Good evening. I am lisa miller the newlyelected chairperson for the parent advisory committee. I am from northern california. I have a child that is in the middle school and i have a grandchild who is attending the redding elementary school. We are back. Good evening, guys, i am melanie gordon, an enrolled member for the nation located in arizona. I have two students in ssusd. My student represent galea high school. I am amy anderson. I have a child who is a senior at the high school at 600 32nd avenue and a child about to start tk in the next fall. Hello. I am your Program Coordinator for Indian Education program. I represent the pit nation. Thank you again. So we are going right into it. I am going to read out our mission. The Indian Education programming title vi supports the academic needs of the American Indian students in the San Francisco unified School District. The Parent Advisory Council is a group of parents and teachers that help determine the Indian Education goals and adv
To. This is a person who has been really integral to the community that we are at marshall school. He plays a very significant role. That is not replaced by putting someone else in as a Security Guard position. The bonding that has been builtup is precious and important. It also happens that i am a retired family physician from 35 years practicing. I have not had anything to do with mr. Tobys medical case so i dont speak to that, but i am very familiar with the process by which workers comp issues are handled and the role of a qme or qualified medical examiner. As i hear mr. Toby tell his story, i completely understand the situation in which a great deal of weight is given to someone who hardly knows the patient. Thank you. [applause] that concludes public comment. Section d. We have a report from any of the education Parent Advisory Council. Good evening. I am lisa miller the newlyelected chairperson for the parent advisory committee. I am from northern california. I have a child that
Good evening. I am lisa miller the newlyelected chairperson for the parent advisory committee. I am from northern california. I have a child that is in the middle school and i have a grandchild who is attending the redding elementary school. We are back. Good evening, guys, i am melanie gordon, an enrolled member for the nation located in arizona. I have two students in ssusd. My student represent galea high school. I am amy anderson. I have a child who is a senior at the high school at 600 32nd avenue and a child about to start tk in the next fall. Hello. I am your Program Coordinator for Indian Education program. I represent the pit nation. Thank you again. So we are going right into it. I am going to read out our mission. The Indian Education programming title vi supports the academic needs of the American Indian students in the San Francisco unified School District. The Parent Advisory Council is a group of parents and teachers that help determine the Indian Education goals and adv
Programming exploring our nations past. Next, historian Nancy Bristow talks about the 1918 influenza pandemic and how it devastated american civilians and soldiers during the final year of world war i and beyond. She also explains why the epidemic is not memorialized like the war itself, despite causing a higher number of deaths. Ms. Bristow is the author of american pandemic. Museumional world war i and memorial in kansas city, missouri, hosted this talk as part of their annual symposium. I do believe that is my cue and getthis direction our introduction for our next speaker. Also, i would like to say before that, here is a little Public Service announcement. I will be stealing this line from dr. Nyberg. Potentially, there is only one thing you can learn from the world war. That thing would be dont forget to get your flu shot. [laughter] gentlemen, do remember that. We did get that wonderful thing called daylight savings time because of world war i in the United States and other count
So, we are glad that you are here. We are excited to be talking about the memorial. Lets get right to it. With me is harvey pratt. Harvey is a citizen of the cheyennearapaho tribes of oklahoma. He is a cheyenne peace chief. He has been a career Law Enforcement official. He is a working artist. And he is a marine and vietnam veteran. Please greet harvey pratt. [applause] so, harvey, what caused you to submit a proposed design for the memorial . Mr. Pratt well, our veterans director just kept after me. I have no, really had no hope i would even come close or submit a design, but he just kept after me. He said, do it for the tribe, harvey. Come on, submit something. I thought about it. I said, let me dream on it. I have to dream. Some of my best creativity is done early in the morning during that dream period. So thats what i did. I went home and dreamed about it. I got up and got my big tablet out and i made some sketches. It just came to me all of a sudden that morning and in order to t