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UNITED ***
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UNITED STATES ACADEMIC DECATHLON
FAX COVER SHEET
FAX: (310)809-4111
DATE:
4/16/92
TO:
THE WHITE HOUSE
ATTN:
MICHELLE NIX
FROM: FRANN SHERMET
WE ARE TRANSMITTING 5 PAGE(S) TO YOU INCLUDING THIS
PAGE. IF YOUR COPY IS UNCLEAR, PLEASE TELEPHONE OR FAX.
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The following is a roster of the top three championship teams from the
United States Academic Decathlon who will be visiting the White House on
Thursday, April 23, 1992.
First Place Team is from J. Frank Dobie High School in Houston, Texas
Honor
Wayne Vuong
Scott Seago
Massoud Javadi
Scholastic
Larry Tooley
Paul Lapuyade
Jeffrey Chung
Varsity
Daniel Ramirez
David Norman
Joshua Mathis
Coaches
Catherine Haney
Richard Golenko
Principal
Jerry Ross Speer
Superintendent, Pasadena ISD
Larry Richard Vaughn
State Director
Dr. C. Lee Meyer
Pres. - Texas Academic Decathlon
Tom Moseley
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Second Place Team is from Mountain View High School, Mesa, Arizona
Honor
Paul Hlavacek
Tyson Rogers
Daniel Arai
Scholastic
Nat Clarkson
Andrea Jackson
Renee Larson
Varsity
Christine Roorda
Soren Ragsdale
Gina Parizek
Coach
Mary McGovern
Principle
James E. Curlett
Superintendent
Dr. James K. Zaharis
State Director
Anita Lohr
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Third Place Team is from Whitney Young Magnet High School, Chicago,
Illinois.
Honor
Sarah Bush
Damien Sullivan
Allen Cheng
Scholastic
Jon Piechowski
Kelly English
Michael Sleet
Varsity
Mitchell Rovner
Jason Steffensen
Gregory Rudnick
Coach
Larry Minkoff
Principal
Powhatan Collins
Superintendent
Ted D. Kimbrough
Co-State Directors
Roger Prietz
Sandra Gass
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Top Ten Overall Winners
SCORE
1.
NAME OF HIGH SCHOOL 1001
49,710
2.
Texas / J. Frank Dobie
49,475
Arizona / Mountain View
3.
48,500
Illinois / Whitney Young Magnet
4.
48,340
California / El Camino Real
5.
46,810
Ohio / Willoughby South
6.
46,325
New Jersey / Northern Valley
Old Tappan
7.
46,215
Indiana / Bloomington South
8.
46,120
Wisconsin / University School of
Milwaukee
9.
46,055
Alabama / Indian Springs
10.
45,540
Idaho / Boise
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APR 15, 1992
ACADEMIC DECATHLON
Page 1
10:30 am
UNITED STATES COMPETITION
**** OVERALL WINNERS ****
*** OVERALL STUDENT WINNERS ***
Based on 10 events
HONOR DIVISION
Gold
9,100 Tyson Rogers
Arizona
Mountain View H.S.
Silver
8,895 Mit Robertson
Mississippi
Tupelo H.S.
Bronze
8,875
Massoud Javadi
Texas
J. Frank Dobie
SCHOLASTIC DIVISION
Gold
8,460
Andrea Jackson
Arizona
Mountain View H.S.
Silver
8,450
Renee Larson
Arizona
Mountain View H.S.
Bronze
8,430
Brian Lazarus
California
El Camino Real H.S.
Jonathan Brumley
Alabama
Indian Springs H.S.
VARSITY DIVISION
Gold
8,265
Joshua Mathis
Texas
J. Frank Dobie
Silver
8,205
Gregory Rudnick
Illinois
Whitney Young Magnet
Bronze
7,900 Daniel Ramirez
Texas
J. Frank Dobie
THE WHITE HOUSE
(Hinchliffe/Nix)
WASHINGTON
April 15, 1992
10
a.m.
DECATHLON Draft One
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
ACADEMIC DECATHLON CHAMPIONS
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1992
ROSE GARDEN
ps:
--science award winners
--teacher of the year
1991 academic decathlon
NEED:
Super Quiz questions
--winners names, anecdotes, etc.
taken a position on America 2000?
--how many Am 2000 states now -- 43?
--quotes: study, education, competition, etc.
--# h.s. competing
PEARCE:
--6 out of 8 years
work all year
Wade McIntyre -- "He was very charming and very nice. "
-don't use "Your lives and your accomplishm
can become."
FAX INFO:
-10-event sholastic competition 9 students;
--ecology and environment
Super Quiz: Habitat Earth
3500 teams in 49 states and DC -- target 50 for next year
--goal: to improve status, recongition, and popularity of
academic endeavor in every h.s. in US
lets h.s. improve academic image and spirit; increase community
involvement with academics; create local educational partnerships
with corporations and service organizations.
most prestigious h.s. academic comp. in US
almost exclusively funded by corporate contributions
since 1982
important: broad spectrum of topics studied; and includsion of
B and C or below students
--6 exams; speech; interview; essay; super quiz -- like running
for President?
--to be successful, all members of team must commit selves to
program
--message Decathlon sends is very important -- personal
dedication, effort and teamwork lead to success
--created a new kind of hero
--strong commitment by all to maximize potential of every student
--a New Kind of Campus Hero; Reach for the Stars; Cheering for
Academics
SPECIFICS:
G=goal
In indo
Am 2000
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Quotations on Education
and political neutrality will not be partisan or enemy of any class,
creed, party, or faction.
JAMES, WILLIAM
I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the
thought of suicide.
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world
of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of
consciousness that exist.
Education is the organization of acquired habits of action such as
will fit the individual to his physical and social environment.
JAMESON, ANNA
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of
immortality already sown within us; to develop to their fullest ex-
tent, the capacities of every kind with which God who made us has
endowed us.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS
The commonwealth requires the education of her people as the safe-
guard of order and liberty.
Above all things, I hope the education of the common people
will be attended to; convinced that on this good sense we may rely
with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.
The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more
than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and
nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.
JOHNSON, LYNDON BAINES
The American people, among their notable contribution to the arts
and crafts of civilizations have insisted that education not be the
prized possession of the few.
JOHNSON, OWEN
All education does today is develop the memory at the expense of
the imagination.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL
I hate by-roads in education. Education is as well known, and has
long been as well known, as ever it can be.
Education
39
For since every household is part of a state, and these relationships
are part of the household, and the excellence of the part must have
regard to that of the whole, it is necessary that the education both
of the children and of the women should be carried on with a regard
to the form of the constitution, if it makes any difference as regards
the goodness of the state for the children and the women to be good.
Now each man judges well the things he knows, and of these he is a
good judge. And SO the man who has been educated in a subject is
a good judge of that subject, and the man who has received an all-
round education is a good judge in general.
ROGERS, WILL
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man, if you get off the
subject he was educated in.
Nothing will kill the movies except education.
