By STARS AND STRIPES Published: January 10, 2021 TOKYO Gregg Mowen, formerly the Japan community superintendent for Defense Department schools in Japan, died Jan. 4 at age 61. Mowen retired in spring 2020 after 19 years with the Department of Defense Education Activity. A native of Bowling Green, Ohio, he joined DODEA in 2001 and served as principal at Faith Middle School at Fort Benning, Ga.; Mudge Primary and Fort Knox High School in Kentucky; Zama High School near Tokyo and Kubasaki High School on Okinawa. Mowen also worked as an assistant superintendent at DODEA schools in Puerto Rico and Cuba and as DODEA-Okinawa chief of staff before taking the DODEA-Japan community superintendent’s post in his final year with the organization.
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THE MIDDLETOWN SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE OF GREATER MIDDLETOWN PRESENTS VIRTUAL SERVICE ON ZOOM IN HONOR OF THE REVEREND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. ON MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 2021 AT 12:30 P.M.
Who was the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Why do we honor him with a national holiday? Dr. King was a civil rights leader who championed equal rights for all and that “All men are created equal,” according to the article “Martin Luther King, Jr. Day” from the Department of Defense Education Activity(https://www.dodea.edu/dodeaCelebrates/MLK.cfm) website. He began his quest for civil rights in 1955 with the Montgomery Bus Boycott and continued his path for social justice during the turbulent 1960’s until he was assassinated in 1968 according to the article “Martin Luther King, Jr.” from U.S. History.org.
. KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany Students at Defense Department schools in Germany will continue with remote learning until the end of January at earliest, education officials said Friday. The first day back in the classroom will be Monday, Feb. 1, said Stephen Smith, spokesman for the Department of Defense Education Activity-Europe. Ankara Elementary/High School in Turkey will also extend remote learning until Feb. 1, he said. Students enrolled in DODEA’s virtual learning program are not affected by the schedule change. DODEA’s 34 schools in Germany transitioned to remote learning on Dec. 16, the first day that German schools were closed as the government tightened the country s coronavirus restrictions. Classes were set to resume on Jan. 19.
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It was a nice gesture for the Groton Board of Education earlier this month to name the library media center at the new middle school the “Dr. Michael Graner Library Media Center” in honor of the retiring superintendent.
If anything, given Graner’s influence on shaping the Groton school system, it doesn’t seem quite enough.
Graner, who announced in July his plans to retire, was hired as Groton superintendent in 2013 after a decade serving in that capacity in Ledyard. He inherited the leadership of a school system that continued to face the challenge of educating a large contingent of children of military families, whose frequent relocations create a special challenge. A school system with aging schools. And a town with wide swings in racial and economic makeup from one neighborhood elementary school to another.