deposit of funds that can be used to cover every day living expenses such as housing, food, gas and childcare. “Lake Land College has several initiatives in place that can assist students in attending Lake Land College without tuition and fee costs. In many cases, this provides students with the opportunity to graduate debt-free and launch a career without the burden of student loan payments. Students who seek to transfer can often minimize the need for student loans,” Lake Land College President Josh Bullock said. Laker+ is available to those who live in the college district in the counties of Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Douglas, Edgar, Effingham, Fayette, Jasper, Montgomery, Moultrie and Shelby. Current and future students can begin the Laker+ process by completing the FAFSA online at fafsa.gov. The Lake Land College School Code is 007644. The differences between Laker+ and other college and university programs, is two-fold. First, Lake Land College’s tuition and fees are one third less than the average Illinois public university tuition and fees, and significantly less than most private institutions. Second, when you apply scholarships and financial aid to Lake Land’s tuition and fees–there is money left over for students to cover every day living expenses such as housing, food, gas and childcare. With the typical college or university “last to pay” tuition and fee incentive program, the college or university only pays the outstanding balance in tuition and fees, after all financial aid and scholarships are awarded—leaving no money for the student to cover everyday living expenses. “We want students and families to see that there is a path for them to receive an outstanding education without incurring significant and life-altering debt. Students who are new to college do not always realize there are more expenses than just tuition and fees even when students live at home. The Laker+ program provides financial resources to help students meet their additional college costs and everyday living expenses,” Lake Land College Director of Financial Aid and Veteran Services Jennifer Hedges said. With the Laker+ program, Lake Land College offers students support in earning an education at one of the top community colleges in the nation. This education provides an excellent foundation for a career in the workforce or transfer to a university. “Students who are considering different options should consider the fact that any financial aid or scholarships that they receive will go quite a bit farther at Lake Land College—even when a college or university offers students ‘last to pay’ tuition and fee incentives,” Bullock added. A PELL grant is a federal grant program available to college students who qualify as determined by the FAFSA. PELL grants do not have to be repaid and are dependent on a student’s EFC or expected family income vs. the cost of tuition at the college the student is attending. A student who qualifies for a PELL grant will receive the same dollar amount no matter what college the student attends. In the first example, a student who has a 0 EFC as determined by the FAFSA and receives the same number of scholarships, along with the same PELL grant and MAP grant. The student who attends a four-year college will have $0 in his/her pocket after the college makes up the difference in tuition and fees. The student who attends Lake Land College will have a refund of $7,035 for college expenses. In the second example, an in-district high school senior student who is in the top 15% of the graduating class, or earns a 26 on the ACT or a 1230 on the SAT, is guaranteed a Presidential Scholarship covering two years of tuition. This scholarship would be applied first to cover tuition expenses, while financial aid or other scholarships would cover fees with the student receiving the remaining financial aid or scholarships in the form of a refund to cover living expenses. The Lake Land College district consists of the following school districts: Altamont, Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond, Beecher City, Brownstown, Casey-Westfield, Charleston, Cowden-Herrick, Cumberland, Dieterich, Effingham, Jasper, Kansas, Marshall, Martinsville, Mattoon, Neoga, North Clay, Oakland, Okaw Valley, Pana, Paris, Ramsey, Shelbyville, Shiloh, South Central, St. Anthony, St. Elmo, Stewardson-Strasburg, Sullivan, Teutopolis, Windsor. -30-
Career and Technical Month – Apprenticeships are expanding to include multiple career paths Posted on February 22, 2022 The following is an Editorial from Dr. Josh Bullock, Lake Land College President. As the nation celebrates Career and Technical Month this February, I would like to share how Lake Land College is on the leading edge of developing apprenticeships that can often be a golden solution for creating a talented pipeline of skilled employees and enabling area businesses to thrive. Traditionally, apprenticeships are associated with careers in trade unions. However, the reality is that apprenticeships are expanding to include multiple career paths. In response to the workforce shortages and growing skills gap, state and national leaders are investing in organizations that develop apprenticeships. Just last month, the governor and Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) announced