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE
Education must light the path for social change. The social and
economic problems confronting us are growing in complexity. The
more complex and difficult these problems become, the more essen-
tial it is to provide broad and complete education; that kind of edu-
cation that will equip us as a nation to decide these problems for
the best interest of all concerned. Our ultimate security, to a large
extent, is based upon the individual's character, information, and
attitude-and the responsibility rests squarely upon those who direct
education in America.
The educated scamp is a scamp still and all the more dangerous to
the community.
ROSENBERG, ALFRED
For decades education in Germany has been looked on merely as a
means of increasing knowledge. Instead of this, National Socialism
has decreed education to be the strengthening of character.
ROSENKRANS, KARL
The nature of education is determined by the nature of mind that
it can develop what is in itself only by its own activity
Educa-
tion is the influencing of man by man, and it has for its end to lead
him to actualize himself through his own efforts
Man, therefore,
Ref:
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WH
QUOTABLE QUOTES
ON EDUCATION
AUGUST KERBER
Wayne State University
A Savoyard Book
1968
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
DETROIT
Education
THE JEFFERSONIAN CYCLOPEDIA
274
2388. EDUCATION, Devotion to.-A
much poetry should not be indulged. Some
system of general instruction, which shall
is useful for forming style and taste. Pope,
reach every description of our citizens from
Dryden, Thomson, Shakespeare, and of the
the richest to the poorest, as it was the ear-
French Molière, Racine, the Corneilles, may
liest, so will it be the latest of all the public
be read with pleasure and improvement. The
concerns in which I shall permit myself to
French language. become that of the general
take an interest. Nor am I tenacious of the
intercourse of nations, and from their ex-
form in which it shall be introduced. Be
traordinary advances, now the depository of
that what it may, our descendants will be
all science, is an indispensable part of educa-
as wise as we are, and will know how to
tion for both sexes.
*
*
*
The ornaments,
amend and amend it, until it shall suit their
too, and the amusements of life, are entitled
circumstances. Give it to us then in any
to their portion of attention. These. for a
shape. and receive for the inestimable boon
female. are dancing, drawing, and music. The
the thanks of the young and the blessings of
first is a healthy exercise, elegant and very
the old, who are past all other services but
attractive for young people. Every affec-
prayers for the prosperity of their country,
tionate parent would be pleased to see his
and blessings for those who promote it.-To
daughter qualified to participate with her
JOSEPH C. CABELL. FORD ED.. X. I02. (M.,
companions, and without awkwardness at
1818.)
least, in the circles of festivity, of which she
occasionally becomes a part. It is a neces-
- EDUCATION, Discipline and.-See
sary accomplishment, therefore, although of
DISCIPLINE and UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.
short use; for the French rule is wise, that
2389. EDUCATION, Drawing.-I have
no lady dances after marriage. This is
been quite anxious to get a good drawing
founded in solid physical reasons, gestation
master in the military or landscape line for
and-nursing leaving little time to a married
the University [of Virginia]. It is a branch
lady when this exercise can be either safe or
of male education most highly and justly
innocent. Drawing is thought less of in this
valued on the continent of Europe.-To
country than in Europe. It is an innocent
JAMES MADISON. FORD ED., X, 360. (M.,
and engaging amusement, often useful, and
1826.)
a qualification not to be neglected in one who
is to become a mother and an instructor. Mu-
EDUCATION, Elective Studies.-See
sic is invaluable where a person has an ear.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.
Where they have not, it should not be at-
- EDUCATION, European.-See
tempted. It furnishes a delightful recreation
SCHOOLS.
for the hours of respite from the cares of the
day, and lasts us through life. The taste of
2390. EDUCATION, Female.-A plan of
this country, too. calls for this accomplish-
female education has never been a subject of
ment more strongly than for either of the
systematic contemplation with me. It has
others. I need say nothing of household
occupied my attention so far only as the edu-
economy, in which the mothers of our coun-
cation of my own daughters occasionally re-
try are generally skilled, and generally care-
quired. Considering that they would be
ful to instruct their daughters. We all know
placed in a country situation, where little aid
its value. and that diligence and dexterity in
could be obtained from abroad. I thought it
all its processes are inestimable treasures.
essential to give them a solid education, which
The order and economy of a house are as
might enable them. when become mothers, to
honorable to the mistress as those of the farm
educate their own daughters, and even to di-
to the master, and if either be neglected.
rect the course for sons, should their fathers
ruin follows, and children destitute of the
be lost, or incapable, or inattentive.
*
means of living.-To N. BURWELL. vii, IOI.
A great obstacle to good education is the or-
FORD ED., x, 104. (M., 1818.)
dinate passion prevalent for novels. and the
time lost in that reading which should be in-
- EDUCATION, Fostering Genius.-
structively employed. When this poison in-
See 2398, 2399, 2400.
fects the mind it destroys its tone and revolts
2391. EDUCATION, Freedom and.-If a
it against wholesome reading. Reason and
nation expects to be ignorant and free. in a
fact, plain and unadorned, are rejected.
state of civilization, it expects what never
Nothing can engage attention unless dressed
was and never will be.-To CHARLES YANCEY.
in all the figments of fancy, and nothing so
vi, 517. FORD ED., x, 4. (M.,1816.)
bedecked comes amiss. The result is a
2392. EDUCATION, Freedom, Happi-
bloated imagination, sickly judgment, and
ness and.-No other sure foundation can be
disgust towards all the real businesses of
life. This mass of trash, however, is not with-
devised for the preservation of freedom and
happiness.
*
*
*
out some distinction; some few modelling
Preach a crusade against
their narratives. although fictitious, on the
ignorance; establish and improve the law for
incidents of real life, have been able to make
educating the common people. Let our coun-
them interesting and useful vehicles of a
trymen know that the people alone can pro-
sound morality. Such. I think, are Marmon-
tect us against the evils [of. misgovernment].
tel's new Moral Tales. but not his old ones,
-To GEORGE WYTHE ii, 7. FORD ED., iv,
which are really immoral. Such are the wri-
268. (P., 1786.)
tings of Miss Edgeworth, and some of those
2393. EDUCATION, Friends of.-A wise
of Madame Genlis. For a like reason, too,
direction of [the force friendly to education]
275
THE JEFFERSONIAN CYCLOPEDIA
Education
will insure to our country its future prosper-
country, for teaching Greek, Latin, geography,
ity and safety.-To JOSEPH C. CABELL. vii,
and the higher branches of numerical arith-
189. FORD ED., x, 167. (P.F., 1820.)
metic. Of the boys thus sent in any one year.
