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SAN ANTONIO- John F. Ken
edy is more than a history lesson
students at a high school located
one of the poorer school districts
n Texas, an area where many adults
eep pictures of the late president
nd Jesus Christ on the wall.
“My mother told me he was a
reat man,” said Tonya Spellman,
a senior at John F. Kennedy
ligh School, the first school to be
amed for the late president follow-
ng his assassination 15 years ago in
)allas.
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to keep the memory and achieve
ments of the late president alive, in
cluding a memorial service each
year to “acquaint” the students with
the school’s namesake.
Jeanette Benavides, 17, said:
“I’ve never heard any bad things.
He stuck to his morals. He liked
people.”
“He started the Peace Corps, he
visited West Berlin. He challenged
the Russians. My father talks about
what he remembers,” said LeRoy
Johnson, 18.
John F. Kennedy High, com
pleted in September 1963 but never
officially dedicated because of the
president’s assassination two
months later in Dallas, is located
near the gates of Kelly Air Force
Base. Many of its students are
Mexican-Americans whose parents
voted 8-1 for the first Roman
Catholic president.
Principal Antonio Rodriguez said
this year’s memorial service will be
viewed by students on closed circuit
television throughout the school dis
trict. Officials also plan to transmit a
United Press International
|NEW YORK — Trademarks have
to the dogs, according to a
iiidv unleashed here by the
the fact dial Raters of one of America’s oldest
ze it’s that Bd most popular product symbols,
an use ami BOf the many animal insignias,
jines are the most commonly
vel, Gihsot |s«l, says RCA, in announcing the
continuingpjuvenation of its own famous
demark, “Nipper,” the fox terrier
businesses ptening to “his master’s voice’’
to school to lianating from a gramaphone.
BDogs have been featured
itionofnewBroughout history on ancient
in the titles signboards, knights’ crests, let-
different 6-fefheads and in corporate advertis-
, the study shows, because
iple love canines.
n addition to Nipper, other dogs
having their day include a pair
terriers that symbolize Scotch
isky, a bulldog for trucks, the
ek greyhound for a busline, a
ston terrier and a basset for shoes
of course, a variety of hounds
bresenting dog food manufactur
ing coursss
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Kids in 1953
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United Press International
BUFFALO, N.Y. —The fifth graders at the Eggert Road Elemen
tary School did such a good job of predicting the future 25 years ago
their teacher decided to give them another try.
It was in 1953 that Dr. Richard Auerbach asked his pupils to
visualize what the world would be like in 1978. He placed the
prophecies in a time capsule that was opened last month.
The youngsters — now in their mid-30s — had accurately pre
dicted:
—Three-hour trans-Atlantic jet flights.
—Touch-dial telephones.
—Heavy use of computers.
—Space travel.
—Inflation.
So Auerbach decided a reunion was in order. He invited his former
pupils to his home Sunday.
The dozen who answered his call got quite a surprise: a yellow
school bus whisked them to Eggert Road and Room 5A, the latter
meticulously arranged in its 1953 pattern by Auerbach.
Auerbach, noting “it was legal to do it then, opened class with a
prayer. He said the “kids” received their 1953 predictions — marked
and graded — and settled down to describe the planet’s conditions a
quarter-century hence.
Auerbach then sealed the 2003 world view in a second time cap
sule.
Two of the students’ present occupations seemed to reflect a confi
dence in their 1953 oracles.
istorian says Indians
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CHICAGO — Historian Francis
on neW irkman wrote a vivid account of
pmentswl Jians hacking to pieces an elderly
n studyinj ilitia leader atop a kitchen table in
the F( -what is now New Hampshire.
? that asww'What Parkman, a noted 19th ceri-
for use inj&ry historian, did not mention is
the reason behind the grisly attack
tries Ferrii j n the 1680s — the militia leader
>ry agency 1 tricked a group of Indians 13
ipment oil ^ars earlier.
.merican E Francis Jennings, himself an his-
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dians as a gesture of goodwill to
irticipate in wargames. But he
ized the opportunity to take them
oping coup ptive, hang 13 and ship several
callingup ! hundred to the West Indies as
printing waves.