a nearly $10 million investment in pre-apprenticeship programs through the Illinois Works program. Last year Lake Land College, Rend Lake and Illinois Eastern Community College submitted a collaborative proposal to grow partnerships. Their success in establishing 41 registered apprenticeship programs was among the many reasons DCEO funded the grant proposal. In an apprenticeship partnership, employers drive the development of customized curriculum, in partnership with the local community college, to support the skills needs of the organization. Employers then select new employees to enter an apprenticeship training program or invest in current employees to upskill their knowledge. With this commitment, businesses are reducing turnover, creating a talent pipeline, increasing productivity and diversifying their workforce. In addition, by establishing an apprenticeship training program, they are setting standards for knowledge and skills and ensuring a continuity of learning among generations. Employees/students who participate in an apprenticeship earn a wage while training or attending class, see their wages increase as their skills progress, receive on-the-job training and experience career advancement. They may also benefit from tuition reimbursement. Students who complete an apprenticeship earn college credit and the valuable distinction of journeyman−a nationally recognized credential and testimony to their skill level. Through grants and alternate financial sources, Lake Land College can assist businesses in funding apprenticeships for college students and pre-apprenticeships for high school students. In developing these programs, we work with companies to establish a beneficial schedule and specifically outline every detail of the training objectives. Lake Land College is engaged in two apprenticeships in Industrial Maintenance and Repair and is in the process of developing additional programs in Automotive Technician and Commercial Driver’s License. We appreciate those of you who assisted the college in gathering significant data for our next Strategic Planning cycle. In analyzing the results of the survey and focus group feedback, it is clear that there is strong support among both business leaders and the college community for creating apprenticeships, internships and on-the-job training. I look forward to discussing how Lake Land College can help you in creating a skilled workforce through an apprenticeship, internship or innovative work-based learning partnership that will help your business meet the workforce demands of the future.
Lake Land College to host first annual Math & Science Open House Posted on February 15, 2022 Lake Land College math and science faculty will host the first annual Math & Science Open House from 10 a.m. to noon on Friday, April 1. The event allows high school juniors and seniors to learn more and ask questions about Lake Land math and science academic programs such as chemistry, biology, physics, math, geographic information systems (GIS) and pre-engineering. Tours of facilities and labs will allow those interested to see and experience the state-of-the-art technology and equipment available to students in these programs. The event will consist of four sessions based on different aspects of the math and science programs at Lake Land. Planned activities will cover biology, chemistry, physics, and GIS disciplines. Students will get a chance to view bacteria isolated from everyday objects, explore a digital cadaver, and view actual cadavers if interested. Other demonstrations include intricate physics exhibitions of light waves, matter and electricity. In the chemistry demonstration, instrumental technology will be used to determine the identity of an unknown drug. Students will also learn real-world applications of how local GIS systems are used to manage utilities such as water distribution and support economic development opportunities for businesses. “We are fortunate to have labs furnished with up-to-date equipment that go a long way in preparing our students to be successful when they graduate or transfer,” Division Chair of Math & Science/Biological Science Instructor Ikemefuna Nwosu said. “Our hope is that when students and their parents or guardians visit the open house, they can get a hands-on perspective of the quality education they will receive at Lake Land College.” Parents of high school students, as well as anyone interested in pursuing a math or science degree are welcome to attend. For more information or to register for the event, visit lakelandcollege.edu/visit. -30-