2394. EDUCATION, Good Government
trial is to be made at the grammar schools
and.-No one more sincerely wishes the
one or two years, and the best genius of the
spread of information among mankind than
whole selected, and continued six years, and
I do, and none has greater confidence in its
the residue dismissed. By this means twenty
of the best geniuses will be raked from the
effect towards supporting free and good gov-
rubbish annually, and be instructed at the
ernment.-To HUGH L. WHITE. v, 521. (M.,
1810.)
public expense, so far as the grammar schools
go. At the end of six years instruction, one-
2395. EDUCATION, Higher.-I do most
half are to be discontinued (from among
anxiously wish to see the highest degrees of
whom the grammar schools will probablv
education given to the higher degrees of
be supplied with future masters) and the
genius, and to all degrees of it, so much as
other half, who are to be chosen for the su-
may enable them to read and understand what
periority of their parts and disposition, are to
is going on in the world, and to keep their
be sent and continued three years in the study
part of it going on right; for nothing can
of such sciences as they shall choose, at Will-
keep it right but their own vigilant and dis-
iam and Mary College.
*
*
*
The
ul-
trustful superintendence.-To MANN PAGE.
timate result of the whole scheme of educa-
iv, II9. FORD ED., vii, 24. (M., 1795.)
tion would be the teaching all the children of
2396.
The greatest good [of
the State reading, writing. and common arith-
the people] requires, that while they are in-
metic; turning out ten annually of superior
structed in general, competently to the com-
genius, well taught in Greek, Latin. geog-
mon business of life, others should employ
raphy, and the higher branches of arithmetic;
their genius with necessary information to
turning out ten others annually, of still su-
the useful arts. to inventions for saving la-
perior parts, who. to those branches of learn-
bor and increasing our comforts. to nourish-
ing, shall have added such branches of the
ing our health. to civil government, military
sciences as their genius shall have led them
science, &c.-To JOSEPH C. CABELL. vii, 187.
to; the further furnishing to the wealthier
FORD ED., x, 166. (P. F., 1820.)
part of the people convenient schools at which
their children may be educated at their own
2397.
When sobered by ex-
expense.-NoTES ON VIRGINIA. viii, 388.
perience, I hope our successors will turn
FORD ED., iii, 251. (1782.)
their attention to the advantages of education.
2399.
I mean of education on the broad scale, and
I have sketched and put
not that of the petty academies, as they call
into the hands of a member a bill, delineating
themselves, which are started up in every
a practicable plan, entirely within the means
neighborhood, and where one or two men,
they [the Virginia Legislature] already have
possessing Latin and sometimes Greek, a
on hand, destined to this object. My bill
knowledge of the globes, and the first six
proposes: I. Elementary schools in every
books of Euclid, imagine and communicate
county, which shall place every householder
within three miles of a school. 2. District
this as the sum of science. They commit
their pupils to the theatre of the world, with
colleges, which shall place every father within
just taste enough of learning to be alienated
a day's ride of a college where he may dis-
from industrious pursuits, and not enough to
pose of his son. 3. An university in a healthy
do service in the ranks of science. * *
*
and central situation, 'with the offer of the
I hope the necessity will at length be seen of
lands, buildings, and funds of the Central
establishing institutions here, as in Europe.
College, if they will accept that place for their
where every branch of science useful at this
establishment. In the first will be taught
day, may be taught in its highest degree.-To
reading, writing. common arithmetic, and
JOHN ADAMS. vi, 356. FORD ED., ix, 464.
general notions of geography. In the second,
(M., July 1814.)
ancient and modern languages, geography
fully, a higher degree of numerical arithmetic,
2398. EDUCATION, Jefferson's Bills
mensuration, and the elementary principles
on.-The bill [on Education in the Revised
of navigation. In the third, all the useful
Code of Virginia] proposes to lay off every
sciences in their highest degree. To all of
county into small districts of five or six miles
which is added a selection from the elemen-
square, called hundreds, and in each of them
tary schools of subjects of the most promising
to establish a school for teaching reading,
genius, whose parents are too poor to give
writing. and arithmetic. The tutor to be
them further education, to be carried at the
supported. by the hundred, and every person
public expense through the colleges and uni-
in it entitled to send their children three years
versity. The object is to bring into action
gratis, and as much longer as they please,
that mass of talents which lies buried in pov-
paying for it. These schools to be under a
erty in every country, for want of the means
visitor who is annually to choose the boy of
of development, and thus give activity to a
best genius in the school, of those whose par-
mass of mind, which, in proportion to our
ents are too poor to give them further educa-
population, shall be the double or treble of
tion. and to send him forward to one of the
what it is in most countries. The expense
grammar schools, of which twenty are pro-
of the elementary schools for every countv.
posed to be erected in different parts of the
is proposed to be levied on the wealth of the
Education
THE JEFFERSONIAN CYCLOPEDIA
,
276
county, and all children rich and poor. to be
good principles. If this period be suffered
educated at these three years gratis. *
*
*
to pass in idleness, the mind becomes lethar-
This is, in fact and substance, the plan I pro-
gic and impotent. as would the body it in-
posed in a bill forty years ago, but accom-
habits, if unexercised during the same time.
modated to the circumstances of this, instead
The sympathy between body and mind dur-
of that day.-To M. CORREA. vii. 94. (P.
ing their rise, progress, and decline, is too
F., 1817.)
strict and obvious to endanger our being
2400. EDUCATION, Jefferson's Ex-
misled, while we reason from the one to the
planation of.-The general objects of this
other.
law are to provide an education adapted to
As soon as they are of sufficient age. it is
the years, to the capacity, and the condition
supposed they will be sent from the grammar
of every one, and directed to their freedom
schools to the university. which constitutes
and happiness. Specific details were not
our third and last stage, there to study those
proper for the law. These must be the busi-
sciences which may be adapted to their views.
ness of the visitors entrusted with its execu-
By that part of our plan which prescribes
tion. The first stage of this education being
the selection of the youths of genius from
the schools of the hundreds. wherein the great
among the classes of the Door, we hope to
mass of the people will receive their instruc-
avail the State of those talents which nature
tion, the principal foundations of future or-
has sown as liberally among the poor as the
der will be laid here. Instead, therefore, of
rich, but which perish without use, if not
putting the Bible and the Testament into the
sought for and cultivated. But of all the
hands of the children at an age when their
views of this law none is more important,
judgments are not sufficiently matured for
none more legitimate, than that of rendering
religious inquiries. their memories may here
the people the safe, as they are the ultimate.
