It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Some Schools Invested Entire Year To Prepare For This Event

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My students did not win
a ribboned prize
but did get
"Honorable Mention"
when the prizes were awarded
for a Saturday indoor audience
at USC of at least
5000 people

However,
none of the titled projects
had more "legs" 
than what our students did
with the Richard Berry project:
three years after their presentation,
the late great CATHY NADLER
(our liaison with History Day)
was still presenting it to very large
and very interested groups of teachers
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special gratitude to GINA LAMB + ROLAND GANGES
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1 comment:

  1. I am eternally indebted to the five students who presented
    the RICHARD BERRY project... to Mr. Price, the administrator
    who cheered them on... to Cathy Nadler for her tireless
    brilliance with the HUMANITAS PROGRAM

    There is also eternal debt to Gina Lamb
    who worked most directly with the students
    using information about Richard Berry
    which I was privy to

    But the most eternal debt is to Roland Ganges,
    the Humanitas teacher with whom I attended the event.
    During the "lunch break" the students were on their own
    and Roland treated me to a lunch at Margarita Jones

    I ate a burger and drank five Margaritas...
    when the awards were given and our students
    received "Honorable Mention," I shrieked with
    joy at such a high volume...everyone head
    in the auditorium turned in my direction

    -Oliverio

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