#Leslie Vinson

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Shout out to my friend for making 1st round people on dress to impress, gave me some brainworms

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☆ girls and their axes.

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Mabel Fairbanks (November 14, 1915 – September 29, 2001) was a figure skater and coach. She paved the way for other minorities to compete in the sport of figure skating. She was inducted into the US Figure Skating Hall of Fame, as the first person of African American and Native American descent, and the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame. She was born in Florida's Everglades. Her father was African American while her mother was a Native American of English descent. She was orphaned at the age of eight. After staying with a teacher who treated her like a "maid," she joined one of her brothers in New York City. A wealthy woman saw her sleeping on a park bench and offered her a job as a babysitter. She began figure skating around 1925 to 1928. After observing children at the Central Park ice rink, she bought herself used skates, stuffed them with cotton because they were two sizes too big, and began skating at the rink. She said, "Blacks didn't skate there. But it was a public place, so I just carried on." She gained further inspiration after seeing Sonja Henie in One in a Million. She was denied access to the local rink by the cashier but she kept returning until the manager admitted her. Maribel Vinson Owen and Howard Nicholson provided her with technical advice. She was not allowed to compete in the national qualifying event for the Olympics or any competition. She performed in shows in New York. She wore pink or purple skate boots rather than the more common black or white ones. She practiced on a 6 ft by 6 ft rink constructed in her room. After relocating to Los Angeles, she toured internationally, skating with Ice Capades in Mexico and with Ice Follies. After returning to the US, she saw a sign with "Colored Trade Not Solicited" at the Pasadena Winter Gardens. She coached singles and pairs, including Tiffany Chin, Billy Chapel, Scott Hamilton, Kristi Yamaguchi / Rudy Galindo, Tai Babilonia / Randy Gardner, Leslie Robinson, Michelle McCladdie, Richard Ewell, Debi Thomas, Atoy Wilson, and Jean Yuna. She taught skating to the children of many celebrities. She was never married. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck8Jnd6LMjj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Storia Di Musica #231 - Joe Pass, Virtuoso, 1973

Mariano Passalacqua, nato a Gualtieri Sicaminò, in provincia di Messina, ma emigrato da bambino negli Stati Uniti, non avrebbe mai immaginato che il regalo scelto per il nono compleanno di suo figlio, Joseph Antony, diventerà centrale per la storia della chitarra jazz: alla fine degli anni ‘30 una Harmony di 17 dollari che tra le mani del piccolo diviene qualcosa di straordinario. Perché a Joseph basta ascoltare una melodia per impararla subito ad orecchio, e le feste in famiglia sono l’occasione per suonare i classici della canzone italiana tanto amati dal padre, che non era un musicista ma operaio in una acciaieria della Pennsylvania. Già da adolescente girava l'America con diversi gruppi jazz, migliorando le sue capacità chitarristiche, finché traslocò dalla Pennsylvania a New York; qui successero due cose: la prima, scelse come nome d’arte Joe Pass, nome che lo consegnerà alla storia del jazz, la seconda fu la droga, che lo portò in carcere durante gli anni '50. Tornò a suonare in maniera definitiva la chitarra durante i due anni e mezzo passati nel centro di riabilitazione di Synanon, celebrati nel suo primo grande disco del 1962, The Sounds of Synanon. Pass riusciva a far convivere notevole tecnica e la grande conoscenza dello strumento, divenne una sua firma musicale l’uso chitarristico del walking bass (la scansione di tutti i quarti della battuta, tipica del Contrabbasso): tecnicamente impressionante, capace di dare un senso anche a lunghe esibizioni da solo, si afferma all’inizio non come solista ma come musicista al fianco dei più grandi artisti dell’epoca. La carriera di Joe decolla, la prestigiosa rivista del jazz Down Beat lo incorona “nuova stella” e nei successivi dieci anni fino a metà degli anni settanta, incide dischi e collabora con decine di artisti di elevato calibro: ricordo che suonò in diversi dischi di, tra gli altri, Earl Bostie, Julie London, Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, Chet Baker, Carmen McRae, Frank Sinatra, Donald O’Connor, Della Reese, Leslie Uggams, Steve Allen, Johnny Mathis. Scriverà anche un fortunatissimo manuale, Joe Pass Guitar Style (scritto con Billy Thrasher), che è ancora oggi considerato uno dei libri più importanti per imparare a suonare le improvvisazioni per la chitarra jazz. L’incontro della vita lo ebbe nel 1970, quando incontra Norman Granz. Granz era il produttore di Jazz At The Philharmonic e fondatore della Verve Records, una delle etichette più leggendarie del jazz. Fa firmare un contratto a Pass per una nuova e giovane sua etichetta, la Pablo Records. La quale iniziò a pubblicare i lavori di tre giganti sotto contratto per Granz: Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald e Joe Pass. I tre legheranno le proprie storie musicali in dischi meravigliosi: The Trio, del 1974, con Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass e il bassista Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, registrato live alla London House di Chicago, vincitore nel 1975 del Grammy per Best Jazz Performance by a Group; Ella And Oscar nel 1975 e la serie Take Love Easy con Pass, in una serie di dischi Take Love Easy (1974), Fitzgerald And Pass... Again (1976), Speak Love (1983) e Easy Living (1986). Pass suonò anche in uno dei dischi più belli della Fitzgerald, Ella Abraça Jobim (1981) dove la grande cantante riprende il repertorio del leggendario compositore brasiliano Antônio Carlos Jobim. Nel 1973 Pass pubblica anche un nuovo disco solista, il primo di una tetralogia, dal titolo Virtuoso. Quello del 1973 è unanimemente considerato uno dei più grandi dischi per chitarra jazz e il suo capolavoro. Solo lui e la sua chitarra, niente accompagnamento, niente sovraincisioni, nella maggior parte dei brani non usa neanche l’amplificatore, ma registra la sua Gibson Es 175 con un microfono posto davanti alla cassa. Le idee di Pass sono lì, in vista: melodia sempre chiara e in primo piano, accompagnamento armonizzato per arricchire e tenere viva la tensione, walkin’ bass per dare swing e tiro, tutto eseguito con una semplicità che fa invidia. In scaletta un solo brano autografo, Blues For Alican, per il resto il meglio degli standard jazz: Night and Day (Cole Porter), All The Things You Are (Jerome Kern), una versione mozzafiato di Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams), una strepitosa The Song Is You di Jerome Kern, che apre tutta una serie di riprese di famosissime canzoni da musical e dal cinema: Stella By Starlight dal film La Casa Sulla Scogliera, How High The Moon da Two For The Show e My Old Flame da Belle Of The Nineties tra gli altri. Il disco fu un successo anche di vendite e nella prestigiosa The Penguin Guide To Jazz Recordings è annoverato nella super esclusiva “Core Collection” degli album essenziali della storia del jazz. A proposito delle registrazioni con Ella, Joe Pass raccontò: «Non l’avevo mai incontrata prima del giorno della registrazione. Non avevo idea di cosa volesse provare, o in che chiavi cantasse. Lei arriva e attacca con un brano. “In che chiave?” le chiedo. “Be’…” e canticchia qualcosa. Trovo la chiave e registriamo l’intero album. Senza prove, semplicemente scivolando tra i brani. In tutti i duetti che abbiamo fatto, quattro album in tutto, mai una prova». Pass con la Fitzgerald e Peterson farà diversi tour mondiali, memorabili esibizioni, di tre giganti che davvero sono dei pilastri del jazz. Sul suonare, Pass in un famoso video documentario (An Evening with Joe Pass, del 1994, pochi anni prima che un male incurabile lo porti via al mondo e alla musica) disse: Non puoi pensare e suonare allo stesso tempo. Se pensi a quello che stai suonando, quel che suoni diventa pomposo, artificiale. Penso che devi solo concentrarti sulla musica, e lasciare che la musica esca da sola. La musica è come il linguaggio. Hai una collezione di idee musicali e pensieri che hai accumulato durante la tua storia musicale, più tutta la musica del mondo, è tutto nel tuo inconscio, e devi pescare da lì. 