be stored with the most useful facts from
guardians of their own liberty. For this pur-
Grecian, Roman, European and American
pose the reading in the first stage, where
history. The first elements of morality, too,
they will receive their whole education, is
may be instilled into their minds: such as,
proposed, as has been said, to be chiefly his-
when further developed as their judgments
torical. History, by apprising them of the
advance in strength, may teach them how to
past, will enable them to judge of the fu-
work out their own greatest happiness, by
ture; it will avail them of the experience of
showing them that it does not depend on
other times and other nations; it will qual-
the condition of life in which chance has
ify them as judges of the actions and designs
placed them, but is always the result of
of men; it will enable them to know ambition
a good conscience, good health. occupation,
under every disguise it may assume; and
and freedom in all just pursuits. Those whom
knowing it, to defeat its views. In every
either the wealth of their parents or the adop-
government on earth is some trace of human
tion of the State shall destine to higher de-
weakness, some germ of corruption and de-
grees of learning will go on to the gram-
generacy, which cunning will discover, and
mar schools. which constitute the next stage,
wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and im-
there to be instructed in the languages. The
prove. Every government degenerates when
learning Greek and Latin, I am told, is going
trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The
into disuse in Europe. I know not what their
people themselves, therefore, are its only safe
manners and occupations may call for; but
depositories. And to render even them safe,
it would be very ill-judged in us to follow
their minds must be improved to a certain
their example in this instance. There is a
degree. This indeed is not all that is neces-
certain period of life. say from eight to fifteen
sary, though it be essentially necessary. An
or sixteen years of age. when the mind. like
amendment of our Constitution must have
the body is not yet firm enough for laborious
come in aid of the public education. The in-
and close operations. If applied to such, it
fluence over government must be shared
falls an early victim to premature exertion;
among all the people. If every individual
exhibiting, indeed, at first, in these young
which composes their mass participates of
and tender subjects, the flattering appearance
the ultimate authority, the government will
of their being men while they are yet children,
be safe; because the corrupting the whole
but ending in reducing them to be children
mass will exceed any private resources of
when they should be men. The memory is
wealth; and public ones cannot be provided
then most susceptible and tenacious of im-
but by levies on the people. In this case every
pressions; and the learning of languages be-
man would have to pay his own price. The
ing chiefly a work of memory, it seems pre-
government of Great Britain has been cor-
cisely fitted to the powers of this period,
rupted. because but one man in ten has a
which is long enough, too, for acquiring the
right to vote for members of parliament. The
most useful languages. ancient and modern.
sellers of the government, therefore, get nine-
I do not pretend that language is science. It
tenths of their price clear. It has been
is only an instrument for the attainment of
thought that corruption is restrained by con-
science. But that time is not lost which is
fining the right of suffrage to a few of the
employed in providing tools for future opera-
wealthier of the people; but it would be more
tion; more especially, as in this case, the
effectually restrained. by an extension of that
books put into the hands of the youth for this
right. to such members as would bid defiance
purpose may be such as will, at the same time,
to the means of corruption.-NoTES ON VIR-
impress their minds with useful facts and
GINIA. viii, 388. FORD ED., iii, 252. (1782.)
277
THE JEFFERSONIAN CYCLOPEDIA
Education
EDUCATION, Languages and.-See
of their own country, to rescue it from the
LANGUAGES.
degradation of becoming the Barbary of the
2401. EDUCATION, Large Cities and.-
Union, and of falling into the ranks of our
I am not a friend to placing young men in
own negroes. To that condition it is fast
populous cities, because they acquire there
sinking. We shall be in the hands of the
habits and partialities which do not contrib-
other States, what our indigenous predeces-
ute to the happiness of their after life.-To
sors were when invaded by the science and
DOCTOR WISTAR. v, 104. FORD ED., ix, 70.
arts of Europe. The mass of education in
(W.. 1807.)
Virginia, before the Revolution, placed her
with the foremost of her Sister Colonies.
2402. EDUCATION, Law and.-Laws
What is her education now? Where is it?
will be wisely formed, and honestly adminis-
The little we have we import. like beggars,
tered, in proportion as those who form and
from other States; or import their beggars to
administer them are wise and honest: whence
bestow on us their miserable crumbs. And
it becomes expedient for promoting the pub-
what is wanting to restore us to our station
lic happiness that those persons. whom nature
among our confederates? Not more money
has endowed with genius and virtue, should
from the people. Enough has been raised
be rendered by liberal education worthy to
by them, and appropriated to this very ob-
receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit
ject. It is that it should be employed under-
of the rights and liberties of their fellow
standingly, and for their greatest good.-To
citizens; and that they should be called to
JOSEPH C. CABELL. vii, 186. FORD ED., X,
that charge without regard to wealth, birth or
165. (P.F., 1820.)
other accidental condition or circumstance;
2408.
Six thousand common
but the indigence of the greater number dis-
abling them from so educating, at their own
schools in New York, fifty pupils in each,
three hundred thousand in all; one hundred
expense, those of their children whom nature
has fitly formed and disposed to become use-
and sixty thousand dollars annually paid to
the masters; forty established academies, with
ful instruments. for the public, it is better
that such should be sought for and educated
two thousand two hundred and eighteen pu-
at the common expense of all, than that the
pils; and five colleges with seven hundred
and eighteen students; to which last classes
happiness of all should be confined to the weak
or wicked.-DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE BILL.
of institutions seven hundred and twenty
FORD ED., ii, 22I. (1779.)
thousand dollars have been given; and the
whole appropriations for education estimated
2403. EDUCATION, Material progress
at two and a half millions of dollars! What
vs.-People generally have more feeling for
a pigmy to this is Virginia become, with a
canals and roads than education. However, I
population almost equal to that of New
hope we can advance them with equal pace-
York! And whence this difference? From
To JOEL BARLOW. v, 217. FORD ED., ix, 169.
the difference their rulers set on the value of
(W.. 1807.)
knowledge. and the prosperity it produces.
2404. EDUCATION, Military instruc-
But still. if a pigmy. let her do what a pigmv
may do.-To JOSEPH C. CABELL. vii, 188.
tion.-We must make military instruction a
FORD ED., x, 167. (P.F., 1820.)
regular part of collegiate education. We
can never be safe till this is done*-To
2409. EDUCATION, The People and.-
JAMES MONROE. vi, 131. (M., 1813.)
Above all things, I hope the education of the
common people will be attended to; convinced
2405. EDUCATION, Municipal govern-
that on their good senses we may rely with
ment and.-Education is not a branch of mu-
the most security for the preservation of a
nicipal government. but, like the other arts
due degree of liberty.*-To JAMES MADISON.
and sciences, an accident only.-To JOHN
FORD ED., iv, 480. (P., 1787.)
TAYLOR. vii, 17. FORD ED., X, 51. (M.,
2410.
1816.)
[To give] information to
the people *** is the most certain, and
- EDUCATION, National University.
the most legitimate engine of government.-
-See UNIVERSITY.
To JAMES MADISON. ii, 332. (1787.)
2406. EDUCATION, Neglect of.-If the
2411.
The diffusion of in-
children * * * are untaught, their igno-
formation, I deem [one] of the essential prin-
rance and vices will, in future life cost us
ciples of our government and, consequently,
much dearer in their consequences, than it
[one] which ought to shape its administra-
would have done, in their correction, by a
tion.-FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS. viii, 4.
good education.-To JOSEPH C. CABELL. FORD
FORD ED., viii, 5. (1801.)
ED., x, 99. (1818.)
2412.
Enlighten the people
2407. EDUCATION, New York vs. Vir-
generally, and tyranny and oppressions of
ginia.-Surely Governor Clinton's display of
body and mind will vanish like spirits at the
the gigantic efforts of New York towards the
education of her citizens will stimulate the
In Congress edition: (ii, 332,) Educate and in-
form the whole mass of the people. Enable them to
pride as well as the patriotism of our Legis-
see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order
lature, to look to the reputation and safety
and they will preserve them. And it requires no very
high degree of education to convince them of this.