Lake Land College to host virtual Court Reporting and Captioning event Posted on February 11, 2022 Lake Land College will host a virtual information session for its new Court Reporting and Captioning program March 24 at 6 p.m. Attendees will learn about the multiple career opportunities for court reporters and captioners, as well as the advantages of Lake Land’s online program. Lake Land College launched the program this past fall in response to the high demand for court reporting and closed-captioning professionals throughout the state and nation. “Court reporting creates several opportunities for rewarding career paths for students who are interested in developing this skill set,” Lisa Earp, business instructor/director of court reporting/office professionals program coordinator, said. “Those who are successful in this field are often good listeners, have advanced typing or texting speeds, are talented musicians and are strong in English and grammar.” This degree program trains students for careers in the judicial setting as either official or freelance court reporters. Students are also prepared for careers providing captioning for broadcast television and internet programs and providing word-for-word translation for the deaf and hard-of-hearing population in educational, civic and corporate settings. “Stenography had always interested me,” student Mandy Hanner said. “I had the opportunity to try out a machine and get some experience through the First Steps program. Then, when Lake Land started this program, I thought ‘This is perfect’.” Working both a full-time and a part-time job while taking classes, Hanner said her experience in the online program has been a positive one. “When I went to college the first time there was no such thing as an online class,” Hanner said. “Lake Land has been wonderful. Any time I’ve had a question it’s been answered. Any time I’ve had an issue outside of class the teachers have been so nice to work with me.” The program is designed to train students on a specialized, 24-key, shorthand keyboard used by court reporters and captioners, known as the stenotype machine. Throughout the program, students build their writing speed on a steno machine from beginner speeds to a career-level speed of 225 words per minute. If a student does not have confident keyboarding skills prior to acceptance into the program, a keyboarding skill building course can be taken. Students will purchase or rent-to-own a steno machine. All classes are available online, but many will offer a virtual component where students can attend Zoom sessions The final semester of the program, students will complete a one-hour internship course where they will be placed in a courtroom or deposition setting to work under the supervision of a court reporter. Upon graduation, students will be prepared to sit for the Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporter (CSR) and the National Court Reporters Association (NCRA) Registered Skilled Reporter (RSR) and Registered Professional Reporter (RPR) certification exams. Program application requirements include admission to Lake Land College and completion of three program assessment tests: an interest exam; English and grammar exam; and a timed keyboarding exam. For more information about the special admission Court Reporting and Captioning degree program, visit lakelandcollege.edu/high-demand-programs/court-reporting. -30-
Lake Land College to Host In-person Commencement Ceremony Posted on Lake Land College will celebrate with graduates during an in-person Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 13, 2022 at 6 p.m. in the Field House. “We are excited to gather together and recognize the accomplishments of our graduates in a traditional in-person Commencement,” Lake Land College President Josh Bullock said. This will be the first in-person ceremony the college has held since 2019. “We know this year’s graduates have been through so much during the past two years. Many of them were not able to have a traditional ceremony at their high school, so we hope they will take advantage of this opportunity and participate in the ceremony,” Dean of Admission Services Jon Van Dyke said. College photographers will capture moments throughout the evening and make the photos available for download at no cost. The ceremony will be livestreamed via the Internet from the college’s homepage at lakelandcollege.edu. In addition to seating in the Field House, overflow seating showing a livestream on a large screen will be available throughout campus. A recording will also be available for viewing on YouTube and local cable channels in the days following. The process to sign up for Commencement is simple and can be completed online. There is no cost to order a cap and gown or to participate in the ceremony. The first step is to file an Intent to Graduate in the student portal, the Laker Hub. After filing the intent, Admissions & Records will send the graduate a letter with instructions on how to measure for a cap and gown online in the Laker Hub. The deadline to file an Intent to Graduate is Friday, March 18, 2022. The deadline to measure for a cap and gown is Wednesday, March 30, 2022. For more information about Commencement contact Admissions and Records, Luther Student Center, 217-234-5434. -30-
