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Desert Storm visits l\/laine Soutli by Marc Mazzuca
The television coverage of the Persian Gulf war was initially the only source of information in the states as well the Middle East. Lohenry remarked that, during the war, the best description of the feeling at home came from CNN. Officer Lohenry made two calls when he returned stateside on March 19. The first was to his father, who lives in Park Ridge, to tell him that he was taking a trip back home. The second call was to Maine South, to ask if he could meet all the students who had written to him. In an interview conducted by Elizabeth Owens of the Park Ridge Advocate, Lohenry was quoted as saying, "It's important for me to give back what they gave me. When you're in the military, you want to be appreciated for your job. This was the first time we felt America was rallying around the troops." Lohenry explained, "It's priceless what they gave us—the confidence to do what we had to do."
On Monday, April 1, Navy Petty Officer Second Class Kevin Lohenry came to Maine South to visit his pen pals during Operation Desert Storm, the students of Mr. Kerr's English I Accelerated class. During a recent interview, Kerr explained that at first, drop in students in the Writing Lab could write to a soldier in the Gulf He then decided that this activity would make an interesting class project. "It allowed the students to invest themselves in the war," Kerr said. "Initially though, it was difficult for them to write to an impersonal audience, in a war that had little concrete meaning for them." Kerr explained that, as opposed to Viemam, when everybody knew somebody fighting. Desert Storm had very little personal contact in the general public. "Kevin became our direct link to the war in the Gulf," Kerr said. Lohenry received nearly 60 letters in each of the two care packages sent from Maine Petty Officer Kevin Lohenry (right) shows South, and answered every one of the letters Maine South students where he was stationed during his role in Operation Desert Storm. personally.
New library finally unveiled
Maine South principal Dr. Thomas Cachur hosts the ribbon-cutting ceremonies for Maine South's new library as Superintendent Dr. James Elliott and Student Council President Dave Hartwig look on.
South students win Chicago history fair On Saturday, March 9, eleven Maine South social science students were named winners at the 1991 Chicago Metro History Fair held at Chicago's Resurrection High School. Essay winners included Chacko Mammen, who wrote about the Hull House, Jack Sadlier, who wrote "Ghostlore of Chicago," and Katherine Nelson, who composed "Samuel W. Allerton." Winners of exhibits were Mike Mazukelli,"Gonnella Baking Company," Dave Cook's "Oil Cracking," Andrea Berthold and Ann Ethridge's "The Pickwick Theatre", and Erika Bondarowicz, who showed information about "The Iroqouis Theater Fire." Performance winners were sophomores Paul Henderson and Kyung Yoo for "The Korean Chicagoans." Also winning an award for performance was Ryan Sipkovsky, who showed a video entitled "The Pickwick." According to the Park Ridge Times-Herald , the winners will represent South at the finals April 22 - May 3. Thefinalswill be held at Chicago's Newberry Library and Cultural Center.