Jefferson was the first to suggest military train-
They are the only sure reliance for the preservatior,
ing in the schools.-EDITOR
of our liberty."-EDITOR.
Education
THE JEFFERSONIAN CYCLOPEDIA
278
dawn of day.-To DUPONT DE NEMOURS.
sary; and all knowledge which is not in-
vi, 592. FORD ED., x, 25. (P. F., 1816.)
nate, is in contempt, or neglect at least. Every
2413.
Nobody can doubt my
folly must run its round; and so, I suppose,
zeal for the general instruction of the people.
must that of self-learning and self-sufficiency;
Who first started that idea? I may surely
of rejecting the knowledge acquired in past
say. myself. Turn to the bill in the Revised
ages, and starting on the new ground of in-
Code, which I drew more than forty years
tuition.-To JOHN ADAMS. vi, 355. FORD ED.,
ago, and before which the idea of a plan for
ix, 464. (M., 1814.)
the education of the people, generally, had
2420. EDUCATION, Suffrage and.-
never been suggested in this State. There
There is one provision [in the new constitu-
you will see developed the first rudiments of
tion of Spain] which will immortalize its in-
the whole system of general education we are
ventors. It is that which, after a certain
now urging and acting on: and it is well
epoch, disfranchises every citizen who cannot
known to those with whom I have acted on
read and write. This is new, and is the fruit-
this subject, that I never have proposed a
ful germ of the improvement of everything
sacrifice of the primary to the ultimate grade
good, and the correction of everything imper-
of instruction. Let us keep our eye steadily
fect in the present constitution. This will
on the whole system.-To GENERAL BRECK-
give you an enlightened people, and an en-
ENRIDGE. vii, 205. (M., 1821.) See PEOPLE.
ergetic public opinion which will control and
2414. EDUCATION, Perversion of
enchain the aristocratic spirit of the govern-
power and.-The most effectual means of
ment.-To CHEVALIER DE OUIS. vi, 342. (M.,
p:eventing the perversion of power into tyr-
1814.)
anny are to illuminate, as far as practicable,
2421. EDUCATION, Suitable.-Promote
the minds of the people.-DIFFUSION OF
in every order of men the degree of instruc-
KNOWLEDGE BILL. FORD ED, ii. 22I. (1799.)
tion proportioned to their condition, and to
2415. EDUCATION, Power and.-All
their views in life.-To JOSEPH C. CABELL.
the States but our own are sensible that
vii, 189. FORD ED., x, 167. (P. F., 1820.)
knowledge is power. The Missouri question
2422. EDUCATION, System and.-The
is for power. The efforts now gener-
truth is that the want of common education
ally making in all the States to advance
with us is not from our poverty. but from the
their science is for power, while we are sink-
want of an orderly system. More money is
ing into the barbarism of our Indian abo-
now paid for the education of a part than
rigines, and expect like them to oppose by ig-
would be paid for that of the whole, if sys-
norance the overwhelming mass of light and
tematically arranged.-To JOSEPH C. CABELL.
science by which we shall be surrounded. It
vii, 188. FORD ED., x, 167. (P.F., 1820.)
is a comfort that I am not to live to see this.
-To JOSEPH C. CABELL. FORD ED., x, 155.
2423. EDUCATION, Taxes for.-The
(M., 1820.)
tax which will be paid for the purpose of
education is not more than the thousandth
2416. EDUCATION, Progress through.
part of what will be paid to kings, priests
-I look to the diffusion of light and educa-
and nobles who will rise up among us if we
tion as the resource most to be relied on for
leave the people in ignorance.-To GEORGE
ameliorating the condition, promoting the vir-
WYTHE. ii, 7. FORD ED., iv, 269. (P., 1786.)
tue, and advancing the happiness of man.-
To C. C. BLATCHLY. vii, 263. (M., 1822.)
2424.
If the Legislature would
See 2386.
add to the literary fund a perpetual tax of a
cent a head on the population of the State, it
2417. EDUCATION, The Republic and.
would set agoing at once, and forever main-
-I have two great measures at heart, without
tain, a system of primary or ward schools,
which no republic can maintain itself in
and an university where might be taught, in
strength. I. That of general education, to
its highest degree, every branch of science
enable every man to judge for himself what
useful in our time and country; and it would
will secure or endanger his freedom. 2. To
rescue us from the tax of toryism, fanaticism,
divide every county into hundreds, of such
and indifferentism to their own State, which
size that all the children of each will be within
we now send our youth to bring from those
reach of a central school in it.-To JOHN Ty-
of New England.-To CHARLES YANCEY. vi,
LER v, 525. FORD ED., ix, 277. (M., 1810.)
517. FORD ED., X, 4. (M., 1816.)
2418. EDUCATION, Safety in.-The in-
- EDUCATION, Technical.See 2396.
formation of the people at large can alone
make them the safe. as they are the sole de-
2425. EDUCATION, Tyranny and.-
positary of our political and religious free-
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny
dom-To WILLIAM DUANE. v, 541. (M.,
and oppressions of body and mind will vanish
1810.)
like evil spirits at the dawn of day.-To
2419. EDUCATION, Self-sufficiency
DUPONT DE NEMOURS. vi, 592. FORD ED., x,
and.-Our post-revolutionary youth are born
25. (P. F., 1816.)
under happier stars than you and I were.
- EDUCATION vs. VICE.-See 2406.
They acquire all learning in their mother's
2426. EDUCATION, The Wealthy and.
womb, and bring it into the world ready made.
-What will be the retribution of the wealthy
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individual [for his support of general educa-
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A COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF THE
VIEWS OF
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Classified and Arranged in Alphabetical Order
Under Nine Thousand Titles
RELATING TO GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, LAW,
EDUCATION, POLITICAL ECONOMY, FINANCE,
SCIENCE, ART, LITERATURE, RELIGIOUS
FREEDOM, MORALS, ETC.
EDITED BY
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
JULIAN P. BOYD
VOLUME ONE
"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against
every form of tyranny over the mind of man."-Thomas Jefferson
NEW YORK / RUSSELL & RUSSELL
ECONOMIC REFORM
EDUCATION
of this country. This stability should not be fos-
he must go in simply as an American; and
silization. (Second Annual Message, Washing-
when he is once in, he will speedily realize
ton, December 2, 1902.) Mem. Ed. XVII, 167;
that he must work very hard indeed, or he will
Nat. Ed. XV, 144.
be upset by some other American, with no
education at all, but with much natural capa-
ECONOMIC REFORM. Economic reform
city. His education ought to make him feel
must have a twofold object; first to increase
particularly ashamed of himself if he acts
general prosperity, because unless there is such
meanly or dishonorably, or in any way falls
general prosperity no one will be well off and,
short of the ideal of good citizenship, and it
second, to secure a fair distribution of this
ought to make him feel that he must show
prosperity, so that the man of the people shall
that he has profited by it; but it should cer-
share in it. Introduction to The isconsin
tainly give him no feeling of superiority until
Idea by Charles McCarthy. (Macmillan Co.,
by actual work he has shown that superiority.
