From rwatkins at eosc.edu Thu Feb 1 10:14:57 2007 From: rwatkins at eosc.edu (Rhoda Watkins) Date: Thu Feb 1 10:09:00 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Menu for Thurs. Feb. 1 Coffee Shop Closed (again) Message-ID: <45C21201.8030509@eosc.edu> Hello out there, Wow! I can't believe it's snowing outside! After all the ice we had, I didn't think we needed anything else like that. Be very careful driving today. I know most of the main roads may be pretty safe, but I saw where a friend of mine (who shall remain nameless to prevent her students teasing her about her driving and having to write an essay as punishment) had slid off in a big ditch yesterday on Cravens Road just a few minutes after I had talked to her. Thank goodness I don't think there was any damage done, and by the time I came along a few minutes later, she already had a wrecker there, pulling her out. I watched the TV closings list last night over and over to see if Wilburton Schools were going to be added and they never were, so this morning I made sure my daughter was up and getting ready for school before I left the house. Then after I got to work and had the radio on, I heard Dougo announcing that Wilburton Schools were closed today after all. I tried calling the house several times before she finally called me back and in that little voice she uses when she thinks she's in trouble, she said, "Mom, I waited outside for 20 minutes and the bus never came." I told her then that the bus would not be coming, that there was no school and she could go back to bed. Of course, then she was too excited and wanted to go out and slide on the snow! We had three people call in sick or unable to drive in today because of slick roads, so the Coffee Shop will be closed and we'll just do the best we can with the people we've got. Our menu for today includes: Hamburger steak Mashed potatoes and gravy Green beans Baby carrots Broccoli and cauliflower mix Our fast food is good old Homemade Vegetable Beef Soup and Ham and Cheese Sandwiches. That ought to hit the spot on a cold day like this. And for dessert we have Apple Cobbler and Oreo Pudding. Slide on over (carefully) and eat with us, Rhoda ;-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070201/d59b4466/attachment.html From lcarey at eosc.edu Thu Feb 1 17:11:42 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Thu Feb 1 17:05:53 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] February is Healthy Relationship Awareness Message-ID: <45C273AE.2090306@eosc.edu> Hello Everyone: February marks the beginning of Healthy Relationship Awareness Month. As most begin to turn their focus toward Valentines day, romance is in the air, which makes it a good time to take a look at our relationships and make sure that they are healthy ones. Healthy relationships are characterized by trust, respect and the ability to share with one another. Relationships are based on the foundation of both partners being equal and that power/control (if any) be equally shared. Some of the characteristics of a healthy relationship are: Trust and support - do you support one another and each others quest for dreams and goals in life? Are you respecting of your partner's right to his/her own feelings, opinions, friends, interests, etc.? Trust and support mean that you value your partner as an individual. Respect - this is key. Do you listen to your partner, value their opinion and listen in a non-judgmental manner. Respect also involves making an effort to understand and affirm the other's emotions. Honesty and accountability - communicating openly and truthfully. Do you admit your mistakes ad accept responsibility for your own actions? Do you acknowledge past use of violence? These are three of the characteristics of a healthy relationship. Tomorrow I will present more. This month with our focus on Healthy relationships, we will be having several activities that allow you to examine your own relationships or the quest for a relationship. What do you desire in a mate? Have you found it? If you are not sure what you desire in a relationship or what you deserve, watch for flyers around campus, under dormitory doors and let us help you. To love, romance and fairy tale endings.....you have to kiss a lot of frogs and frogettes (is that a word) before you find the right person, but it is worth the journey. Levenia 465-1757 From lcarey at eosc.edu Thu Feb 1 17:29:20 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Thu Feb 1 17:23:11 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] February is "Black History Month" Message-ID: <45C277D0.1020105@eosc.edu> Good Evening: There is so many things that are going on this month - but one of my favorites is "Black History." As it is a time to reflect and expand one's knowledge base on the contributions of African-Americans to our society and way of life. Often times we never stop to think of how things came to be, or why we do things certain ways - it is our hope that we can enlighten you on a few. Marilynn Duncan, Brenton Duncan, NAACP/Psycho Club and myself will be bringing you daily information of achievements, contributions and legacy of African Americans. This week will begin by celebrating the lives of African-Americans who departed this world during 2006, that have inspired our lives and made our nation a better place in which to live. Ed Bradley: June 22, 1941-November 9, 2006 He was born in Philadelphia. He grew up in a single parent household and learned the value of hard work from his mother. He attended Cheyney State College graduating in 1964 with a degree in Education. His first job was teaching sixth grade. While he was teaching he moonlighted at KDAS in Philadelphia working for free and later minimum wage. He programmed music, read news and covered basketball games. His introduction to news reporting came during the riots in Philadelphia in the 1960's. In 1967 he landed a full-time job at the CBS-owned New York radio station WCBS. His distinctive body of work has been recognized with numerous awards, including 19 Emmy's. Bradley's 60 MINUTES interview with condemned Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh (March 2000) was the only television interview ever given by the man guilty of one of the worst terrorist acts on American soil. Bradley won an Emmy for his hour on 60 MINUTES II about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, "The Catholic Church on Trial" (June 2002). "Death by Denial" (June 2000) won a Peabody Award for focusing on the plight of Africans dying of AIDS and helped convince drug companies to donate and discount AIDS drugs. Ed Bradley also reported on the re-opening of the 50-year-old racial murder case of Emmett Till. Carl Maxie Brashear - born January 19, 1931 in Tonieville, KY and died July 25, 2006 in Portsmouth Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, VA. Carl Brashear was the first African American to become a U.S. Navy Master Diver in the early 1950's. In 2000, Brashear's military service was portrayed by Cuba Gooding, Jr. in the film Men of Honor. More information on outstanding African Americans will be forthcoming. We challenge you to learn more about the contributions of African Americans to our society. The library has a great display - drop by and expand your knowledge, because a Mind truly is a terrible thing to waste. Levenia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070201/c3c73180/attachment.html From lcarey at eosc.edu Fri Feb 2 09:43:28 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Fri Feb 2 09:37:20 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] "Healthy Relationship Awareness" Message-ID: <45C35C20.2040303@eosc.edu> Good Morning: Here are some more characteristics of a Healthy Relationship: Shared Responsibility - do you and your make make family and relationship decisions together? Do you mutually agree upon work distribution (being fair to both partners)? If you have children - do you share parental responsibilities and act as positive, non-violent role models for your children? Economic Partnership - in marriage or cohabitation, do you and your partner make financial decision together, ensuring that both partners benefit from financial arrangements? Negotiation and Fairness - Are you willing to compromise, accept change and seek mutually satisfying resolutions to your conflicts/disagreements? Non-threatening Behavior - do you and your partner talk and act in a manner promoting each others' feelings of safety in the relationship. You both should feel comfortable and safe in expressing self and in engaging in activities. Next week we will take a relationship quiz. Drop by the office if you have any concerns, desire more information or just need someone to talk to or utilize as a sounding board. Here's hoping all your choices and relationships are positive ones. Levenia 918-465-1757 1st Floor Miller Hall Campus Violence Prevention Project Office -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070202/7cc88f2f/attachment.html From rwatkins at eosc.edu Fri Feb 2 09:56:03 2007 From: rwatkins at eosc.edu (Rhoda Watkins) Date: Fri Feb 2 09:49:48 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Menu for Fri. Feb. 2 Happy Ground Hog's Day! Message-ID: <45C35F13.1040002@eosc.edu> Hi everyone, Well, today's the day we find out if the ground hog is going to see his shadow and give us 6 more weeks of winter. Or so the tradition says. The only thing is, the "official" ground hog is way off in Pennsylvania, and we're way out here in Oklahoma, where some people say we ought to go by a prairie dog, or maybe in this part of the state, an armadillo or maybe a cottontail rabbit or something somewhat local. I don't really want 6 more weeks of winter, but I'm not looking forward to the heat of summer either. I've found myself wanting to finish out the winter in hibernation lately. My daughter and I did go walk down into our woods yesterday just to look around at the snow. It's neat because you can tell what's been there before you by the tracks when it's snowed. Two of our little dogs went with us, and they had so much fun running and romping in the snow that I wished I'd brought a video camera or at least a regular camera. Some of our cats went also, and when we got down the hill to a little stream that runs through down there, one of them thought they could just saunter across the ice. Unfortunately it wasn't that thick, and after just a few steps, the cat got dunked and had to turn and scramble back to shore, shaking each paw with every step. The indignity! Susie was able to get out of the driveway today since they had moved the pickup to a slightly less risky location yesterday, so the Coffee Shop is open again for you fast food lovers, or people with scheduling conflicts. I bet a good percentage of you will be watching the Super Bowl this Sunday. Me, I'm one of those people you hear about that really doesn't even know who's playing, but I'm looking forward to seeing the new commercials. Due to the hefty price tag on every second of commercial time during the big game, advertisers really go all out to come up with the most unique, imaginative and memorable ideas to use for this time slot. I don't care which one of those overpaid fellows can kick the ball the farthest or run with it the fastest, I just want to get a good laugh out of the commercials. (And I hope there are no more wardrobe malfunctions this year.) Our menu for today includes: Beef tips and rice Oven fried potatoes Mixed vegetables Black eye peas Baked potato bar Hot rolls Our fast food for today is PIZZA again. Our new pizza cook is Crystal Tengbeh, so please make her welcome when you see her. And for dessert try a piece of Wacky Cake. Have a great weekend, Rhoda :-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070202/0a439df2/attachment.html From lcarey at eosc.edu Fri Feb 2 10:03:11 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Fri Feb 2 09:56:54 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] "Black History Month" Message-ID: <45C360BF.20902@eosc.edu> Good Day Everyone: Often when we think of contributions made to our lives/society - we tend to think of famous people and their contributions. However, some of the best contributions and inspirations comes from ordinary people just being themselves. Today's profiles are of individuals who have and should have an impact on our ways of life, but who were just being themselves. Arthur Winston - Was born March 22, 1906 in Oklahoma and died April 13, 2006 in Los Angeles, California. Arthur was a Los Angeles Metro employee for 72 years. His hourly salary was 41 cents when he began work for the Los Angeles Railway in 1924. He has set a record as the most reliable worker that the United States Department of Labor has ever chronicled. He worked for 72 years without ever being late and having only taken off a single day (in 1988 for the funeral of his wife Frances). In 1996, President Bill Clinton awarded him with an "Employee of the Century" citation for his work ethic and dedication. On is remarkable record: "It's easy. You just get up and go to work." and Winston on his 100th birthday, "It ain't no trouble. You've got to like your job in the first place. I don't lay around and play sick - work two days, sick five days. People are just using this sick leave business." The Arthur Winston Busyard (Division 5 in South Bay) was named in his honor in Los Angeles. His 100th birthday advice to kids growing up today? "My advice to them is to just get up and go to work." Mr. Winston is a great example and role model for all. James Cameron (1913-June 13, 2006) - Mr. Cameron was a lynching survivor/author, founder/director of America's Black Holocaust Museum, Inc. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On August 7, 1930 Mr. Cameron's life changed forever. A day before, he and two other young Black men were arrested for the robbery, rape and assault of a White couple in Marion, Indiana. James is in a cell in the Grant County Jail. There is a lynch mob outside numbering into the thousands. James is sixteen years old. The mob comes into the jail and grabs one of the men accused, with James, of the crime. He is beaten unconscious, dragged outside and lynched. The second man is then given the same treatment. The bodies of these two men, Tom Shipp, 18 and Abraham Smith, 19, hanging from a tree is depicted in a famous and disturbing photograph on the cover of ("A Time of Terror - A Survivor's Story" by James Cameron). The mob than returns to the jail for James. He is beaten and dragged out to the tree where his friends now hand and the rob is placed around his neck. It is at this moment that James remembers hearing what he describes an an angelic voice above the crowd say "Take this boy back, he had nothing to do with any killing or rape." Suddenly the hands that were beating him are now helping him. The rope is taken from around his neck and crowd clears a path for him to walk back to the jail. In interviews he later conducted with people who were in the crowd, no one remembers hearing any voice. Their reason for why the crowd did not lynch James: "You were lucky that night." Though James never admitted any guilt in the assault (he admits that he was there), he served 4 years in prison. The female victim later changed her story and confirmed that James had no part in the assault. Remember to visit the display in the library and keep reading. 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Student Loans are applied after the disbursement date located on your "Notice of Loan Guarantee and Disclosure Statement". **If you do not have your notice please stop by the Financial Aid office for a copy. OTAG, OLAP, BIA and Scholarships arrive at different times throughout the semester. **Do not reply to this email Thank you, Michelle L Hillyer Business Office -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070205/7fe51175/attachment.html From rwatkins at eosc.edu Mon Feb 5 10:00:48 2007 From: rwatkins at eosc.edu (Rhoda Watkins) Date: Mon Feb 5 09:53:49 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Menu for Manic Mon. Feb. 5 Message-ID: <45C754B0.2070202@eosc.edu> Hi everyone, I hope you all had a great weekend. A lot of thawing and melting took place, so instead of slogging through snow and slipping on ice this week, we're mired up in mud. Be careful either way. Our duck and goose seem to like it no matter what; water, mud, snow, ice, whatever, they just like it wet, and can always manage to find a puddle that's not totally frozen to stand in. The other critters have a different opinion, especially the cats. Myself, I can definitely do without a lot of mush to walk through. It seems like no matter how I try to divert it, all the runoff water on our hill comes straight down our driveway and our front path. It's not supposed to be too cold today, way up close to 50 and tomorrow closer to 60, then taking another downturn, with possible rain? later in the week, so you'd better enjoy today and tomorrow if you have outside things to do. Much sympathy goes out to Eddie Woods and family over the loss of his mother this past week. May God comfort them in this time of trial. Our menu for today includes: Chicken marsala served over pasta Steamed red potatoes Sweet peas Seasoned baby carrots Corn Rice Baked potato bar Hot rolls Our fast food is Meatball subs with Tator Puffs. And for dessert try a piece of Banana Split Cake. Have a great week, Rhoda :-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070205/efa6d0a3/attachment.html From lcarey at eosc.edu Mon Feb 5 10:22:34 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Mon Feb 5 10:15:30 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Healthy Relationship Awareness Message-ID: <45C759CA.9070601@eosc.edu> Good Morning: I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. Many people enter their first committed relationships during college. On the one hand, romantic relationships can be wonderful, bringing out the best in two people. On the other, even the healthiest relationships will have times when things are complicated, confusing, and challenging. Problems sometimes arise when two people have conflicting expectations of what their relationship "should" be like, are distracted by other academic or personal issues, or have difficulty communicating in ways their partner can really hear and understand., While the early months in a relationship are often effortless and exciting, successful long-term relationships involve ongoing effort and compromise by both partners. Because relationships skills are rarely "taught," sometimes one or both partners just may not know how to establish and maintain a healthy and mutually satisfying relationship. This week I will be focusing on Healthy communication and conflict resolution, strategies for weathering the normal "stormy" times, understanding how expectations impact relationships, and offering seven basic steps for maintaining a good relationship. I want to start to day by making you aware of your basic rights in a relationship. Basic Rights in a Relationship Adapted from Patricia Evans, 1992, The Verbally Abusive Relationship The right to emotional support. The right to be heard by the other and to be responded to with courtesy. The right to have your own point of view, even if it differs from your partner's. The right to have your feelings and experiences acknowledged as real. The right to live free from accusation and blame. The right to live free from criticism and judgment. The right to live free from emotional and physical threat. The right to live free from angry outbursts and rage. The right to be respectfully asked, rather than ordered. Know your rights and make sure that your relationship compliments rather than degrades you. You deserve the best and should never settle for less. Take care of you...... Levenia 918-465-1757 From lcarey at eosc.edu Mon Feb 5 11:01:44 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Mon Feb 5 10:54:43 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Black History Month Message-ID: <45C762F8.8020107@eosc.edu> Good Morning: We were recently discussing The History of Black History of it made us wonder how many of you know how this celebration came to be. So today our focus is on The History of Black History. Americans have recognized black history annually since 1926, first as "Negro History Week," and later as "Black History Month." What you might not know is that black history had barely begun to be studied - or even documented - when the tradition originated. Although blacks have been in America at least as far back as colonial times, it was not until the 20th century that they gained a respectable presence in the history books. We owe the celebration of Black History Month, and more importantly, the study of black history, to Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Born to parents who were former slaves, he spent his childhood working in the Kentucky coal mines and enrolled in high school at age twenty. He graduated within two years and later went on to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard. The scholar was disturbed to find in his studies that history books largely ignored the black American population - and when blacks did figure into the picture, it was generally in ways that reflected the inferior social position they were assigned at the time. Woodson, always one to act on his ambitions, decided to take on the challenge of writing black Americans into the nation's history. He established the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (now called the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History) in 1915, and a year later founded the widely respected Journal of Negro History. In 1926, he launched Negro History Week as an initiative to bring national attention to the contributions of black people throughout American history. Woodson chose the second week of February for Negro History Week because it marks the birthdays of two men who greatly influenced the black American population. Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. However, February has much more that Douglass and Lincoln to show for its significance in black American history. Did you know: February 23, 1868: W.E. B. DuBois, an important civil rights leader and co-founder of the NAACP, was born. February 3, 1870: The 15th Amendment was passed, granting blacks the right to vote. February 25, 1870: The first black U.S. senator, Hiram R. Revels (1822-1901), took his oath of office. February 12, 1909: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded by a group of concerned black and white citizens in New York City. February 1, 1960: In what would become a civil-rights movement milestone, a group of black Greensboro, N.C., college students began a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. February 21, 1965: Malcolm X, the militant leader who promoted Black Nationalism, was shot to death by three Black Muslims. These are some of the people and events that make February the perfect month to place a focus on Black History. We wait for the day when Black History is given equal attention and distribution in public school textbooks and education is continual throughout the learning process, not a one month focus during a calendar year. Thanks for reading. Marilynn, Brenton, Levenia, NAACP-Psycho Club -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070205/5306d419/attachment.html From rwatkins at eosc.edu Tue Feb 6 10:12:07 2007 From: rwatkins at eosc.edu (Rhoda Watkins) Date: Tue Feb 6 10:08:50 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Menu for Tues. Feb. 6 Message-ID: <45C8A8D7.2070607@eosc.edu> Hello everyone, Well, today is looking like a beautiful day outside, so get out and enjoy it if you get the chance. No, I don't mean you should skip class. Sorry. Just be sure and try to get out and take a nice walk or run for you more energetic types after class. We went to McAlester this past Saturday afternoon late and you could tell on the way up that there was progressively more damage to the trees as you got closer to McAlester. Thank goodness, it got dark and I didn't have to see too much of it. It's sad to think that beautiful trees that took decades to grow, were demolished in just a few hours, and even sadder to think how long it will be before what's left can grow back to a comparable size. And that's providing we don't get any more "ice events" like this one. We need to plant a tree every chance we get to make up for all the beautiful ones we have lost that provided wonderful shade, animal habitats, and necessary oxygen for our atmosphere. Our menu for today includes: Smoked pork chops Cheesy potatoes Gravy Black eye peas Brussel sprouts Rice Pasta bar Garlic bread Hot rolls Our fast food is Cheeseburgers and French Fries. And for dessert try a piece of Cookie Bar. Come on over, Rhoda :-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070206/76483ae5/attachment.html From lcarey at eosc.edu Tue Feb 6 16:54:14 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Tue Feb 6 16:47:53 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Black History Awareness Message-ID: <45C90716.9020400@eosc.edu> Good Afternoon: Today our featured person is Charles Drew. Charles Drew as a Medical Researcher born on June 3, 1904 in Washington, D.C. and died on April 1, 1950. As a youth, he excelled in the classroom and on the athletic fields. Later, as a student at Amherst College, he again distinguished himself in both areas. At Amherst, he was captain of the track and field team. He played football, too, and was an outstanding halfback. At his graduation, he was awarded the Mossman Trophy for having brought the most honor to the college during his four years there. In 1933, Drew received his medical degree from McGill University in Canada. Once more, his mental and physical gifts had propelled him to the top. He had received an academic prize, and had established track records that were not bettered for a number of years. Drew began his career in medical research at Columbia University. His research led to the discovery of a way to store blood plasma for later use. He established national blood plasma programs for the British and for the United States. Leaving is brilliant career in research behind, Dr. Drew became chief surgeon and chief of staff of Freedmen's Hospital in his native Washington, D.C. He held both positions at the time of his death. He won the Spingarn Medal for his contributions to humanity. On a dark night in 1950, an exhausted driver fell asleep at the wheel of his car and crashed, badly injuring himself. The accident happened in North Carolina, where racial segregation was practiced. Because the local hospital was designated "for whites only," the man could not be admitted. Within a short time, he bled to death. The driver was Dr. Charles Drew, the physician and medical scientist who pioneered the research on the preservation of blood. Ironically, his discoveries saved the lives of hundreds of thousands, both black and white, during World War II. As a result of the programs that Dr. Drew established for the British and the United States, countless lives were saved, but in the end, not his own. Keep reading....until tomorrow. Levenia, Marilynn, Brenton and NAACP/Psycho Club -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070206/12cb4b9e/attachment.html From lcarey at eosc.edu Tue Feb 6 16:59:44 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Tue Feb 6 16:52:10 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Healthy Relationships Message-ID: <45C90860.5080304@eosc.edu> Good Day Everyone: Today I want to discuss boundaries. Boundaries are important in determining the health of a relationship. Boundaries clarify where you stop and where I begin, which problems belong to you and which problems belong to me. What are boundaries? "Just as homeowners set physical property lines around their land, we need to set mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual boundaries around our lives to help us distinguish what is our responsibility and what is not..." (Dr. Henry Cloud) Each of us has boundaries, some of which go unspoken, in many areas of our lives. We set boundaries in regard to physical proximity and touch, the words that are acceptable when we are spoken to, honesty, emotional intimacy (such as how much we self-disclose to others). When one or both people in a relationship have difficulty with boundaries, the relationship suffers. Tomorrow we will address signs of Unhealthy Boundaries. Levenia 918-465-1757 From lcarey at eosc.edu Wed Feb 7 10:43:26 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Wed Feb 7 10:36:19 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Healthy Relationship Awareness Message-ID: <45CA01AE.5040100@eosc.edu> Good Morning: Today I want to share some signs of unhealthy boundaries in relationships. Signs of Unhealthy Boundaries: 1. Telling all. 2. Talking at an intimate level on the first meeting. 3. Falling in love with a new acquaintance. 4. Falling in love with anyone who reaches out. 5. Being overwhelmed by a person-preoccupied. 6. Acting on the first sexual impulse. 7. Being sexual for partner, not self. 8. Going against personal values or rights to please others. 9. Not noticing when someone invades your boundaries. 10. Not noticing when someone else displays inappropriate boundaries. 11. Accepting food, gifts, touch, sex that you don't' want. 12. Touching a person without asking. 13. Allowing someone to take as much as they can from you. 14. Letting others describe your reality. 15. Letting others define you. 16. Believing others can anticipate your needs. 17. Expecting others to fulfill your needs automatically. 18. Falling apart so someone will take are of you. Tomorrow we will look at what is Co-dependency? Co-dependene is a term that has been widely used in the last 10 years to describe relationships without clear boundaries. Although no longer in Vogue, the concept of co-dependency provides a useful framework for examining how we interact in relationships with others. Our culture portrays romantic love, in songs, television, and movies, as being a relationship in which the partners are inseparable, are nothing without each other, and one in which each partner derives her/his very sense of self from the other. While portrayed as the ideal, this is actually a description of a very unhealthy relationship. Read more tomorrow on this subject. For those who may be concerned about the focus being mainly on unhealthy relationships, there are two sides to the coin and we will get to what is good about relationships. But before you can enjoy the fruit you often have to remove the seeds. Until tomorrow..... Levenia 918-465-1757 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070207/2af5f9da/attachment.html From rwatkins at eosc.edu Wed Feb 7 10:58:20 2007 From: rwatkins at eosc.edu (Rhoda Watkins) Date: Wed Feb 7 10:50:51 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Menu for Wed. Feb. 7 Message-ID: <45CA052C.1000505@eosc.edu> Hi folks, Wasn't yesterday lovely? It seemed like springtime outside yesterday evening, what with the sun shining, and the birds singing like I hadn't heard them sing in months. I even opened the front door early this morning and surprised a couple of deer in our front yard. (I thought maybe some of them had been visiting since one of our apple trees looked a little bit gnawed on.) That kind of makes me rethink the idea that grasshoppers had chewed a couple of apple trees we planted a few years ago down to the bare wood. It just may have been deer instead, but the only thing I ever saw gnawing on the trees was scads of grasshoppers so they got the blame. (Besides, I like deer so much better than grasshoppers no matter what they chew on.) Why don't they have a grasshopper season where everybody buys a license, weapons and ammunition and dresses all in camo and goes out and shoots grasshoppers? I could go for that! I know they don't have big antlers and the heads aren't big enough to mount on the wall, but they are such nuisances! We could even have a "Big 'Hopper Contest". Hmmm...we just might have something here. We seem to have custody of someone's Algebra book here in the Cafeteria and have had for several days now. I've always heard that true geniuses function on a different level than the rest of us. If you can "get" algebra, that's a pretty high level, but if you can't keep track of the book that could cause some problems on a more practical level. Also, is there a law against putting your name in your textbook or notebook around here? If you don't want to write in the book maybe just a sticky note with your name on it would work. It seems like most all of the books we find don't have any identification in them, or if they do, we really have to dig for it. Our menu for today includes: Indian tacos Pinto beans Corn on the cob Florentine vegetables Hot rolls Our fast food today is PIZZA! And for dessert we have Peach Cobbler or Cherry Chip Cake with Chocolate Frosting. Yum! Have a great day, Rhoda :-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070207/b362b5fc/attachment.html From lcarey at eosc.edu Wed Feb 7 11:00:56 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Wed Feb 7 10:53:13 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Black History Message-ID: <45CA05C8.6060308@eosc.edu> Hello Everyone: Today we would like to introduce Mrs. Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (1875-1955). Mary was an educator and civil rights leader. Born in Mayesville, South Carolina, the 15th of 17 children, Mary McLeod spent much of her childhood picking cotton and taking in washing and ironing. Determined to get an education, she walked five miles to and from school each day for six years. Later she attended Scotia Seminary in North Carolina and Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. After graduating from Moody in 1895, she became a teacher and two years later married Albertus Bethune. She and her husband had one son, Albert. In 1904, the Bethunes moved to Florida, and Mrs. Bethune set up her own school, The Daytona Normal and Industrial School for Negro Girls. Tuition was fifty cents a week and the student body consisted of just five girls. Within two years, there were 250 students, and the school, which would later become Bethune-Cookman College, was firmly established. In 1911, when a student almost died from being refused help at a local whites-only hospital, Mrs. Bethune established a hospital for African Americans. Her success brought her national attention, and in 1920, she became a vice president of the National Urban League. President of the National Association of Colored Women. She founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, and was Director of the Division of Minority Affairs in the National Youth Administration, a New Deal agency created under Franklin Roosevelt. Served as consultant to the U.S. Secretary of War for selection of the first female officer candidates. Appointed consultant on interracial affairs and understanding at the charter conference of the U.N. Was awarded the Haitian Medal of Honor and Merit, that country's highest award. In Liberia she received the honor of Commander of the Order of the Star of Africa. Mrs. Bethune was a personal friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, and an adviser to five presidents: Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. She insisted upon being addressed respectfully as Mrs. Bethune, and while at John Hopkins Medical Center ordered that two African-American physicians be allowed to monitor her treatment. Throughout her life, Mrs. Bethune emphasized education, self-respect, and pride in being African-American. Quote: From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could. - Mary McLeod Bethune -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070207/048c3cfb/attachment-0001.html From eduncan at eosc.edu Wed Feb 7 14:11:05 2007 From: eduncan at eosc.edu (Elizabeth Duncan) Date: Wed Feb 7 14:03:23 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Whiteout game Message-ID: <45CA3259.4000902@eosc.edu> Tomorrow there is a home basketball game against Carl Albert. As most of you are aware this is one of our biggest games of the season. To help cheer our teams on we are asking all of our Eastern fans to wear WHITE shirts. This is in support for our Men and Women's teams. Thanks for you support and participation. Elizabeth From jhaynes at eosc.edu Wed Feb 7 16:00:10 2007 From: jhaynes at eosc.edu (June Haynes) Date: Wed Feb 7 15:52:23 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Food Banks in Oklahoma Message-ID: <45CA4BEA.6B4CB2E8@eosc.edu> Eastern's Student Support Services is participating in a community service activity with the Oklahoma Division of Student Assistance Program (ODSA) in connection with National TRiO Day of Service. Oklahoma TRiO will make an effort to replenish food banks in areas of the state (especially Pittsburg County) devastated by the recent ice storm. Shelters and food banks were depleted and contributions of non-perishable food items will be sought in an effort to address this need. If each person brings one canned good item, we would have a significant contribution. There has been a specific request that some of the items include canned meats, beans, and items that are protein enriched as donated items often do not include this type of food items. EOSC's Student Support Services will be placing boxes in each of the building. Please inform employees and students of this worthy cause. We will deliver the items that are given to the state capitol on National TRiO Day, February 21, 2007. Your support will be greatly appreciated! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at extension 822. Thank You, June Haynes Student Support Services -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070207/074b3da3/attachment.html From rwatkins at eosc.edu Thu Feb 8 09:55:32 2007 From: rwatkins at eosc.edu (Rhoda Watkins) Date: Thu Feb 8 09:47:31 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Menu for Thurs. Feb. 8 Message-ID: <45CB47F4.80402@eosc.edu> Hi folks, Well, as predicted, it feels a lot chillier outside than it has for the last couple of gorgeous days. I guess that's to be expected in February though. It is one of our coldest months of the year, after all. Even the wild animals have been enjoying those warmer days. We came home yesterday and drove all the way down the little dead-end road that goes past our house on the off chance of seeing some animals out and about. Sure enough, we hadn't gone far when we saw something scooting down the road ahead of us. I thought at first it was a fat cat or a raccoon, but when it turned and I could get a good look at it, I could tell it was a gray fox. Just beyond that, we saw a deer standing alongside the road. It might even have been one of the two that were in our yard the other morning. Don't forget to do your Valentine's Day shopping this weekend. That special day is coming up quickly on the 14th. Good luck! Our menu for today includes: Turkey and stuffing Mashed potatoes and gravy Sweet potato casserole Winter blend vegetables Rice Green beans Pasta bar Our fast food today is Hot Ham and Cheese on a Bun with Chips. And for dessert, you can fill your sweet tooth with some Peach Cobbler. (Don't forget to put ice cream on top for an extra sweet treat!) Come on over, Rhoda :-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070208/a121d168/attachment.html From lcarey at eosc.edu Thu Feb 8 11:40:17 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Thu Feb 8 11:32:20 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Healthy Relationship Awareness Message-ID: <45CB6081.8070602@eosc.edu> Good Morning: Today, I wish to continue to explore co-dependency. What is Co-dependency? My good feelings about who I am stem from being liked by you. My good feelings about who I am stem from receiving approval from you. Your struggles affect my serenity. My mental attention focuses on solving your problems or relieving your pain. My mental attention is focused on pleasing you. My mental attention is focused on protecting you. My mental attention is focused on manipulating you "to do it my way." My self-esteem is bolstered by solving your problems. My self-esteem is bolstered by relieving your pain. My own hobbies and interests are put aside. My time is spent sharing your interests and hobbies. Your clothing and personal appearance are dictated by my desires as I feel you are a reflection of me. Your behavior is dictated by my desires, as I Feel you are a reflection of me. U am not aware of how I feel, I am aware of how you feel. I am not aware of what I want, I ask you what I want. If I am not aware, I assume. The dreams I have for my future are linked to you. My fear of rejection determines what I say or do. My fear of your anger determines what I say or do. I use giving as a way of feeling safe in our relationship. My social circle diminishes as I involve myself with you. I put my values aside in order to connect with you. I value your opinion and way of doing things more than my own. The quality of my life is in relation to the quality of yours. If this describes you, in your relationships, this is an area for potential growth. Becoming aware of it is the first and most important step. After awareness comes the opportunity for change. By observing your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in relationships, you can identify changes you would like to make. You can start practicing new behaviors. Friends and family members may resist or sabotage your attempts to change. It may be helpful to seek counseling to assist you in making changes in your style of interacting in relationships. Here's wishing you a great day and our Mountaineers and Lady Mountaineers success on the court tonight. Tomorrow we will look at Healthy Love versus Addictive Love. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070208/84acf64e/attachment.html From lcarey at eosc.edu Thu Feb 8 15:19:36 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Thu Feb 8 15:11:54 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Black History Message-ID: <45CB93E8.10407@eosc.edu> Good Afternoon: Today our 1st spotlight in on a group of men who made a major contribution to our country during World War II. Tuskegee Airmen: this is the term used to describe four all-black World War II squadrons - the 99th, 100th, 301th, and 302d. Nine hundred twenty-six pilots earned their pilot's wings under the Army Air Force Aviation Cadet program, which began in 1941 at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Although the program's first students graduated three months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the army refused to deploy the Tuskegee pilots outside the United States until 1943, when the 99th was shipped to North Africa. Racial hostility in the military almost led to its recall, but the squadron was saved thanks to the testimony of its commander, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., who later became the first African-American Air Force general. IN 1944, the 99th merged with the other three black squadrons to form the 332d Fighter Group. As a bomber escort group on 200 bomber missions, the 332d won fame for not losing a single U.S. bomber to enemy aircraft. In 1,578 combat missions, the Tuskegee Airmen shot down 111 enemy planes, destroyed 150 others on the ground, and sand a German destroyer. Tuskegee Airmen saw action in Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, Germany, and the Balkans; 66 were killed in action. Members of the 332d won more than 100 Distinguished Flying Crosses, and the group won three Distinguished Unit citations. Our 2nd Spotlight is on Mr. Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915). He was an educator and founder of Tuskegee Institute. Washington was nine years old when the Civil War ended. He and his family moved to Malden, West Virginia, and Washington went to work in a salt furnace. After a workday that began at four in the morning he would sit up at night teaching himself to read. At age 14, he left home on foot to attend Hampton Institute in Virginia. There, he came under the influence of General Samuel Armstrong, the school's founder. Armstrong believed in manual labor in order to promote honesty, discipline, and intelligence, and Washington took these concepts as the basis of his own educational philosophy. In 1881, the Alabama state legislature decided to establish Tuskegee Institute to train African-American teachers, and Washington was chosen to head the new school. Two thousand dollars had been appropriated for Tuskegee, but this money was just for faculty salaries. Washington began by locating "a dilapidated shanty." Its condition was so bad that whenever it rained, one of the students would have to hold an umbrella over Washington's head as he taught. Since there were no funds for land, buildings, books, or supplies, Washington borrowed money to purchase an abandoned plantation. There his students built classrooms, dormitories, and a chapel. They also produced their own food. By 1888, thanks to Washington's determination, Tuskegee owned 540 acres of land and had a student population of 400. Following Armstrong's ideas, Washington focussed on teaching vocational skills rather than traditional college subjects. In order to raise the living standards of black farmers. He promoted black land ownership, and in 1892, he established the annual Tuskegee Negro Conference to which thousands of African Americans were invited to learn better farming methods. He also managed to persuade Dr. George Washington Carver to join the faculty at Tuskegee. Carver introduced concepts of fertilizer, crop rotation, and multi-crop farming, and developed new products for farmers. In an effort to encourage the development of more black-owned business, Washington established the National Negro Business League. His autobiography, Up From Slavery, became a best-seller and was translated into a dozen languages. He persuaded many white businessmen to make substantial contribution to Tuskegee and advised Presidents William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt on political appointments of importance to the African-American community. The vast majority of African Americans looked to him for leadership until his death in 1915. His accomplishments were long-enduring, and he remains the primary black leader of the post-Reconstruction period. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070208/37adb530/attachment.html From rwatkins at eosc.edu Fri Feb 9 09:55:11 2007 From: rwatkins at eosc.edu (Rhoda Watkins) Date: Fri Feb 9 09:46:59 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Menu for TGI Fri. Feb. 9 Message-ID: <45CC995F.6060506@eosc.edu> Hi everyone, I know you're all glad it's Friday, so you can go have a great weekend. I believe there's a chance of rain, but it's not supposed to be terribly cold the way it has been on some days. The Cafeteria Crew has a meeting scheduled this afternoon with the architects who are in charge of designing the new Student Life and Learning Center which will house the Cafeteria at some point in the future when it gets built. We've been so excited about the prospect of having a shiny, new, modern building to work in, I hope they don't destroy our wonderful dreams by telling us our usable space (for storage, etc.) is going to be teeny tiny. I'm afraid there's going to be a riot if they stick with the idea of just having one employee bathroom instead of one for the ladies and one for the guys. Our menu for today includes: Tenderized steak fingers Mashed potatoes and gravy Broccoli with cheese sauce Fried okra Corn Baked potato bar Hot rolls Our fast food for today is PIZZA. And for dessert we have a yummy Chocolate Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. Have a great weekend, Rhoda :-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070209/5ce01c46/attachment.html From lcarey at eosc.edu Fri Feb 9 13:52:47 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Fri Feb 9 13:44:36 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Healthy Relationships Message-ID: <45CCD10F.5040105@eosc.edu> Good Afternoon: Today I want to compare healthy versus addictive love. Healthy Love Versus Addictive Love From Jed Diamond, "Looking For Love in All the Wrong Places" All of us have a healthy impulse to find love, but addictions take us away from genuine love. A summary of some of the differences between healthy love and addictive love can help us find the genuine love we all seek and desire. Healthy love develops after we feel secure. Addictive love tries to create love even though we feel frightened and insecure. Healthy love is part of the human fabric. They cannot be separated. Addictive love is highly distilled. We think we can separate "it" from people whether "it" is sex or romantic intrigue. Healthy love is unique. There is no "ideal lover." Addictive love is stereotyped. There is always a certain type we are attracted to. Healthy love is gentle and comfortable. Addictive love is tense and combative. Healthy love encourages us to be ourselves, to be honest from the beginning with who we are, including our faults. Addictive love encourages secrets. We want to look good and put on an attractive mask. Healthy love is satisfied with the partner we have. Addictive love is always looking for more or better. Healthy love is based on the belief that we want to be together. Addictive love is based on the belief that we HAVE to be together. Healthy love teaches that only we can make ourselves happy. Addictive love expects that other person to make us happy and demands that we try to make them happy. Healthy love creates life. Addictive love creates melodrama. Which type of love do you want? Which type do you currently have or strive to have? Something to think about over the weekend. Have a safe one. Levenia 918-465-1757 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070209/d0549665/attachment.html From lcarey at eosc.edu Fri Feb 9 14:06:03 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Fri Feb 9 13:57:45 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Black History Awareness Message-ID: <45CCD42B.5030508@eosc.edu> Hello Everyone: Today we want to begin looking at the pioneers in Black History. Our first person is Harriet Ross Tubman (1821-1913). Harriet was an underground railroad conductor. Born in Dorchester County, Maryland to slave parents who name her Araminta, Tubman later took her mother's name, "Harriet." She suffered recurrent seizures as a result of being struck on the head by an overseer when she went ot the defense of another slave. She escaped in 1849 and made her way to Philadelphia after learning that she was destined to be sold. After saving enough money to finance her trip, she returned to rescue her sister and her two children. It was the first of 19 trips that would bring 300 slaves to freedom. Tubman planned her escapes for Saturday nights, knowing that slaveowners would not be able to have wanted posters made up before Monday. Her rules were simple: Be on time, follow instructions; tell no one of the escape; and be prepared to die rather than turn back. People who saw her walking along back southern roads saw what they thought was an harmless old woman wandering along singing songs. But the lyrics were a code alerting slaves to her presence, and Harriet Tubman was anything but harmless. She usually carried a gun. Slaveowners considered her extremely dangerous and put a $40,000 price on her head. Called "The Moses of Her People," Tubman worked closely with William Still and was a friend of Frederick Douglass. She conferred with John Brown, though sickness prevented her from participating in the 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry. That same year, she endured physical assault to rescue a runaway slave names Charles Nalle from police custody and helped him escape to Canada. During the Civil War, she planned and led a raid that freed 750 slaves. She also worked for the army as a spy, scout, and nurse. Afterward, Tubman attempted to establish schools for freedmen in North Carolina and later founded a home for destitute former slaves who were too old and feeble to work. In 1978, the U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp in her honor. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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There will be consolation prizes and a grand prize of $100 given on the day of our Final Jeopardy round, Wednesday, February 21 in the ballroom. This should be fun for all concerned. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070209/9b63647b/attachment.html From mkelley at eosc.edu Mon Feb 12 08:37:05 2007 From: mkelley at eosc.edu (mkelley@eosc.edu) Date: Mon Feb 12 08:33:31 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Financial Aid Awareness Week Message-ID: Eastern's Financial Aid Office would like you to have some information concerning financial aid awareness: Governor Brad Henry has declared February 11-17 as "Financial Aid Awareness Week" in Oklahoma. Now is the time to be getting ready to file your 2007-08 FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid). You will need 2006 income information to file your 2007-08 FAFSA. Dependent students need both their own income information and their parents' income information for 2006 to file. You can pick up a paper application in the Financial Aid Office, or complete your application online at www.fafsa.ed.gov. Priority deadline for state aid (OTAG) is April 15. Also, for students who have not yet completed the 2006-07 FAFSA, there is still time!!!!! You should pick up an application in the Finanical Aid Office or complete your application online as soon as possible, using 2005 income information. Please contact the Financial Aid Office if you have questions. Watch for more information throughout the week. From rwatkins at eosc.edu Mon Feb 12 10:00:05 2007 From: rwatkins at eosc.edu (Rhoda Watkins) Date: Mon Feb 12 09:50:56 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Menu for Manic Mon. Feb. 12 Message-ID: <45D08F05.6010505@eosc.edu> Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln! To all of you who are less than thrilled to see rain today, please don't fuss about it. Remember how hard we prayed for this last summer? Besides the next three days are supposed to be really cold, way down in the 30's. You can feel free to fuss about that, and I'll probably help. It's looking like it's going to be a cold Valentine's Day on Wednesday. We have collected a couple more textbooks and a backpack here in the Cafeteria, so if anyone is looking for these items, you might check with us. We need to get these back to their rightful owners. I also found another earring on the Cafeteria floor this morning; a little weekend leftover I guess. Our menu for today includes: Meatloaf Mashed potatoes and gravy Green beans Pasta bar Hot rolls Our fast food is Chicken Fajitas, with Refried Beans, and Spanish Rice. And for dessert we have Bread Pudding. Come on over and bring your appetite, Rhoda :-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070212/ae48affe/attachment.html From lcarey at eosc.edu Mon Feb 12 10:15:13 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Mon Feb 12 10:06:05 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Be My Valentine Message-ID: <45D09291.804@eosc.edu> Good Morning: The Campus Violence Prevention Project wishes to invite you to the clock tower on Wednesday, February 14, 2007 between 10:30 and 1:00 p.m. for Healthy Relationship Awareness. Come be My Valentine - we will have literature on healthy relationships and goodies for everyone. There is no reason for anyone not to receive something this year on Valentine's Day. I will also be giving away two tickets to the Theatre's production for Thursday night (good seats) - so be sure to register - need not be present to win. You know if it is my event the weather is guaranteed to cooperate so expect a blizzard (I have yet to have an event that all my flyers don't get blown away, wet, etc.). Unlike myself, you can come and go, so I hope to see you there. Levenia 918-465-1757 From lcarey at eosc.edu Mon Feb 12 10:59:58 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Mon Feb 12 10:53:21 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Healthy Relationship Awareness Message-ID: <45D09D0E.5080708@eosc.edu> Hello Everyone: We are almost midway through the month and much of the focus has been placed on unhealthy relationships. I felt that it was essential to place a great deal of time on that subject, because if it were not for the impact of unhealthy relationships, there would be no need to heighten awareness about positive/healthy relationships. So now that we have thrown away the core and seeds we can begin to enjoy the fruit. If you look at statistics for relationships (or anything - health, etc.) you will soon recognize that they leave you feeling hopeless and wonder if it is even worth pursuing. So statistics are great if you are looking for grant money, but in life - they don't mean a great deal (because you have to look at who took the survey and see what your commonalties are with that group, if there are any). Relationships are worth pursuing and yes, whether you or male or female (there are a lot of toads along the road to finding the perfect mate.) I blame Walt Disney (but I must say I think he is impostor and that the themes were selected by a woman - only a female mind would strive for or even expect it should be possible) for offering ....and they lived happily ever after. The themes for the books and movies show that no matter what walk of life you come from the books can be balanced and a poor girl can