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Honesty tops wishlist for new superintendent

Responses were quick as the small audience listed skills and characteristics they wanted in their next superintendent. Honesty, effective communication skills, active listener, sense of humor, nondictator, and treating everyone with respect came from the audience as Richard Dunham from Michigan Association of School Boards quickly typed it onto the list Monday night during the community forum....more >>

The Lake Orion Review

Survey: LOHS teachers worried by modified block

But administrators claim new plan for class scheduling is 'best of both worlds'

A big change at the high school, over three years in the making, is about to debut. Back in 2007, a committee examining the possibility of penny-pinching scheduling plans came up with a modified block concept....more >>

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Born May 23rd

1875: Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president and chairman of the board for General Motors.

1891: Par Lagerkvist, Swedish writer (The Dwarf, Barabbas).

1908: John Bardeen, physicist, co-inventor of the transistor.

1910: Artie Shaw, bandleader and clarinetist.

1920: Helen O'Connell, big band vocalist.

May 23rd
in history

1861: Pro-Union and pro-Confederate forces clash in western Virginia.

1862: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson takes Front Royal, Virginia.

1864: Union General Ulysses Grant attempts to outflank Confederate Robert E. Lee in the Battle of North Anna, Virginia.

1900: Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney becomes the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, thirty-seven years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.

1901: American forces capture Filipino rebel leader Emilio Aguinaldo.