N. Y., 1912), P. X.
In other words, the educated man must realize
that he is living in a democracy and under
ECONOMICS. See MORALITY.
democratic conditions, and that he is entitled
to no more respect and consideration than he
EDITORS. The editor, who stands as a judge
can win by actual performance. (Atlantic
in a community, should be one of the men
Monthly, August 1894.) Mem. Ed. XV, 52;
to whom you would expect to look up, be-
Nat. Ed. XIII, 37.
cause his function as an editor makes him a
more important man than the average merchant,
EDUCATED MEN. See also CITIZENSHIP;
the average business man, the average profes-
CIVIC DUTY; DEMOCRACY.
sional man can be. He wields great influence;
and he cannot escape the responsibility of
EDUCATION. Education must be twofold. Of
wielding it. If he wields it well, honor is his
course if we do not have education in the
beyond the honor that comes to the average
school, the academy, the college, the university,
man who does well; if he wields it ill, shame
and have it developed in the highest and wisest
should be his beyond the shame that comes to
manner, we shall make but a poor fist of Amer-
the average man who does ill. (At Milwaukee,
ican citizenship.
But such education can
Wis., September 7, 1910.) Mem. Ed. XV, 459;
never be all. It can never be more than half,
Nat. Ed. XIII, 546.
and sometimes not that. Nothing can take
the place of the education of the home; and
EDITORS. See also JOURNALIST; PRESS.
that education must be largely the unconscious
influence of character upon character. (Before
EDUCATED MEN-OBLIGATION OF. It
Minnesota Legislature, St. Paul, April 4,
is an evil thing for any man of education to
1903.) Presidential Addresses and State Papers
forget that education should intensify patriot-
I, 289.
ism, and that patriotism must not only be shown
by striving to do good to the country from
A literary education is simply
within, but by readiness to uphold its interests
one of many different kinds of education, and
and honor, at any cost, when menaced from
it is not wise that more than a small percentage
without. Educated men owe to the community
of the people of any country should have an
the serious performance of this duty. (The
exclusively literary education. The average man
Bachelor of Arts, March 1896.) Mem. Ed. XV,
must either supplement it by another education
236; Nat. Ed. XIII, 178.
or else as soon as he has left an institution of
learning, even though he has benefited by it,
The educated man is entitled
he must at once begin to train himself to do
to no special privilege, save the inestimable
work along totally different lines. (At National
privilege of trying to show that his education
University, Cairo, Egypt, March 28, 1910.)
enables him to take the lead in striving to
Mem. Ed. XVIII, 622; Nat. Ed. XVI, 45I.
guide his fellows aright in the difficult task
which is set to us of the twentieth century.
A utilitarian education should
(At University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
undoubtedly be the foundation of all educa-
February 22, 1905.) Mem. Ed. XV, 348; Nat.
tion. But it is far from advisable, it is far
Ed. XIII, 505.
from wise, to have it the end of all education.
Technical training will more and more be
EDUCATED MEN IN POLITICS. An edu-
accepted as the prime factor in our educational
cated man must not go into politics as such;
system, a factor as essential for the farmer,
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EDUCATION
EDUCATION
the blacksmith, the seamstress, and the cook,
definitely understand that a man may be well
as for the lawyer, the doctor, the engineer,
trained in book-learning and yet, in the proper
and the stenographer.
Side by side with
sense of the word, and for all practical pur-
the need for the perfection of the individual in
poses, be utterly uneducated; while a man of
the technic of his special calling goes the need
comparatively little book-learning may, never-
of broad human sympathy, and the need of
theless, in essentials, have a good education.
lofty and generous emotion in that individual.
(At semicentennial celebration, founding of
Only thus can the citizenship of the modern
Agricultural Colleges, Lansing, Mich., May 3I,
state rise level to the complex modern social
1907.) Mem. Ed. XVIII, 185; Nat. Ed. XVI,
needs.
141.
No technical training, no narrowly utilitarian
study of any kind will meet this second class,
EDUCATION-IMPROPER USE OF. Edu-
of needs. In part they can best be met by a
cation is of good chiefly according to the use
training that will fit men and women to appre-
you put it to. If it teaches you to be so puffed
ciate, and therefore to profit by, great poetry
with pride as to make you misestimate the
and those great expressions of the historian
relative values of things, it becomes a harm
and the statesman which rivet our interest and
and not a benefit. There are few things less
stir our souls. (Presidential Address, American
desirable than the arid cultivation, the learning
Historical Association, Boston, December 27,
and refinement which lead merely to that intel-
1912.) Mem. Ed. XIV, 14; Nat. Ed. XII,
lectual conceit which makes a man in a demo-
12-13.
cratic community like ours hold himself aloof
from his fellows and pride himself upon the
I doubt if there is any lesson
weakness which he mistakes for supercilious
more essential to teach in an industrial democ-
strength. (At the Harvard Union, Cambridge,
racy like ours than the lesson that any failure
February 23, 1907.) Mem. Ed. XV, 488; Nat.
to train the average citizen to a belief in the
Ed. XIII, 564.
things of the spirit no less than the things
of the body, must in the long run entail mis-
EDUCATION-PROGRESS IN. Our prog-
fortune, shortcoming, possible disaster upon the
ress in educational efficiency must come from
Nation itself.
It is necessary that we should
two sources: from the great natural leader who
see that the children should be trained not
happens to be an educator, and from the ordi-
merely in reading and writing, not merely in the
nary citizen who to common sense adds some
elementary branches of learning strictly so de-
power of vision, and who realizes the relation
fined; but trained industrially, trained ade-
of the school to society. In pedagogy as in
quately to meet the ever-increasing demands of
every other walk of life great natural leaders
the complex growth of our industrialism,
are scarce. Therefore the ordinary citizen of
trained agriculturally, trained in handicrafts,
vision and common sense must concern him-
trained to be more efficient workers in every
self with the changing problem of the school,
field of human activity. But they must be
and must insist that pedantic tradition does
trained in more than that or the Nation will
not keep our schools from performing their
ultimately go down. They must be trained in
full public service. Foreword to Democracy's
the elementary branches of righteousness; they
High School by William D. Lewis. (Houghton
must be trained so that it shall come naturally
Mifflin Co., Boston, 1914), P. vi.
to them to abhor that which is evil, or we
never can see our democracy take the place
EDUCATION, INDUSTRIAL. Industrial
which it must and shall take among the nations
training, training which will fit a girl to do
of the earth. (Before Religious Educational As-
work in the home, which will fit a boy to work
sociation, White House, February I2, 1908.)
in the shop if in a city, to work on a farm if
Presidential Addresses and State Papers VII,
in the country, is the most important of all
1652-1653.
training, aside from that which develops charac-
ter; and it is a grave reproach to us as a nation
EDUCATION-FUNCTION OF. Education
that we have permitted our training to lead
should not confine itself to books. It must train
the children away from the farm and shop
executive power, and try to create that right
instead of toward them. We should try to pro-
public opinion which is the most potent factor
vide the many with training in their profes-
in the proper solution of all political and social
sions, just as the few, the doctors, the ministers,
questions. Book learning is very important, but
the lawyers, are trained for their professions.
