From The November 1999 Issue
USDA Dedicates George Washington Carver Center
By Jim Butcher
On a recent sun-splashed afternoon, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman joined a distinguished assemblage of USDA officials, a congressman, a presidential assistant, Simpson College (Iowa), Iowa State University and Tuskegee University (Alabama) students and faculty and guests to dedicate USDA’s newest Beltsville facility to the “Wizard of Tuskegee,” the great African American agricultural inventor-innovator, Dr. George Washington Carver.
The October 6 (1999) ceremony, conducted outside the entrance to the impressive new USDA facility on Sunnyside Avenue, was chaired by WRC-TV News Anchor Debbi Javis. It was the crown jewel of a week-long series of Washington-based activities honoring Dr. Carver.
Evening Book Discussion
Sinclair Lewis was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature. His biographer, Mark Schorer, describes the appearance of his novel. Main Street, in 1920 as “the most sensational event in 20th century American publishing history.”
Members of the Friends of the Beltsville Library Evening Book Discussion Group will be making up their own minds about this assertion as they read Main Street in preparation for their meeting on Wednesday, November 10th (1999) at 7:30 pm at the Beltsville Library’s small meeting room.
St. Joseph’s Students Elected to Do Good
By Cindy Glass
The 1999-2000 members of St. Joseph’s School student government were inducted on October 28, 1999, during a school assembly. They are President Kathleen Cullinane, Vice President Lucy Stefanelli, Secretary Donna Javellana and Treasurer Matthew Lynch. Class Representatives are: (1st Grade) Mary Jo Roher and Matt Waller, (2nd Grade) Andrew Fisanich and Hilary DeVos (3rd Grade) Justin Wasno and Sam Stefanelli, (4th Grade) Rosina Fleri and Danny Schanne, (5th Grade) Matt Fridell and Lisa Nicholson, (6th Grade) Jeffrey Williams and Brian Love, (7th Grade) Joanna Delfin and Michael Hass, (8th Grade) Kristen Deane and Gerald Oliverio.
The Student Government Association is currently (October 1999) sponsoring a food drive to assemble one hundred Thanksgiving baskets for the needy.
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