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Design project opens eyes and opportunities
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students balked at the idea.
“I asked every last one of
them what their fii’st impres
sion was when they found
out, and every last one of
them said they hate it. I was
gonna transfer, I was gonna
this, I was gonna that,”
S Mitchell said.
“The bottom
line is they
asked me to
come in and
create • their
uniform, but I
wanted to do
Mitchell more than
that, so I seated a program
to get the whole school
involved.”
Students have been voting
on the color scheme, Ic^os
and fonts that will be used in
the design.
“I was asked to come up
with a list of students from
some art classes, that were
advanced and would be good
for the committee for the
drawing section,” said art
teachei* Lauren Altieri.
Students on the design
committee aren’t all from
Alteeris classes, tJioi^. Art
students are 'paiinered with
strong writers, and students
who show leadership skills,
but not nec^sarily strong
artistic ability.
“I think it’s going really
well,” said Altieri. “They’ve
been coming up with some
really neat ideas.”
Eighth-grader Yariel
Juai-ez was chosen based on
his aidistic creativity. Yariel
wasn’t excited about imi-
forms initially, but has
changed his tune.
“It will be cool,” he said,
“because we’re designing it.”
Though their classroom is
at the front of the school,
you’d hai'dly know there were
any students inside with this
afterschool group. 'Hie stu
dents are ateolutely
engrossed in what it is they
are doing.
“It just creates a whole
other atmosphere for them,
when they walk through the
door,” Mitchell said. “The
anticipation is different when
they walk through the door
now, because that’s one of the
positive things they can talk
about, ‘MLK is designing
their own school unifoiins.
The rest of the schools aren’t
doing it, we’re doing it.’ This
is positive gossip.”
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combat
dementia
in blacks
By lorinda M. Bullock
NATIONAL NEWSPAPER
PUBUSHERS ASSOCIATION
On Monday the students
visited Atlanta to tour the
Atlanta School of Fashion
and the Martin Luther Kng
Center. The trip was another
part of Mitchell’s minion: “to
enhance school pride and
involvement and to motivate
individual student achieve
ment, thereby feniitating an
atmosphere for children to
pursue their life’s dreams and
“I always wanted to have
something I can look back on
that I did, and this could be
that something,” said
SaKenya Vaughns, an
ei^th-gradei* on the design
committee. Vaughns is inter
ested in fashion and des^,
and hopes her designs are
chosen, in order to kick staiT
her career.
Yariel and SaKenya were
excited about the Atlanta
trip, wdiich for many of the 16
students was their first visit
to the city. 'Hie expeiience
gave them a first-hand look
at a design school and a
chance to ask questions as
well as created an apprecia
tion for a possible mentor.
“I think he’s gi'eat design
er,” SaKenya said of Mitchell.
“Just knowing that he’s
designed a lot of clothes for
stare. - that’s amazing. He
gets to d^ign a lot of people’s
outfits. That’s great, and
that’s a bles.sing for us.”
Mitchell has partners fiiat
have also helped with the
program. Former NFL player
Michael Dean Perry owns a
Subway that provides sand
wiches for the students after,
school, The McDonald’s on
West Sugar Creek provided
breakfast for the students for
the trip to Atlanta. Microsoft
will create an on-line blog
capturing the entire pregram
designing process. And
Mitchell is working with a
coi^porate sponsor to have the
fin^ uniforms provided for
the students.
“I’m trying to do something
different,” said Mitchell, “I’m
trying to let them know
someone is doing something
special for them.”
The final designs will be
unveiled on Friday, October
27, for student and parent
final approval.
WASHINGTON - When
Jonathan Lackland’s grand-
mothei; Cora, forgot to turn
off the li^ts or stove, the
family thought she was tired
and missing her deceased
husband Richai-d.
But when those types of
things happened more often
and the woman w'as now list
less and easily agitated, the
Lacklands knew it was more
than grief.
“In the banning you blow
it off, oh she just made a mis
take,” said Jonathan
Lackland.
“But we began to see
changes in terms of how
lethargic she had become...
She’d get very frustrated if
she couldn’t make a point-
meaning she would foiget—
and noiTnally this was unlike
her and that’s when we b^an
to realize something just isn’t
right,” he said.
And it was more than
fatigue and loneliness that
was changing Cora Lackland.
It was Alzheimer’s disease.
The 87-year-old from
Illinois represents a growing
number of elderly African-
Americans, who are statisti
cally at the great^t risk to
get the memoiy-erasing d^-
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