it is by no means everything; and we shall
In other words, the school system should be
never get the right idea of education until we
aimed primarily to fit the scholar for actual
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EDUCATION
EDUCATION
life rather than for a university. The excep-
tional individual, of the highest culture and
form of industrial school, as to the means by
most efficient training possible, is an important
which it may be articulated with the public
school system, and as to the way to secure for
asset for the state. He should be encouraged
and his development promoted; but this should
the boys trained therein the opportunity to
not be done at the expense of all the other
acquire in the industries the practical skill
individuals who can do their work best on
which alone can make them finished journey-
the farms and in the workshops; it is for the
men. (At semicentennial celebration, founding
benefit of these individuals that our school
of Agricultural Colleges, Lansing, Mich., May
system should be primarily shaped. (Letter to
31, 1907.) Mem. Ed. XVIII, 175; Nat. Ed.
XVI, 132.
Herbert Myrick read at Springfield, Mass., No-
vember 12, 1908.) Good Housekeeping, De-
EDUCATION, LIBERAL. A cultural educa-
cember 1908, P. 626.
tion must include the classics. It must not be
Our industrial development
based only on the classics. The Greek literature
depends largely upon technical education, in-
is one of the two noblest literatures in the
cluding in this term all industrial education,
world, the other being the English. Latin litera-
from that which fits a man to be a good
ture as such does not stand in the same rank
mechanic, a good carpenter, or blacksmith, to
with Greek; but it possesses an immense im-
that which fits a man to do the greatest en-
portance because the Latin civilization is the
gineering feat. The skilled mechanic, the skilled
direct ancestor of modern Occidental civilization,
workman, can best become such by technical
and because the Latin tongue was for fifteen cen-
industrial education. The far-reaching useful-
turies the cultural tongue of Europe. With one
ness of institutes of technology and schools of
or the other, and if possible with both, of these
mines or of engineering is now universally
two classic languages and literatures every liber-
acknowledged, and no less far-reaching is the
ally educated man should be familiar. He
effect of a good building or mechanical trades-
should also be familiar with at least one of
school, a textile, or watchmaking, or engraving
the great modern culture languages, such as
school. All such training must develop not
French, Italian, German, Spanish or Portu-
only manual dexterity but industrial intelli-
guese, each of which has a noble literature.
gence. In international rivalry this country does
Every liberal course should also include a wide
not have to fear the competition of pauper
sweep of general history and pre-history, for a
labor as much as it has to fear the educated
liberal scholar should certainly have vividly in
labor of specially trained competitors; and we
mind the tremendous drama of man's progress
should have the education of the hand, eye,
through the ages. A competent knowledge of
and brain which will fit us to meet such compe-
science must also be part of any really liberal
tition. (Sixth Annual Message, Washington,
education. But this does not mean the science
December 3, 1906.) Mem. Ed. XVII, 437-438;
taught in order to turn out a commercial chem-
Nat. Ed. XV, 373.
ist, an engineer or an electrician. It means that
the man of liberal education should be a man
.To train boys and girls in
merely literary accomplishments to the total
who in addition to a broad classical training
exclusion of industrial, manual, and technical
also possesses so broad a scientific training that
training, tends to unfit them for industrial
the primary facts of the universe in which we
work; and in real life most work is industrial.
live are vivid in his mind and form an integral
The problem of furnishing well-trained
portion of his stock of knowledge. The man
craftsmen, or rather journeymen fitted in the
with such broad liberal training is perhaps not
end to become such, is not simple
apt to be a technical expert in any special voca-
and much
care and forethought and practical common
tion; for his training stands outside the most
sense will be needed, in order to work it out
direct line to pecuniary reward. Yet he has a
in a fairly satisfactory manner. It should ap-
great place to fill, for he has been fitted to
peal to all our citizens.
become a leader in public thought, and a true
I am glad that societies have already been
interpreter to the people of the development
formed to promote industrial education, and
and meaning of our civilization in its most
that their membership includes manufacturers
important aspects. (Statement sent to Confer-
and leaders of labor unions, educators and pub-
ence on Classical Studies, Princeton University,
licists, men of all conditions who are interested
June 2, 1917.) Value of the Classics. (Prince-
in education and in industry. It is such coopera-
ton University Press, 1917), PP. 137-138.
tion that offers most hope for a satisfactory
solution of the question as to what is the best
EDUCATION, SUBSIDIZED-ABUSE OF.
By gifts to colleges and universities they
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EDUCATION
EFFICIENCY
[wealthy men] are occasionally able to subsi-
most certainly ignorance tends to prevent his
dize in their own interest some head of an
being a good citizen.
No nation can per-
educational body, who, save only a judge,
manently retain free government unless it can
should of all men be most careful to keep his
retain a high average of citizenship; and there
skirts clear from the taint of such corruption.
can be no such high average of citizenship
There are ample material rewards for those
without a high average of education, using the
who serve with fidelity the Mammon of un-
word in its broadest and truest sense to include
righteousness, but they are dearly paid for by
the things of the soul as well as the things of
that institution of learning whose head, by
the mind. (At University of Pennsylvania,
example and precept, teaches the scholars who
Philadelphia, February 22, 1905.) Mem. Ed.
sit under him that there is one law for the rich
XV, 346; Nat. Ed. XIII, 504.
and another for the poor. (To Charles J. Bona-
parte, January 2, 1908.) Mem. Ed. XXII, 5I5;
EDUCATION FOR LIFE. We of the United
Nat. Ed. XX, 443.
States must develop a system under which each
individual citizen shall be trained so as to be
EDUCATION AND DEMOCRACY. A real
effective individually as an economic unit, and
democracy must see that the chance for an
fit to be organized with his fellows so that
elementary education is open to every man and
he and they can work in efficient fashion to-
woman. This is the first essential. But it is also
gether. This question is vital to our future
essential that there should be the amplest op-
progress, and public attention should be fo-
portunity for every kind of higher education.
cussed upon it. Surely it is eminently in accord
The education of the mass, while the most im-
with the principles of our democratic life that
portant problem in democratic education, is in
we should furnish the highest average indus-
no way or shape by and of itself sufficient.
trial training for the ordinary skilled workman.
Democracy comes short of what it should be
But it is a curious thing that in industrial train-
just to the extent that it fails to provide for
ing we have tended to devote our energies to
the exceptional individual the highest kind of
producing high-grade men at the top rather
exceptional training; for democracy as a per-
than in the ranks. Our engineering schools, for
manent world force must mean not only the
instance, compare favorably with the best in
raising of the general level but also the raising
Europe, whereas we have done almost nothing
of the standards of excellence to which only
to equip the private soldiers of the industrial
exceptional individuals can attain. The table
army-the mechanic, the metal-worker, the
land must be raised, but the high peaks must
carpenter. Indeed, too often our schools train
not be leveled down; on the contrary they too
away from the shop and the forge. (At semi-
must be raised. Highly important though it is
centennial celebration, founding of Agricultural
that the masons and bricklayers should be ex-
Colleges, Lansing, Mich., May 3I, 1907.)
cellent, it is nevertheless a grave mistake to
Mem. Ed. XVIII, 172; Nat. Ed. XVI, 130.
suppose that any excellence in the bricklayers
will enable us to dispense with architects. Out-
EDUCATION. See aslo CHINA; COLLEGE;
look, February 18, 1911, P. 344.
