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TODAY IN HISTORY On March 1, 1932, Charles A. Lindbergh the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, N.J. (Remains identified as those of the child were found the following May.) On this date: In 1790, President George Washington signed a measure authorizing the first U.S. Census. In 1809, the Illinois Territory came into existence.

TODAY Monday Lunch at Mulberry 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Exploring faith in the business community. Ann Smith, CPA, will be the speaker. Hot food menu. Mulberry United Methodist Church, 719 Mulberry St.

745-8601. $5. TUESDAY Bibb County Board of Commissioners Meetings 9 a.m.-6 p.m. public hearings and board meetings held in Commission Boardroom. Committee meetings held in the Commission Conference Room.

Fourth floor, Bibb County Courthouse, 601 Mulberry St. 621-6344. Career Network of Macon Women of Achievement Luncheon 11:30 a.m. ballroom, Professional Sciences Building, Macon State College. 757-3517.

Reading by author Judith Ortiz 6 p.m. Ortiz will launch Middle Georgia 2010 Reading Series. She will read from her book, Latin Russell Auditorium, Middle Georgia College, Cochran. (478) 934-5201. Central High School Author Forum featuring Alex Flinn 7 p.m.

This is the fourth annual forum featuring young adult author Flinn. She will discuss her books and Reception and book signing to follow. Fine Arts Auditorium, Central High School, 2155 Napier Ave. Fax information for by three days in advance to (478) 744-4385 or e-mail DAY-bY-DAY to send medical supplies, food and clothes to assist the country in its re- covery from the earthquake. More in- formation can be found at the Web site or by calling Nicole at 404-313-9246.

There will be a Gold Sock on Friday, March 12, starting at 7 p.m. in the fellowship hall of Riverside United Methodist Church. The dance is a benefit for the upcoming mission trip to Uganda. Host Ben Sandifer will be playing songs from the 1940s to the The request line is open. Should be a lot of fun.

Plan on having a magnificent Mon- day. Reach Gris at 744-4275 or com con State College. Other student finalists were Daniel Whatley, Central Fel- lowship Christian Academy; John Greene, Central High; Jenni Seale and Catherine Taylor, First Presbyterian Day School; Zach Zion, Howard High; Jasmine Hill, North- east High; Andrew Bennett, Rutland High; Hania Bisat, Stratford Academy; Caroline Jackson, Tattnall Square Acad- emy; Cameron Jones, West- side High; and James Owens, Hutchings Career Center. Twiggs County also an- nounced its STAR student as Kristen Hope Brown. STAR teacher is biology teacher Candida Fielding.

Each year, the Student Teacher Achievement Recog- nition program honors a top senior from each high school in Georgia, as well as each stu- most influential teacher. Students are nominated at the high school level when they have the highest score in one sitting on the Scholastic As- sessment Test taken through the November test date of their senior year. Student nominees must also be in the top 10 percent or among the top 10 students in their class. The STAR student awards are coordinated by the Profes- sional Association of Georgia Educators Foundation and local chamber of commerce organizations. Boltri and Brown, as well as other midstate county win- ners, will compete March 15 in the regional STAR student competition to be held in Ma- con.

That winner will then move on to compete for the state title. Private schools may team up to offer classes Some midstate private schools are considering team- ing up to offer specialized courses to students, a private school headmaster said. Private school leaders met recently to consider starting a Middle Georgia Independent School Consortium, Tattnall Head of School Larry Collins said. For example, if a few Tatt- nall students want to take an Advanced Placement Music Theory course, it may not be affordable for the school to pay an instructor, so private schools may ask one expert teacher to offer the course and open it up to other private school students also wanting the same class. Also, public schools have started a new integrated math program that teaches students starting in ninth grade some algebra, geometry and other math concepts.

If those stu- dents then transfer to private schools, private schools sure in which math class to place the student. The col- laborative approach would help the student take different math courses simultaneously, Collins said. Collins said the private schools are creating a list of teachers expert in certain subjects and would take turns as the host sites. The offerings may start as a summer pro- gram, he said. all want to offer select he said.

coopera- tive effort may help all of bibb public schools highlight tech programs Since February was Ca- reer, Technical and Agricul- tural Education month, Bibb County public schools invited community stakeholders and the media to view programs offered to students. Howard High focuses on teaching as a profession, and programming and other computer-related skills. Rut- land High has a concentration on architectural drawing and design. Southwest has law and justice, and Westside High fo- cuses on construction. Northeast offers a plant science and horticulture path- way designed for students to become oriented to the com- prehensive program of agri- cultural education.

Central offers a broadcast and video production focus, while Hutchings Career Cen- ter offers flight operations, culinary arts, an automotive program, health-care sci- ence, interactive media and small-business administration, according to a school system news release. Wesleyan students honored for community service Wesleyan College in Macon was named to the 2009 Presi- Higher Education Com- munity Service Honor Roll, according to a news release. It is the highest federal recogni- tion a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement. Wesleyan is one of 115 schools nationally, and four in Georgia, to receive the Honor Roll with Distinction Award. State clarifies position on cutting down school days The Georgia Department of Education was recently asked to give the state House and state Senate thoughts about what should be done if the revenue continues to decline and the state is faced with even more of a deficit.

One possible consideration mentioned in a meeting was to shorten the school year, ac- cording to a news release from the GDOE. Superintendent of schools Kathy Cox issued the fol- lowing statement: believe there is a need for clarification about the Department of Edu- position regarding the state budget. I maintain that drastic and severe cuts hurt teachers and students and negatively impact the progress we have made in recent years. If there are further cuts to (school system funding) then we expect things to be business as usual. While we fully recognize the severity of our revenue shortfall, we are not in favor of additional cuts to public K-12 Cox also said to cut planning days for teachers.