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Plight of the Navigator; Entertainment Weekly, Sept. 2001

"The first thing you have to understand is this line," says our assigned ensign, leaning into the stiff pacific breeze scouring the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. Shielding his eyes as the sun peeks over the receding mainland, he points out a red-and-yellow-banded stripe that cuts a clean diagonal off the ship's stern, some 50 yards away: "This is the Foul Line. Cross it, and you die." Muffled chuckles bubble up from his audience, an unregimented clutch of bleary-eyed grips, gaffers, production assistants, and on wind-buffeted journalist who's still trying to figure out where "the head" is. The officer regards us all with concerned amusement,; the Navy-standard attitude for handling the grossly uninitiated. "No, really," he stresses., "You will die. If the bird landing doesn't clip you, the wire will." For most of the Hollywood landlubbers assembled, "bird on a wire" means "disastrous Mel Gibson-Goldie Hawn caper." For anyone familiar with a flight deck, it means potential decapitation. The "birds" in question are $40 million F-18s, the workhorses of today's Navy, including the top-of-the-line F/A-18F fighter and attack jet. (Like Tom Cruise's baby fat, those chunky, gas-guzzling F14 Tomcats from Top Gun will soon be a distant memory.) For a week, pilots will be smacking them onto this deck at several hundred miles an hour, hoping their tailhooks connect with the retractable cable ("the wire") that yanks them to a stop before they skid into the ocean. The Foul Line is the outer boundary of that cable when it's snapped taut with the combined weight and engine thrust of the yet. We all take a step back. Meanwhile, the ensign has moved on to new horrors: Step over another line, and the jet blast from launching F-18s will sweep you off the deck. Also: "You can't wear sneakers up here. The fuel will melt the rubber."

"Why is there jet fuel on the deck?" asks a PA. "The planes leak. What do you expect? They're old." "So where can we stand?" "Stand anywhere you like," the ensign says amiably, "as long as it's not in the way." Filming a movie is challenging enough without worrying about jet blasts, melted soles, and beheadings. But filming a $40 million military adventure like Behind Enemy Lines--and trying to make it look like it cost twice that--is a real decathlon, involving a three-month tour of duty in the Slovak Republic (doubling for the Bosnian countryside) and now, in early February, five days off the coast of Southern California. What's more, this is a working aircraft carrier currently conducting landing trials for fighter pilots, which means the crew can't simply film wherever and whenever it wants. That's an awful lot to throw at a first-time feature director John Moore and a star better known for wry improvisations that raw war dramas. Not that Owen Wilson seems to be having any trouble impressing the real sailors of the Carl Vinson. With every call of "Cut," the lean, blond 33-year-old actor, decked out in the dull green flight suit of a naval aviator, is mobbed by enlisted men and women who pour into the three-Wal-Mart's-long hangar bay armed with pens, paper, and, in one case, a videotape of Anaconda. "He signed it, "Your pal, Owen Wilson," crows a chief petty officer, pad held triumphantly aloft as he emerges from the fray. "My kids are just gonna shit." To be fair, the rampant Owenism may have something to do with the fact that his movies are being shown back-to-back, all day long, on the ship's closed-circuit TV network. (Down in the chief's mess, we watch him die twice daily in Armageddon and The Haunting). Also in heavy rotation: the oeuvre of Gene Hackman, who plays flinty Admiral Leslie Reigart, the battle-group commander forced to choose between rescuing his downed pilot and preserving a fragile peace process in the war-torn Balkans. The 71-year-old Hackman is genial enough on deck, signing autographs and chatting up starstruck sailors, but when a scene wraps, he disappears into his stateroom to steal some much needed shut-eye. His quarters are situated alongside the flight deck, where jets are touching down with deafening frequency throughout the night. But even his brief visitations have spawned rumors worthy of Liz Smith. In one, after a sailor tells Hackman he's his biggest fan, the star asks which film is his favorite. Gushes the swab: "The one where you say, 'You can't handle the truth?' That sort of thing, coupled with the roar of afterburners next to one's ear, would be enough to try any actor's soul. But Hackman is probably more comfortable with the military life than most; he was, after all, a Marine, enlisting at 16 and working as an armed forces deejay in post-WWII China. "I wasn't a very good Marine," he's quick to note. "I went in as a private and came out as a private. I wasn't a great military person, but I recognized enough about it to play a military person." And he's played several, from an Air Force colonel stuck behind enemy lines during Vietnam in Bat 21 to a secretary of defense in No Way Out to a besieged sub captain in Crimson Tide. The same can't be said for Wilson, who was handpicked by Hackman to play Lieut. Chris Burnett, an untested navigator whose jet is struck by a missile over Bosnia. (Hackman decided Wilson "looked like a movie star" after seeing Shanghai Noon and recommended him for the role). Having cemented a reputation as one of Hollywood's premier screen ironists (with scene-stealing turns in Meet the Parents and Zoolander, not to mention collaborating with Wes Anderson on the scripts for Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, and December's The Royal Tenenbaums, in which he again costars with Hackman), Wilson is the first to admit he's an odd choice for the lead in a spit-and-polish war movie. "I did go to military school," he says in his defense, lounging in a makeup tent. "For my last two years of high school. Just enough to know I'm not cut out for it. I got kicked out of

an all-boys private school in Dallas. It was just discipline stuff. I wasn't a very focused student." Turns out Burnett isn't a very focused soldier either, thanks in part to Wilson's influence. In earlier drafts (by Predator's Jim and John Thomas, Red Dawn's John Milius, and The Rock's Mark Rosner, to name just a few), the character was more Maverick than Goose: He sat in the front seat of the plane and bore his plight with an attitude that was a little more steroidal. "There were changes we made when I signed on to make it a little easier for me to play," Wilson recalls. "We switched it from the pilot to the backseater guy, the navigator. I'm definitely not playing a Schwarzenegger, because I don't think I'd buy myself doing something like that. But I can buy myself running for my life.": Which is what Wilson spends most of the movie doing. "I'm behind enemy lines by myself," he muses. "So there's no one to riff with. It's a lot of "Now run over here! Now run over there! Now you're really scared! Now you're really angry!" Needless to say, that's not the usual Owen Wilson MO. With no Ben Stiller or Jackie Chan to play ping to his pong and Cheech to his Chong, Wilson couldn't lean on his much-vaunted improv skills. Instead, he had to cultivate something few had seen in him: grit. Back in the Slovak Republic, that meant running a gauntlet of ticklish, trip-wired land mines, no stuttering or stunt-doubling about it. "That was me!" he exclaims, as if he himself has trouble believing it. "We did one take of that. It was the first day Gene Hackman showed up. I think that gave me a lot of points with him. He treated me like I was a good guy after that. During Tenenbaums, he was telling Wes, 'They were really working Owen hard.' And I was thinking, 'They didn't work me that hard.' But it was because he'd shown up the day I ran through the minefield. he thought that's what it was like every day." A few more sailors move in to seed autographs, and Wilson dutifully obliges them. Then suddenly, he's seized with a new idea. "Have you seen the fantail?" he asks, speaking of the rear platform using the proper ear protection, onlookers can watch the F-18 pilots wheel, wobble their wings, and swoop in to land just overhead. Wilson charges out of a rear hatch just in time to see a jet scream past, jiggling the contents of our stomachs. "Isn't that incredible?" Wilson grins, gripping the railing like an 8-year-old at Niagra Falls. The surf kicks up along the Carl Vinson's stern, spraying us with a fine mist of brine. "Sitting out here, I think of Harvey Keitel in U-571 saying 'I'm an old sea-salt dog,' or whatever he says. Maybe I've got a little bit of that in me, the old salty dog. Salty Dog Wilson." He scans the horizon. "I've also found myself thinking, on that nautical theme, about Treasure Island, Cast Away." There's a pause as another jet comes into view. "And also Cabin Boy. You know, Chris Elliott?" He hunkers down for the thunderous approach. "Yes, my thoughts do run to Cabin Boy." If moviemaking had a Powell doctrine (defined mission, overwhelming budget, clear-cut release strategy), Behind Enemy Lines probably wouldn't have passed muster when principal photography wrapped last spring. "We were trying to make a military movie at a time when nobody gave a s___ about the military," remembers exec producer Wyck Godfrey, who saw the initial script in 1997. "We decided the only way for this movie to appeal to people was to make it about a character who has himself lost faith in his purpose." And then, of course, Everything Changed. America was suddenly under attack and American's military reentered the popular consciousness. Exactly how it's making that reentry (and how profitable it will prove for Hollywood) is still open to question. For example: Will moviegoers be spooked or excited by Behind Enemy Lines' harrowing crash sequence or its trench-level portrayal of an American pilot hunted by enemy troops? For the producers, that debate ended when Sony announced that it had moved Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down, a

