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Celsielynn Espinueva listens to a speaker during Heritage Academy s inaugural commencement on Thursday night in the school gymnasium. Photo by Brian Petersheim Jr.
The first-ever class of Heritage Academy Maricopa graduates was recognized for its perseverance at Thursday night’s commencement.
The 25 graduates in blue caps and gowns gathered in the school gymnasium where friends and family sat on bleachers to watch as they accepted their diplomas.
To start the ceremony, the graduates were introduced as they walked from behind a black curtain, many stopping before their classmates to do a quick dance move or take a bow before continuing to their seats to cheers from the audience.
Lance Ringel s expansive novel Flower of Iowa centers on native 18-year old Tommy Flowers, who was raised in rural Iowa and sent to France by the U.S. Military in June 1918, the final months of World War I.
Book That Exposes Beijing’s 20-year Persecution of Falun Gong Wins Benjamin Franklin Award
On May 14, the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) declared at its award ceremony that the 2021 silver winner of The Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book, Nonfiction, of the Benjamin Franklin Award went to Minghui Publishing for its book
Established in 1983, the IBPA is the largest association in the United States for publishers. Its Benjamin Franklin Award is one of the highest national honors for independent publishers.
Michael J. Carson, a senior reviewer of the Midwest Book Review (MBR) Bookwatch, called the book “Impressively informative, exceptionally well organized, and presented.”
CAMPUS CONSORTIUM ADVISORY COUNCIL, GRANTEE
William H. Freivogel is a professor in the Southern Illinois University School of Journalism, a contributor to St. Louis Public Radio and publisher of the
Gateway Journalism Review. Previously, he was director of the journalism school. Before SIU, Freivogel worked 34 years at the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he was assistant Washington bureau chief and deputy editorial editor.
Freivogel graduated from Stanford University, where he was co-editor of
The Stanford Daily. After a brief stint with Ralph Nader and a briefer stint at Harvard Law School, he got a job at the
Post-Dispatch to earn tuition for a return to law school in two years. Two years turned into 34. While a reporter in St. Louis, he wrote stories that led to reform of the bail bond system. After a mentally ill suspect was killed in the Maplewood police station, Freivogel and a colleague wrote stories that led to prosecutions and reform of the department.