MALLARDS UPDATE FAN OF HISTORY Three parties show interest Q-C man retraces great-grandfather’s in pro hockey in Q-C. SPORTS steps in the Civil War. SALUTE TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2011 ● 75 CENTS ● AT QCTIMES.COM/GOANDDO: CHECK OUT THE NEW FEATURES OF THE IMPROVED GO AND DO WEBSITE. New award: BULLDOGS CHASE ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE Library is a ‘landmark’ Eastern Ave. branch is one of 20 facilities to get honor By Tory Brecht [email protected] The awards keep adding up for the Dav- enport Public Library’s Eastern Avenue Branch. The latest is a national accolade, with the nearly one-year-old library being named one of 20 “landmark” libraries in the United States. The new Landmark Libraries program showcases buildings that feature innova- tive designs. A group of 16 judges — pri- marily library directors and architects — evaluated submissions sent in by libraries from across the country.Criteria included overall design and construction excel- Photos by Larry Fisher/QUAD-CITY TIMES lence, sustainability,functionality,inno- Students in an Advanced Placement psychology class at Bettendorf High School listen to teacher Kelly vation and beauty. Ager on Monday. Bettendorf is ranked No. 11 on the list of top 50 schools in Iowa with the most students “We’ve now won state, regional and who take Advanced Placement exams. national awards,”library director LaWanda Roudebush said. “I’m very proud of that.” In February,the library and general con- tractor Bush Construction garnered a Bettendorf ranks high — LIBRARY | A4 Chicago gets on advanced classes By Kay Luna 1st new mayor [email protected] Hanging outside the main office, where it’s hard to miss it, a huge in decades yellow-and-black wall display salutes some of the biggest stars of Rahm Emanuel sworn in; Bettendorf High School’s student faces many challenges body. Not the athletes. The Associated Press “Although we do have some of CHICAGO — Rahm Emanuel was that down that way,”principal sworn in Monday as Chicago’s first new Jimmy Casas said with a laugh. mayor in more than two Instead, in this most prominent spot, the school highlights its AP decades, a historic power Students at Bettendorf High School listen to teacher Kelly Ager. shift for a city where the Scholars — students who take the most Advanced Placement courses retiring Richard M. Daley HOW IS THE IOWA AP was the only leader a at the high school and score highest ON THE WEB whole generation had on their exams, he said. INDEX CALCULATED? The display underscores the To learn more, go online: ever known. ■ iowaapindex.org school’s big push for students to The current scores for Iowa’s The former White ■ apcentral.collegeboard.com Emanuel House chief of staff took take more challenging, college- accredited public schools are based the oath of office at level Advanced Placement courses on the number of Advanced Placement 12th: Prince of Peace Academy and downtown’s Millennium and exams — and that push is pay- exams taken by their students (in any College Preparatory, Clinton, index of 1.00 Park, one of the signature ing off. grade) in 2010, divided by the number 31st: Muscatine High School, index accomplishments in Bettendorf is ranked 11th on a list of 2010 graduating seniors. For exam- of .62 Daley’s efforts to trans- of the top 50 Iowa high schools on ple, 12,975 Advanced Placement 37th: Pleasant Valley High School, form Chicago from a the 2011 Iowa AP Index, which is exams were taken at Iowa’s public high Bettendorf, index of .55 based on the ratio of how many stu- gritty industrial hub into schools in 2010, while 34,334 students 40th: Assumption High School, Dav- dents took Advanced Placement Daley a sparkling world desti- graduated that year. That makes the enport, index of .53 exams and how many students were nation. Emanuel later state’s AP index .38, meaning one AP 42nd: Davenport West High School, in the school’s senior class during a headed to the fifth-floor office of City exam was taken by about every 2.6 index of .48 two-week testing period in 2010. Hall that was Daley’s lair for 22 years — a students graduating in Iowa that year. 44th: Bettendorf is the highest-ranking Davenport Central High longer tenure than anyone, including his Here’s how Quad-City area schools School, index of .48 legendary father, ever occupied it. Quad-City area school on the list, although seven others from the area ranked on the 2011 Iowa AP Index: 49th: Clinton High School, index of .43 “We must face the truth,”Emanuel said 11th: Bettendorf High School, index 50th: Wilton Junior-Senior High in his inaugural speech. “It is time to take — SCHOOL | A3 of 1.01 School, index of .40 — CHICAGO | A3 Lawmakers push for more safety in kids’ football helmets By Frederic J. Frommer The Associated Press Q-C coach: More education WASHINGTON — A major football helmet manufac- turer has sharply increased its Washington lobbying this will make youth sports safer year, responding to a congressional push to come up with By Dan Angell new safety standards for children’s football helmets. [email protected] Riddell, which makes helmets for both kids and adults and is the official helmet of the NFL, spent $80,000 in In his seven years coaching youth football in Daven- the first quarter of this year lobbying on new legislation port, Troy Cirian hasn’t seen his players become part of that could lead to federal regulation of youth football hel- the growing number of youth football players suffering mets. The company,which has come under criticism concussions. from one of the bill’s sponsors for claiming that its prod- He admitted part of that is because he coaches kids uct reduces concussions, had spent almost nothing on who are new to football and aren’t hitting hard yet. But lobbying last year. he also thinks the emphasis he and other coaches place At the same time, the group that sets voluntary stan- on educating their players about the dangers of football AP FILE PHOTO dards for helmets, the National Operating Committee on John Shifflett, a Virginia Tech athletic trainer has helped them stay safe. Standards for Athletic Equipment, last month hired a and helmet impact field data recorder, sets up “We take time the first week of practice to go through Washington lobbyist for the first time since the group’s the proper practice of tackling,”said Cirian, who serves helmet data equipment next to the Virginia establishment in 1969. The group is funded by license as the coordinator for the Greater Quad-City Youth Tech football team practice on campus in — HELMETS | A4 Blacksburg, Va., last year. — COACH | A4 BUSINESS . .A7 NATION/WORLD . .A5 Q-C AREA . .B1 SPORTS . .D1 64 40 CLASSIFIEDS . .C3 OBITUARIES . .B4-B5 RECORD . .B2 TV GRID . .C4 HIGH LOW COMICS . .B6 OPINION . .A9 SALUTE . .C1 WEATHER . .A10.