fact-based account of Special Forces troops ambushed in Somalia, from January 2002 to an Oscar-qualifying limited run in late December; from there, the film moves into wide release on Behind Enemy Lines' original opening date of Jan. 18. Remembers Godfrey: "It wasn't really until Black Hawk Down moved to our date that we thought, Let's get it into the holiday season." Two days later, Twentieth Century fox bet its Behind on a Nov. 30 slot. Buoyed by what he claims are the studio's highest combined male and female test scores for any action film since Speed, Fox Filmed Entertainment cochairman Tom Rothman has high hopes. Just don't call it a war movie. "It's an action-adventure movie involving the military. It's not a war movie in any traditional sense," he says. But Rothman is just as quick to defend the film's patriotic virtues; he is, after all, a vocal supporter of the new Hollywood-Washington alliance, wherein studio heads agreed (in a Nov.11 meeting with White House adviser Karl Rove) to promote seven "ideals" suggested by the Bush administration, including volunteerism and support for the troops abroad. "There's no reason you can't have very valid positive stories about the military, the same way we've had very valid negative stories about the military." But according to director Moore, the original script was simply a very inauthentic story about the military--more to the point, it was "truly, truly, truly bad." The villains were wielding "long curved knives, drinking wine out of goatskins," and its gung ho heroes escaped from peril in a credulity-straining climax involving WWI biplanes. "But it was set in Bosnia. That's the only thing that interested me." Moore, a 31-year-old Irishman who won the gig largely on the strength of a 1999 commercial for the Sega Dreamcast, spent the mid-90s in the Balkans, shooting still photos (his work was displayed at a Dublin exhibition in 1997); he eventually departed after becoming what he disdainfully calls "a war tourist>" For him, the release of Behind Enemy Lines in the current climate has nothing to do with capitalizing on resurgent patriotism, and everything to do with showcasing a conflict that went largely unnoticed by the American public. (Until now: The United Artists import No Man's Land will also tackle Bosnia this holiday season). "There'll always be people holding placards saying this is insensitive, flag-waving horses___," Moore admits. "But I've been very interested in and horrified by those Balkan wars, and the way they'd been ignored by the West." In fact, one of Moore's favorite characters is the least pro-American of the lot, a NATO admiral who opposes a cavalry-style rescue operation because it could disrupt a peace deal. "He passionately believes it's not worth it for one man, whereas the American military view, as crystallized by Black Hawk Down, is 'Leave no man behind.' I tried to challenge that view a bit." Not that Behind Enemy Lines will be mistaken for a policy seminar. "This movie uses every once of modern technology to put you in the seat of an F-18," says Rothman. "And hell, that's cool. And I submit to you, that was cool before September 11, and it's cool after September 11." As for that modern technology, most of it was provided gratis by the Navy, a key factor in keeping the movie's budget down. "There's no location cost for shooting on an aircraft carrier," says Godfrey. "The production budget is $17 million, not counting about-the-line talent. The whole film's coming in for under $40 million. And it ended up looking like a $70 million film." Applying for material and advisory support from the Pentagon is a time-honored strategy for military films (Top Gun, Rules of Engagement, and Men of Honor all did it). In return for the assistance, Uncle Sam gets "a realistic and respectful treatment of the military," according to former Navy pilot and Behind Enemy Lines consultant Dave Kennedy. (That's why Hackman's Crimson Tide--which portrays a mutiny aboard a nuclear sub--didn't make the cut.) As it did for Men of Honor, the Navy can

negotiate to have a recruiting commercial, featuring clips from the movie, appended to the video release free of charge. In this era of patriotic make-nice between L.A. and D.C., such collaborations are enough to pique even the casual paranoiac. But the decision to join up with the service didn't come from the Illuminati or the Freemasons. Rather, it was director Moore, a military buff and critic of Hollywood's over-reliance on computer-generated wizardry, who decided he wanted the sort of authenticity--ground-to-air combat sequences, realistic command-chain politics, and, of course, the carrier itself--that could be attained only through cooperation. Also, he wanted the new F/A-18F Super Hornet. "This movie stars Gene Hackman, Owen Wilson, and the Super Hornet," says a gleeful Moore, who pushed the military to provide him with the jet. "The airplane we were physically using--I literally saw it in bubble wrap. It was that new." Chances are, it's been broken in by now. Super Hornets are currently seeing their first combat missions over Afghanistan; some may even be launching from the deck of the Carl Vinson, which was one of the first carriers to respond to the crisis. Over the Thanksgiving weekend, Fox screened the film for the carrier's crew (now on active duty in the Arabian Sea) in the cavernous hangar bay where, just nine months and one civilizational sea-change earlier, Wilson and Hackman played sailor for fun and profit. For the ship's crew, memories of last spring's moviemaking jaunt are probably cold comfort; but for all of us back home, it's nice to know that somewhere at sea, a CPO is admiring his autographed copy of Anaconda, while overhead, another bird catches the wire.

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Celebrating Black History Month: Mabel Fairbanks – First African American Inducted into U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame

Mabel Fairbanks was born in Jacksonville, Florida in the early 1920s. Life there was subjugated by abject poverty, bigotry, and Jim Crow laws. In the early 1930s, there was a great migration north in which Fairbanks’ brothers and sisters moved to New York City. She herself followed along. There, at an early age, she was drawn to the sport of figure skating. During the cold winters of the city, she would curiously watch from afar the twirling and gliding skaters in Central Park. But it was after seeing Sonja Henie’s movie “One In A Million” that she was determined to learn to skate. She took herself to the north end of Harlem with a pair of used, oversize skates, and on small frozen ponds and rivulets, she started to teach herself to skate. In her continued desire to practice her skills on ice, she ventured out into the city to find a proper ice rink facility. Time after time she was denied entrance to skate at many of the city’s coveted rinks because of her color, but she did not let that deter her.

The manager of the Gay Blades Ice Rink on West 52nd St. noted her persistence and finally let her in, only to request that she could only skate the last 30 minutes of the evening session. As a result, with her enthusiasm and dazzling spirit she caught the eye of the legendary 9 time U.S. Ladies Champion, Maribel Vinson Owen, who helped refine Fairbanks’ skating technique with tips and pointers. Fairbanks was finally shattering the race barrier in the city. Because she was not allowed to compete due to race and bigotry of the skating community in the city, Owen encouraged her to create her own shows and events. Taking that suggestion to heart, she soon was producing her own shows at the Gay Blades Ice Rink after their closing hours, as well shows in the Supper Clubs, the Apollo Theatre, and other social venues in and around Harlem. In the late 40s Fairbanks left the east coast for California. She quickly gained fame and respect first becoming the coach of the children of Hollywood’s elite — Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Ozzie and Harriet’s Ricky Nelson, and Otto Preminger. She made guest appearances on the popular KTLA TV show “Frosty Frolics.” But eventually her deep desire was to become the coach of young competitive skaters of all races with her primary focus in helping nurture and support African American figure skaters.

The list of some of those talented students includes: Atoy Wilson, Richard Ewell and Michelle McCladdie, Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner, Bobby Beauchamp, Leslie Robinson, and many others. Along with inspiring, mentoring, and knowing champions — Peggy Fleming, Scott Hamilton, Kristi Yamaguchi, Rudy Galindo and Debi Thomas — her coaching style helped her students to become not only great champions but also upstanding individuals. Even though she herself never stood on a podium as a champion, she took great pride and satisfaction in her students who did. And with that, her vision and goals were accomplished and fulfilled. Fairbanks coached until she was 79 years young. In 1997, Fairbanks was the first African American to be inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame. In October of 2001 she was posthumously inducted into the Women’s Sports Foundation Hall of Fame. Mabel Fairbanks quietly passed in Sept of 2001 in Burbank, California, leaving a bright legacy as a trailblazer and the Grand Dame of African American figure skaters.

