The Cornerstone School Chess Team (K-8) recently amazed the media, teachers, and students of the school by winning the 2008 National Junior Championship in Dallas, Tex. Not only did the team win top honors, but it did so under trying circumstances – the team almost didn’t make it to Texas for the nationals.
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| Published 01/23/2008
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Inkster Public Schools is raising the bar in public education. Superintendent Thomas G. Maridada, II an educator and administrator for over twenty years who previously worked in corporate America at IBM, is using a business model to revamp the Inkster Public School System.
Dr. Alfred D. Knight Jr. will be installed on Saturday, Dec. 15, 11 a.m., as the Jurisdictional Bishop for the Church of God in Christ, Inc. Worldwide. The event will be held at Power of the Word Worship Center, 4801 Oakman.
One can never tell how far one’s influence will reach, or the effect one’s references and recommendations will have. Throughout half a century, I have numbered activists, writers, journalists, school administrators, athletes, and coaches among my protégés.
Last month, Detroit Miller High, Wayne (State) University, and Harlem Globetrotters alumnus Charlie “Kingsnake” Primas was the speaker at the Motor City Youth Initiative’s monthly workshop at Church of Christ-Elmwood Park. Primas, a 1954 Abe Saperstein College Basketball All-American, recalled to his four-year professional basketball career, as well as his days growing up and working in Detroit, as he shared words of wisdom with the young men and women of the MCYI.
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The Cornerstone School Chess Team (K-8) recently amazed the media, teachers, and students of the school by winning the 2008 National Junior Championship in Dallas, Tex. Not only did the team win top honors, but it did so under trying circumstances – the team almost didn’t make it to Texas for the nationals.
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