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Today in History Today is Sunday, June 9, the 160th day of 2013. There are 205 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History: On June 9, 1973, Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes, becoming horse racing’s first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.
Sunday, June 9, 2013
BHS names end of year honor students Biggersville High School End of Year Honor Roll Seventh Grade: All A’s — Ty Lancaster, Elly Nash, Emy Settlemires; A’s and B’s — Hannah Baker, Skylar Crenshaw, Whitten Hall, Paytlin Hite, Peyton Jackson, Emilee Little, Allison Maricle, Katie McQueen, Anthony Morrison, Peyton Nelms, Devonte Spears, Lexie Stovall Eighth Grade: All A’s — Brooklyn Godwin, Jerrod Hamlin, Matthew
Loveless, Landon Porterfield; A’s and B’s — Savannah Baggett, Caitlin Bascomb, Brylee Donald, Maddie Grace Essary, Kylie Gifford, Brianna Huguley, Baileigh Johnson, Kane Lambert, Sabrina Lambert, Nasia Luster, Logan Mitchell, Bianca Neal, Evan Norvell, Cameron Pace, Zack Parker, Jacquira Sorrell, Jordan Strickland, Devyn Walker, Destiny Whitley Ninth Grade: All A’s — Nathan Carroll, Colby
Crenshaw, Caleb Kitchens, Blaklie Mitchell, Kaylin Parvin, Katie Strickland; A’s and B’s — Jonathan Bishop, Austin Brawner, Tiffany Cooksey, Callie Estes, Cameron Gray, Josh Gray, Colin Parvin, Jada Tubbs, Matthew Turner, Angel Watson, Shyanne Wilbanks Tenth Grade: All A’s — Lucy Lawson; A’s and B’s — Adrianna Barnes, Ansley Burns, William Chisler, Savannah Davis, Tyran Davis, Lindsey Mar-
their fields of study. More than 1,500 students have applied for the program since the founding of BioTrain in 2009. Only 115 have been accepted. “I am learning so much working with scientists and other high school and science students,” Hayden said. “It is such an honor to have been selected for this internship, and I am loving every minute of
this experience.” Hayden is the daughter of Kathryn Dilworth of Corinth and Bryant Malone of Huntsville, Ala. Her grandparents are Hal and Maggie Dilworth of Rienzi.
icle, Amber McCary, Anna Michael, Kimberly Michael, Taylor Beth Nash, Emily Nichols, Lawrence Rider, Baileigh Shapiro Eleventh Grade: All A’s — Zack Fowler, Katie Beth Morton; A’s and B’s — Katie Benjamin, Audrey Crump, Chris Fowler, Kimberly Fowler, Nick Fowler, Lupe Guevara, Slater Huggins, Wesley Shadburn, LeeAnn Sorrell, Maliaka Stovall, Mercedes Thompson, Nicholas Trudeau, Diamond
Warren, Marquis Watson, Kadi West Twelfth Grade: All A’s — Blake Stacy; A’s and B’s — Brooks Bishop, Darius Carroll, Avery Crump, Jordan Davis, Mark Hamlin, Matthew Hamlin, Emery Hatcher, Danica Huggins, Jacob Jolly, Amber Judd, Rebecca Lee, Savannah McLemore, Brittany Michael, Megan Mitchell, Allie Palmer, Brittany Pruitt, Ethan Rider, Hunter Warren, Whitney Welch
increased costs they expect to be able to assist fewer students with the cost through scholarship programs. Free test preparation and assistance is available through the col-
lege’s division of adult education and anyone interested in obtaining help in preparing for the GED or who wants to learn more about the test should call them at 662720-7386.
On this date: In A.D. 68, the Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide, ending a 13-year reign. In 1863, a two-day meeting began in New York City to found the United States Veterinary Medical Association (now the American Veterinary Medical Association). In 1870, author Charles Dickens died in Gad’s Hill Place, England. In 1911, Carrie (sometimes spelled “Carry”) A. Nation, the hatchet-wielding temperance crusader, died in Leavenworth, Kan., at age 64. In 1940, during World War II, Norway decided to surrender to the Nazis, effective at midnight. In 1943, the federal government began withholding income tax from paychecks. In 1953, 94 people died when a tornado struck Worcester, Mass. In 1954, during the Senate-Army Hearings, Army special counsel Joseph N. Welch berated Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., for verbally attacking a member of Welch’s law firm, Fred Fisher, asking McCarthy: “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” In 1969, the Senate confirmed Warren Burger to be the new chief justice of the United States, succeeding Earl Warren. In 1978, leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood. In 1983, Britain’s Conservatives, led by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, won a decisive election victory. In 1993, as millions of Japanese watched on television, Crown Prince Naruhito wed commoner Masako Owada in an elaborate Shinto religious ceremony. The sciencefiction film “Jurassic Park,” directed by Steven Spielberg, had its world premiere in Washington, D.C.
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biochemical engineering in college. This fall she will begin her senior year at CHS, in time to graduate a year early. Her brother, Ben, also graduated a year early in May. The internship will give Hayden and the other students careerfocused tasks that help them build knowledge and skills relevant to
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This week CHS student Hayden Malone began a prestigious internship at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology.
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five distinct sections: Language Arts (Writing), Language Arts (Reading), Social Studies, Science, and Mathematics. The sections can be taken individually as a student completes their preparation for each section. Billingsley explained that’s where the urgency comes in for current GED students. There are many who have taken one or more sections of the test, but for a variety of reasons have held off on completing all five. Those students must complete and pass the sections they have remaining by the end of this year or their scores will be wiped away and they’ll have to start completely over when the new version of the test
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launches in January. The revised test is expected to be more difficult and will feature new types of questions while being administered entirely on a computer. Meeks said the new test will be broken into four basic content areas: language arts, mathematics, science and social studies. The test will add an additional essay question along with short answer questions and in-paragraph dropdown menu questions. The GED Testing Service, providers of the test, say the new test is designed to more closely and accurately measure career and college readiness of students. Meeks noted the new version will require additional depth of knowledge for students, particularly on the social
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