Source: https://www.icetheatre.org/mabel-fairbanks-bio.html

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Hi Sarah! I liked very much what you said in the last ask (the one in which you say "Eliminate, insofar as you can, genres and strata and other people’s criteria so that taste becomes a matter of sensation. "). Since I like your writing (it just seems otherworldly) I am curious if you read (many) books on criticism and which one/ones had the most impact on you?

Books on or of criticism? I have not read many books on criticism, maybe not any — only essays thereon, like “The Decline of Book Reviewing,” 1959, by Elizabeth Hardwick. Hardwick is my unmovable number one. It’s no exaggeration to say that two women, Hardwick and Lidija Haas, are why I can write at all about books let alone for Bookforum, where I really love publishing (have never said “love publishing” before).

Baudrillard, Barthes, de Beauvoir were formative in college and my early 20s. But I was always haphazard and often misdirected (more often than not because… self-directed) in my learning and unsure of whether I was learning, liking the right things. I have that feeling far less… today. Adorno I like despite myself. Baldwin I like, like everyone. Leslie Fiedler. William Gass on Emerson. Fanny Howe on “the wilderness.” Lynne Tillman’s Madame Realism. I’ve only skimmed the famous Bloom on influence. I’ve never read Bettelheim’s Uses of Enchantment, maybe unwise to admit. A couple months ago, while writing my Bookforum essay on Hardwick (it’s not out yet), I remembered about Tillie Olsen’s Silences, which is sometimes about criticism; it’s a work of recanonization. Oh and Janet Malcolm's book on Sylvia Plath and her biographers.

More recently: Vinson Cunningham, at the New Yorker, writes occasionally in a way that I like about how people write. Christian Lorentzen, at New York magazine, is probably the best at sorting, sussing out the landscape. By glamourizing last century’s critical thinkers and shoring up the fragmentary, the modern for this century and maybe especially for our (my) generation, a certain trifecta — Maggie Nelson, Wayne Koestenbaum, Hilton Als — is correctly influential. At that website The Awl there were/are a lot of pieces, it seemed to me, that smartly critiqued criticism and/or did the "what we talk about when we talk about" thing but no one writer of these stands out in my mind.

I remember liking Franzen’s essay in Harper’s (I think?) called Mr. Difficult more than I liked Zadie Smith’s Two Paths for the Novel, although, as a product of my demography, I prefer Smith’s novels to Franzen’s. I almost always like a piece finding that the work of an old forgotten or obscure critic is actually critical for today: for e.g. Sam Frank's essay on his book-critic father, or Tobi Haslett's recent piece on George Sciabba whom I hadn’t read before. There’s so much I’m missing as I’m doing this quick…

P.S. Thank you!

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Woodbury Lions Club hosting American Red Cross blood drives

Blood Drives in Cannon County for over 60 years.

It has been said that the Lions Club drives are the best in the Tennessee Valley Region Blood Services area, which includes all of Tennessee, parts of Kentucky, and Alabama.

The extra effort put forth by the Lions Club has little to do with it. The Woodbury Lions Club has a committee of members that work together to help insure that everything runs smoothly, along with community volunteers who like to help out.

Some of the volunteers have more experience working with blood drives that the actual Red Cross staff who go out daily working with blood drives within the area.

Committee chairmen’s Patsy and Carl Hirlston and Bobby Bogard with committee members Ken and Artie Jean McIntyre, Lois Larimer, Clyde Thomas, Nolan Northcutt, Robert Jennings, Charlie Brown, Clyde and Kitty Bush, Chris Brushaber, Danny Miller, Cliff Swoape, Andy Jacobs, Doug Combs, and Gina Mitchell, all work together along with community volunteers of Bessie Miller, Orval and Esther Gray, Juanita Burks, Cathey Parker, Betty Harder, Shirley Borren, Jane Jennings, Grace Young, Nile Young, Della Young, Robert Young, Kay Campbell, Carol Davenport, Bobbie Henline, Jim Henline, Betty Paschal, Ann Todd, Mary Sue Vinson, and Mary Nelle Hillis too create a professional staff that assist members of the American Red Cross staff.

The Lions Club assigns a task of greeting donors and signing them in, handing out water and assigning donors with a number.

Copies of the Cannon Courier are provided for donors to read before or after their donation.

Red Cross provides snacks and the Woodbury Lions Club has additional snacks such as: a one-of-a-kind trail mix, peanut butter and crackers, baloney and crackers, and cheese and crackers.

A staff works in the canteen area who assist the donors after they have donated by getting them a drink of juice, water, soda, or coffee and then sitting with them and talking. They also watch the donor to see if the donors face color changes or if their arm starts bleeding from where the donor had given blood.

Woodbury Club also keeps records of each donation and awards donors with pins and Certificates when completing gallon donations. Along with taking pictures of donors receiving awards and being pinned with a gallon donation pin, plus having members of the Lions Club calling and reminding donors of upcoming blood drives also adds a little bit more to why Cannon County Blood Drives are better and produces more regular donors than other areas which has a larger population.

Woodbury Lions Club host six blood drives a year, always the third Thursday in January, March, May, July, September, and November. Each blood drive is noon until six pm except May’s drive, which runs from 9 am until 6 pm. May’s blood drive is a donor appreciation drive, and most of the businesses in Cannon County donate door prizes.

In the last five to six years, each donor was able to win three of four items because of the generosity of the businesses and their support of the Lions Club and wanting to reward the true everyday heroes of Cannon County, those who give of themselves to help save the lives of others. In most cases, they are saving the lives of people who they do not know.

On May 20th, 2010 the following businesses provided door prizes for the heroes of Cannon County: A Touch of Home Flower’s & Gifts, Arts Center of Cannon County, Auto Zone, Birdsong Adhesives, Boyd’s Garage, Briar Rose Flowers and Gifts, Bromley/Jennings Automotive, Cannon County Chiropractic, Cannon Market, Captain D’s, CareAll, Cell Plus, Coco Tan & Spa, Chilangoes Mexican Restaurant, Curves, Cutting Edge Hair Salon, D J’s Pizza and Steakhouse, Family Dentistry Deason & Bucher, Farm Bureau Insurance, First National Bank, Flower Occasions, Gina’s Boutique, Hardee’s, Hayes Bros Auto Care, Hibdon’s Body Shop, Higgins Car Wash, J P’s Fine Swine Bar-B-Que, Jennings Jewelers, Joe’s Place, Legendary Cuts, Lightwriters Photography, Lions Pizza Den, The Millennium Hair Salon, Moonlite Drive-In, NAPA, The Old Feed Store, One Stop Market, Parsley’s Market & Deli, Paul Reed’s Furniture, Paul’s Auto Service, Piggly Wiggly, Potter’s Ace Hardware, Quick Shop Market, Reed’s Building Supply, Regions Bank, Roger Hindman Body Shop, Scavenger Hunt Flea Market, Scavenger Hunt Trading Post, The Scoreboard, Shirt Shack, Shotgun County Pawn & Gun, Smitty Tire Shop, Stewart’s Printing, Stone Gait Tack and Feed, Subway, West End Tobacco Store, Woodbury Auto Express, Woodbury Insurance Agency, and Woodbury Lawn & Garden. Every donor and volunteer received a promotional ink pen from DTC, a pillbox from Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Cooperation, Chap Stick from FirstBank, a value meal card from Sonic, and a 3 pound bag of stone ground corn meal from The Readyville Mill.

The Red Cross also provided promotional items and the Woodbury Lions Club provided $10 gift certificates and a grand prize of $100 gift card.

It is very hard to find another community that has so many businesses that support a civic club as much as the ones in Cannon County.

Most all the businesses give support to the Woodbury Lions Club for sponsorship of the Lions Club Horse Show, White Cane donations, and door prizes for the donor appreciation Blood Drive. Without support from the local businesses, the Woodbury Lions Club would not be able to do as much as it does within the community, state, country, and world. Local businesses are one of the leading reasons why Cannon County Blood Drives are so much better that anywhere else in the state.

Another reason and probably the number one reason the blood drives are the best anywhere is the volume of regular donors in Cannon County. In any community only a certain per cent are eligible to donate and of that per cent only about 3 to 5 percent actually donates, but the donors in Cannon County has a much higher percent.