Historic People and Moments Celebrating Black History Month Posted on February 10, 2022 By Darrius Frazier In 1902, James Mercer Langston Hughes, well known as Langston Hughes, was born in Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. In 1960 at Greensboro, North Carolina, four African-American college students from North Carolina A&T State spark a nationwide civil rights movement by refusing to leave a “whites-only” lunch counter at a popular retail store, Woolworth, after they were denied service. By the end of the first week, 200 protested at the store. The demonstration in Greensboro continued for six months, until Woolworth gave in and integrated the lunch counter. Although not the first sit-in, the non-violent Greensboro protest became the best known. In 1978, anti-slavery crusader and Civil War veteran Harriet Tubman becomes the first African American woman to appear on a U.S. postage stamp, the first in the Post Office’s Black Heritage Series. In 2009, the United States Senate confirmed Eric Holder as the first African American Attorney General in the United States by a vote in the affirmative of 75-21. President Barack Obama had nominated holder on December 1, 2008. Holder was formally installed on March 27, 2009. In 2013, the first African American female congresswoman from Illinois, Cardiss Collins died in Arlington, Virginia at age 81. Collins was elected in a special election on June 5, 1973 to replace her husband, Congressman George Collins, who died in a plane crash aboard United Airlines Flight 553 on December 8, 1972. She served twelve consecutive congressional terms from 1973 to 1997 while representing the 7th district of Illinois. Collins is remembered as a champion for the rights of African Americans, women and the poor. In 1913, “The First Lady of Civil Rights”, Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, known commonly as Rosa Parks, was in Tuskegee, Alabama. On Friday, December 1, 1955, at Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger and was promptly arrested. Her very patriotic and brave act was the stimulus that helped strengthen the Montgomery Bus Boycott and civil rights demonstrations around the country. Parks actions became a symbol of support against the crude racial discrimination that was prevalent in the south and many parts of the country. In 1999, plainclothes officers of the New York Police Department’s Street Crime Unit (SCU) fired 41 shots at unarmed Amadou Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea, killing him on the steps of his apartment building shortly after midnight. Diallo’s killing sparked a public outcry and eventually resulted in the shuttering of the SCU, but the four officers who shot him were found not guilty of his murder. In 1934, One of America’s greatest baseball players, Henry Louis Aaron, also known as Hank Aaron or Hammerin Hank, was born in Mobile, Alabama. The baseball Hall of Famer held the Major League Baseball record 33 years with 755 career home runs when he retired in 1976. Aaron played for the Milwaukee Braves from 1954-66 until the Braves moved to Atlanta to become the Atlanta Braves. Aaron stayed on with the team until after the 1974 season. In 1975 and 1976, Aaron played the last two seasons of his career with the Milwaukee Brewers. Amidst racist death threats for getting ready to pass Babe Ruth’s home run record, Aaron broke the record with 715 home runs on April 8, 1974 for the Atlanta Braves in Atlanta Fulton County Stadium against the Los Angeles Dodgers on NBC-TV. After his retirement, Aaron worked in the Front Office of the Atlanta Braves. In 1994, after a third trial, white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith, was convicted in the murder of African American civil rights leader Medgar Evers, over 30 years after the crime occurred. Evers was gunned down in the driveway of his Jackson, Mississippi, home on June 12, 1963, while his wife, Myrlie, and the couple’s three small children were inside. Beckwith was sentenced to life in prison without parole and died in prison in 2001 at the age of 80. In 1820, the first organized immigration of freed enslaved people to Africa from the United States departs New York harbor on a journey to Freetown, Sierra Leone, in West Africa. The immigration was largely the work of the American Colonization Society, a U.S. organization founded in 1816 by Robert Finley to return formerly enslaved African people to Africa. In 1993, legendary tennis player, Arthur Ashe, died in New York City at age 49. Ashe became the first African American to win the US Open Tennis Championship on September 9, 1968. In addition, he set many first on the competitive courts of tennis including being the first African American to win the singles cup at Wimbledon on July 5, 1975. Ashe achieved the ranking of No. 1 in the world among his peers and had a singles career record of 818 wins, 260 losses and 51 titles, which included wins in the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. In 1926, Dr. Carter G. Woodson began “Negro History Week” the forerunner to Black History Month during the second week of February in 1926. He was a noted, historian, journalist, author and the founder of The Association For the Study of Negro Life and History, currently known as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Dr. Woodson is remembered as a historian, journalist, author and the “The Father of Black History.” In 1968, in what is known as the Orangeburg Massacre, three African-American college students were shot dead by officers with the South Carolina Highway Patrol on the South Carolina St. campus in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Twenty seven others were injured when the State Troopers opened fire on the group of approximately 150 to 200 protesters. It all precipitated after several nights of attempted integration of the segregated “All Star Bowling Lane” a bowling alley in Orangeburg. In 1909, accomplished poet, novelist and playwright, Paul Laurence Dunbar, died of tuberculosis. Dunbar was born on June 27, 1872 