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Valedictorian Charlisa Kollie, left, and Allison Dos Santos Soares, salutatorian
PAWTUCKET – Shea High School’s valedictorian and salutatorian for the Class of 2021 both say they learned plenty during their four years in high school, and not just academically.
“Being at Shea was really a learning experience,” Valedictorian Charlisa Kollie said, adding that she had the opportunity to go to an all-girls school but chose to stay at Shea, and appreciates its diverse environment.
“We all come from different places around the world,” she said. “It’s good to see all of that.”
Salutatorian Allison Dos Santos Soares, who moved to the U.S. from France four years ago, said Shea is the first U.S. school she’s attended.
The Nonviolent Sit-Ins That Desegregated Nashville’s Lunch Counters
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April 18, 2021, 5:03 AM·16 min read
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On April 19, we will commemorate as well we should the twenty-sixth anniversary of the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. But April 19 is also the anniversary of another consequential, albeit lesser known, bombing: On that date in 1960, a bomb went off at the home of Alexander Looby, the Black lawyer representing students and other activists arrested in sit-ins aimed at integrating downtown Nashville. Looby and his family survived, but the bomb blew out 147 windows at a nearby medical college.
U.S. Sen. Joni Enrst received a first-hand look last week at how a University of Northern Iowa program is helping low-income Cedar Valley students gain access to and succeed in higher education, while also learning how the program is growing to help more people.
The event Thursday at UNI’s Center for Urban Education (better known as UNI-CUE), which recently signed another 10-year-lease for it’s downtown Waterloo headquarters, brought attention to the broad range of programs on offer. Ernst met with UNI President Mark A. Nook, UNI-CUE Executive Director Robert Smith, UNI-CUE Assistant Director Megan Holbach, Educational Opportunity Center Assistant Director Nickole Dillard and two UNI students, Brianna Nash and Audrey Dillavou, who have used UNI-CUE’s programs.