“There is a reporting of atrocities
the Indians in all the gory de
ls,” Jennings said, “but you just
I) not get descriptions of atrocities
in the other side. ’’
Jennings heads the Center for the
listory of the American Indian at
icago’s Newberry Library. The
iter is working to set the history
ntervie"’ F American Indians straight for
will co® assrooms.
a very* 1 ' T spent 34 years teaching every-
ing from 10th grade to graduate
type pft hool,” he said. “And for the most
jy Ceeft irt Indians were depicted as no-
iaries of^ ling but obstructions in the land-
nternatil !ape to be swept aside for civiliza-
■aph. M or as savage animals.”
— the(ft Jennings said only in recent years
settop^ live Americans’ attitude about In-
__ TeH 1 ans as savages changed, but it has
nanufaft )t yet fully filtered down to the
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and after that Indians are pretty
much forgotten, except that they
give some difficulty to settlers. In
dians were people usually
stereotyped with little cultural di
versity.”
Jennings said the depiction of In
dians in American schools comes
from a need for “justification of con
quest.”
“We’ve been stealing their land
and we have to put a good face on
it,” he said.
Dorene Wiese, a Chicago Indian
who participated in the center’s
workshop for teachers last summer,
said the high school she attended in
Minneapolis — a city with 10,000
Indians — offered virtually no mate
rial on Indians.
“The treatment of Indians in the
school turned me off to history,”
said Wiese, 29. “There were a few
sentences about Pocahontas and
things like that. I got the subliminal
message it was not cool to be an
American Indian.”
Jennings said a gradual change in
attitudes toward Indians reflects
improving race relations in the
United States, heightened con
sciousness among America’s 800,000
Indians and the growing numbers of
Indians in the educational system.
Jennings said textbooks are
plagued with “overt omissions like
leaving out the entire culture and
history” of the Indians and
“mythmaking — rationalizing con
quest in the name of progress and
expansion. ”
Jennings said every school child
knows about Indian scalping. But it
is not commonly known that settlers
also placed bounties on Indian
scalps and heads and that fron
tiersmen in the Rocky Mountains
“boasted gloves of Indian skins. ”
“Our purpose is not to substitute
a heroic image of the Indian for the
villain image,” Jennings said. “We
just are trying to give a balanced
film on Kennedy’s life obtained from
the public library.
“The years I’ve been here, it’s
been one of our traditions and loyal
ties,” Rodriguez said.
There are reminders of Kennedy
throughout the school. Its sports
teams are called “the Rockets,” be
cause of Kennedy’s interest in the
space program, its colors are green
and white in recognition of Ken
nedy’s Irish ancestry. Pictures of the
late president, memorials and a
framed copy of his inaugural address
presented to the school by Sen.
Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., adorn
the walls.
David Ochoa, 28, an assistant
principal and “Kennedy buff,” led
student delegations at their own ex
pense to the national cemetery at
Washington in 1974 and to Dealy
Plaza in Dallas in 1975 to lay
wreaths in memory of Kennedy.
Ochoa is proud of a framed copy
of Kennedy’s last official speech,
made at the dedication of Brooks Air
Force Base on Nov. 21, 1963, in
which Kennedy said: “This nation
has tossed its cap over the wall of
space and we have no choice but to
follow it.”
The speech is backed by a piece of
plywood cut from the stage on
which Kennedy stood to make the
speech the day before he was shot
by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas.
A cramped schedule prevented
Kennedy from answering an invita
tion signed by 18,000 area residents
to dedicate the school or for his wife
to accept an honoraiy degree at a
local university.
“The students were optimistic
until the last minute that he would
show up,” Ochoa said. “The Secret
Service had come to the school just
in case he could make it.”
Kennedy had promised Gonzalez
he would return in early 1974 to
dedicate the school, and perhaps for
his wife to receive the honorary de
gree at nearby Our Lady of the Lake
College.
“We shook hands on it,” Gonzalez
recalls.
The next day was one of shock as
word arrived at the school that Ken
nedy had been shot.
“Just watching the kids, it was a
general shocked attitude, disbelief,
like it really didn’t happen,” recalls
Beatrice Brown, a counselor at the
school. “They came in and asked us:
‘Did it really happen? Is it really
true?”
Ochoa said school officials hoped
Edward Kennedy or some other
family member would formally ded
icate file school.
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