DAVID DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL'S STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1954
DAVID DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL'S STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1954
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HIGHLANDER'S JUNE PERSON OF THE MONTH
HIGHLANDER'S JUNE PERSON OF THE MONTH
•American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and a six-time WNBA All-Star.
•Two-time Olympic gold medalist with the U.S. women's national basketball team.
•Detained and arrested on smuggling charges by Russian customs officials after cartridges containing less than a gram of medically prescribed hash oil were found in her luggage. She had been playing basketball with the Russian Premier League during the WNBA off-season. Her trial began on July 1, and she pleaded guilty to the charges. On August 4, she was sentenced to nine years in prison. In November 2022, Griner was transferred to the Russian penal colony IK-2. US officials stated that she was "wrongfully detained." On December 8, Griner was released in a prisoner exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.
HIGHLANDER'S MAY PERSON OF THE MONTH
HIGHLANDER'S MAY PERSON OF THE MONTH
•Mexican journalist who was given the 2023 IPI-IMS World Press Freedom Hero award.•Honored for decades of fearless reporting on Mexican corruption despite targeted efforts to silence her.•"Aristegui has been subject to a range of abuses at the hands of the Mexican state and other powerful actors, including smear campaigns and politically motivated firings. She and her family were illegally targeted with Pegasus surveillance beginning in 2015, in one of the first known uses of the powerful spyware against journalists."
HIGHLANDER'S APRIL PERSON OF THE MONTH
HIGHLANDER'S APRIL PERSON OF THE MONTH
•American rocker whose career spans over five decades.•Considered the "Godfather of Shock Rock." •Founder of Solid Rock Teen Centers, a faith-based organization whose primary mission is "to make an everlasting difference in the lives of teens by helping them meet the spiritual, economical, physical, and social needs... ...in the community by offering a safe, engaging environment during non-school hours." •Solid Rock Teen Centers maintain that “a teen’s worst enemy is too much time on their hands." Solid Rock provides the music, arts, vocational programs and fellowship that challenge teens to discover their passion through music, dance, video and sound production, self-expression, and creativity.
HIGHLANDER'S MARCH PERSON OF THE MONTH
HIGHLANDER'S MARCH PERSON OF THE MONTH
•American cellist who was born and partially raised in Paris to Chinese parents and educated in New York City•Child prodigy who performed from the age of four and a half. •Graduated from the Juilliard School and Harvard University and attended Columbia University and has performed as a soloist with orchestras around the world. He has recorded more than 90 albums and received 19 Grammy Awards.•Recently played to a sold-out New York audience “Song of the Birds,” a Catalonian folk song that was a favorite of the eminent cellist Pablo Casals, who performed it as a call for peace during the Spanish Civil War.•“Ladies and gentlemen, the Elgar Cello Concerto was written in 1919, right after the Great War—the Great War that we said would never happen again,” Ma told the audience.
HIGHLANDER'S FEBRUARY PERSON OF THE MONTH
HIGHLANDER'S FEBRUARY PERSON OF THE MONTH
•Former NASA astronaut for six years.•First African American female astronaut tp travel to space in 1992. •Doctor, astronaut, and engineer. •She has written books and appeared in movies such as Star Trek. •Graduated from Morgan Park High School when she was 16 years old.•She later went to Stanford and Cornell.
Damar Hamlin
Damar Hamlin
- Hamlin is a 24-year-old NFL safety for the Buffalo Bills.
- Hamlin suffered a life threatening injury in the first quarter of the Jan. 2 Monday Night Football game against the Cincinnati Bengals. After tackling a Bengals' receiver, Hamlin stood up, took two steps, and collapsed on to the turf. He went into cardiac arrest and was given CPR for 10 minutes before his heart was revived on the field. Five days later, doctors miraculously reported that he is neurologically intact.
- Hamlin hosted a toy drive that collected up to $6 million after his accident. The toy drive included star quarterbacks Tom Brady and Russell Wilson. The money will go towards Hamlin's charitable foundation which does more toy drives, back to school drives, kids camps, and more.
- The 'P' standing for "Pay it no mind", Marsha P. Johnson is an iconic figure of the Gay Rights Movement of the 1960s and 70s.
- Marsha experienced bullying and assault when expressing her true identity, and spoke against transphobia and created a safe haven for transgender youth, called the STAR House, with help of her friend Sylvia Rivera. Having previously experienced homelessness, Johnson and Rivera wanted to help kids who went through what they did.
- “I’ll always be known [for] reaching out to young people who have no one to help them out, so I help them out with a place to stay or some food to eat or some change for their pocket. And they never forget it. A lot of times I’ve reached my hand out to people in the gay community that just didn’t have nobody to help them when they were down and out.”
HIGHLANDER'S NOVEMBER PERSON OF THE MONTH
HIGHLANDER'S NOVEMBER PERSON OF THE MONTH
- Shelby is the owner of @fosterkittenlove on Instagram. She began her journey fostering kittens as a 17-year-old in 2011 shortly after she started volunteering once a week at the Cat Adoption Team in Sherwood, Oregon. Her duties as a volunteer included feeding the kittens dinner, giving them fresh water, changing their litter, making sure they had toys, and scrubbing feces off the kennel floors, walls and occasionally the ceiling.
- Shelby has recently created a non-profit called Shelby's Kitten Safehouse where she continues to rescue kittens and find them homes.
- "I would love nothing more than to continue helping cats and kittens and continue expanding my knowledge of rare congenital conditions and spreading awareness on how these kittens can be helped."
HIGHLANDER'S OCTOBER PERSON OF THE MONTH
HIGHLANDER'S OCTOBER PERSON OF THE MONTH
- Alexander Medellín is known as the “Bat Man of Mexico.” He is a professor of ecology and conservation at the Institute of Ecology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
- Medellín uses community ecology, plant-animal interactions, population biology, and molecular ecology to solve conservation problems. He and his team have designed and implement a three-pronged strategy where research, environmental education, and conservation actions feedback into each other and develop activities in his projects. His bat pollination research has saved the agriculture industry millions of dollars.
- Medellin said he had already determined to be a bat biologist when he held a bat for the first time when he was 13 years old.
HIGHLANDER'S SEPTEMBER PERSON OF THE MONTH
HIGHLANDER'S SEPTEMBER PERSON OF THE MONTH
- British activist, humanitarian, and lawyer. McLean is the founder of Justice Defenders (formerly African Prisons Project, or APP), which is based in Uganda and seeks to improve the lives of people imprisoned in Africa.
- Founded in 2007 as African Prisons Project, Justice Defenders is a registered UK charity and US nonprofit with nearly 350 people working across three African countries. It trains paralegals and lawyers within defenceless communities to provide legal services for themselves and others. "Because everyone deserves a fair hearing."
- "From Uganda to the United States, we are living amidst a global justice crisis," states the Justice Defenders website. "Worldwide, three million men, women, and children are being held in overcrowded prisons without a trial. Countless voices are lost in the noise. But we are listening."