This is not due to the Lions Club and its part, nor the businesses and its part, but it is the individual donor and the way of life in Cannon County, the way most have been raised to want to help others in need in any way they can.

The mentality of the average person in Cannon County is to serve in any way they can. This mentality is one of the reasons Woodbury Lions Club is one of the largest clubs in the state.

It is why the businesses give as much as they do, and why so many volunteers do jobs within the county for little or no pay. The parents, schools and churches within the community teach the children from an early age of the importance of giving back to the community in which they live and the lesson that it is more blessed to give than to receive.

This is why Cannon County has had over 360 donors in the past 2-½ years. Woodbury Lions Club and the American Red Cross both use fiscal years that begin on 1 July and end 30 June.

The following is a list of local heroes who gave during the 2009-2010 fiscal year. Those donating Double Red Blood Cells count as two donations, the max number of times any one can give in a fiscal year in whole blood or double red cells is 6. The number that follows a persons name is the amount of pints given as of 30 June 2010.

One-time donors: Stephanie D. Alford 5, Annie L. Barton 60, Peggy S. Baxter 30, Timothy L. Bell 11, Stephen E. Blonder 10, Brenda Bogard 23, Candace Jones Bond 1, Charles H. Bowman 20, Tami M. Bragg 12, Billy D. Brinkley 3, Charles E. Brown 33, Joe R. Bryson 23, William H. Bryson 33, Stephen A. Burnett 3, Clyde W. Bush 14, Charmaine D. Cawthorn 1, Patrick A. Cecil 1, Manuel Chapa Jr. 15, Karen J. Chumbley 11, Barbara Daingerfield 44, Mary Carole Davenport 42, Paul W. Denninger 7, Bonita O. Doxey 30, Frances Edwards 1, Clint A. Fann 5, Angela M. Ford 11, Mary Frances Foster 9, Autumn M. Fly Franks 1, Tonya Gannon 4, Leslie Joe Giley 28, Nora Lee Gilliam 10, Eric M. Good 4, Donna B. Gunter 4, Marilyn E. Hale 7, Sharon L. Hay 14, Carolyn E. Barton Hemby 7, Barry D. Hibdon 33, Erin T. Higdon 5, Sharon Duggin Hindman 25, Melisa L. Hobbs 17, Shannon D. Jett 9, Fairy L. Johnson 2, Lori J. Malay 7, Perry M. Markum 5, Vicky L. Melton 34, Brittany L. Mingle 7, Angela P. Moore 18, Danielle Nicole Mosley 12, Talma S. Mosley 8, Lauren M. Nicolay 2, Rita G. Nokes 7, Misty G. Orr 1, Brittne H. Parker 4, Joseph A. Patterson 11, Brenda Faye Phillips 15, Jo Ann Pirtle 1, Joy Pope 3, Janice O. Purvis 28, Walter E. Reifschneider 19, Shantika M. Reiter 2, Phyllis S. Robinson 47, Marianne Teresa Sadler 15, Amber M. Scott 1, Kelly Edward Sissom 30, Valerie D. Smith 4, Wayne P. Smithson 26, Olivia D. Snyder 1, Teresa S. Stoetzel 6, Crystal B. Street 4, Eddie N. Taylor 41, Jamie A. Trail 2, J. D. Underhill II 2, Falischa Urban 1, Jennifer Vallieres 2, Sean N. Vance 3, Amanda J. Winfrey 1, Dorothy D. Winnett 13, Tracey L. Winters 9, and Alan D. Wollard 8.

Two time donors: Misty D. Bain 14, Teresa D. Bain 19, Ronald F. Born 6, Christopher B. Brandon 2, David L. Brown 3, Lacey N. Buchanan 9, Charles Ronny Burks 34, Jennifer M. Coppinger 16, James Morgan Cummings 90, Franklin Daniel 12, Edgar E. Davenport 6, Rebecca M. Davenport 68, Andrew L. Duggin 5, Joyce Frazier 2, Kenneth P. Garrett 11, Andrea K. George 4, Rodney Lee Gilliam 17, Kay F. Goff 69, Cory S. Hollandsworth 14, Christopher J. Hollenbeck 5, Pamela F. Hoskins 43, Christopher Johnson 5, Robert D. Jones 27, Thomas D. Mason 56, Tammy W. Mathis 14, Shelby J. Merriman 60, Brandon S. Mims 8, Dean More 6, Jennifer R. Mosley 5, Travis C. Prater 9, Michael T. Reed 3, Xavier P. Romero 18, Melody R. Rutledge 9, John W. Sanborn 56, Roger J. Smith 14, Darrell G. Snyder 26, McKenzie Solomon 5, Candice B. Stoetzel 13, Nancy L. Studd 9, Jessica L. Sullivan 3, Brandee S. Summers 5, Garry L. Underhill 12, James E. Weller 3, and Nile Young 45.

Three time donors: Richard D. Burks Sr. 83, Joshua W. Demembreum 4, Jeffery D. Denny 11, Russell D. Fann 33, Jo Ann Francis 54, Randy A. Gerdes 47, James W. Henline 44, Patsy Miller Hirlston 43, Debbie Renee Israel 12, Jennifer M. Johnson 8, Melanie G. Lyon 4, Ann D. McBride 53, Calvin F. Orwig 39, Alan W. Paschal 17, Jan Powell 34, Kenny Denard Sanders 5, Brittany A. Stluka 6, David L. Stone 7, Nellie F. Stone 5, Melissa L. Talley 3, Annette A. Tidwell 3, Billy R. Tidwell Jr. 5, Charie Ann Urban 4, Micki M. Vinson 74, Jack B. West 16, Michael L. Witty 41, and David W. Zabriskie 3. Four time donors: Jimmy Alexander 39, Cynthia D. Betts 39, Carmella K. Burton 13, Mary E. Duncan 42, Jana M. Gannon 62, Joan Hayes 14, Kayla E. Hindman 14, Joseph E. Hurst 16, James L. Logan 48, Gina A. Mitchell 38, Valerie L. Morton 4, Tracy A. Parker 39, Rebekah L. Parton 19, Karin P. Petty 40, James F. Sabia 44, Billy K. Tenpenny 33, Juan S. Urban 4, Travis M. Urban 5, April D. Vance 12, and Millisa A. White 17.

Five time donors: Guy Alexander Jr. 41, Jeff R. Campbell 8, Gabriel S. Cantrell 9, Rita F. Cook 12, Randal L. Curtis 52, James P. Davenport 12, Andrew B. Dimartino Sr. 84, Cheryl K. Franklin 44, Timothy H. Grandey 50, Esther E. Gray 39, Orval L. Gray 55, Herbert C. Haley 64, John Arthur Haugh 9, Roger G. Hindman 28, Sandy K. Hollandsworth 77, Timothy A. Minerd 15, Charlie Luther Mooneyham 48, Steve R. Perkerson 67, James Powers 38, and Leland J. Schwamberger 19.

Six time donors: Christopher E. Brushaber 6, Allen Wade Duggin 29, Rainey Hunt 48, Charles W. Jennings 18, Stephen R. Moss 20, Teddy L. Powers 77, Steve A. Smith 140, and Howard W. Witty 163.

The Woodbury Lions Club has received several awards of appreciation from the American Red Cross for their support of the Community Blood Program, and there is a lot of speculation as to why a small community does so well on the blood drives.

A lot of the credit is given to the Lions Club for putting out an extra effort.

Some credit is given for having good media coverage with the Cannon Courier, the Cannon Wire, and WBRY radio. Some credit is given for the support given by the businesses in Cannon County.

Any community can have a civic organization that puts forth the extra effort, and have good media and local businesses supporting them, but they don’t have the attitude and dedication of serving others that is instilled into Cannon Countians from birth until death.

The Woodbury Lions Club expresses heartfelt gratitude to all the media, businesses, and donors for exceeding the yearly goals set forth by the Red Cross based on past history.

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JSCC Spring Semester Honor Roll Announced

Spring Semester Honor Roll Announced

 Jackson, Tenn (June 21, 2017) – The Office of Admissions and Records at Jackson State Community College released the honor roll for the Spring 2017 semester. On the honor roll, there were 307 full-time students who achieved a quality point average over 3.00. There were 381 students who made the dean’s list by achieving a quality point average of 3.50 or better.