in Dayton, Ohio to former enslaved Blacks. He became one the first African American poets to achieve national and international acclamation. Dunbar completed four collected volumes of short stories, four novels, three published plays, lyrics for thirteen songs, fourteen books of poetry and over 400 published poems with his writings featured in many national publications including the New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly and Saturday Evening Post. In 1971, pitcher Leroy “Satchel” Paige becomes the first Negro League veteran to be nominated for the Baseball Hall of Fame. His career, including his time in the Negro Leagues, spanned five decades. Paige pitched in the Negro Leagues from 1927-47. In 1948, the Cleveland Indians, now known as the Cleveland Guardians, signed Paige to his first major league contract. Paige helped the Indians win their most recent pennant when they defeated the Boston Braves in six games in that year’s World Series. Paige was the first African-American to pitch in the World Series. In 1957, following the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth, Joseph Lowery, Josephine Baker, and others founded the Southern Leadership Christian Conference (SCLC) at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta as an African-American Civil Rights organization. Dr. King served as President of SCLC until his assassination on April 4, 1968. SCLC became involved in many civil rights crusades not only in the South but also throughout the country. In 1966, Andrew Brimmer became the first African-American to serve on the Federal Reserve Board on the board of governors. Brimmer was appointed to this position by President, Lyndon B. Johnson, and served there for eight years. Additionally, Brimmer, worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as an economist, established the central bank of Sudan and served on the Tuskegee University’s board of directors. In 1977, Clifford Leopold Alexander Jr., became the first African-American to serve as Secretary of the Army. He was appointed to this position by President Jimmy Carter, which he served for four years. During this time he concentrated upon improving the all-volunteer Army, stressing programs to enhance professionalism, and emphasizing the award of contracts to minority businesses to fulfill the federal commitment to encourage diversity. In 1990, after serving 27 years in prison, South African anti-apartheid leader, Nelson Mandela, was released from prison by President, F.W. de Klerk due to international pressure as a result of his unjust sentence of life imprisonment due to his anti-apartheid activities. In 1994, as a result of all races voting for the first time ever, Mandela was voted president and served one term which lasted five years. For the last fifteen years of his life after his presidency, Mandela went on a nation tour for reconciliation with the people who were formerly apart of the apartheid government prior to 1994. In 1793, Congress passes the first fugitive slave law, requiring all states, including those that forbid slavery, to forcibly return enslaved people who have escaped from other states to their original owners. In 1909, the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was formed as a result of the Springfield, Illinois race riot the previous year. NAACP was founded at the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. The founders of this civil rights organization that included African American leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells-Barnett. The organization fought against lynching of African-Americans, especially in the South, as well as other types of racial discrimination affected African-Americans and people of color. Its most famous moment came on May 1954 when NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund founder Thurgood Marshall won the landmark Brown v. Topeka, KS Board of Education decision. In 1923, the New York Renaissance, the first all-Black professional basketball team, is organized. The Renaissance, commonly called the Rens, become one of the dominant teams of the 1920s and 1930s. In 1939—seven years before the launch of the NBA—the Rens won the World Professional Basketball tournament. In 1963, the Rens team was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. In 1817, Frederick Douglass was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in Maryland. Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and insightful anti-slavery writings. Douglass believed in working with people across different ideologies and backgrounds throughout the rest of his life. In 1968, Henry Lewis became the first African-American to lead a symphony orchestra in the United States when he became the conductor and musical director of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in Newark, and continued as musical director from 1968 until 1976. During this time, he transformed the group from a small community ensemble of largely part-time instrumentalists into a nationally recognized orchestra. Lewis vastly increased the orchestra’s performance schedule from 22 concerts per year to 100 concerts per season. In 1951, New York City Council passed bill prohibiting racial discrimination in city-assisted housing developments. In 1970, Joe Frazier knocked out Jimmy Ellis