win the heart of a prince by the touch of her hand or a lost slipper. Hello - how many prince go looking for his perfect match in the slums - they don't even mingle with the rest of us in reality. But we all hope for the magic. That there is that one person and no matter how far we are apart, our hearts will find each other. Reality says - this could be possible, but for the vast majority of us we have to go into the trenches and use select-a-vision and weed out the undesirable mates (even those who look good, but who act like.....well, you feel in the blank with your favorite thought or expression). I know from personal experience that you can find that person. I have many friends, colleagues, co-workers and family members who have found that person. There are some good statistics though rarely researched on lasting relationships. What is the key to success in a relationship? I would like to offer this week a few suggestions that I feel are "key" ingredients to successful relationships. Key #1 - Commitment. This word is often used out of context and is weak - however, it is a strong term. It has a lot of undertone that is necessary for lasting relationships. When one commits to something that means that they are in it for the long haul. When you are in something for the long haul - that means you have to go with the flow - when it is good, enjoy it. When it is bad - nurture it, but stick to it. The weed out program in relationships is for when you are deciding what you want in a mate (money, fame, looks, clean bill of health - mental and physical, body build, some one you can talk too, someone who will love you and accept you, etc.) and is meant to happen prior to commitment and marriage. In the movies they get through love, commitment, oops I made a mistake, divorce, recommitment to another person all in the time frame of two hours or less. We often try to duplicate that in our own lives, but we forget - the people in the movies came with a script that told them what to say, when to say it and how to get the ah....moments. In life people don't come with scripts and you don't have the right to write another person's life line. You have to recognize that there will be good times, sad times and even bad times. That everyone is human and not everyday do we wake up feeling good about ourselves or even you. That you can make a mountain out of a mole hill or you can recognize that not every battle ends in war and no one has to get injured or scarred. YOU must learn that defeat doesn't mean you lose, it means that you survive. A real relationship is worth holding on to and that means that you have to nurture it. You don't run when it isn't good (low finances, lost jobs, hurt feelings, illnesses, etc.) you stay committed to it and together the two are stronger and they survive. Isn't good - and Unhealthy are two different things (safety is always a must). Remember that feelings heal quickly if not given time to fester. Think back to when you were a child and would fight with a neighbor kid, you got mad, you went to your own home, took all your toys and a couple of hours later you were lonely and wanted the companionship and you forgot the argument that sent you to your own corner of the room and the two of you once again were best buds and playing. That is how it should work in a relationship - you go to your corner and they go to there's and then you come back together and things are as they should be). Fight and flight are for safety not for the easy way out. I apologize for the long email, but it is necessary to get the point across. Tomorrow we will look at Key ingredient #2. Here's to commitment and staying the course even when life throws you a curve, if you stay the course the road will straighten again. Don't forget to Be My Valentine and join me at the clock tower on Wednesday between 10:30 - 1:00 p.m. Thanks for the e-mails and support. Until tomorrow.... Levenia 918-465-1757 From lcarey at eosc.edu Mon Feb 12 11:56:36 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Mon Feb 12 11:47:44 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Black History Message-ID: <45D0AA54.7080202@eosc.edu> Hello All: Today the spotlight continues to be on pioneers for freedom and excellence. Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) is the most important African-American leader of the 19th century; abolitionist; journalist; diplomat. He is often called the "father of the civil rights movement." Born a slave, Frederick Douglass never knew his father. Nor did he know the exact date of his birth. He picked February 14 as his birthday because his mother, who died when he was seven, use to refer to him as her "little valentine." When Douglass was eight, his master, Thomas Auld, lent him out to work for a family in Baltimore. There he learned to read and write and was relatively well treated. In 1833, Douglass was returned to Auld. When he resisted Auld's cruel treatment, he was hired out to a "Negro-breaker" named Covey, who whipped Douglass repeatedly and forced him to labor in the fields 12 to 14 hours a day. Later Douglass was hired out to another farmer, William Freeland, but after an attempted escape, he was sent back to Baltimore. There he was hired out to work in the shipyards, where he was attacked and almost blinded in one eye. With the help of Anna Murray, a freeborn African-American woman who he later married, Douglass escaped to New York. From there, he made his way to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he dropped the name he has carried since birth - Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey - and took the name Frederick Douglass. He became a lecturer for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and was so effective a speaker that some people questioned whether he had ever really been a slave. In response, Douglass wrote his autobiography, in which he provided so much detailed information that he jeopardized his own safety and was forced to flee to England. There he continued to speak out against slavery and to argue in favor of Irish freedom, women's rights, and world peace. His growing fame made it impossible for him to return to the United States while still a fugitive, so a group of supporters arranged to purchase his freedom. Arriving back in the United States in 1847, Douglass settled in Rochester, New York, where he began publication of the North Star Newspaper. Financially, it was an extremely risky venture, but Douglass believed he could not continue to filter his thoughts through the white abolitionist press. The difficulty he had anticipated proved correct. Within six months, he was forced to mortgage his home to keep the paper going. He continued to lecture against slavery and suffered a broken arm after being attacked by a proslavery mob in Indiana. He also arranged for his printing shop to be used as a station on the Underground Railroad. Over the course of 10 years, more than 400 escaped slaves found help there. In 1848, Douglass met with JOhn Brown, who later led the unsuccessful raid on Harpers Ferry. In fact, Brown spent three weeks at Douglass' house shortly before the 1859 raid. Douglass thought Brown's plan suicidal but could not convince him to change it. Even though Douglass did not join the attempted uprising, he was forced to flee to Canada when the governor of Virginia swore out a warrant for his arrest as an accomplice. He returned to the United States in 1860. When the Civil War broke out, Douglass pressed President Lincoln to free all slaves immediately and to allow African Americans to enlist in the Union forces. It was not until 1863, however, that Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves in Confederate territory and allowing blacks to enlist. Douglass moved immediately to recruit black soldiers. His own two sons were among the first to enlist, but the outrageous treatment of black Union soldiers caused Douglass to halt his recruitment efforts. The unequal pay, inferior equipment, segregated units, and lack of black officers was infuriating enough. Even worse were the reports of Confederate atrocities against African-American soldiers. He met with Lincoln concerning these matters but was unable to get a satisfactory response. Douglass feared that the North might agree to end the war should the Southern states offer to return to the UNion provided they could keep their slaves. People were tired of fighting, dismayed by the ever-lengthening lists of dead and wounded, and apprehensive of the mounting financial cost. To block any attempt to end the war by selling out African-American rights, he embarked on a speaking tour. Again and again, Douglass repeated his four main points: that the aim of the war should be the abolition of slavery; that there could be no peace that did not include an end to slavery; that everyone was entitled to the same rights; and that black men should have the vote. Once the war was over, Douglass began pressing for black voting and economic rights. Ironically, this forced a serious break between him and group who cause he had always championed - women. The fifteenth Amendment gave the vote to black men. It said nothing about women, and, as a result, it was opposed by leaders in the women's movement. Douglass had always been a strong supporter of women's suffrage, but he was not willing to jeopardize the black male vote for it. The break with the women's movement was painful for Douglass, but he saw no alternative. Douglass also became entangled in an unsuccessful effort to save the Freedman's Savings and Trust Co., a bank started in 1865 for newly freed slaves. Knowing that the bank's collapse would cost thousands of former slaves their life savings, Douglass took over the presidency of the institution and even invested his own money in it. However, in 1874, the Freedman's Bank was forced to close, and many depositors lost all or most of their money. In 1877, President Hayes appointed Douglass marshall of the District of Columbia. Four years later, President Garfield made him recorder of deeds, a post Douglass held for five years. In 1889, President Benjamin Harrison named him minister-resident and consul-general to Haiti and the Dominican Republic. In each of these posts, Douglass served with distinction. On February 20, 1895, Frederick Douglass died of a heart attack. "Save the Negro and you save the Nation," he said. "Destroy the Negro and you destroy the Nation, and to save both you must have but one great law of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity for all Americans without respect to color.....What I ask for the negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simple justice." We encourage you to read more and increase your knowledge base. There are contributions by African-Americans that have impacted our world, our lives, as we know them today. Thanks, Levenia, Marilynn, Brenton, NAACP-Psycho Club -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070212/3e6f2923/attachment-0001.html From aralls at eosc.edu Tue Feb 13 10:06:35 2007 From: aralls at eosc.edu (Alanna Ralls) Date: Tue Feb 13 09:59:23 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Spring Graduates Message-ID: <45D1E20B.2040600@eosc.edu> Applications for Graduation are ready in the Library Building Room 109 and 110. You will: -Complete application for diploma -Complete survey -Receive information about graduation -Sign up for CAAP test All spring graduates need to come by the counselors office by Friday, February 16 to verify and complete you application for graduation. If the counselors do not have an application for graduation, you will need to speak with your advisor. The advisor will complete the degree plan. The degree plan will need to be submitted to the Registrar's Office. The Registrar's Office will then make application for graduation, and give it to the counselors office. Be sure to come by the counseling office as quickly as possible, because the process can sometimes be lengthy. All applications are due by Friday, February 23. If you have any questions, please contact us. Sincerely, Sandra Robertson and Alanna Ralls Counseling Office Library Building Room 109 and 110 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The Bookstore Staff Ali, Lynn & Noreen From lcarey at eosc.edu Tue Feb 13 15:18:34 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Tue Feb 13 15:09:16 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Healthy Relationship Awareness Message-ID: <45D22B2A.8090007@eosc.edu> Good Afternoon: I predicted a blizzard for our Healthy Relationship Awareness "Be My Valentine" event tomorrow at the clock tower between 10:30 and 1:00 p.m. and it looks like the weather is on my side. I am guaranteed to freeze. But I will be there so drop by and see me and pick up a goodie bag/with an educational pamphlet, have some cookies or cupcakes and something to drink (warm or cold). We have three prizes to give away so don't forget to register and you don't have to be present to win. The top prize is two tickets to Eastern's Theatre departments dinner theatre. I hope I win it (just kidding' I guess I can't play). I never win anything and the one time I could flip the tables in my favor ..........well I know you will enjoy the production. Now for key ingredient #2, another tool that I believe is essential in maintaining a Healthy Relationship. RESPECT - once again this word is so mis-used in our language. Respect in a relationship means that you truly value the other person. That you value their opinions and you give them your undivided attention when they are speaking. You listen to what they are saying or how they feel about a subject and even if you disagreed with their thoughts or opinions you respect them enough to hear them out. You respect their right to voice their thoughts, feelings, opinions. You don't sit in judgment - looking for faults. Respect means that you attempt to understand their point of view - by giving it your full attention. You attempt to affirm their emotions. Respect is key to loving a person. It is impossible to love or care about a person that you do not respect. So respect needs to be a key foundational ingredient to having and maintaining a Healthy Relationship. Respect means that you asks your partner to do something - not demand or order. It is about treating another human being as you would desire to be treated. Don't forget tomorrow at the clock tower. Did you forget the chocolates? We didn't so come by an enjoy - and it is all free. If you forgot to purchase a gift for that special someone - register for our prizes and you could get a gift for free - including tickets for dinner and a show. Levenia 918-465-1757 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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After spending two years carving all the gears from wood, he constructed and introduced the first striking clock to America and it was constructed with non imported parts. It kept perfect time for over 40 years. Around 1771, Banneker became friendly with the Ellicotts, five Quaker brothers who had purchased land adjoining his property. From them, Banneker borrowed various science books, from which he taught himself astronomy. When an Ellicott cousin, Major Andrew Ellicott, was appointed to Pierre L' Enfant's team to conduct a survey of what would later become Washington, D.C., Banneker was hired to assist him - making him the first African-American presidential appointee in the United States. He maintained the field astronomical clock and compile astronomical and other necessary mathematical data. When plans for the project disappeared, Banneker reproduced them entirely from memory. In 1791, and again n 1792, Banneker compiled an ephemeris, an astronomical report providing mathematically computed positions for the various stars and planet for every day throughout the year. When Thomas Jefferson stated that "Blacks are inferior to Whites," Benjamin Banneker sent him a copy of the 1792 ephemeris along with a 12 page letter promoting the abolition of slavery and changing Jefferson mind on the subject. Jefferson was so impressed with Banneker's work that he forwarded it to the Academie des Sciences in Paris. The ephemeris, along with a good deal of antislavery material, became a part of Benjamin Banneker's Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Almanack and Ephemeris, for the Year of Our Lord, 1792. The almanac sold well, and Banneker continued publishing almanacs and/or ephemerics until 1804. His works was often cited by abolitionists as proof that blacks were the equal of whites in intelligence and sensitivity. Benjamin Banneker proved that "The color of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers." Until tomorrow, Levenia, Marilynn, Brenton, NAACP/Psycho Clubs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070213/5a01f328/attachment.html From lcarey at eosc.edu Wed Feb 14 08:05:13 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Wed Feb 14 07:55:37 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Be My Valentine Message-ID: <45D31719.6060108@eosc.edu> Good Morning: Just wanted to remind everyone to come and see me at the clock tower between 10:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. for our Healthy Relationship - Be My Valentine. Be sure to register for the prizes and have some hot chocolate and cookie/cupcake - and it is all free. We want to encourage and promote healthy relationships. Stop by and visit me. I know I predicted a blizzard and maybe you think I'm not very good at weather predictions. Well don't judge - unless you are willing to stand outside with me for three hours and than we will see if you think the temperatures equal blizzard conditions, as for me I'm sticking with my prediction. Feel free to bring me a heater, a blanket, a brain - I'm sure I will be freezing. See you there. Levenia 918-465-1757 From rwatkins at eosc.edu Wed Feb 14 10:29:52 2007 From: rwatkins at eosc.edu (Rhoda Watkins) Date: Wed Feb 14 10:20:17 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Menu for Valentine's Day Wed. Feb. 14 Message-ID: <45D33900.3010500@eosc.edu> Happy Valentine's Day Everyone, I hope you're having a LOVELY day, on this day to celebrate love. I took this opportunity to wear my Valentine shirt that bears the sentiment, "Forget Love... Fall in Chocolate!!" I could go for that. Don't forget to go visit Levenia at the Clock Tower today. At least if she gets enough people gathered around, maybe they will block the wind and she won't freeze up totally. Her Healthy Relationship Awareness and her Black History Month emails are very interesting and educational. Our menu for today includes: Dorito bake Cheesy potatoes Winter blend vegetables Corn on the cob Okra Garlic bread Pasta bar Our fast food is PIZZA. And for Valentine's Day dessert, have a piece of Cherry Chip Cake with Chocolate Frosting. And for an added treat, tonight we'll be having a special Sweetheart Steak dinner. Serving hours will be from 4:30 to 6:15 and the dinner menu will include: Steak (provided by our own Meat Lab) Baked potato bar Flame roast corn Garlic toast Chicken sandwich on a bun French fries and Banana splits or sundaes for dessert. Have a great day, Rhoda :-* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Finalists for Elimination