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Letters to the Editor - Voting, voter fraud, immigration, the importance of vaccines, electricity overhaul, Sen. John Cornyn
Readers encourage everyone to vote, talk about the lack of voter fraud in Texas, support vaccines, question the energy bill and would like to hear from Sen. Cornyn.
Former congressman Beto O Rourke speaks to U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson before the start of his For the People, The Texas Drive for Democracy event on June 8, 2021, at Paul Quinn College in Dallas.(Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer)
Really, we should be voting
Re: “Dems plan drive to turn Texas blue Voter registration effort targets 2 million who are thought to lean to the left”; and “O’Rourke warns of obstacles to voting During visit, he urges Asian Americans to be wary of legislation,” Wednesday Metro & Business stories.
I really have great faith in Noelle, Steinhoff said.
Gilzow has taught 27 years, all of them at Hickman. She joined the union shortly after starting but said she became more active five or six years ago, with a focus on the union s political action committee. I found the more I was involved, the more I got from the membership, she said. I feel like it s a big job and I m filling big shoes, Gilzow said. I m glad and grateful for the team Kathy has built.
Steinhoff has been a teacher for 33 years, all in Columbia schools, including what was then West Junior High School and Jefferson Junior High School and the past eight years at Hickman. She has been a union member from the beginning.
A look back at ORHS grad Dick Sites’ beginnings, and the world of computers
Benita Albert and D. Ray Smith/Historically Speaking
Benita Albert brings us another story of an Oak Ridge Schools graduate. Thanks to Mike Coveyou, who suggested to Benita that Dick Sites would be a good subject for her to consider. You will enjoy this two-part series
Dick (R.L.) Sites wrote his first computer program at age 10, a project which produced a Pascal’s Triangle display, a triangular array of the coefficients in successive binomial expansions. This topic from algebra was most certainly ahead of the mathematics expected of him at that age. The computer on which his program ran was the ORACLE (Oak Ridge Atomic Computer and Logical Engine), a scientific digital computer that used vacuum tubes.
Posted on February 5, 2021
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Scott Eugene Cruickshank
Scott Eugene Cruickshank of Santa Barbara, and McCall, Idaho, passed away on Jan. 31, 2021. He was 58 years of age. Scott was born to Brian and Alice Cruickshank in Long Beach, California, on Dec. 26, 1962.
He attended Burbank Elementary School, Jefferson Junior High School, and Woodrow Wilson High School, all in Long Beach. He earned his bachelor s degree at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 1988 with a double major in mathematics and economics, and went on to earn his masters degree in statistics in 1990, also at UCSB.
Scott later pursued doctoral studies in biometry at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.