in the fourth round at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan and became the world heavyweight boxing champion. It was not only the first time Ellis was knocked out, but it was his first ever loss. In 1918, Charles Hayes was born in Cairo, Illinois. Hayes was elected as a Democrat to the 98th United States Congress by a special election held on August 23, 1983, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Harold Washington, who had been elected mayor of Chicago. While a representative, Hayes was on the Committee on Education and Labor and Small Business Committee. Hayes was a resident of Chicago for most of his adult life after graduating from Cairo High School in 1936. During the late 1950s, he raised funds for Martin Luther King Jr.’s voter registration drive in the South. He was a civil rights leader who worked closely with King in the SCLC during the 1960s. Later, he was one of major labor leaders arrested during the 1980s anti-apartheid protests that eventually won the freedom of Nelson Mandela. Congressman Hayes was the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU)’s first executive vice president, serving from 1972-1986. He was most noted for pieces of legislation to encourage school dropouts to re-enter and complete their education. Hayes served four terms as a member of the House of Representatives until 1993. In 1931, Toni Morrison, a well-renowned novelist, was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford in Lorain, Ohio. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987); she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. In 1965, Dr. Dre was born Andre Romelle Young at Compton, California, a suburb south of Los Angeles. In 1986, he along with Arabian Prince, DJ Yella, Ice Cube and Eazy-E formed the band, NWA. The band were the pioneers of gangster rap, which incorporated profane lyrics about violence, drugs and life on the streets. They gained prominence with their first album in 1988, “Straight Outta Compton” which became a major success. In 1991, Dr. Dre and Ice Cube left the group to form Death Row Records with bodyguard, Marion “Suge” Knight. He released his first single at Death Row for the soundtrack of the film “Deep Cover” in which he collaborated with rapper Snoop Dogg. Dr. Dre also released his first solo album titled “The Chronic” in 1992 which became triple platinum. In 1996, Dr. Dre left Death Row to form his own label “Aftermath Entertainments.” His first album with Aftermath titled “Dr. Dre Presents the Aftermath” which went platinum. In 2008, he founded the company Beats Electronics with producer Jimmy Iovine. The company sold Beats by Dr. Dre Studio headphones, which were so popular that Apple bought them out in 2014 for $3 billion, which made Dre the richest rap star. Both Dre and Iovine joined Apple in executive roles. 1940: Soul singer William “Smokey” Robinson born in Detroit, Michigan. In addition to being a singer, Robinson was a songwriter, record producer, and former record executive director. Robinson was the founder and leader of the singing group, The Miracles, which he formed in 1955 while still in high school. The group’s first success came in 1960 with the hit, “Shop Around.” Between 1960 and 1970, Robinson would produce 26 top forty hits with the Miracles as lead singer, chief songwriter and producer, including several top ten hits such as “You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me”, “I Second That Emotion“, “Baby Baby Don’t Cry” and the group’s only number-one hit during their Robinson years, “The Tears of a Clown“. Other notable hits such as “Ooo Baby Baby“, “Going to a Go-Go“, “The Tracks of My Tears“, “(Come Round Here) I’m The One You Need“, “The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage” and “More Love” peaked in the top twenty. In 1965, the Miracles were the first Motown group to change their name when they released their 1965 album Going to a Go-Go as Smokey Robinson & the Miracles. Between 1962 and 1966, Robinson was also one of the major songwriters and producers for Motown, penning many hit singles such as “Two Lovers“, “The One Who Really Loves You“, “You Beat Me to the Punch” and “My Guy” for Mary Wells; “The Way You Do The Things You Do“, “My Girl“, “Since I Lost My Baby” and “Get Ready” for the Temptations; “Stillwater” for the Four Tops; “When I’m Gone” and “Operator” for Brenda Holloway; “Don’t Mess With Bill“, “The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game” and “My Baby Must Be a Magician” for the Marvelettes; and “I’ll Be Doggone” and “Ain’t That Peculiar” for Marvin Gaye. After being retired from the music business for five years raising his family, Robinson in 1975 produced the album, Quiet Storm. The album launched three singles – the number-one R&B hit “Baby That’s Backatcha”, “Love Machine”, and “Quiet Storm.” His last hits were: “Cruisin”,”Being With You”, “Just to Tell Her”, “Tell Me Tomorrow.” On February 22, 1983, Smokey was awarded an individual star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame. Four years later, in 1987, Robinson was inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Robinson’s single “Just to See Her”” from the One Heartbeat album was awarded the 1988 Grammy Award for Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. This was Robinson’s