Round 1. Dalmont, Cole 2. Ferguson, Regina 3. Jordan, Grant 4. Joseph, Tyson 5. Kennedy, Justin 6. Meyer, Jacquelyn 7. Peoples, Daniel 8. Richey, Parker 9. Russell, James 10. Russell, Robert 11. Shaw, Eric 12. Tipton, Randy 13. Wingo, Amanda -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070214/d560b15d/attachment.html From mkelley at eosc.edu Wed Feb 14 13:51:13 2007 From: mkelley at eosc.edu (mkelley@eosc.edu) Date: Wed Feb 14 13:47:45 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Remember to file your FAFSA Message-ID: Another reminder during "Financial Aid Awareness Week" that you need to file your FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) as soon as possible for the 2007-08 academic year. Priority deadline for OTAG (Oklahoma Tuition Aid Grant) is April 15. You will need your 2006 income information to complete the FAFSA. File your taxes as soon as possible. Also remind your parents to file their taxes as soon as possible because you need their information for your FAFSA. The 2007-08 FAFSA applications are available now!!! You can pick up an application in the financial aid office or complete it online at www.fafsa.ed.gov as soon as possible. Have a great day! From lcarey at eosc.edu Wed Feb 14 14:41:24 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Wed Feb 14 14:31:47 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Healthy Relationship Awareness Message-ID: <45D373F4.6090400@eosc.edu> Good Afternoon As you can see I made it through the wind chill and I'm not in the middle of thawing out. It was fun and we had a lot of participation. We made over 160 candy and information packets and all were given out. We also had a lot of takers for the hot chocolate, no one touched the ice or kool-aid (wonder why). Thanks to everyone that stopped by to check my sanity status and to pick up on some goodies. I have some wonderful people that I need to thank for their thoughtfulness and assistance. First, I have two heroes who attempted to help me stay warm. They first brought a propane heater but the wind kept blowing out the pilot light. Next, they brought a kerosene blower and I'm in love. I could have used it during the ice storm. Thanks so much to Allen and Teddy - somebody give those men a raise or at least a pat on the back. Also thanks to Robbie Wallace for braving the weather and helping me to pass out packets and goodies - you're a trooper. Thanks to London White, Brenton Duncan and Elizabeth Duncan for their assistance - we make a great team. Now, I'm sure you are wanting to know who won the prizes, I did (just joking). Winner of the Hersey's Kisses: Tabitha Zurovetz and Jolene Hill; winner of stuffed animal - Teddy Marmon; grand prize winners of two tickets each to dinner theatre: Angela Satterfield and Marilynn Duncan. Congratulations to the winners. Key Ingredient #3 - Trust. Every relationship needs trust as a part of its foundation. Trust is something that you earn - and should be earned, not just freely given. It is validated by honesty and openness and the unconditional positive regard for one another. You need to openly communicate your needs and feelings to your partner so that they know and don't have to assume what you are feeling or wanting. When you have faith in your partner and trust them with your heart and emotions (or vice/versa) you have the ability to avoid the pitfalls. Often friends, family members and others with good intentions (the road to ___ is paved with them) will say things or leave you second guessing your mate or the security of your relationship. But when you have the proper foundation and you have open communication, honesty, respect and trust - you don't buy into or give into doubts, fears and insecurities. You know that you have love, commitment, respect and trust and that this relationship is "for keeps" (oh - that was a movie). Think about it. Happy Valentines Day and I hope that you know that you are wonderful and special and that it doesn't take flowers, chocolate or gifts to prove it (they aren't bad things). Don't let monetary items define you, let them enhance your characteristics. With or without them - you are still you and when the flowers wilt, the chocolate is gone, you will still have you and that is - and should always be enough. Have a great one. Levenia 918-465-1757 From lcarey at eosc.edu Wed Feb 14 15:02:21 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Wed Feb 14 14:52:47 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Black History Message-ID: <45D378DD.20100@eosc.edu> Good Day Everyone: Happy Valentine's Day, it is a good day to stay cuddle next to a warm fireplace or a warm heart - you decide. Today we placed the spotlight on the Negro Baseball Leagues. These leagues formed by all-black teams prior to the integration of professional baseball in 1947. The first salaried African-American ballplayer was John "Bud" Fowler, hired in 1872 by an all-white club in New Castle, Pennsylvania. But after touring with a black team, he was not allowed to rejoin the white club. The first African-American professional team - the Cuban Giants - made its debut in 1885. By pretending to be foreign, the players were able to tour Florida and the Southwest at a time when native Hispanics were also unwelcome in major league baseball. In an unsuccessful attempt to undermine baseball's color line in 1901, Baltimore Orioles manager John McGraw put black player Charlie Grant on his roster under the name of Charlie Tokahama and tried to claim he was a Cherokee Indian. Nationwide black baseball leagues were organized following World War I, thanks partly to the efforts of star pitcher Rube Foster, who was co-owner and manager of the Chicago American Giants. The pay was low, traveling accommodations were poor, and the players, who usually played in rented stadiums when the resident white teams were on the road, often were not allowed to use "white" dressing rooms. Teams regularly played schedules of 60 to 70 games. During the off-season, they often played - and beat - major league white players in exhibition games. The Negro leagues produces some of baseball's finest players, among them Josh Gibson, whose career statistics include over 900 home runs and a lifetime batting average of .423. Even better know was pitcher Satchel Paige. Other legendary players included Leon Day, Chet Brewer, Oscar Charleston, Ray Dandridge, John Henry "Pop" Lloyd, James "Cool Papa" Bell, Walter "Buck" Leonard, and William "Judy" Johnson. Among the major teams were the Pittsburgh Crawfords, the Kansas City Monarchs, the Leland Giants, and the St. Louis Stars. In 1947, the Brooklyn Dodgers under Branch Rickey signed Jackie Robinson to a major league contract. It signified a turning point in U.S. racial history and an end to the Negro leagues, even though some white teams were slow to sign black players. The Red Sox did not integrate until 1959. In 1971, the Baseball Hall of Fame began to induct players from the Negro Leagues. Have a great afternoon. Marilynn, Brenton, Levenia, NAACP/Psycho Clubs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070214/e156b2c5/attachment.html From rwatkins at eosc.edu Thu Feb 15 09:47:47 2007 From: rwatkins at eosc.edu (Rhoda Watkins) Date: Thu Feb 15 09:37:58 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Menu for Thurs. Feb. 15 Message-ID: <45D480A3.7070709@eosc.edu> Hi folks, I hope you're keeping nice and warm today. With the temperature down in the 20's outside it could be a challenge. Chin up though, tomorrow and the next week or so are supposed to get lots better. Tonight is opening night of "The Last of the Red Hot Lovers" dinner theater. I hope plenty of you bought tickets to see this and enjoy the great meal. We need to try and show our support for the arts in our community. In so many schools, funding is being diverted to other things and kids are losing a lot of great opportunities and experiences because of this. And if you're in a giving mood today, there is a blood drive from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm on the Bloodmobile at the Latimer County General Hospital. Make a donation and save a life. You can call 465-2391 to schedule an appointment, but walk-ins are welcome and donors will receive a free T-shirt. Our menu for today includes: BBQ smoked sausage Deep fried potatoes Corn Baked beans Baked potato bar Hot rolls Our fast food is Tacos, along with Spanish Rice and Refried Beans. And for dessert try some Luscious Lemon Cake. Bundle up and come on over, Rhoda :-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Today I wanted to furnish some information that is geared more toward students, but it can be useful in all relationships. Have a great evening. "Maintain" the Relationship Most of us know that keeping a vehicle moving in the desired direction requires not only regular re-fueling, but also ongoing maintenance and active corrections to the steering to compensate for changes in the road. A similar situation applies to continuing relationships. While we may work hard to get the relationship started, expecting to "cruise" without effort or active maintenance typically leads to relationship "stall" (or "crash!"). Though gifts and getaways are important, it is often the small non material things that partners routinely do for each other that keeps the relationship satisfying. Because these behaviors are often small "corrections," they are not always things we have observed in our parents' or others' relationships. Relationships benefit the most when partners recognize the expectations they bring into the relationship and consider the different ways these expectations are affecting the relationship. This task is often challenging for both partners. Nonetheless, amidst all the other challenges of being a student, communicating about expectations and resolving differences in a way that works for both partners can help couples build and maintain healthy romantic relationships during college. Drop by the office if I Can be of service. Levenia 918-465-1757 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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By the time she was 13 she could pick between two and three hundred pounds of cotton a day. At one point, her father managed to save enough money to buy three mules that would allow him to work his own land, but the animals were poisoned by whites angry at the family's success. In 1945, she married Perry "Pap" Hamer, a sharecropper, living in Ruleville, Sunflower County. On August 31, 1962, a day after attending a voter registration meeting, Mrs. Hamer and 17 other African Americans rented a bus to go to Indianola, the county seat, to try to register to vote. At that time, only 155 black people out of an eligible black population of 13,524 in Sunflower County were registered. Mrs. Hamer's gorup was rejected, and on the way home, the driver of the bus was arrested on the charge that the yellow bus looked too much like a school bus. When Mrs. Hamer finally returned home, she was ordered to leave the plantation where she lived and worked for 18 years. Several nights later, shots were fired into the home of the woman with whom she had gone to stay. In 1963 after many attempts Hamer final became registered to vote. To help others register to vote, she worked as a field secretary for for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1963, while returning from a voter education training session, Mrs. Hamer and several others, including 15-year-old June Johnson and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leader lawrence Guyot, were arrested in Winona and jailed. All were beaten, and Mrs. Hamer sustained permanent kidney damage. While they were in jail, Medgar Evers was murdered, and publicity surrounding his death persuaded officials to free Mrs. Hamer and the others. In speaking of the b eating later, Mrs. Hamer said, "We're tired of all this beating, we're tired of taking this. It's been a hundred years and we're still being beaten and shot at, crosses are still being burned, because we want to vote. But I'm going to stay in Mississippi, and if they shoot me down, I'll be buried here." Mrs. Hamer became a leader in SNCC voter registration efforts, a position that cost her husband his job. No one would hire him, and the family was forced to live on the $10 a week Mrs. hamer recieved from SNCC. In 1964, Mrs. Hamer helped form the new Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which challenged the right of the regular all-white Mississippi delegation to be seated at the Democratic Party presidential convention being held in New Jersey."If the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America," she said. "Is this America? The land of the free and the home of the brave? Where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hook, because our lives be threatened daily." Hamer discussed the abuse she had suffered in retaliation for attending a civil rights meeting. "They beat me and they beat me with the long, flat black-jack. I screamed to God in pain...." As a compromise measure the Democratic Party leadership offered the MFDP delegation two seats, which they refused. Hamer said, "We didn't come for no two seats when all of us is tired." And no MFDP member was seated. In 1965 Hamer, Victoria Gray, and Annie Devine ran for Congress and challenged the seating of the regular Mississippi representatives before the U.S. House of Representatives. Though they were unsuccessful in their challenge, the 1965 elections were later overturned. Hamer continued to be politically active and from 1968 to 1971 was a member of the Democratic National Committee from Mississippi. In 1966, she took in her two grandchildren after their mother bled to death when local hospitals would not accept her. She also helped care for her son who has been disabled in Vietnam. She organized grass-root antipoverty projects. In 1965 "Mississippi" magazine named Hamer one of six "women of influence" in the state. In 1968 she created a food cooperative to benefit the poor and in 1969 she founded the Freedom Farm Cooperative. In 1972 she help found National Women's Political caucus and later worked on issues such as school desegregation, child day care, and low income housing. Hamer was an inspiration in the struggle for civil rights. Hamer underwent a radical mastectomy in 1976 and died of cancer at the age of 59 on March 14, 1977 in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, Hospital. Mrs. Hamer's effectiveness stemmed from her oratory (some say her skills were second only to those of Martin Luther King, Jr.), her inspirational singing, and her tireless devotion to the cause of poor blacks. She is famous for saying, "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired." Mrs. Hamer proved that even though life deals you lemons, you still have to keep up the fight and continue to move forward. She never allowed her limp, her husband's inability to be employable, her beating/jail time or the death of a daughter or disability of a son, to prevent her from standing up for what is right. Until Tomorrow. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070215/0bdbe43e/attachment.html From aralls at eosc.edu Fri Feb 16 08:59:59 2007 From: aralls at eosc.edu (Alanna Ralls) Date: Fri Feb 16 08:49:35 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] OSU-Tulsa Message-ID: <45D5C6EF.8090805@eosc.edu> Oklahoma State University-Tulsa will be on campus Monday February 19 from 11-1 in front of the East Cafeteria. If you have any questions, please contact me. Sincerely, Alanna Ralls Transfer Enrollment Manager Library Building Room 110 918.465.1752 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks, Rhoda :-) From lcarey at eosc.edu Fri Feb 16 12:23:48 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Fri Feb 16 12:13:46 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Black History Message-ID: <45D5F6B4.3040907@eosc.edu> Good Afternoon: Today we will spotlight two African-Americans (one who performed the first open heart surgery and the other is noted to be the first African-American millionaire) they are: Daniel Hale Williams Williams, Daniel Hale, 1858-1931, American surgeon. Daniel Hale Williams was born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania on January 18,1858. He graduated from Chicago Medical College in 1883. Daniel Hales Williams and Alice Johnson were wed on April 2, 1898. He died on August 4, 1931, in Idlewild, Michigan. As surgeon of the South Side Dispensary in Chicago (1884-91), he became keenly aware of the lack of facilities for training African Americans like himself as doctors and nurses. As a result he organized the Provident Hospital, the first black hospital in the United States. An African American Doctor Daniel Hale Williams is credited with having performed open heart surgery on July 9, 1893 before such surgeries were established. The Famous Operation: Daniel Hale Williams successfully operated on James Cornish, the victim of a knifing. The operation was considered at the time a ground-breaking. The doctor opened the patient's chest revealing a beating heart to stitch a small wound in the pericardium, the sac surrounding the heart. Williams performed the first successful closure of a wound of the heart and pericardium. Daniel Hale Williams utilized many of the emerging antiseptic sterilization procedures of the day and thereby gained a reputation for professionalism. The doctor began his medical practice in Chicago at a time when there were only three other black physicians. In the same year President Cleveland appointed him surgeon in chief of Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, D.C., and during his five-year tenure there he reorganized the hospital. In 1891, in Chicago, Daniel Hale Williams founded Provident, the first American interracial hospital. Provident hosted the first nursing school for blacks in America. In 1913, Daniel Hale Williams Williams was the only African American member of the American College of Surgeons. From 1899 until his death he was professor of clinical surgery at Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn. Sarah Breedlove Walker (Madame C. J. Walker) businesswoman, philanthropist Born: 12/23/1867 Birthplace: Delta, La. After a series of bereavements that left her orphaned at 6 and widowed at 20, she and her daughter A'Lelia moved to St. Louis to start over. She worked days as a washerwoman and went to night school before inventing (1905) a process for straightening the hair of African-Americans. Her process, combining her unique formula with brushes and heated combs, caught on, and with the money from her successful business she and her daughter moved to Denver. She married Charles J. Walker, and began promoting her product and process under the name of Madame C. J. Walker. She opened a permanent office in Pittsburgh in 1908, which her daughter ran, and in 1910 she formed Madame C. J. Walker Laboratories in Indianapolis, where she developed products and trained her beauticians, known as "Walker Agents." The agents and the products were recognized in black communities throughout the U.S. and Caribbean for promoting the philosophy that cleanliness and loveliness could advance the plight of African-Americans. At her death, the multi-million dollar estate was left to various philanthropic organizations and to her daughter, whose philanthropic endeavors were key to funding the Harlem Renaissance. Died: 5/25/1919 Making a difference ........ Have a great weekend and keep reading. 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The source of these problems may lie in unrealistic, unreasonable emotional demands, unexplored expectations, or unresolved issues or behaviors in one partner or in the relationship. Key to resolving conflicts in healthy relationships are self-honesty, a willingness to consider your partner's perspective even if you don't fully understand it, and communication, communication, communication! Communication & Conflict Resolution When people are asked what they consider the most important ingredients in a good relationship, communication is typically high on the list. Yet rarely, if ever, are we actually taught HOW to communicate effectively. Healthy communication and effective conflict resolution in a relationship involve not only being able to express ourselves clearly, but also being able to really listen to what our partner is saying to us. Good listening is often a tricky skill that needs to be learned and practiced. Particularly when there are important decisions regarding marriage, sex, career, and family to be made, healthy communication is critical. The following are some guidelines for successful communication and conflict resolution. This information comes from the University of Texas at Austin. I hope that you will find this information useful. Have a safe and wonderful weekend. Talk to you on Monday. Levenia 918-465-1757 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070216/028a9969/attachment.html From rwatkins at eosc.edu Mon Feb 19 09:43:28 2007 From: rwatkins at eosc.edu (Rhoda Watkins) Date: Mon Feb 19 09:32:31 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Menu for Mon. Feb. 19 Happy President's Day! Message-ID: <45D9C5A0.8010008@eosc.edu> Hi folks, I hope you all had a great weekend and were able to get out and enjoy the wonderful weather yesterday. I wound up working in the Cafeteria yesterday, but did take the opportunity to walk out to our pond when I got home and saw the cutest little screech owl in our back yard. Nature seems to be waking up after the deep freeze we have been in. I could hear a pack of coyotes across the highway yipping up a storm. It's good to get out and take a little stress relief break enjoying nature whenever you get the chance, especially with the kind of week we just had and the kind of week it looks like we're going to have here in the Cafeteria. You know what they say, "When it rains, it pours." Our menu for today includes: Spaghetti with meat sauce Steamed red potatoes Sweet peas Corn Italian blend veggies Garlic bread The fast food for today is Hot Ham and Cheese on a Bun with Chips. And for dessert try a piece of sweet Honey Bun Cake. Come on over and eat with us, Rhoda :-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070219/e61c9b87/attachment.html From lcarey at eosc.edu Mon Feb 19 10:58:21 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Mon Feb 19 10:47:28 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Black History Message-ID: <45D9D72D.1050607@eosc.edu> Good Morning: Today in the foyer of the Student Union, in front of the East Cafeteria - Brenton Duncan, will be showing videos related to Black History. If you have some time please drop by. Today our spotlight is on: Dandridge, Dorothy (1922-1965) Biography Singer, actress. Born November 9, 1922, in Cleveland, Ohio. Dandridge's mother, the actress Ruby Dandridge, urged her two young daughters into show business in the 1930s, when they performed as a song-and-dance team billed as "The Wonder Children." Dandridge left high school in the late 1930s and formed the Dandridge Sisters trio with her sister Vivian and Etta James. They performed with the Jimmy Lunceford Orchestra and at the famous Cotton Club in Harlem, where Dandridge--who had a mixed racial heritage--early on confronted the segregation and racism of the entertainment industry. As a teenager, Dandridge began to appear in small roles in a number of films, including the Marx Brothers film A Day at the Races (1937) and Drums of the Congo (1942). In 1945, she married Harold Nicholas of the dancing Nicholas Brothers (with whom she performed in the 1941 Sonja Henie musical Sun Valley Serenade); during their turbulent six-year marriage, Dandridge virtually retired from performing. A daughter, Harolyn, was born with severe brain damage in 1943; as Dandridge was unable to raise her herself, she placed the girl in foster care. After her divorce in 1951, Dandridge returned to the nightclub circuit, this time as a successful solo singer. After a stint at the Mocambo club in Hollywood with Desi Arnaz's band and a sell-out 14-week engagement at La Vie en Rose, she became an international star, performing at glamorous venues in London, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, and New York. She won her first starring film role in 1953's Bright Road, playing an earnest and dedicated young schoolteacher opposite Harry Belafonte. Her next role, as the eponymous lead in Carmen Jones (1954)--a film adaptation of Bizet's opera Carmen that also costarred Belafonte--catapulted her to the heights of stardom. With her sultry looks and flirtatious style, Dandridge became the first African-American to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Though many believed she deserved to win, Dandridge eventually lost the award to Grace Kelly (The Country Girl). Still, after the phenomenal success of Carmen Jones, Dandridge seemed well on her way to becoming the first non-white actress to achieve the kind of superstardom that had accrued to contemporaries like Marilyn Monroe and Ava Gardner. In 1955, she was featured on the cover of Life magazine, and was treated like visiting royalty at that year's Cannes Film Festival. In the years that followed her success with Carmen Jones, however, Dandridge had trouble finding film roles that suited her talents. Her only other great film was 1959's Porgy and Bess, in which she played Bess opposite Sidney Poitier. She turned down the supporting role of Tuptim in The King and I because she refused to play a slave. It was rumored that she would play Billie Holliday in a film version of Lady Sings the Blues directed by Orson Welles, but it never panned out. In the racially disharmonious 1950s, Hollywood filmmakers could not seem to create a suitable role for the light-skinned Dandridge, and they soon reverted to subtly prejudiced visions of interracial romance. She appeared in several poorly received racially and sexually charged dramas, including Island in the Sun (1957), co-starring Belafonte and Joan Fontaine, Tamango (1959)--in which she played the mistress of the captain of a slave ship--and Malaga (1960). While making Carmen Jones, Dandridge became involved in a heated, secretive affair with the film's director, Otto Preminger, who also directed Porgy and Bess. Their interracial romance, as well as Dandridge's relationships with other white lovers, was frowned upon, not in the least by other African-American members of the Hollywood filmmaking community. She married her second husband, Jack Denison, in 1959, and lost the majority of her savings when his restaurant failed in 1962. He left her soon after. As her film career and marriage failed, Dandridge began drinking heavily and taking antidepressants. The threat of bankruptcy and nagging problems with the IRS forced her to resume her nightclub career, but she found only a fraction of her former success. Relegated to second-rate lounges and stage productions, Dandridge's financial situation grew worse and worse. By 1963, she could no longer afford to pay for her daughter's 24-hour medical care, and Harolyn was placed in a state institution. Dandridge soon suffered a nervous breakdown. On September 8, 1965, she was found dead in her Hollywood home, an apparent suicide from a drug overdose. Her unique and tragic story became the subject of renewed interest in the late 1990s, beginning in 1997 with the release of a biography, Dorothy Dandridge, by Donald Bogle, and a two-week retrospective at New York City's Film Forum. In 1999, the actress Halle Berry won a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Dandridge in an acclaimed HBO movie, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. ? 2000 A&E Television Networks. All rights reserved. Until Tomorrow.... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070219/0c46a8a2/attachment.html From lcarey at eosc.edu Mon Feb 19 11:38:22 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Mon Feb 19 11:27:39 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Healthy Relationship Awareness Message-ID: <45D9E08E.7030107@eosc.edu> Good Morning: Hope everyone had a great weekend. I wish that we really could live in fairy tales and that life (relationships) always had happy endings.......instead of endings. Reality kicks in and old man Walt isn't here with a magic script so we have to struggle through it and figure out which was is...... I offer you some thoughts to ponder. Have a great day. Healthy & Problematic Expectations in Relationships It is not unusual for relationship conflicts to originate in the expectations or "shoulds" we hold regarding relationships. Each of us enters a romantic relationship with our own unique hopes and expectations. We dream that this other person might perhaps be the "one" for us. We have some notions about what we do and don't want based on family relationships, what we've seen in the media, and our own past relationship experiences. Sometimes our expectations of our partner or a relationship are unrealistic, unfair, and even self-defeating. Such expectations may doom a relationship to be unsatisfying and eventually to fail. Building Healthy Relationships Healthy relationships allow for individuality, bring out the best in both people, and invite personal growth. Getting Close Developing meaningful relationships is a concern for all of us. Getting close to others, sharing our joys, sorrows, needs, wants, affections, and excitements is risky business. What is it that interferes with us getting close to each other? Often it is one or more of these common fears: 1. Fear of becoming known as we really are. Opening ourselves to others and their reactions is not only difficult for us, but is puts a demand on others to be likewise. 2. Fear of pain and disappointment. Mass media and advertisers have tried to convince us that we should be 100% happy 24 hours a day. Hurt, pain, disappointment, and loneliness are not comfortable feelings, but they are human. Without the risk of experiencing them, one can never experience loving and being loved. 3. Fear of losing our freedom. Can I risk giving up some of mine to care about you without you wanting to take it all away? Can I be both close and separate with you? 4. Fear of being a taker as well as a giver. It is difficult for most of us to receive, yet if we don't, no one can experience the joy of giving to us. 5. Fear of judgement. People are reluctant to disclose themselves because they dread the moral judgement of their friends, family, minister, and the law. 6. Fear that showing love and affection is not proper. This is especially true for men, but NOT restricted to them. Somehow we have been convinced that this is a sign of weakness rather than a sign of courage. Levenia 918-465-1757 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Feb. 20 Message-ID: <45DB1F08.50308@eosc.edu> Happy Mardi Gras, If you didn't get to attend the dinner theater production of "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" this past week you missed a great performance and a wonderful meal. (I had been smelling that Black Forest Cake since day one.) Congratulations to all involved. You know the kids involved were really dedicated considering the leading man had to shave part of his head for the role! I'm looking forward to finding out more about the planned production of "Oklahoma" that will be in the works soon. It seems very fitting to be performing "Oklahoma" in our centennial year. Our menu for this lovely Tuesday includes: Cheeseburger casserole Pasta bar Mashed potato casserole Broccoli with cheese sauce Carrots Corn Our fast food is Stew and Nachos. And for dessert we have some luscious Chocolate Cake. Have a great day, Rhoda :-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If you don't have the right clothes, the right car, even the right cell phone or an Ipod, it's the end of the world. Many of you are constantly worrying about what others think of you. (Confidentially, being grown up is so much nicer. We do have our own set of problems, but constantly worrying about what others think is not usually part of the equation.) This presentation should give you some good coping skills to deal with these problems and feelings and would be a good way to invest an hour. Our menu for today includes: Sweet and sour chicken Rice Macaroni and cheese Mashed potatoes and gravy Black eye peas Turnip greens Corn on the cob Cornbread Hot rolls Our fast food is PIZZA. And for dessert have a piece of Apple Cobbler. Don't forget you can top it off with some ice cream for an extra treat. Have a great day, Rhoda :-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please forward this message to students who may be interested in applying through the online process. We want Oklahoma students recognized for their good work! Gina Ms. Gina M. Wekke, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education Post Office Box 108850 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73101-8850 405-225-9142 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070221/60207d6a/attachment.html From ebennett at eosc.edu Wed Feb 21 17:13:43 2007 From: ebennett at eosc.edu (Estella Bennett) Date: Wed Feb 21 17:13:03 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Jeopardy Winners! Message-ID: <45DCD227.9090308@eosc.edu> Please congratulate Justin Kennedy, grand prize winner, of the final round of the Phi Beta Lambda Jambda Jeopardy marathon held today. Justin took home the $100, but there were great consolation prizes to the other winners. Second place was won by Grant Jordan, there was a tie for third place between Parker Richey and Daniel Peoples, and Amanda Wingo came in fourth. Evaluations indicate everyone had a good time. PBL advisors and members want to give a special thank you to our own "Alex Trebec," Mr. Chris Butler, who did a great job as emcee. Also, we want to thank the participants in the earlier rounds and the instructors who gave points to those students for participating. PBL members will write a report of the project to submit in competition at the PBL State Leadership Conference March 30-31, 2007 in Tulsa. From rwatkins at eosc.edu Thu Feb 22 09:43:25 2007 From: rwatkins at eosc.edu (Rhoda Watkins) Date: Thu Feb 22 09:31:30 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Menu for Thurs. Feb. 22 Message-ID: <45DDBA1D.3060800@eosc.edu> Hi folks, I had to run through upstairs earlier and got to see some of the kids setting up their exhibits for the science fair so I hope to get up there later and see all the interesting projects they've come up with to enter. There are sure to be all sorts of fascinating things to learn about up there. Don't miss it. Our menu for this beautiful day includes: Hamburger steak Mashed potatoes and brown gravy Green beans Garden blend rice Italian veggies Our fast food is a Chicken Wrap. And for dessert try a piece of Carrots Cake. Come on over for lunch and then go up and see the science fair exhibits in the Ballroom, Rhoda :-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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REWARDS For Conquering Our Fears of Getting Close If we learn to communicat effectively with others and are willing to risk sharing our own feelings and respect other's feelings, many rewards will await us as we learn to get close to another person. Obviously, a very special relationship. Getting close means you can need someone else and he/she can need you. It means when you feel discouraged or upset, someone is there to comfort and care about you, and you can do likewise. You acquire faith in yourself, faith in others, and an ability to be faithful to others. It enables you to live fully in the present and to have meaning and purpose for your own existence. You become more sensitive to yourself, with choices about how, when, and where you wish to share your feelings. You KNOW when you are experiencing love, joy, anger, etc. The Art Of Communication When people are asked what the most important ingredients in a relationship are, communication almost always is on the list. Yet we rarely are taught HOW to communicate effectively. Communication with others boils down to either expressing ourselves or responding to someone else. Yet the methods for doing each are quite different. Expressing Ourselves When you are stating an opinion, making an observation, or expressing a feeling, the most appropriate format to use is called an "I-statement." You may even hopefully be already using them. I-statements allow us to state things in positive terms, to express ourselves directly and honestly, and to take responsibility for what we think, feel, and need while avoiding blaming or accusing others. In contrast, "You-statements" blame the other person, put him/her on the defensive, and often cause communication to be blocked. To simplify things, we can use a kind of "formula" for I-statements: * "I feel/think/want (express the feeling/thought/desire)... When (state the behavior causing it)... * Because (identify the reason)..." The nice thing about this formula is that we can decide how much of it we want to use. It can be just the first one, or the first two lines, or all three. Use what you can - throw out the rest. There are no full proof methods for anything, just great suggestions that have proven effective in other situations. I'm here if you need or desire someone to talk things over with. Have a wonderful day. Levenia 918-465-1757 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070223/39230e16/attachment.html From lcarey at eosc.edu Fri Feb 23 10:45:23 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Fri Feb 23 10:33:18 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Black History Message-ID: <45DF1A23.1010200@eosc.edu> Good Morning: Today we want to share a few facts that you may or may not know, but are worthy of being repeated. Did You Know: 1. Elijah McCoy (1843-1929) invented an automatic lubricator for oiling steam engines in 1872. The term "the real McCoy" is believe to be a reference about the reliability of Elijah's McCoy's invention. 2. Garrett Augustus Morgan (1877-1963) invented, among many other things, a 3-way automatic stop sign, which he sold to General Electric. It was used in the U.S. until the 3-light traffic signal was developed. 3. Otis Boykin (1920-1982) invented electronic cotrol devices for guided missiles, IBM computers, ad the control unit for a pacemaker. 