The James Logan Courier

By Beatrice Esteban, Courier Editor-in-Chief

The house system at James Logan High School has been modified, starting the 2010-2011 school year.

Students are assigned to one of three “houses” with two principals each. House one, located next to the Counseling Center and otherwise known as the “purple house”, is overseen by Grace Kim and Francis Rojas. The “green” house, house two, is overseen by Yvonne Hull and Abhi Brar and is next to the Career Center. Meanwhile, the administrators in charge of house three (whose color is orange) are Ramón Camacho and Jessica Lange; the office can be found in Memorial Square, by the Little Theater and the 200’s wing.

By Julie Mendoza, Courier Entertainment Editor

This summer I spent two hours of my life watching Sunshine Cleaning. If I must say, it was two hours well spent.

The film is directed by Christine Jeffs, starring Amy Adams (Enchanted) as the struggling single mother having a love affair with a married man. Her life became a downward facing rollercoaster after being head cheerleader in high school.

From wikipedia:
Prudence Crandall (September 3, 1803 - January 28, 1890), a schoolteacher raised as a Quaker, stirred controversy with her education of African-American girls in Canterbury, Connecticut. Her private school, opened in the fall of 1831, was boycotted when she admitted a 17-year-old African-American female student in the autumn of 1833; resulting in what is widely regarded as the first integrated classroom in the United States.

Prudence Crandall was born on September 3, 1803 to Pardon and Esther Carpenter Crandall, a Quaker couple in the Hope Valley area in the town of Hopkinton, Rhode Island. At the age of 17, her father decided to move the family to the small town of Canterbury, Connecticut. She attended the Friends' Boarding School in Providence, Rhode Island and later taught in a school for girls in Canterbury. In 1831, she returned to run the newly established Canterbury Female Boarding School, which she purchased with her sister, Almira.


Read more about Prudence Crandall at ConnectKids, the official State of Connecticut website for children.