first Grammy Award. One year later, in 1989, he was inducted to the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame. In 1919, Pan-African Congress, organized by W.E.B. Du Bois, met a Grand Hotel, Paris. There were fifty-seven delegates sixteen from the United States and fourteen from Africa form sixteen countries and colonies. Blaise Diagne of Senegal was elected president and Du Bois was named secretary. In 1942, during World War II, the Army Air Corps’ all African American 100th Pursuit Squadron, later designated a fighter squadron, was activated at Tuskegee Institute. The squadron known as the Tuskegee Airmen, served honorably in England and in other regions of the European continent during the conflict. In 1992, John Singleton became the first African American director to be nominated for the Academy Award for best director and best screenplay for his first film, Boyz N the Hood. The film’s title is a double entendre; a play on the term boyhood and a reference to the 1987 Eazy-E rap song of the same name, written by Ice Cube. In 2002, the United States Library of Congress deemed it “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. In 1936, Barbara Charline Jordan was born in Houston, Texas. Jordan was an American lawyer, educator and politician who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives. In 1976, she became the first African-American, and the first woman, to ever deliver a keynote address at a Democratic National Convention. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous other honors. She was the first African-American woman to be buried in the Texas State Cemetery. Jordan is also known for her work as chair of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, which recommended reducing legal immigration by approximately one-third. In 1965, in New York City, Malcolm X, an African American civil rights, nationalist and religious leader, is assassinated while addressing his organization, Organization of Afro-American Unity, at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. He was 39. Three members of the Nation of Islam—Mujahid Abdul Halim, Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam—were soon after charged with first-degree murder. Islam and Aziz maintained their innocence, and during the 1966 trial, Halim confessed to the crime and testified that Islam and Aziz were innocent. All three men were found guilty, however, and sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. In 1950, Julius Winfield (“Dr. J“) Erving II, professionally known as Julius Erving or Dr. J, is born in Roosevelt, New York. He is regarded as one of the most influential basketball players of all time. Erving played collegiately at the University of Massachusetts before playing professionally from 1971-87. Erving helped legitimize the American Basketball Association (ABA) and was the best-known player in that league when it merged into the National Basketball Association (NBA) after the 1975–76 season. Erving won three championships, four Most Valuable Player Awards, and three scoring titles with the ABA’s Virginia Squires and New York Nets (now the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets) and the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers. During his 16 seasons as a player, none of his teams ever missed the postseason. He is the eighth-highest scorer in ABA/NBA history with 30,026 points (NBA and ABA combined). He was well known for slam-dunking from the free-throw line in slam-dunk contests and was the only player voted Most Valuable Player in both the ABA and the NBA. The basketball slang of being posterized was first coined to describe his moves. In 1993, Erving was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. In 1994, Erving was named by Sports Illustrated as one of the 40 most important athletes of all time. In 1996, Erving was honored as one of the league’s greatest players of all time by being named to the NBA 50th Anniversary Team. In 2004, he was inducted into the Nassau County Sports Hall of Fame. In October 2021, Erving was again honored as one of the league’s greatest players of all time by being named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team. In 1868, W.E.B. DuBois was born William Edward Burghardt Du Bois at Great Barrington, Massachusetts. DuBois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community, and after completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. Du Bois was a prolific author. His collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk, is a seminal work in African-American literature. His 1940 autobiography Dusk of Dawn is regarded in part as one of the first scientific treatises in the field of American sociology, and he published two other life stories, all three containing essays on sociology, politics and history. In his role as editor of the NAACP’s journal The Crisis, he published many influential pieces. DuBois passed away while living in Ghana at the age of 93 on August 27, 1963, a day before Dr. King’s March on Washington which Dr. King delivered his famous I Have a Dream speech. In 1811, Daniel Alexander Payne, founder of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, was born as a free Black in Charleston, South Carolina. Payne stressed education and preparation of ministers and