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VOL. 6 NO. 28
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July 9, 2012
Bearden teacher takes to high seas
Arnold Smith was one of the smartest kids in West High School’s Class of 1960. Gangly and tall, he had a goofy grin and peered at the world through black-rimmed Buddy Hollyesque glasses. Kids today would probably classify him as full-on nerd. So why is this 70-year-old in jail?
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See Bean’s story on page 6
In the woods! Last week’s slap-you-in-theface heat, along with the availability of a riverside site at Elkmont campground, drove me to gather up my female children and head for the hills. I grew up camping in the Smokies, as have my kids, so the process of packing the tent, sleeping bags and hot dogs was a no-brainer. What made this trip different was the fact that we left the men at home.
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See Wendy’s story on page 3
Free, free, free! Tim Burchett says he can give county employees an extra week off work and it won’t cost anything. Sandra Clark wonders how this can be.
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See Sandra’s pop-quiz on page 4
Rotary officers At its June 26 meeting, the Rotary Club of Knoxville installed its 2012-13 board of directors, led by president Harry W. “Wes” Stowers Jr., board chair of Stowers Machinery Corp. Robert F. Samples is president-elect and membership director. Dr. Roy King, a dermapathologist, is vice president and international service director.
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Index Business A2 Wendy Smith A3 Government/Politics A4 Marvin West/Jake Mabe A5 Betty Bean A6 Faith A7 Kids A9 Health/Lifestyles Sect B
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Whittle Springs Middle School science teacher Sharon Harder and Bearden High School science teacher Noelle Turner learn about the exploration vessel Nautilus at the University of Rhode Island. Turner will spend almost three weeks aboard the ship through the Teacher at Sea program. Harder is the program alternate. Photo submitted
By Wendy Smith Until now, Noelle Turner’s boating adventures have taken place on the calm surface of East Tennessee lakes. She will soon experience bigger swells, and thrills, aboard the exploration vessel Nautilus as an Ocean Exploration Trust (OET) Teacher at Sea. Turner, a science teacher at Bearden High School, applied for the competitive program, “on a whim.” But she got lucky, she says, and was one of 12 teachers selected from across the country to participate. In a few weeks, she will travel to Istanbul, Turkey, to spend almost three weeks observing scientific research and interacting with shore-based audiences while aboard the Nautilus during exploration of the Black and Mediterranean Seas. “We know more about the moon’s surface than we do about
the bottom of the ocean. I’ll be trying to help with that, and I’ll be happy to see it and share it with my students,” says Turner. The Nautilus Exploration Program was founded in 2008 by Robert Ballard, who located the Titanic in 1985. The purpose of the program is to conduct research on the ocean floor and give scientists, as well as the rest of the world, live access to discoveries via the Internet. Whittle Springs Middle School science teacher Sharon Harder was chosen as the alternate Teacher at Sea. She and Turner recently returned from a four-day training workshop at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography, where they attended sessions hosted by scientists, engineers and science communicators. They learned about the ship’s two Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs), Argus and Hercules,
which work in tandem to collect data. The larger and heavier Argus sits on the ocean floor, tethered to the Nautilus, while the easilymaneuvered Hercules is tethered to Argus and uses robotic arms to collect samples. Both ROVs are equipped with cameras, and Argus provides lighting. The teachers also toured the university’s Inner Space Center, which provides students, faculty and researchers with live access, via the Internet, to oceanographic expeditions. The primary function of the Teachers at Sea is communication. Turner will spend 10 hours each day watching video feeds from the ROVs and decide which shots to show online. “It’s not like you’re discovering the Titanic every second,” she says. She will also blog, answer online questions and participate in
live Web shows, which are broadcast six times a day at the Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Conn. There are four separate cruise legs of the expedition, and two or three teachers will be onboard during each one. During Turner’s leg, the crew may be exploring the submerged Anaximander Mountains, located south of the southern coast of Western Turkey. The expedition’s fluid schedule makes it impossible to predict the exact route. Turner departs from Knoxville on July 22 and will return on Aug. 11 – just in time for the new school year, which begins Aug. 14. She’s excited about the opportunity to participate in scientific research and hopes her enthusiasm will be contagious. Some of her students hope to become marine biologists, she says, and she wants to encourage them. “I want to kick it up a notch with them.”
The music of “Ragtime” is equally strong. Jill Lagerberg is the show’s music director, and her 12-piece orchestra is a mix of professionals and amateurs. The thing she finds most intriguing about the music is the way it portrays both physical events and the personalities and emotions of the characters. The lavish production has a cast of 43. Principal roles are played by Coke Morgan (father), Sonja Moore (mother), Bleu Copas (Mother’s younger brother), John Cherry (Tateh), Dominic Gillette (Coalhouse Walker Jr.) and Michelle Clayton (Sarah). The cast also includes historical figures from the time period, including Henry Houdini, Henry Ford and Booker T. Washington. Dickson has been a drama teacher for 26 years, and 16 of Sonja Moore, Trey Kelly and Coke Morgan portray Mother, Edgar and Father those have been at Bearden. This in the upcoming WordPlayers production of “Ragtime.” Photo submitted play is different from her Bearden productions because she has the “White people really did say de- still have further to go. It’s a pow- luxury of a producer – Joe Millett. rogatory things like that, and still erful story, and that’s what we look do. We’ve come a long way, but we for.” To page A-2
‘Ragtime’ comes to town By Wendy Smith After weeks of rigorous rehearsals, the musical “Ragtime” will make its Knoxville debut this weekend in the Bearden High School auditorium. The WordPlayers production will be the realization of a dream for Bearden drama teacher Leann Dickson, who directs the play. She has always wanted to bring the community together for a musical theater production. “Ragtime,” set in 1906, tells the story of the interaction and conflict of three ethnic groups: upper class whites, African-Americans from Harlem and Jewish immigrants. While the play’s violence and ethnic slurs make it controversial, members of the Christian drama group think it’s an important story to tell, says WordPlayers managing director Jeni Lamm.
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