Eliminate the guessing game ...
Honored
Principal receives Anne Frank Award.
T
he principal of North
Farmington High School
will be co-recipient of the
Anne Frank Award in recognition of
his leadership role in raising student
awareness about, and engagement in,
significant humanitarian events.
"Rick Jones embodies the ideals of
Anne Frank in his unique teaching
methods and intense desire to move
students, initiating schoolwide inter-
disciplinary studies based around a
theme:' said the New York-based Anne
Frank Center, USA, which created the
annual award in 2003.
During the last three years, Jones
has forged a friendship with Tim
Salem, assistant principal of Danbury
High School in Connecticut. This year,
their schools partnered to help raise
$100,000 to build "Promise School" in
Sudan through the Save the Children
Foundation, which nominated the duo
for the Anne Frank honor. The intent
was to make a difference in the lives
of the Darfuri refugees. The "Promise
School" opened on Dec. 22.
The Anne Frank Award will be pre-
sented in New York on June 15, recog-
nizing Danbury High's documentary
films on Darfur, North Farmington
High's interdisciplinary studies and
their combined leadership in the
"Promise School" initiative. The award
carries a $1,000 honorarium.
The honor is named for the German
teenager whose diary of her family's
victimization by Nazi Germany during
World War II while hiding in Holland
reinforced the horrors of the Holocaust.
It celebrates young people and educa-
tors who believe in these inspirational
words of Anne Frank, "It only takes a
moment to start to improve the world"
— and also put them into action.
Jones, Michigan's 2008-2009 High
School Principal of the Year, is in his 36th
year in public education. He said he was
humbled by the Anne Frank honor.
"It is a tribute to our kids, our staff
and our school district — for their
open minds and open hearts, for car-
ing about each other and about oth-
ers," he told the IN.
Jones' travels since 2004 have shaped
his desire to build a school culture of
moving students from awareness to
activism on issues "beyond our school's
footprint" — studies focusing on topics
ranging from civil rights to genocide to
"good earth:"
This didn't begin as a noble idea but
rather from him not wanting to get
fired when the school's theater depart-
ment wanted to perform the counter-
cultural musical Hair. To make that
happen, Jones introduced study of the
1960s with its in-your-face confronta-
tional attitudes and activism.
Interdisciplinary studies each
school year became the norm.
The year dedicated to "Humanity
in Crisis: Genocide" triggered student
activism from Armenia to Darfur.
Students, for example, lobbied the
Michigan Legislature to pass a dives-
titure bill regarding Sudan. Another
activity included hosting Paul
Rusesabagina, the real-life hero of
Hotel Rwanda. ❑
Bahrain Envoy Speaking
The Institute for Retired Professionals
(IRP) of the Jewish Community Center
of Metropolitan Detroit has announced
that Her Excellency Houda Nonoo,
ambassador, Kingdom of Bahrain, will
speak on Monday, June 29, at 7:30 p.m.
at the West Bloomfield JCC.
Ambassador Nonoo is the first
Jewish ambassador (the country
boasts only 36 Jews) posted abroad
by any Arab country. This appear-
ance was arranged by Florence
LoPatin, president of IRP and Shirley
Duchtman, IRP's program chair.
The IRP provides an intellectual
and social environment within the
Jewish community for mature adults.
It offers a forum, through self-directed
interest groups and special events, for
persons who wish to creatively use
their experience, knowledge and talent
for lifelong learning to enrich them-
selves and their community.
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I'm sure it's nothing.
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Is it a fever?
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I'm sure it's nothing.
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Called (248) 661 - 8230.
2:07 p.m.
Saw the doctor and got a prescription.
5:00 p.m.
He's feeling better already.
North Farmington's Rick Jones
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