4. George Carruthers (1939- ) invented the far ultraviolet electrographic camera, used in the 1972 Apollo 16 mission. This invention revealed new features of Earth's far-outer atmosphere and deep-space objects from the perspective of the lunar surface. Carruthers was inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame in 2003. 5. James West (1931- ) research in sound technology led to the developmet of foil-electret transducers used in 90% of all microphones built today and in most new telephones being manufactured. West holds 47 U.S. and more than 200 foreign patents on microphones and techniques for making polymer foil-electrets. He was inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame in 1999. 6. Mark Dean (1957- ) along with his co-inventor Dennis Moelle creater a microcomputer system with bus control means for peripheral processing devices. This invention allows the use of computer plug-ins like disk drives, speakers, scanners, etc. 7. George T. Sampson invented a clothes dryer that used heat from a stove in 1892. 8. Frederick Jones (1892-1961) held over 60 patents with most of them pertaining to refrigeration. His portable air conditioner was used in World War II to perserve medicine and blood serum. 9. Granville Woods (1856-1910) invented numerous devices relating to the railroad- a system for overhead electric conducting lines, air brakes and a telegraph system that allowed communication between moving trains. 10. Lonnie G. Johnson (1949- ) an engineer who performed spacecraft system design for NASA, invented the Supersoaker Watergun - the number one selling toy in America in 1991. We encourage you to keep reading and learn more about Black History and recall and celebrate the positive contributions to our nation made by people of African descent. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070223/afd8e425/attachment.html From rwatkins at eosc.edu Mon Feb 26 09:47:11 2007 From: rwatkins at eosc.edu (Rhoda Watkins) Date: Mon Feb 26 09:34:26 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Menu for Mountaineer Mon. Feb. 26 Message-ID: <45E300FF.9000209@eosc.edu> Happy Mountaineer Monday folks, I hope you all made it through that reenactment of the dust bowl we had this weekend, that managed to relocate various political signs, trampolines, dumpsters and lots of assorted other objects, along with about half of West Texas. At one point, it almost looked like an eclipse, with the sun virtually blotted out by all the dust in the atmosphere. Our menu for today includes: Spaghetti Mashed potatoes and gravy Green beans California blend vegetables Bread sticks Our fast food is PIZZA. And for dessert we have a special Mountaineer Monday Cake along with Chocolate Brownies that have made the whole kitchen smell like wonderful chocolate! Come on over and eat with us, Rhoda :-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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NO STUDENT WILL BE ALLOWED TO PRE ENROLL IF THEY HAVE A BALANCE DUE ON THEIR ACCOUNT. Don't miss out on getting the classes you need because of non-payment! If you have any questions, please contact the business office. Thanks you, Linda Enis Business Office Manager -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070226/5b0b42ed/attachment.html From rwatkins at eosc.edu Tue Feb 27 09:33:56 2007 From: rwatkins at eosc.edu (Rhoda Watkins) Date: Tue Feb 27 09:30:13 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Menu for Tues. Feb. 27 Message-ID: <45E44F64.1000309@eosc.edu> Hi folks, The weather has certainly improved from this windy weekend, to weather nice enough to make the daffodils start blooming, and I've seen them in several places around town. I've even been noticing we're having a little more daylight in the evenings, which is a very welcome circumstance to me, as it gives a little more time to enjoy the outdoors and get a few chores done that have been on hold all winter. Our menu for today includes: Beef pot roast Mashed potatoes and gravy Black eye peas Rice Brussel sprouts Macaroni and cheese Hot rolls Our fast food is Cheeseburgers and French Fries. And for dessert try a piece of delicious Oreo Cheesecake. (I know I plan on it.) Come on over, Rhoda :-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070227/2daa0ca8/attachment.html From aralls at eosc.edu Wed Feb 28 09:17:05 2007 From: aralls at eosc.edu (Alanna Ralls) Date: Wed Feb 28 09:03:22 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] ECU Scholarship Deadlines Message-ID: <45E59CF1.9040201@eosc.edu> Deadlines for scholarships is here. All your applications for East Central University should be postmarked by March 1. If you have any questions, please contact me. Sincerely, Alanna Ralls 918.465.1752 aralls@eosc.edu Library Building Room 110 From rwatkins at eosc.edu Wed Feb 28 09:56:22 2007 From: rwatkins at eosc.edu (Rhoda Watkins) Date: Wed Feb 28 09:43:06 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Menu for Wed. Feb. 28 Message-ID: <45E5A626.1080101@eosc.edu> Hi folks, If you're looking for something out of the ordinary, entertaining and maybe even educational to do this evening, come to the Latimer County Library at 7:00 and see John Hinkle's portrayal of Alfalfa Bill Murray, one of Oklahoma's most interesting characters. (Maybe some of the teachers could even be persuaded to give extra credit for attendance at this performance.) Our menu for today includes: Indian tacos Pinto beans Cornbread Corn on the cob Florentine vegetables Steamed cabbage Baked potato bar Our fast food is PIZZA. And for dessert have a piece of festive Strawberry Swirl Cake. Have a great day, Rhoda :-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070228/b0428a3b/attachment.html From lcarey at eosc.edu Wed Feb 28 11:16:23 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Wed Feb 28 11:02:59 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Healthy Relationships Message-ID: <45E5B8E7.6050308@eosc.edu> Good Morning All: First I would like to say thanks to all the women who have provided me with stories that I will use in monologues during pajama parties and educational training's. I thank you for trusting me with your stories. As we come to the close of the month and the end of Healthy Relationship Awareness Month, I wanted to pass on some additional tips and information. I also would like to remind you that one month is not enough time to focus on relationships - we should always be mindful of our relationships with others. The Campus Violence Prevention Project Office has literature twelve months out of the year and has some one available to assist you in maintaining healthy relationships and communication. Should you need any of these services please drop by the office on the first floor of Miller Hall. As the months go by.......It may be important to recognize that: Relationships Change Relationships change over time. What you want from a relationship in the early months of dating may be quite different from what you want after you have been together for some time. Changes in life outside your relationship will impact what you want and need from the relationship. Even positive change tends to be stressful, but change is inevitable. Welcoming change as an opportunity to enhance the relationship is more fruitful than trying to keep change from happening. Check in Periodically With this in mind, periodically set aside time to "check in with each other" on changing expectations and goals. These discussions are hardly free of anxiety, and it is tempting to postpone them. Relationships are sometimes compared to boating on a river: Both partners need to be paddling to stay on course. Couples can find that if they ignore difficult topics too long, their relationship has drifted into "rocky water" without their noticing. Strategizing together about changes can strengthen and deepen the relationship you ar building. And good communication is key.... Clarify Your Messages A clear message: 1) Involves a respectful but direct expression of your wants and feelings. 2) Tackles one issue at a time. Discuss One Thing at a Time Starting out by talking about one concern and then brining up another when the first discussion is unfinished can also lead to problems. Do your best to keep the focus on resolving one concern at a time, even if it is tempting to "list" other concerns or grievances. Agree to Disagree and Move On In discussing "The 10 secrets of happy couples," Maud Purcell, LCSW, suggests that most couples will encounter some issues upon which they will never completely agree. Rather than continuing a cycle of repeated fights, agree to disagree and negotiate a compromise or find a way o work around the issues. Adopt a "Win-Win" Position A "win-win" stance means that your goal is for the relationship rather than either partner to "win" in a conflict situation. This may mean asking yourself: "Is what I am about to say (or do) going to increase or decrease the odds that we'll work this problem out?" If your partner feels bullied, out-talked, or otherwise the "loser" in a fight, you may win the battle but lose ground in the relationship. A better approach may be to use "fair fighting" techniques. A "fair fight" involves a step-by-step strategy for resolving conflict in which both partners negotiate a mutually acceptable solution to a problem. If you need any additional literature or information, please feel free to drop by the office or give me a call. Here's hoping all your relationships are "healthy ones" and that you have clear insight into your goals and hopes for your relationships. Key: Trust, Respect, Commitment, and Positive Communication - these ingredients can sustain a relationships and help you to avoid the pitfalls. Levenia 918-465-1757 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070228/19b75900/attachment.html From lcarey at eosc.edu Wed Feb 28 11:31:44 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Wed Feb 28 11:18:12 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Black History Awareness Message-ID: <45E5BC80.7010708@eosc.edu> Hello: As February comes to a close so does Black History Month - but awareness and opportunity to explore and learn more about a population that has and continues to impact our nation - never ceases. We will be providing several biographies and updates today. Here are the first three. BLACK HISTORY MONTH QUICK FACTS DID YOU KNOW? In 1977 * Alex Haley (Alexander Murray Palmer Haley) (1921-1992) became the first black to win a Pulitzer Prize for Roots. When he was six weeks old, Haley and his mother moved to Henning, Tennessee, where they lived at her family home. In 1939, after two years of college, he volunteered in the United States Coast Guard. Haley devoted much of his free time to reading, writing letters, and writing adventure stories. The Coast Guard created the position of chief journalist for him in 1949, and he retired ten years later to become a full-time writer. In 1962 Playboy magazine retained Hailey to write a series of interviews, including an interview with Malcolm X, which in 1964 led him to write The Autobiography of Malcolm X, a bestseller that outsold Roots. Haley launched upon a twelve-year venture to track the ancestry of his mother's family. His search eventually took him to Gambia in West Africa, where his fourth great-grandfather, Kunte Kinte, had been born. Blending fiction with fact, Haley wrote Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Published in the fall of 1976, the work brought him prompt renown. Haley received in Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and numerous other honors. The book was translated into thirty languages. The ABC television network telecast of "Roots" in an eight-episode miniseries was one of the most watched television events ever. Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) gained fame for writing "A Raisin in the Sun." Lorraine Hansberry was the first black to win the New York Drama Critics Award, for "A Raisin in the Sun," in May 1959. The play was the first on Broadway written by a black woman, and the first serious black drama to impact the dominant culture. In 1973 the musical Raisin, a revival of her play, won the Tony Award for best musical. Born in Chicago on May 19, 1930, she studied at the University of Wisconsin and the Art Institute in Chicago. In addition to plays, Hansberry's works included poems, articles, and books. Lloyd Richards, who directed Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun," was the first black director of a straight play on Broadway. He was dean of the Yale School of Drama from 1979 to 1991. "A Raisin in the Sun" is the story of a black family living I a white neighborhood. Lorraine Hansberry based the play on her experiences as a child growing up in Chicago. Those experiences also led her to write and give speeches about civil rights. Lorraine Hansberry died of cancer at the age of 34. Langston Hughes (1902-1967), was a writer of poems, books, plays and songs. Everything he wrote was about African-Americans...about their joys, their sorrows, their achievement and their losses. Most were done with warmth and humor. Mullato was the first play by a black author to be a long-run Broadway hit. It opened at the Vanderbilt theatre on October 24, 1935, and played continuously until December 9, 1937. The poet and author was born James Mercer Langston Hughes in Joplin, Missouri, and graduated from Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. He published ten volumes of poetry; more than sixty short stories; a number of dramas, operas, and anthologies; as well as two autobiographies, The Big Seas (1940) and I Wonder as I Wander (1956). Hughes created the black folk character Jesse B. Simple, and wrote about him in Simple Speaks His Mind (1950), and Simple Stakes a Claim (1957). At the age of 19, he published his first work, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and it appeared in the "Crisis," the NAACP magazine. Langston won the Harmon Award for Literature for his first novel --- "Not Without Laughter." In his lifetime he published 10 volumes of poetry, numerous short stories and anthologies, children's books, song lyrics and plays. As an established writer, he created theater groups in Harlem, Los Angeles and Chicago and wrote plays to be performed there. In 1960, the NAACP presented him with the Spingarn Medal and declared him the "Poet Laureate of the Negro Race." More articles and information to come. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070228/56a84b56/attachment-0001.html From lcarey at eosc.edu Wed Feb 28 11:35:42 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Wed Feb 28 11:22:04 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Black History Message-ID: <45E5BD6E.5070408@eosc.edu> Here are a few more key players. BLACK HISTORY MONTH QUICK FACTS DID YOU KNOW? Garrett A. Morgan (1875-1963) was the first black to receive a patent for a safety hood and smoke protector. He demonstrated its worth in 1916 by rescuing workers trapped in a smoke-filled tunnel of the Cleveland, Ohio, waterworks. Born on a farm near Paris, Kentucky, Morgan became a very astute businessman and inventor in Cleveland. Garrett A. Morgan liked to invent things. In 1913, he discovered a material that straightened hair. The money he made with this product let him work on other inventions. The Gas Mask was one of his most famous. It helped save many lives during World War I. In 1923, Garrett Morgan patented a three-way automatic traffic signal which he sold to General Electric. The traffic lights that help you cross the street safely today evolved from this invention. Later he and his colleagues started the "Cleveland Call and Post" which is today a popular African-American newspaper. HENRY "HANK" AARON (1934- ) was a baseball player with the Atlanta Braves who broke Babe Ruth's record of 714 home runs. Born in Mobile, Alabama, the third of eight children, Aaron began his professional career in 1952 with the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American League. The Clowns paid him $200 a month, and Aaron led the league with a .467 average his first season. The Braves, than based in Milwaukee, purchased his contract for $10,000 in 1954. Three years later, he was named National League MVP. When it became clear that he would probably break Babe Ruth's record, Aaron received thousands of hate-filled letters, some of which threatened his life. However, he went on to hit his 715th home run on April 8, 1974, in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. He retired in 1976 with a home run total of 755. Aaron became a vice president with the Atlanta Braves and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982. "I had to break the record," he said, "I had to do it for Jackie [Robinson] and my people and myself and for everybody who ever called me a nigger." In 1893 * Nancy Green (1831-1898) a former slave from Montgomery County, Kentucky, was the first Aunt Jemima and the world's first living trademark. She made her debut at age fifty-nine at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where she served pancakes in a booth. The Aunt Jemima Mills Company distributed a souvenir lapel button which bore her photograph and the caption, "I'se in town honey." The slogan later became the slogan on the company's promotional campaign. Green was the official trademark for three decades. Gwendolyn Brooks (1917- ), poet and novelist, was the first black to win a Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry "Annie Allen." She became established as a major American poet, and in 1976, she was the first black woman inducted into the National Institute of Arts and Letters. A sensitive interpreter of Northern ghetto life, she began to write poetry at age seven; her poems were published in the Chicago Defender. From 1969 on, she has promoted the idea that blacks must develop their own culture. She changed her writing style in an effort to become accessible to the ordinary black reader. She was poet laureate of Illinois for sixteen years, and is poetry consultant to the Library of Congress. In 1989 she received a lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Gwendolyn grew up in the Chicago suburb of Bronzeville. Education, art, and music were very important to Gwendolyn's family, and she was encouraged to express herself through writing. Her first poem was published when she was only 13 years old. Her poems portray the lives and suffering of inner-city African-Americans. Some of her poems are especially appealing to children. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070228/2343d79b/attachment.html From lcarey at eosc.edu Wed Feb 28 11:40:24 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Wed Feb 28 11:26:55 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Black History Awareness Message-ID: <45E5BE88.10809@eosc.edu> More great information about Black History: BLACK HISTORY MONTH QUICK FACTS DID YOU KNOW? In 1867 * The first black college was founded in Tennessee, and still in existence, is Fisk University. Although work on the founding of the school was begun in October 1865, it did not become incorporated under the laws of the State of Tennessee until August 22, 1867, under the auspices of the American Missionary Association. The institution opened on January 9, 1866. It was named in honor of General Clinton B. Fisk of the Freedmen's Bureau. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Scott Joplin (1868-1917) was known as the "King of Ragtime." If anything, his music is more popular today than it was then. During his lifetime, Joplin experienced both widespread popularity and relative obscurity. Joplin was born in Texarkana, Arkansas, in 1868. He began to study piano as a child, demonstrating an unusual style. He started on a tour of the Midwest while he was still a teenager. In 1893, he performed at the Columbian Exhibition in Chicago. During those first years as a performer, he played classical music and showed himself to be an extremely competent musician. Joplin settled in Sedalia, Missouri, in 1893. Intending to become a classical pianist, he studied music at the George R. Smith College for Negroes. While in Sedalia, he wrote and published a number of songs and found early fame. Joplin spent a great deal of time writing his own music. His most productive period was from 1899 through 1911. He published his first major ballet suite in 1902. His instruction book for the piano, The School of Ragtime, was published in 1907. It became a standard for pianists who played ragtime, a lively kind of music. Joplin, through his ragtime compositions, has had a lasting influence. His "Maple Leaf Rag," is one of the most famous American rags. Some of his ragtime music was adapted for the score of The Sting, a movie that was released in 1973. The composer Marvin Hamlisch won an Academy Award for the music. In 1911, Joplin, published what many consider his most important work, Treemonisha. It has been called a folk opera or a ragtime opera, but in it Joplin combined all of his musical ideas. He not only wrote the music but also choreographed it. Even though he became obsessed with its success and invested a lot of money in its production, it was performed only once during his lifetime. Treemonisha was revived in 1972 and met with critical acclaim. MARIAN ANDERSON (1897-1993) was an opera singer. Marian Anderson was said by the great conductor Arturo Toscanini to have the kind of voice that is "heard only once in a hundred years." A contralto, she began singing as a child at Philadelphia's Union Baptist church. In 1925, she won the Lewisohn Stadium Concert Award after competing against 300 other young singers. This was followed by a concert tour and an appearance as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Anderson then traveled throughout the world, singing to packed audiences in country after country. But in 1939, she was barred from singing in Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. because she was black. The incident made headlines across the country. In protest, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.), which owned Constitution Hall. She also arranged for Anderson to sing instead at the Lincoln Memorial, where she performed before a crowd of 75,000. In 1955, Marian Anderson became the first African American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Two years later, she toured Asia at the request of the State Department. In 1958, she was appointed a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations. Her autobiography is entitled My Lord, What a Morning. Dean Charles Dixon (1915-76) was the first black to conduct the New York Philharmonic at the age of twenty-six and was possibly the first black American recognized as a symphonic conductor of international stature. He was the first to hold permanent positions for long periods with symphony orchestras, and toured worldwide as a guest conductor. Born in New York City, Dixon was educated at Juilliard School of Music and Columbia University Teachers College. Dean Dixon grew up in New York City and attended concerts with his mother when he was only three years old. His mother arranged for him to take violin lessons at an early age. While Dean was in high school, he organized an orchestra that met at the Harlem YMCA. There was no discrimination in Dean's orchestra, which became the Dean Dixon Symphony Society. Throughout his career, Dixon inspired others to pursue careers as musicians and composers. Keep reading - more to come. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070228/633c1b60/attachment-0001.html From lcarey at eosc.edu Wed Feb 28 12:15:48 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Wed Feb 28 12:02:10 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Black History Awareness Message-ID: <45E5C6D4.40608@eosc.edu> Did You Know? There are 9.1 million black families in the United States. Of these, nearly one-half (47 percent) are married-couple families. The projected single-race black population in the United States as of July 1, 2050 is 61.4 million. On that date, according to the projection, blacks would constitute 15 percent of the nation's total population. There are 2.4 million black military veterans in the United States in 2004. (Source: American FactFinder) There are 44,000 black physicians and surgeons; 79,400 postsecondary teacher; 45,200 lawyers; 49,300 chief executives. (Source: Upcoming Statiscal Abstact of the United States: 2007) 46% of black housholders own their own home, nationally. The rate is higher in certain states, such as Mississippi, whre it reached 56 percent. 80% of blacks age 25 and oldr had at least a high school diploma in 2005. Colorado has 90%. 17% of blacks 25 and older had an advanced degree in 2005 (e.g. master's, Ph.D, M.D., or J.D.). In 2005, 2.3 million black college students were enrolled. This was an increase of roughly 1 million from 15 years earlier. FACT Thomas J. Martin patented the fire extinguisher in 1872. Jan Ernst Matzeliger (1852-1889) invented the Shoe Lasting machine, which connected the upper part of the shoe to the sole. This invention revolutionized the shoe making industry. Lewis Howard Latimer (1848-1928) drafted patent drawings for Alexander Graham Bell's telephone while working at a patent law firm. He patented and invented the carbon filament for light bulbs in 1881. Joseph Winters invented a fire escape ladder in 1878. Alexander Miles of Duluth, Minnesota patented an electric elevator in 1887 with automatic doors that would close off the shaft way, thus making elevators safer. Andrew J. Beard (1849-1921) invented the "Jenny Coupler" which allowed train cars to hook themselves together when they bumped into one antoehr. The device is still used today. John Love invented the pencil sharpener in 1897. Sarah E. Goode (1850-?) invented a bed that folded up into a cabinet in 1885. Contrary to popular beleif, she was not the first African-American woman to receie a patent, but the second. C.B. Brooks invented the street sweeper n 1896. It was a truck attached with brooms. L. P. Ray invented the dustpan in 1897. Henry Brown created what is now known as a "strong box," a metal containr to store money and important papers that could be locked with a key in 1886. Joseph Lee (1849-1905) invented an automatic bread making machine that mixed the ingredients and kneaded the dough, in 1895. Henry Blair, the second African-American to receive a patent, invented a corn seed planter in 1834 and a cotton planter in 1836. Blair could not read or write and signed his patent with an X. David Crosthwait Jr. (1898-1979) an expert on heating, ventilation and air-conditioning, holds 39 U.S. patents, and 80 interantional patents pertaining to heating, refrigeration and temperature regulating systems. Crosthwait created the heating system for New York City's Radio City Music Hall. Jesse Ernest Wilkins, Jr. (1923- ), a physicits, mathematician and an engineer, earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at age 19 from the University of Chicago in 1942. The banjo originated in Africa and up until the 1800s was considered an instrument only played by blacks. Jack Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight champion, patented a wrench in 1922. Lewis and Clark were accompanied by York, a black slave, when they made their 1804 expedition from Missouri to Oregon. York's presence aided in the interactions with Native Americans. Isaac Murphy (1861-1896) a great thoroughbred jockey, was the first to win three Derbys and the only jockey to win the Kentucky Derby, the Kentucky Oaks, and the Clark Handicap within the same year. Buffalo Soldiers is a name respectfully given to the African-American cavalries during the 1800s by the Kiowa tribe. These soldiers received 2nd class treatment and were often given the worst military assignments, but had the lowest desertion rate. More than 20 Buffalo Soldiers have received the highest military award, the Medal of Honor - the most any military unit has ever received. Mark Matthews (Buffalo Soldier). The oldest living Buffalo Soldier, Mark Matthews, died at the age of 111 in 2005. Cathay Williams (1842- ) (Buffalo Soldier) Cathay Williams was the first and only known female Buffalo Soldier. She was born nto slavery and worked for the Union army during the Civil War. She posed as a man and enlisted as Williams Cathay in the 38th infantry in 1866. She was given a medical discharge in 1868. Bill Pickett (1871-1932) a renowned cowboy and rodeo performer was named to the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1971 and honored by the U.S. Postal service in a series of stamps as one of the twenty "Legends of the West." Josiah Henson (1789-1883) fled slavery in 1830 and founded a settlement in Ontario, Canada for fugitive slaves. His autobiography is beleived to have been Harriet Beecher Stowe's inspiration for the main character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Henson's cabin still stands adn is a national landmark. Henson's grandosn was part of the first successful U.S. expedition to the North Pole. The more you know...... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070228/5adc2fc6/attachment.html From lcarey at eosc.edu Wed Feb 28 12:22:30 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Wed Feb 28 12:09:02 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Black History Message-ID: <45E5C866.1030608@eosc.edu> Martin Luther, Jr King Biography (1929-68) Baptist minister and civil rights leader, born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The grandson and son of Baptist ministers, in 1935 his father changed both their names to Martin to honour the German Protestant. Young Martin graduated from Morehouse College in Georgia (1948) and Crozer Theological Seminary (1951) and then took a PhD from Boston University (1955), where he also met his future (1957) wife, Coretta Scott, with whom he had four children. Ordained a minister (1947) at his father's Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, he became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, AL (1953). Relatively untested when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in a bus in December 1955, he led the boycott of Montgomery's segregated buses for over a year (eventually resulting in the Supreme Court decision outlawing discrimination in public transportation). In 1957 he was chosen president of the newly formed Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and he began to broaden his active role in the civil-rights struggle while advocating his nonviolent approach to achieving results. His approach was based on the ideas of Henry David Thoreau and Mohandas Gandhi as well on Christian teachings. In 1959 he moved to Atlanta to become co-pastor of his father's church, and in the ensuing years gave much of his energies to organizing protest demonstrations and marches in such cities as Birmingham, AL (1963), St Augustine, FL (1964), and Selma, AL (1965). During these years he was arrested and jailed by Southern officials on several occasions, he was stoned and physically attacked, and his house was bombed. He was also placed under secret surveillance by the FBI due to the strong prejudices of its director, J Edgar Hoover, who wanted to discredit King as both a leftist and a womanizer. King's finest hour came on 28 August 1963 when he led the great march in Washington, DC, that culminated with his famous 'I have a dream' speech at the Lincoln Memorial. At the height of his influence, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and he used his new-found powers to attack discrimination in the US North. Meanwhile, as the Vietnam War began to consume the country, he also broadened his criticisms of American society because he saw the impact of the war on the country's resources and energies. In the spring of 1968 he went to Memphis, TN to show support for the striking city workers, and he was shot and killed as he stood on the balcony of his motel there. (James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to the murder, although he later insisted that he was innocent.) With his oratorical style that drew directly on the force of the Bible, and with his serene confidence derived from his non-violent philosophy, he had advocated a programme of moderation and inclusion, and although later generations would question some of his message, few could deny that he had been the guiding light for 15 of the most crucial years in America's civil-rights struggle. Rosa (Lee McCauley) Parks Biography (1913-2005) Civil-rights activist. Born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. After briefly attending Alabama State University, she married and settled in Montgomery, Alabama, where by 1955 she was working as a tailor's assistant in a department store. Contrary to most early portrayals of her as merely a poor, tired seamstress, who on the spur of the moment refused to surrender her seat in a bus to a white passenger, she had long been a community activist. Parks served as secretary of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and had worked for the Union of Sleeping Car Porters. She had also been involved in previous incidents when refusing to leave a bus seat. By forcing the police to remove, arrest, and imprison her on this occasion, and then agreeing to become a test case of segregation ordinances, she played a deliberate role in instigating the Montgomery bus boycott (1955-6). Dismissed from her job at the department store, in 1957 she became a youth worker in Detroit, Michigan. As she eventually earned recognition as the 'midwife' or 'mother' of the civil rights revolution, she became a sought-after speaker nationally. Parks died at her home in Detroit on October 24, 2005, at age 92. Thurgood Marshall Biography (1908-93) Supreme Court judge, civil rights advocate. Born Thoroughgood Marshall on July 2, 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland. The great-grandson of a slave, he graduated as valedictorian from Howard University Law School (1933) and soon began to represent civil-rights activists. Becoming a counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1938), during the next 23 years he won 29 of the 32 major cases he undertook for that organization; several of the cases set constitutional precedents in matters such as voting rights and breaking down segregated transportation and education. His finest moment came with Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which overturned Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and its 'separate but equal' ruling that perpetuated segregated institutions and facilities. President John F Kennedy named him to the US Court of Appeals, a seat he finally took despite the resistance of Southern senators (1962-5). President Lyndon Johnson appointed him US solicitor general (1965-7) and then to the US Supreme Court, the first African-American to hold such an office (1967-91). Consistently voting with the liberal block, he found himself increasingly isolated as the court's make-up changed, and he was forced by ill health to retire and see his seat taken by the conservative Clarence Thomas. Marshall died of heart failure on January 24, 1993. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Thanks for reading -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/eoscstudents/attachments/20070228/624b2f8b/attachment.html From lcarey at eosc.edu Wed Feb 28 12:28:29 2007 From: lcarey at eosc.edu (Levenia Carey) Date: Wed Feb 28 12:15:03 2007 Subject: [Eoscstudents] Black History Awareness Message-ID: <45E5C9CD.4050602@eosc.edu> I know you probably feel that your email is overflowing with Black History - that's a good thing, it lets you know that there is so much information out there. We hope you have enjoyed reading and learning more about Black History. We have only tipped the iceberg - we hope your curiousity has been peaked and that you will seek out additional information. Here are two more articles we would like to share with you. BLACK HISTORY MONTH QUICK FACTS DID YOU KNOW? In 1867 * The first black college was founded in Tennessee, and still in existence, is Fisk University. Although work on the founding of the school was begun in October 1865, it did not become incorporated under the laws of the State of Tennessee until August 22, 1867, under the auspices of the American Missionary Association. The institution opened on January 9, 1866. It was named in honor of General Clinton B. Fisk of the Freedmen's Bureau. Sidney Poitier Biography (1924- ) Actor, director. Born February 20, 1927 in Miami, Florida. Born prematurely on the high seas en route to Miami, Poitier grew up in The Bahamas. His youth was filled with delinquency, and his parents eventually sent him to live with his brother in Florida at age 16. Poitier served a short stint in the United States Army before moving to New York to pursue an acting career. A student at the American Negro Theater in New York City, Poitier appeared on stage and in films before making his Hollywood debut in 1950. Cast mainly in supporting roles, he won an Oscar for Lilies of the Field (1963). The win marked the first Oscar awarded to a black actor and made Poitier cinema's first African American superstar, one who consciously defied racial stereotyping. Handsome and unassuming, he brought dignity to the portrayal of noble and intelligent characters, including Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night (1967). Other notable films include The Defiant Ones and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). During the 1970s he also began to direct, producing a number of lowbrow comedies such as the successful Richard Pryor-Gene Wilder vehicle Stir Crazy (1980) and Ghost Dad (1990). He returned to acting after a 10-year absence, appearing in Shoot to Kill (1988), Little Nikita (1988), Sneakers (1992), and One Man, One Vote (1997). In 2001, he received a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for his autobiographical book The Measure of a Man. In 2002, he received and an honorary Oscar. Poitier was married to Juanita Hardy from 1950 until 1965; the couple has four children. He is currently married to Canadian-born actress Joanna Shimkus, they have two children. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the British Empire in 1974, which entitles him to use the title "Sir," though he chooses not to do so. He has also served as non-resident Bahamian ambassador to Japan and to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Thanks for reading and learning more about Black History. Levenia, Marilynn, Brenton, NAACP-Psycho Clubs <> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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