So long, James Madison. Hello, Leodis McDaniel High School
Updated Feb 24, 2021;
Posted Feb 24, 2021
Leodis McDaniel, who oversaw the desegregation of what was then Madison High School, was chosen as the building s new namesake by a committee of students, staff, alumni and community members.Photo courtesy Portland Public Schools
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Madison High School is no more. The Northeast Portland school once named after the fourth president of the United States is now Leodis V. McDaniel High.
A coalition of students, educators, alumni and community members chose one of the school’s beloved former principals as its next namesake. The group surveyed nearly 2,500 people since September and received more than 400 nominations.
We never saw 2020 coming. When Happy Ned Year 2019 hit the paper a year ago, I sure did not foresee that the next year would so vigorously reframe the very essence of this now 20-year-old column: To celebrate the strange and unexpected, and obscure stuff either unearthed or made up.
So here again goes Happy Ned Year, your annual random scrum of crumbs swept from the tattered tablecloth of 2020.
(Was the cocktail year 2020 not the perfect time for mixing metaphors?)
And, Happy 2021; our sense of optimism gives new meaning to the phrase âa new ring.â
Itâs amazing: I Googled, and could not find, any play on the word toxin as âtalk sin.â Not even from the lips of some super-spreader church pastor.
in idaho. he had to plea for the return to his citizenship all of the way to the u.s. supreme court and lived with a criminal record for the rest of his life. but in part because of his advocacy in 1983 recognized the injustice of the internment camps me lived to see that. in 1988 president reagan served him a formal apology but by then he had been dead for almost two years. even today his family continues the work of telling his life story because it s an parent part of our larger american story. and tomorrow the white house is announced he will be awarded the presidential medal of freedom. this year s celebrated list along with billy frank jr. and willie mays and barbra streisand. minoru yasui now recognized for his ideals of democracy embodies in our constitution. we spoke to his family this week about this honor. his daughter and granddaughter
breaking that military curfew for the rest of his life. but in part because of his advocacy in 1983 recognized the injustice of the internment camps. he lived to see that. in 1988 president reagan served a formal apology that included compensation for the survivors of the camps but by then he had been dead for almost two years. even today his family continues the work of telling his life story because it s an parent part of our larger american story. and tomorrow the white house is announcing he will be awarded the presidential medal of freedom. this year s celebrated list along with billy frank jr. and willie mays and barbra streisand. and barbara mick cull ski. minoru yasui now recognized for his defense of the ideals of democracy embodied in our constitution. we spoke to his family this week about this honor. his daughter and granddaughter tell us they can t help but note that our country is again talking about registries and id cards.