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NUMBER 159 TH ED AILY EASTERN NEWS .COM Football players THE DAILY honored Sports Network NCAA Division I AA preseason football selections EASTERN NEWS Page 8 Sports Advanced News bri efs: Placement Music of the gets help Middle Ages Choragos Ensemble will present from their music of the middle ages at Newman Catholic Center In Charleston on Wednesday, July 16 at 7 pm. Formed In 1999, Choragos Eastern selects Its genre mainly from the Alamaire collection of manu­ scripts which are choir books used for celebrations in the Burgundia­ Minds Hapsburg Empire In the first three decades of the 16th Century. Choragos was formed by the • College Board request of the Alamaire Foundation In Belgium. selects two Richard Rossi and Patricia Eastern professors Poulter of the Music Dept. at Eastern are members of this vocal to look over the ensemble. The group will tour France and Germany following placement exams ANGELA HARR IS/ STA FF their Eastern performance. Other Former Eastern professor Giles Henderson now spends his days in aerobatic competition. members include Sherezade taken yearly by Panthaki, Stephen Sieck, R. Daniel high school Hughes, Jonathan Borchardt and Fred Stoltzhus. The ensemble students. makes their base from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. By Angela Harris For more Information call the NEWS EDITOR Eastern professor music department at 581-3010. Professors William Addison and Cart Brito of Eastern's Psychology department, recently participated Blood drive In a reading of the college board's Advanced Placement exams In Daytona Beach, FL. The AP pro­ gram allows high-school students to takes to the sky at Student enroll In college level coursework and then take the exams for those By Angela Harris uninformed person. • out of the back of a pickup truck courses . NEWS EDITO R Henderson's stunt plane was built on a rope ladder and Into the air­ Addison was a by lbm Cassutt for the primary craft. • Henderson won four Rec Center table -leader reason to race. "It was popular national championships with that for the exams Michigan proved positive this back In the 60's, • and "as a young­ plane which Is a Clip-Wing Cub. he l p i ng past week-end for Giles ster I had a great admiration for Henderson, who retired Wednesday will mark the day of "develop the Henderson, a retired professor an airshow pilot named Pete December 2000, spoke of his time 75 year old Darrell Eaton's 200th criterion used from Eastern, as he won awards In Myers." Myers had a clip-wing away from Eastern, blood donation, (a total of 25 gal­ toward points aerobatic competitions. A Cub and a Cassutt. "A few years "After spending 30 years In the lons) enough blood to save up to on the essay" sequence of individual manuevers back Mr. Myers had retired from classroom and working with stu­ 600 lives. he said. Held William Addison graded like an olympic event airshow demonstration flying at dents, It's an adjustment to be "I j ust thought {donating blood) In June at Daytona,Brito was a read­ would be, for difficulty by a panel 85 years old. • Myers' other air­ abruptly away from that.· "On was a good idea,· Eaton said." Not er of the exams. Approximately 1.7 of 15 j udges, brought the award craft had been donated to aviation the other hand, It afforded an only for others who need blood, but million exams from 19 disciplines for Henderson. Henderson flies museums but Henderson pur­ opportunity to pursue Interests maybe one day for myself. were graded by at least 6,000 read­ his experimental plane for many chased the Cassutt from Myers. and activities you really don't The Charleston Native and ers who represented the best col­ events such as the air-show at the "Way beyond my wildest have time to spend on those things retired businessman started donat­ leges and educators In the U.S., Coles County Airport held July dreams my boyhood hero's air­ when your'e In the middle of a Ing blood with the American Red Canada and abroad. Addison said, fourth week-end where he raced plane was something I might professional career. • Henderson Cross, while serving with the "there were 62,000 pairs of essays the Hawaiian Fire-Engine at a own, • said Henderson who then said his students would occasion­ United States Marine Corps. In psychology" In which he said has much lower speed than the 300 brought It home and restored it. ally check out his planes and some "Back when I started, the Red only been added to the exam ques­ mph. that the stunt-plane Is capa­ Myers had flown the plane would go on to pursue their own Cross volunteers used to make me tions In the last "10-12 years." ble of. On the safety of the aero­ throughout the U.S. In airshows In flying Interests. homemade peanut butter cook­ " Peop l e batics' Henderson said, "It's really the 60's and 70's. Henderson grew up In Ies., • Eaton said. "they don't do that trained In a matter of good risk-manage­ Henderson says his other plane Montana, started flying In the late anymore, but I still donate, j ust not one of two ment." that sits In the hangar with his 50's and came to Charleston In for the cookies. • questions " "Your'e out to entertain a public Cassutt, "has a national reputation 1966. Married with 2 boys, Eaton had to postpone his donat­ that would be and create an illusion as well, • In aerobatics and is actually a Henderson has grandchildren Ing after he was seriously Injured answered by Henderson spoke of air shows. much better aircraft for aerobatic ages 13 and 20. in a motorcycle accident after the psycholo­ "What we are really doing is actu­ flying than the midget racer Is.• leaving the Marina Corps. After gy essays," ally alot safer than It appears to an "We used It to pick up a stunt man his recovery, he started donating said Addison. again and began donating serious­ A total of 200 ly In 1953. readers CariBrito Eaton and the American Red examined the essays In Psychology Cross are asking the public to lend for a week. AP has a website where Alumni honored by Disney an arm with donations. When students and college professionals asked how he would encourage can log-on at www.apcentral.col­ others to donate, Eaton said, "I'd legeboard.com The website offers By Joaqun Ochoa teaching first grade In Clifton, Ill. tell them to read up on It and find an Insight about the exams includ­ MANAG ING EDITO R "My students range from learning disabled, men­ out how many lives you can save. It Ing writing, development, scoring, tally impaired, children with autism, communication doesn't hurt any. • analysis, and validity of the exams. disorders and everything In between,· McLaughlin The donations will begin For each AP course, an exam is Eastern alumni Barbara McLaughlin, a 1971 gradu­ said. Wednesday, July 16 from 1- 6 pm administered at each participating ate, was selected as an honoree for the 2003 Disney's McLaughlin was nominated by one of her students, (with Eaton's donation taking place school around the world. American Thacher Awards. Michael Frerichs with the help of his mother, at 1pm) . While all blood types are Addison said, "Psychology is a McLaughlin, a kindergarten through third grade Elizabeth Frerichs. Frerichs, who's son Michael was a needed, there is a critical need for fast growing area, not every high teacher of special needs students at Chebanse, Ill., is student of McLaughlin for four years described her 0 negative and B negative blood. 0 school has psych, • to offer their stu­ one of 32 selected from more than 185,000 nominees. as a miracle worker. "My son had a very bad devel­ negative is the universal blood dents. The website explains of an The honorees were chosen by a national selection opment delay. He was fine until about 15 months old, type. because it can given to any­ upcoming national conference In comittee composed of distinguished educators that but after that things just didn't progress, he wasn't one in an emergency situation, Los Angelas that last year Involved include past Disney American ThacherAwards hon­ speaking," Frerichs said. regardless of that person's blood AP teachers of all levels, novices to orees. "I thought to myself, how is this child going to read type. B negative is a rare blood veteran AP readers, middle school McLaughlin has taught for 22 years, 20 of which or do math, the simple things. He wasn't even tying type, and it's Important that hospi­ and high school teachers, coun­ have been spent at Chibanse Elementary School, j ust his shoe laces, • Frerich said. tals have an adequate supply on selors, admlnlstators and profes­ south of Kankakee Ill. She spent her first year teach­ "I had a brand new child by the end of the year, She hand to help save lives.