 Honor Roll is reserved for students who are enrolled for twelve (12) or more hours of college-level work (Learning Support excluded) and who complete a semester’s work with a quality point average between 3.00 and 3.49.

Dean’s List is reserved for students who are enrolled for twelve (12) or more hours of college-level work and who complete a semester’s work with a quality point average between 3.50 and 4.00.

JSCC Dean’s List Spring 2017

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BENTON

Dylan Blake Furr

Tanner David Johnson

Kaitlyn Annette Page

William C Vick

John Henry Benjamin York

CARROLL

Samantha Madison Barrow

Kristina Marie Cannon

Kimberly Ryan Canoy

Jonathan Thomas Cash

Leslie Marie Cathey

David Michael Deloach

Samantha Leigh Ferguson

Scott Eugene Force

Kalee Jo Fountain

Whitney Nicole Hicks

Dan Ellsworth Hoffman

Carl William Joyner

Kirsten L Joyner

Mitchell Brandon McCartney

Cheyenne Harley Moran

Rachel E Noles

Russell Lee Noles

Deborah Ann OBryant

Steven Hunter Peterson

Lacy Jolene Pride

Channa Larame Ragsdale

Alysia Marlana Shear

Sarah C Taylor

Brittany Nicole Watson

Brittany Nicole Webb

Matthew Tyler Williams

Michael Elihu Wilson

Christopher Wesley Wood

CHESTER

James Howard Barber

Trae Daniel Brewer

Loleta Dorilean Carothers

David Gaddy Carroll

Christopher Edward Cox

Landon Thomas Cupples

McKinley Brooke Farley

Ashley Michelle Faulkner

Ashley Dianne Frye

Johnny Alfred Glass

Heath S Graves

Cameron Lane Greer

CHESTER continued:

Tori Brooke Hill

Haley Elaine Hughes

Coty Alan Laudermilk

Brooklyn Rene Miller

Peyton Randal Millner

Carlee Elizabeth Morris

Brand Edward Nicolay

Kenneth E Page

Eva Perez

Colton L Plunk

Reba Marie Price

Chase Colton Ross

Caitlin Jenee Sanchez

Michael Sinclair Segerson

Ezekiel Joesph Smith

Kendyl Dawn Smith

Peyton Wesley Stewart

Amber Dawn Thompson

Sydney Blair Watson

Marcus Lee White

COFFEE

Ryan Yates Dye

CROCKETT

Jesus Aguirre

Telisa Shuntel Brown

Jill Anna Castellaw

Aaron Christopher Dennison

Kelsey Ann Gadberry

Meleah Rose Gateley

Michelle Lynn Jones

Candice Woods Kellough

Anthony Chance Lovelace

Jennifer Mooney

Whitney M Revelle

Micah C Riley

Ana Julissa Rios

Kayce Abigail Stallings

DAVIDSON

Latoya Antionette Gibbs

DECATUR

Whitlee Adraianna Camper

Lauren Ashlee Hays

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Kyla Bree Linton

Stephanie Lynn Mitchell

Jessica Brooke Patton

Macy Camille Sumler

Decatur continued:

Bryan Wood Swafford

Misty R Swindle

Brandon M White

DYER

Talia Suzanne Alley

Dalton Wayne Harrison

Cara Lee Rose

Erica D Tipps

Chloe Jo West

GIBSON

Peyton Charles Adams

Karen Nicole Allen

Bryan Kevin Barnett

Seth Brayden Burchett

Dylan Warner Cole

Kendall Nicole Cox

Michael Scott Evans

Robert Mcgregor Fly

Andrew Joseph Gordon

Nicholas Grant Gutierrez

Hailey Brooke Hudgings

Kahmadre Jay-Quan Hudson

Hannah B Hutchison

Ryan Daniel Jones

Kaitlyn Michelle Kelly

Ryan Dennison Mayfield

Amy Alison McCoy

Madison Brooke Michael

Sa'Liyah Ann Newbill

Andrew Lloyd Oliver

Samantha Kelly Palmer

Ashley McClain Pierce

Alexander Popp

Benjamin Douglas Powell

Dylan Ray Powers

Jonathan Chase Prescott

Courtney Michelle Reese

Katelyn Nicole Rickman

Crystal Lee Rogers

Tasha N Romero

Gage Michael Schneeberger

Brooklyn Victoria Schrupp

Katherine Michelle Stephens

Hunter Michael Taylor

Michael Sean Threadgill

Colton R Tucker

Katherine Walters

Deonte Tyshawn Watson

HARDEMAN

Alexis Rebekah Beibers

Hannah Rose Black

Tyler D Callahan

Rachel Elise Davis

Austin Wade Greene

Luz D Gutierrez

Katlin Leigh Kelley

William Stewart Koimn

Brittany L Luttrell

Hannah Grace Scott

Marissa Drew Thweatt

Carly Rae Weems

HARDIN

Dustin Blake Ayers

Teara Genea Bearden

William Warren Bond

Amber Nicole Bowling

James Caleb Crotts

Kaylee Renea Gillis

Julia Renee Hall

Chandler Davis Harris

Caden Charles Holt

Savanna Cheyenne Liford

Sarah Ann Marshall

Katy Carroll Nix

Samantha Dawn Oaks

Sasia Sewilta Patterson

Savana Rae Payne

Hannah Lynne Roberts

Amanda Grace Sandusky

LauraAnn M Shiver

Jodie Lee Smith

Kaila Grace Smith

Lauren G Smith

Peggy Ann Snyder

Jessica Lee Ann Stricklin

Alexis Alley Thurman

Jennifer Michelle Vandiver

Destiny Brooke Weeks

Alison R Whaley

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Haley LeAnne White

Kanesha L Wright

HAYWOOD

Henry Stanley Clement

Mary Catherine Currie

Presley Grace Gaters

Danielle Nicole House

HAYWOOD continued:

Caroline Elizabeth Newcom

Elizabeth Blair Simpson

Ashton Muriel Taylor

Kristin Brooke Turner

Emily H Wright

HENDERSON

Anthony Glynn Anderson

Jaclyn Devin Arnold

Andrew B Austin

Bethany Jo Autry

Emily Gore Baughn

Trent Cavalier Beacham

Justin Andrew Brown

Molly Brooke Brown

Leighann Nicole Burkett

Eduardo Carreto-Salgado

Charles Michael Carrington

Lauren Rae Cole

Tonie L Coleman

Emily Anne Dyer

Paul Leo Fowler

Cassidy O Garner

Johnathan Keith Goodman

Melissa Allean Gray

Andrew Garrett Grice

Bethany G Hayes

Crystal Renee James

Haley Nichole James

Kristen F Lawler

Sarah Michelle Lindsey

Abigail Marie Maness

Morgan Elizabeth Maness

Jessica Brooke Montgomery

Fernando Gonzales Munoz

Vanessa Ann Nelms

Jimmy Hunter Powell

Katelynn Allison Nichole Pratt

Allyson C Reeves

Alyssa L Reeves

Kaley Elizabeth Rogers

Jacob Daniel Smith

Kersten L Springer

Dalton Bryce Womack

HENRY

Samantha Frances Dixon

Taylor Brooke French

Seth Zachary Gibbs

Courtland Nicole Hester

David Penick

HUMPHREYS

Ashley Nicole Bates

LAUDERDALE

Andrew Carver Dunavant

Conner Clayton McLemore

John Daniel Moore

Jakara L Snipes

MADISON

Remoun Abdo

Cassidi Grace Adams

Malarie Alexander

Sajedah Alghunaim

Rami Amer Al-Jafari

Kimbrielle Elise Allen

Kaitlan Sheree Anthony

Faith Selene Atherton

Colin Andrew Barnett

Marietta Nicole Barnett

Sydney Taylor Brookshire

Ethel Louise Brown

Megan Fairchild Buehler

Michael Aaron Campbell

Jessica Dianne Carter

LeeAnne Madison Clement

Rachael Merriem Clenney

Curtis Andrew Cobb

Jacqueline Brooke Cole

Vania Evette Comer

Claire Allison Cooke

Humberto Coronado

JSCC Dean’s List Spring 2017

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Alberto Coronado Chavez

Christian Taylor Cotner

Melissa Anne Craigie

Sarah Mae Craigie

Jarius Okuria Curry

Kiley Renee Douglas

Sarah Elizabeth Droke

Diana Steffy Escober

Chloe Nicole Espitia

Jessica Danielle Gibson

Damian Jordan Gladney

Zia Goli

MADISON continued:

James Tucker Goodwin

Sydney Gail Grammer

Brianna Madison Gregory

Eric Michael Gunn

Olivia Marie Guzzo

Alex James Haggard

Marshall Britton Hammill

Korean Nichele Harris

Garry E Harvey

Sarah Elaine Harvey

Amanda Nicole Haynes

Berlie Grace Hieagle

Edith Charity Horst

Cody Lynn Hunt

Kayla Nichole Johnson

Kassidy Blair Jones

Hailey Renee Jones

Meagan Hope Kitchen

Janelle Nicole Kyle

JuliaAnne Frances Lansdale

Dillion Robert Larimore

Patrisha Dannielle Leadbetter

Sarah Fulton Lim

Philippe Lumpkin

Lance Austine McElroy

Michael Todd McFadden

Natalie Mendoza

Blanca Estela Mireles Valdez

Madison Marie Montchal

Michael Lee Montgomery

Stephen Houston Morse

Belinda Sue Murchison

Andrew Steven Murley

Justin Robert Mutschler

Callyn Leonard Nims

Rebekah June Pennington

Nicholas Anthony Pica

Brittney Michelle Pickens

Anthony Daniele Previtera

Paige Marie Ramage

Teena Maree Rea

Nicolas N Reyes

Anna Belle Robertson

Xavius K Robinson

Eric Lee Rooks

Rachel Elizabeth Royer

Adriana Salinas

John Louis Santana

Sandra Shari Santiago-Bullington

Heaven Leigh Schatz

MADISON continued:

Tempestt Bernice Seward

Hailey Elizabeth Shephard

Joseph Michael Shephard

Mya Taylor Spivey

Allison Claire Stutts

Victoria Lynn Subia

Kimberly Nichole Sullivan

Brooklyn Marie Taylor

Debra Taylor

Allison Faith Thomas

Robert Mikael Utley

Ryne Vinson

Jordan Breanne Warren

Kenneth Connor Weaks

Clay E Webb

Kaylyn Alyra Weddle

Jacob Dylan Weidner

Destiny Marie Westbrook

Elizabeth Renee Williams

Ashton Vernard Willis

Kameron Dean Wilson

Noah Alyssa Wilson

Brooke Ashlyn Woodard

Brinlea Madison Woodard

Ryan K Woods

Alexander Ryan Wortham

Jeremy Dean Yates

Kelci Nicole Zabriskie

McNAIRY

Kathrine Rose Atkinson

Joanna Elizabeth Barlow

Jonathan Ray Bauer

Carrie Elizabeth Clausel

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Haylie Marissa Crum

Elizabeth Hope Doucette

Shelbi Elise Doucette

Eric Ryan Gowler

Evan Parker Harris

Kateryna Kucherenko

Warren Austin Lowrance

Mary-Elizabeth Adale Lyons

Payton James Mast

Elizabeth Nicole Miller

Andrew Vinson Pettit

Tamara A Pickens

Samuel Reid Pierce

Jacob Alan Qualls

Ashton Brooks Rich

Josiah David Rininger

McNAIRY continued:

Dakota LeighAnn Russell

Angela Michelle Taylor

Jon Michael Williams

OBION

Stevie Brooke Mers

PERRY

Sandra Marie Dicks

SHELBY

Ian Jose' Bibiloni

Nicholas Jordan Blankenship

Issac James

Brandon Tyler Maxwell

Michael Hoang Nguyen

TIPTON

Theresa Donyelle Allison

Carlye Kay Dixon

WAYNE

Amy Lois Bartlett

Brittany Nikole Bunch

Jessica Gable

Nicholas Caden Grace

WEAKLEY

Tom Eric Jehnzen

Lyndsey Brooke Scott

 JSCC HONOR ROLL SPRING 2017

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BENTON

Lindsey Nicole Baker

Michael Keith Coady

Corina Nicole Hensley

Jearleh Generale Obas

Justin Lee Smothers

Kelsey Jordan Yates

CARROLL

Kallie Cheyenne Berry

Hannah Olivia Boroughs

Jennifer Renee Bratton

Stephanie Marie Brown

Layla Dawn Byrum

James Zach Cagle

Meagan Renee DeLaney

Joshua Cody Douglas

Austin Chase Ezell

Chadwick Heath Futrell

Hunter Lynn Harris

Sara Beth Hayes

Kaitlyn E McAlpin

Jackie F McClain

Hannah Lea McWilliams

Charles Neil Prestwood

Charles Neil Prestwood

Jazzlyn Janae Ray

Michael Ray Rogers

Kelsey Layne Runions

Rachel N Sellers

Heath D Spain

Riley N Toombs

Kasey M White

Amanda Michelle Williams

Danielle Leigh Williams

Kevin Wayne Williams

Kelsey L Wortham

CHESTER

Brianna Gayle Allen

Erin Michelle Barnes

Zackary Jordan Bethune

Jonathan Trey Ervin

Sydney Taylor Frank

Kelsey Lynne Grissom

Haley Cheyenne Hardwick

Morgan Elizabeth Hays

Bayley Madison Holder

CHESTER continued:

Austin Tyler Holman

Dylan Wesley King

William James Lampley

Dustin William Tyler Montgomery

Austin Edward Moore

Amber Shalane Mosley

Jaylan Dewayne Northern

Jared Patrick Page

Christine LaShae' Puckett

Trenity B Puente

Cody Allen Riley

Kendall Anne Shaw

Payton A Wilkinson

CROCKETT

Yulissa Bautista

Makalah Carter Buckner

Hilary Brooke Butler

Yeltsin Chapina

Meraleigh Peyton Holland

Erin Yessenia Juarez

Kevin Scott Kail

Anthony J Merriweather

Joseph Braden Nace

Lauren Breanna Pender

Lionardo Sanchez

Seth Daniel Shewmaker

Kordell Jay Smith

DAVIDSON

Lee Rice

DECATUR

Brett William Bell

Jesse Alan Burns

Morgan Anna Crews

Lacey Leann Hicks

Geovany Jimenez

Jacob Christopher Maness

Tiffani Cheyenne Shea

Kayleigh Morgan Smith

Jase Lee Taylor

Jordan C Tubbs

DICKSON

Leslie Ann Darrow

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DYER

Elizabeth Ann Fisher

Allison C Hodge

Kyndal Riddick

Chari A Swift

FAYETTE

Jaleesa Shavon Blade

Kelsey Roxanne Wilson

GIBSON

Reagan Wesley Barnhart

Bethany Carol Lynn Bolin

Kayla Gabrielle Bowie

Seth Everett Brown

Zachary Monroe Case

Lila Marie Cauley

Andrew Tyler Chambers

Andria Marey Cole

Charles Benjamin Coleraine

Madison Paige Ellis

Taina Bronjour Escalera

Carly A Fry

Heather Michelle Frye

Emily Jerene Galvan

Melissa D Goodrich

Alyssa Faith Hartig

Matthew Davis Hawks

Braydon Gregory Hendrix

Baylea Alexandra Holmes

Olivia Langston Hunt

Rachel Nicole Jones

Amanda D Littleton

Lauren Elizabeth Miller

Raquel Taylor Miranda

Austin Eli Moore

Jessica N Paz

Haley Nicole Rainey

Kayla Michelle Reeves

Anna Sison

Kyle Martin Trompower

Mackenna Grace Upchurch

Bailey Anne Vandiver

Brandt Gage Wright

HAMILTON

Austin Zinkann

HARDEMAN

Luis Santiago Ayala

Kamryn Nicole Brown

Kenylsha D Bryant

Lashara Shavay Burkley

Megan Ashley Caicedo

Ethan Scott Grantham

Timothy Landon Lee Harris

Joshua M Kennamore

Michael Brandon Knepp

Rianna V Lewis

Christopher Z Luciano

Keylon D Muex

Andrea Lashae Mullins

Keanna Monee Pirtle

Patric D Stewart

HARDIN

Taylor Brooke Alexander

Bailey Reese Brasher

Jenny Marie Briley

Alyssa Mariah Dilday

Ricki Kay Lynn Ford

Ryan Mitchell Guyer

Tori Ann Haggard

Austin Wade Henson

Makaila Cheyenne Keymon

Dustin Kane Moore

Mickay Vaschelle Qualls

Jefferson Charles Rey

Serenate N Searles

Jordan Luke Sledge

Elizabeth Diane Talley

Delaney Jean Timberman

Ronita D Walker

HAYWOOD

Brooklyn Paige Anderson

John Burton Friedman

Jennifer Marie Hendrix

Amye Ann Pitts

Nakesia Monique Shephard

Leigh Anne Stanley

JSCC HONOR ROLL SPRING 2017

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HENDERSON

Jordan Ray Bartholomew

Adam Clayton Briggs

Timothy Dovone Clark

Martice Daniel Crawford

Drake Daniel Eason

Jacob Alan Ewell

Zachary Robert Haynes

Shanna L Lindsey

Destiny Lanette Moody

Alaina Elizabeth Moore

Jordan L Morris

Jessica Marie Nowell

William Survan Pickering

Eli Tyler Plunk

Dylan Frank Powers

Holly Duncan Pratt

Brandi Sheree Reeves

Caitlin Ashlee Scott

Samuel Paul Shannon

Jacob Randall Thomas

Lyndsey P Tosh

Haven Nicole Trull

Emily Nicole Vinson

Trevor Chase Wood

Lilly M Woods

Trey M Wright

HENRY

Erika N Barlow

Brianna Leigh Houlle

Allie Joy Murphy

Chelsea N Phifer

Holly Nicole Potts

Rachel Gayle Ragan

David Ian Sarnik

Rachel Tioni Silvester

Mikala Cheyenne Spry

LAKE

Joel Tyler Estes

LAUDERDALE

Beau Bradford Simpson

Kolie J Smith

Simonne Janae Snipes

LEWIS

Kenzie Owen

MADISON

Brittany Zinelle Anderson

Samuel Davis Anderson

Isaac H Andrews

Amie Lee Scales Autrey

Crystal Linda Autry

Mark Anthony Bedwell

Matthew Elliot Blackwell

Shelbi Leigh Bond

Cameron D'Anne Briley

Chelsea Lane Brown

Hunter Daniel Brown

Marcus Wayne Brown

Ryan Mitchell Butler

Kimberly Renee Carpenter

Richard Jacob Crosnoe

Yulissa DeLaCerda

Mouhamd Elsebae

Hunter Mckinley Finan

Eric Nicholas Forsythe

Russell E Fowler

Brooke Lauren George

James Jacob Gross

Olivia Grace Hall

Jayda McKenzie Hampton

Christian Carter Hays

Janet Diane Hilliard

Angel Mae Hodgin

Brian Jacob Honey

Haleigh Elizabeth Hooper

Garrett Carson Jeanes

James Edward Johnson

Kalesha Rachelle Jones

Shalanda Denise Jones

Jessica Ellen Kirby

Dylan Alexander Kyle

Shea Elizabeth LaFont

Annabel Leon

Bishop Jones Lewis

Elizabeth E Macon

Hunter Allen Massey

Banks Christian Mayo

Jacob Lee McCord

Abby Leigh McNeal

Michael Patrick Mills

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MADISON continued:

Jacob Weston Morford

Jennifer Lynn Nieves

Lauren Marie Nieves

Ryan Joseph Palmatier

Carson Mitchell Parker

Chiquita Lashon Perry

Shainia Danielle Perry

Jessica Lynn Pittman

Andrew Christopher Pope

Naydelin Ramirez-Gonzalez

Desiree Ransom

Kaylee Renae Riddle

Cheterra Nicole Rogers

Julie Amanda Rouse

Joshua Bryant Shuford

Allison Taylor Smith

Mia Kayley Spivey

William A Swift

Christina Leigh Tall

Zachary Chase Taylor

Nicholas ONeil Teague

Anna June Thompson

Blake Martin Tims

Shelby M Tisdale

Hayden L Towater

Kayla Jordan Vaughn

Jesse A Williamson

Taylor Nicole Willis

Haley Nicole Worsham

Sarah Janine Yelverton

MAURY

Joshua Avery Frantz

McNAIRY

Tina Bailey Bennett

Brandon Kyle Brown

Jacob Ryan Cox

Kendall Shae Dickerson

Zachary Alan Howell

Sarah Elizabeth Hurst

Caleb Tate Kennedy

William Homer Lescheck

Landon Troy McAfee

Anna Marie Moore

Megan Nichole Morris

Haven D Phelps

Krista D Ray

Joshua Lee Shelby

Lauren Elizabeth Steele

Emily Katherine Surratt

MONTGOMERY

Kayla Renee Bradley

Michelle Amber Donner

Lucas W Veltri

OBION

Kristian Alisha Davis

Bethany N Workman

PERRY

William Blake Qualls

SHELBY

Sadler Allen Goodwin

Marcus Andrew Lytle

Annamarie B Pugh

WAYNE

Jerrica Katline Hicks

WEAKLEY

Brennen Zachary Cobb

Denise Rae Cook

Audrey Louise Grooms

Jeffery Lynn Hampton

Starr Anne Petersen

Lawson Michael Roberts

WHITE

Darin Reed Cole

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Straight people make me sick,, i hate them (massive lie)

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Jia Tolentino Wants You to Read Children’s Books

What book should everybody read before the age of 21?

“Random Family,” by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc. It’s so spicy, so riveting, so empathetic and devoted, so alive in the world as it actually is. No shots to Chaucer and “A Separate Peace” and all that, but I think a lot of people might be far more interested in reading (and possibly more interested in other lives in general) if they got to read books like this in high school.

What book would you recommend to people over 40?

“Kids These Days,” by Malcolm Harris. Most writing about millennials has tended to focus on effects rather than causes: After all, it’s easier to make a spectacle of the ways instability manifests itself in young people than it is to really reckon with the fact that capitalism has reached a stage of inexorable acceleration that has broken our country’s institutions and (arguably) my generation’s soul. “Kids These Days,” thankfully, goes straight for the point.

[ Tolentino’s new book, “Trick Mirror,” was one of our most anticipated titles of August. See the full list. ]

Which writers — novelists, playwrights, critics, journalists, poets — working today do you admire most?

Ocean Vuong, Jenny Odell, Doreen St. Félix, Vinson Cunningham, Bryan Washington, Tommy Orange, Jenny Zhang, Ross Gay, Zadie Smith, Rebecca Solnit, Emily Nussbaum, Rebecca Traister, Brit Bennett, Caity Weaver, Rachel Aviv, Kathryn Schulz, Pamela Colloff, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Patrick Radden Keefe, Patricia Lockwood, Samantha Irby, Leslie Jamison, Lauren Groff, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Wesley Morris, Meg Wolitzer, Marlon James, Ted Chiang, Eula Biss.

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In 1977, Grover Washington Jr. released a record that is dear to many Philadelphians // It was, “Live at The Bijou” which showcased one of Philadelphia’s premier music venues of the time and also spotlighted his all Philly band, with Richard Lee Steacker – electric guitar, James "Sid" Simmons – keyboards, Tyrone Brown – bass, Millard "Pete" Vinson – drums, Leonard "Doc" Gibbs – percussion, Leslie Burrs – flute and the great, John Blake Jr. – electric violin // The record made the top of the Billboard charts for Pop, Soul and Jazz. Two songs from the record, that were quite popular on many radio station playlists were, "Summer Song" and "Sausalito.” // Celebrating one of the greatest, funkiest, silkiest and smoothest to ever do it. Master of 4 saxes: Baritone, Tenor, Alto & Soprano saxes. One of our own.... Grover Washington Jr. // Join us on Tuesday, July 18th at Temple Performing Arts Center for an all star celebration with Gerald Albright, Najee, Jean Carne, Bill Jolly, Gerald Veasley, Pablo Batista and more // For More Info: http://bit.ly/2sBBPgU #CelebratingGrover #PhillyLovesGrover #LetItFlow (at Temple Performing Arts Center)

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Theory crafting