Exchange Program

By Jessica Bartlett, Town Correspondent For the first time, Archbishop Williams High School is offering the opportunity for French and Spanish language students to study their abroad in an exchange program. The new program, coordinated by Foreign Language faculty member Diane Jackson and teacher Joann Adams, will enable 26 students to travel abroad this month. According to a release, eleven juniors and seniors from Archbishop Wiliams, along with faculty chaperones, will fly to Paris on Feb. 14. From there they will fly to Bordeaux.

WASHINGTON - Marie Davis Gadsden, a top administrator of education and philanthropic foundations who became the first black woman to chair the board of the relief group Oxfam America, died March 14 in Washington. She was 92. She died of complications from Alzheimer's disease, said her niece Laura Vault. Dr. Gadsden, the daughter of a physician and a teacher, grew up in segregated Georgia and won scholarships to finance her college and postgraduate education on her way to a doctorate in English from the University of Wisconsin in 1954.

There is a good chance you have heard of or seen pictures of the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in France. But less well known are another 23 American military cemeteries overseas that honor 125,000 US servicemen and women. All of them hold the promise of a memorable visit. David Bedford, superintendent of the Cambridge American Cemetery in Cambridge, England, says first-time visitors are often initially confused. “They don’t know how to take it because there is a sort of sad calm and reverence here,’’ he says.

The Association of Vermont Independent Colleges has announced a new exchange program between 14 of the colleges that will allow students to spend a semester at one of the other private schools. The association held a Statehouse news conference on Friday to announce the new program and the results of a study that has found that Vermont's 19 independent colleges attract 14,000 out-of-state students and pump $1.4 billion a year into the state's economy. The study also found that the private schools provide about 6,300 jobs that account for $314 million in wages and benefits.

The Association of Vermont Independent Colleges has announced a new exchange program between 14 of the colleges that will allow students to spend a semester at one of the other private schools. The association held a Statehouse news conference on Friday to announce the new program and the results of a study that has found that Vermont's 19 independent colleges attract 14,000 out-of-state students and pump $1.4 billion a year into the state's economy. The study also found that the private schools provide about 6,300 jobs that account for $314 million in wages and benefits.

WASHINGTON -- One day after proposing bigger budgets for defense and homeland security, the White House yesterday released a list of the 128 programs it wants gutted, from education equity for women to combatting alcohol abuse. While calling on Congress to rein in domestic spending to address a record budget deficit, Bush has made education reform a key plank in his campaign for reelection in November and announced in last month's State of the Union address a $300 million program to help released prisoners reintegrate into society.

WASHINGTON - Marie Davis Gadsden, a top administrator of education and philanthropic foundations who became the first black woman to chair the board of the relief group Oxfam America, died March 14 in Washington. She was 92. She died of complications from Alzheimer's disease, said her niece Laura Vault. Dr. Gadsden, the daughter of a physician and a teacher, grew up in segregated Georgia and won scholarships to finance her college and postgraduate education on her way to a doctorate in English from the University of Wisconsin in 1954.

"REMEMBER, THE REASON WE'RE GOING TO THE MOSQUE IS TO CONTINUE OUR LEARNING," Jonathan Rabinowitz tells his sixth-grade social studies students. Dressed in a button-down shirt and khakis, the lanky 38-year-old teacher stands in the aisle of a school bus idling behind Wellesley Middle School. He holds up a hand to quell chatter and giggles from the 11- and 12-year-olds. "I want to be proud of your behavior. Make us proud in how you ask questions. " Katie Pyzowski, her hair pulled back in a headband, sits quietly in a window seat as the din of her classmates resumes.

On Dec. 21, 1988, Gary Colasanti of Melrose (left) died on Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. On April 27, 2012, another Melrose student, Daniel Kepple, was named one of the 2012-2013 Remembrance Scholars at Syracuse University . This prestigious scholarship is granted on behalf of those lost on Flight 103 by Syracuse University, where 35 of those who died attended college. Gary Colasanti lived only a short distance from Daniel Kepple's Melrose residence, and Gary and Daniel were both graduates of Melrose High School.

More than 50 people trying to get into yesterday’s game between the New England Patriots and Baltimore Ravens were turned away after buying counterfeit tickets on Craigslist that cost as much as $400, officials said. “Buying tickets through Craigslist is an extremely risky ‘buyer beware’ proposition,’’ Patriots spokesman Stacey James said. “We strongly encourage Patriots fans to avoid Craigslist and similar sites.’’ The Patriots have sold out every game since 1994.

By Jessica Bartlett, Town Correspondent For the first time, Archbishop Williams High School is offering the opportunity for French and Spanish language students to study their abroad in an exchange program. The new program, coordinated by Foreign Language faculty member Diane Jackson and teacher Joann Adams, will enable 26 students to travel abroad this month. According to a release, eleven juniors and seniors from Archbishop Wiliams, along with faculty chaperones, will fly to Paris on Feb. 14. From there they will fly to Bordeaux.

There is a good chance you have heard of or seen pictures of the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in France. But less well known are another 23 American military cemeteries overseas that honor 125,000 US servicemen and women. All of them hold the promise of a memorable visit. David Bedford, superintendent of the Cambridge American Cemetery in Cambridge, England, says first-time visitors are often initially confused. “They don’t know how to take it because there is a sort of sad calm and reverence here,’’ he says.

WASHINGTON -- One day after proposing bigger budgets for defense and homeland security, the White House yesterday released a list of the 128 programs it wants gutted, from education equity for women to combatting alcohol abuse. While calling on Congress to rein in domestic spending to address a record budget deficit, Bush has made education reform a key plank in his campaign for reelection in November and announced in last month's State of the Union address a $300 million program to help released prisoners reintegrate into society.

A group of six students and five teachers from Avon Middle High School have returned from a visit last month to the Wenshan No. 1 High School in the Yunnan Province of southern China. The trip was part of an international exchange program, which has brought participants from Wenshan to Avon over the past two years. Avon Superintendent Margaret Frieswyk said students and staff prepared for the 10-day trip all school year. But, she added, "everything about China is such a new experience – the food the language, the money.

In a Massachusetts Institute of Technology cafeteria, down the hall from an early radar dish, is the "wormhole," an oddly-shaped plexiglass dome hovering over a video screen. The live signal displayed on the screen shows a similar cafeteria scene at Stanford University, nearly 3,000 miles away in California. The designers of the installation, who call it the wormhole, say it is meant to encourage random encounters between students and staff at two of the country's premier technology-oriented universities.