Peach schools to start enrolling pre-k students Peach County will register students who will start kin- dergarten in the 2010-11 school year March 9 from 5 to 7 p.m. in the training room of the Peach County Board of Edu- cation, according to a school news release. Students being enrolled in kindergarten must be 5 years old by Sept. 1. To register a child, the following items must be pro- vided: a completed registra- tion packet, the Social Security card, an original cer- tified birth certificate, proof of immunization (Form 3231), a current Ear, Eye, and Dental Form 3300, two documents to show proof of residency such as a current bill or lease agree- ment, picture identification of the person registering the child and proof of guardian- ship if someone other than the parent is present at registration.

Parents can pick up registration packets at any elementary school, preschool and daycare in Peach County before March 9. Telegraph staff writers Mike Stucka, Julie Hubbard and Andrea Castillo contributed to this report. EDUCATION, FROM 3A well as anchor. I feel like been joining together over the last Alexia Ridley, the news director, said the two sta- tions will have separate news meetings, but that usually one reporter will cover a story for both operations. She and general manager Keith True compared the two news teams to a news- paper that published morning and afternoon editions.

have more than one meeting in the said Ridley, who also hosts the news program at 10:30 p.m. weeknights. meet with the ABC team, and then meet with the FOX team. But still help each other. also have group meetings daily.

be working together, but there will be an affinity for their own True said unusual for a news operation to be spending money to add new staff when many news gathering operations across the country are freezing staff sizes or cutting back. Fourteen of the 25 new hires at the station are news-related, he said. have spent $2 million by the time True said. $1 million of that will be news-related Ridley said the station had about nine weeks to prepare to add the ABC signal and expand the news broadcasts from one to four Monday through Friday. have to give our engineers tremendous credit (for) getting (ABC) on the air Jan.

1 and get- ting all this ready in nine she said. Tyler Southard, the new weekend meteorologist and reporter, has only been in Macon for about two weeks. Like many of the new hires, trying to hit the ground running. trying to take in as much as said Southard, a re- cent graduate of Lyndon State College in Vermont. feel pret- ty confident that learn about important to the citizens here.

a matter of taking it in and getting a feel for Domurat said been try- ing to hang out with other re- porters and meet people in the community. a quick she said. Lake said she and the other veterans are doing their part to mentor the new staff in all things Middle Georgia. been a crash Lake said. been telling them HOW-ston, not And told them how impor- tant it is to add carnation pink to their wardrobe during Cher- ry Blossom To contact writer Phillip Ramati, call 744-4334.

passion for jazz is that of a listener, not a player. An unsuccessful attempt to learn violin as a child convinced him to drop any ambitions to make music himself. But even as a child, he could appreciate the sounds that jazz artists were making. Saunders was born in Spanish Harlem in New York. Many of the leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance were his neighbors.

The poet Countee Cullen was one of his teachers and Langs- ton Hughes lived in his building. His best friend was Richie Pow- ell, younger brother of bebop leg- end Bud Powell and a talented pianist in his own right. Saunders was also a dancer in a vaudeville variety act; once he performed to the accompaniment of Count band. He listened to jazz greats of- ten in their own homes as they created their signature sounds. He once turned down free drum lessons from Max Roach.

had an opportunity to meet Miles Davis when he first came to New Saunders said. got to New York by telling his father, who was a dentist, that if he allowed him to go to school in New York and get this out of his system, he would go back and study medicine. And when Miles got to New York, the first thing he did, he came up to Bud Saunders dropped out of high school so he could work to sup- port his family. He later got his diploma in his 30s. He worked in New printing industry, but was prevented from joining the union because he was black.

Ironically, his subordinate sta- tus opened up an opportuni- ty for him. As an assistant, he was moved from job to job, al- lowing him to learn a variety of skills. This qualified him to teach in vocational schools, first in New York and then in Hack- ensack, N.J. Saunders moved to Macon in 1973 to join the faculty of Macon Technical Institute, now Central Georgia Technical College. He taught graphic arts and print- ing until his retirement in 1992.

Saunders has been a member of the Lutheran Church of the Re- deemer since 1973. Jay Kramer, another mem- ber of the church, said he has attended almost all of Saun- jazz classes during the past five years. was something that I have always been interested Kram- er said. a true American art form, but people really un- derstand all the changes that have taken Saunders is especially quali- fied to teach the subject, Kram- er said. not just someone who researches the information, actually lived a lot of Kram- er said.

to the histo- ry that is George is a significant part of it as Kramer has talked Saunders into presenting a special theme for this lesson: own favorite jazz tracks. Saunders says he is motivat- ed by a desire to share the deep emotional satisfaction he gets from listening to jazz. hoping that what I do, the legacy that I leave, will be that people will at least feel a little bit of what I feel. I expect them to feel all that I feel, but a little bit of what I feel about the he said. SAUNDERS, FROM 3A WGXA, FROM 3A GRIS, FROM 3A BEAU TELEGRAPH George Saunders says as at home with digital music iPods and CDs as he is with his older recordings when it comes to jazz.

Man still missing two days after deadly wreck By Sunday evening, authorities had still not located a man who disap- peared from a deadly traffic accident Friday morning, according to Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones. Jones said Henry Williams of Mon- roe County was still unaccounted for two days after a quad-cab pickup truck carrying him and six others crashed over a guardrail on Interstate 75 near the I-16 interchange. Shannon Hendricks, 29, of Culloden, died in the crash. The pickup crashed about 3 a.m., ap- parently after leaving Whiskey River nightclub in south Macon. Jones said Sunday that investigators had not yet determined who was driv- ing the pickup when it crashed.

Macon Police spokesman Lt. Eric Walker said Sunday that the police department had nothing to say about the case. Two of the survivors of the crash are brothers of Williams. Dan Maley.