The James Logan Courier

By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

Angelia Nava , who has more than 10 years of management experience in children nutrition in school districts from Tucson to the Bay Area, has been named Director of Food and Nutrition Services in the New Haven Unified School District.

“Providing nutrition services is a critical element of public education, especially given the number of students whose learning is affected because they don’t eat well at home or because they are struggling with obesity,” Superintendent Dr. Pat Jaurequi said. “Ms. Nava has the experience and the leadership ability to help us provide the highest level of nutrition services.”

LUNCH:
Spicy Chicken Patty,Milk, Baby Carrots, Fresh Fruit, Cookie, and Fun Chips

ACTIVITIES:
All teachers and students, come check out the Health Center’s youth performances at the Oooh Weee Awards this Wednesday in the Theater.

Choir Auditions are here!! Advanced Choir is today at 3 pm in the Choir Room. Wednesday is Jazz Callbacks. Thursday and Friday is Show Choir auditions. You must be there both days.

By Victoria McDonald, Courier Staff Writer

Spring has arrived and prom season is in full bloom. While we are concerning ourselves with junior and senior prom preparation a school across the country is in the middle of a social upheaval that is way past due. As hard as it is for us in the Bay Area to believe, a high school in Ashburn, Georgia just celebrated its first ever integrated prom.

By Oscar Peñaranda, Courier Special Correspondent
Note: This is the fourth installment in The Courier's serialized history of the struggle for independence in the Philippines, written by Filipino Poet, Author and Activist Oscar Peñaranda, who also teaches Filipino studies at James Logan High School. This week, the author provides his commentary on the events of the U.S. Philippines War. Look for the next installment next Monday.

War Key to Fil-Am Understanding
Any significant, comprehensive, or serious discussion of Filipinos in the United States can not be complete, (at the very least prefaced) without an essential understanding of the U.S.-Philippines War. The modern Filipino experience or predicament or situation in the United States must be anchored in solid, basic fundamental knowledge of the U.S.-Philippines War that officially started in 1899. Otherwise, it would be like talking about the United States as a nation without talking about the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War For Independence. The understanding of this war is vital to any in-depth discussion of Filipinos in the United States since, because official relations, records, and attitudes began to be developed and formulated at this time. Ramifications of these perceptions apply to this day. Many of the racial slurs inflicted upon the Filipinos in the U.S. during the hate crimes of the 1920's to 40's originated in this war. Names like "goo-goos", "gook", "monkey", "brown niggers", etc., were part of the campaign and vocabulary used by American troops in the Philippines. Many of the American soldiers were veterans of the wars against Native Americans that were fought just years earlier in the United States, (some were still being fought) so all they (the U.S. soldiers) had to do was transfer that psychological and sociological hatred to another people of color and enemy at hand—the Filipinos.

Henry John Heinz [11 October 1844 - 14 May 1919] was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a boy, he sold grated horseradish and other vegetables from his family's garden door-to-door. He went on to found one of the most innovative and successful American international packaged food companies, H.J. Heinz Company. Heinz' revolutionary techniques of promoting his "57 Varieties" of processed foods lead to the rise of the "brand name."

Learn more about H.J.Heinz and his company by visiting its website.