introduced more order in the church, becoming its sixth bishop and serving for more than four decades (1852–1893) as well as becoming one of the founders of Wilberforce University in Ohio in 1856. In 1863, the AME Church bought the college and chose Payne to lead it; he became the first African-American president of a college in the United States and served in that position until 1877. By quickly organizing AME missionary support of freedmen in the South after the Civil War, Payne gained 250,000 new members for the AME Church during the Reconstruction era. Based first in Charleston, he and his missionaries founded AME congregations in the South down the East Coast to Florida and west to Texas. In 1891, Payne wrote the first history of the AME Church, a few years after publishing his memoir. In 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes the first African-American woman to receive a medical doctorate degree (M.D.). She graduated from the New England Female Medical College in Boston. In 1975, Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam since 1934, passed away due to congestive heart failure at the age of 77. Many children, including his two daughters and six sons by his wife, most notably future leader Warith Deen Muhammad, survived him. During his time as leader of the Nation of Islam, Muhammad had developed the Nation of Islam from a small movement in Detroit to an empire consisting of banks, schools, restaurants, and stores across 46 cities in America. The Nation also owned over 15,000 acres of farmland, their own truck- and air- transport systems, as well as a publishing company that printed the country’s largest black newspaper. As a leader, Muhammad served as a mentor to many notable members, including Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Louis Farrakhan and his son Warith Deen Mohammed. The Nation of Islam is estimated to have between 20,000 and 50,000 members, and 130 mosques offering numerous social programs. In 1870, during the Reconstruction period in the United States, Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African-American to be elected in the U.S. Senate by a vote of 81 to 15 in the Mississippi legislature to finish the term of one of the state’s two seats in the U.S. Senate, which had been left vacant since the Civil War. Previously, Albert G. Brown, who withdrew from the U.S. Senate in 1861 when Mississippi seceded, had held it. At the time, as in every state, the Mississippi legislature elected U.S. senators; they were not elected by popular vote until after ratification of the 17th Amendment in 1913. In 1869, the U.S. Congress adopts the 15th constitutional amendment, making it illegal for the US or any single government to deny or abridge the right to vote “on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.” It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments. After surviving a difficult ratification fight, the amendment was certified as duly ratified and part of the Constitution on March 30, 1870. In 1968, Shirley Chisholm became the first African-American woman elected to the United States Congress, and represented New York’s 12th Congressional District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1972, she became the first major-party African-American candidate for President of the United States, and the first woman ever to run for the Democratic presidential nomination. In 1984, Michael Jackson’s sixth album, Thriller, wins eight Grammy Awards. His album, broke all sales records to-date, and remains one of the top-grossing albums of all time. Thriller sold one million copies worldwide per week at its peak. Thriller was the best-selling album in the United States in 1983 and 1984, making it the first album to be the best-selling for two years. It also spent a record 37 weeks at number one on the Billboard 200, from February 26, 1983, to April 14, 1984, and has remained on the chart for 485 nonconsecutive weeks (and counting). Quincy Jones, who had previously worked with Jackson on his 1979 album Off the Wall, produced the album. Jackson wanted to create an album where “every song was a killer”. With the ongoing backlash against disco, he moved in a new musical direction, resulting in a mix of pop, post-disco, rock, funk, and R&B sounds. Thriller foreshadows the contradictory themes of Jackson’s personal life, as he began using a motif of paranoia and darker themes. In 1896, in the First Italo-Ethiopian War at the Battle of Adwa, Ethiopian forces defeated the Italian invading force. The decisive victory thwarted the campaign of the Kingdom of Italy to expand its colonial empire in the Horn of Africa. By the end of the 19th century, European powers had carved up almost all of Africa after the Berlin Conference; only Ethiopia and Liberia still maintained their independence. Adwa became a pre-eminent symbol of pan-Africanism and secured Ethiopian sovereignty until the Second Italo-Ethiopian War beginning in October 1935. The Italians suffered about 6,000 killed and 1,500 wounded in the battle and subsequent retreat back into Eritrea, with 3,000 taken prisoner. Ethiopian losses have been estimated at around 4,000–5,000 killed and 8,000 wounded. As a direct result of the battle, Italy signed the Treaty of Addis Ababa, recognizing Ethiopia as an independent state.