LABOR-TRAINING OF; NORTHWEST ORDI-
NANCE; PUBLIC SCHOOLS; SCHOOLS; TEACH-
EDUCATION AND THE NATIONAL
ERS; TEACHING; UNIVERSITY.
GOVERNMENT. The share that the National
Government should take in the broad work of
EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO. See
education has not received the attention and the
NEGRO; TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE.
care it rightly deserves. The immediate respon-
sibility for the support and improvement of
EFFICIENCY. We have no higher duty than
our educational systems and institutions rests
to promote the efficiency of the individual.
and should always rest with the people of
There is no surer road to the efficiency of the
the several States acting through their State
nation. (Before Ohio Constitutional Conven-
and local governments, but the nation has an
tion, Columbus, February 21, 1912.) Mem. Ed.
opportunity in educational work which must
XIX, 165; Nat. Ed. XVII, I2I.
not be lost and a duty which should no longer
be neglected. (Eighth Annual Message, Wash-
EFFICIENCY-REWARDS OF. Normally
ington, December 8, 1908.) Mem. Ed. XVII,
the man of great productive capacity who be-
623; Nat. Ed. XV, 530.
comes rich by guiding the labor of many other
men does so by enabling them to produce more
EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSHIP. Educa-
than they could produce without his guidance;
tion may not make a man a good citizen, but
and both he and they share in the benefit,
[150]
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Wilke
/THEODORE ROOSEVELT
CYCLOPEDIA
EDITED BY
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART
Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
AND
HERBERT RONALD FERLEGER
Roosevelt Memorial Association
FOREWORD BY
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION
ROOSEVELT HOUSE
NEW YORK CITY
sexual assault in connection WITH at-
deceit and sexual depravity tugged
tacks on other prostitutes. The most
The Dallas Morning News: Judy Walgren
The epidemic, which appeared on Peru's
quietly against the public persona of
recent indictment, one of aggravated
Slaying suspect Charles Albright
northern coast in January, has spread to neigh
the amiable 57-year-old.
sexual assault, was returned Thurs-
(foreground) is shown in court
boring Ecuador, Colombia, Chile and Brazil.
Mr. Albright, indicted in the third
of the three slayings on April 18, is
Please see RECORDS on Page 6A.
April 8 for a pretrial hearing.
Four people in New Jersey who ate crab mea
illegally imported from Ecuador contracted cho
Bush welcomes Pearce team
U.S.
Iraq
with
By Michael Wine
Invice
WASHINGTON
-
officials expressed
Thursday over Presi
Hussein's accord with
and said the Bush a
was committed to bi
for Kurdish refugee
Iraq.
The American re
Iraqi-Kurdish agr
nounced Wednesday
paralleled that of the
gees themselves. Sin
to the mountains, the
insisted that they wil
Iraq until Mr. Huss
power, and they repe:
tence Thursday.
The American ske
Hussein's intentions
Associated Press
dent when the White
had ordered about 3
President Bush visits Thursday with members of the Na-
ored in a ceremony at the White House. The students are
to leave the vicinit
tional Academic Decathlon championship team from
(front row, from left) Christine Liu, Eugene Cheng and
northern Iraq town n
Richardson's J.J. Pearce High School. The team was hon-
(rear left) Francis Wilde. (Story on Page 21A.)
lition forces are setti:
ven for Kurdish refu
School dress rn
high school.
Dates
Capitol Hill.
In addition, the candio
ameron, was
Ustazudin, a 9-year-old patient at the Scottish Rite Hospital from Parin Vil-
Despite the large number of can-
speeches often depict the educa
rs poised to go
didates, many of the campaign pro-
crisis as a state and local prot
lage, Afghanistan, gets help Thursday from Tim Mason. The forward for the
nouncements about education cen-
requiring only minimal feder
that Cameron
Southern Methodist University basketball team was with other athletes par-
ter on common themes. In forums,
Please see EDUCATION on Page
aster morning,
ticipating in games at the hospital.
ng at the coun-
S raised - and
was held.
st-to-goodness,
S welcome. "It
City's convention center
:aid, "but what
of the column
expansion begins today
ried it among
his unit swept
By David Jackson
January 1994, just in time for a series
Staff Writer of The Dallas Morning News
of large conventions already sched-
City officials will break ground Fri-
uled, officials said.
day on a $113.2 million project to en-
City officials said the expansion is
he sand collec-
large the Dallas Convention Center,
needed to keep Dallas competitive
one of the city's costliest public works
with other cities, such as San Fran-
n Karen Gray
endeavors.
cisco and New Orleans, that are en-
ntagon inviting
The $92.2 million expansion will
larging their facilities to attract con-
f to join their
run to the west of the existing center
ventions.
The Dallas Morning News: Jus
The Society of
along the Jefferson Street viaduct, op-
"If we're going to keep the big ones,
posite the Reunion Arena parking ga-
d, one of Gen.
we're going to have to expand," said
The remains of the Austin Street Shelter will soon make way for the D
rage. The plan also calls for a $21 mil-
Assistant City Manager A.C. Gonzalez,
Convention Center expansion, a $113.2 million project that includes a
after entering
lion heliport.
bottle of souve-
who supervises operations at the Con-
port. The new section of the Convention Center is set to open in Jan
The opening of the new part of the
Convention Center is scheduled for
Please see CONVENTION on Page 24A.
1994, in time to host a series of large conventions already scheduled.
rote about Mr.
as founder and
INSIDE
ernational, the
five.
HAILED BY THE CHIEF
Fund for teen
Texas Commerce Bank has estab-
Bush honors Pearce's championship academic team at White House
lished an account to accept dona-
tions for Veronica Hinojosa, a 16-
0 trickle in for
utual search for
By Carl P. Leubsdorf
Related photo.
1A
The victorious students, who re-
year-old Garland honor student
Washington Bureau of The Dallas Morning News
turned home after Thursday's cere-
who was seriously injured in an
ity. Thanks-Giv-
WASHINGTON - President Bush
wished his son George's Texas
mony to a rousing welcome from
auto accident In February.
rally in the vot-
Pearce classmates at Dallas/Fort
Page 22A.
zed effort, I sus-
on Thursday hailed the National Ac-
Rangers baseball team "might be
vely spot.
ademic Decathlon championship
achieving the same kind of success
Worth International Airport, said
continues to
in their field."
their White House visit was worth
Mayoral proposal
team from Richardson's J.J. Pearce
Richardson school district teams
the hard work.
and I still have
High School as "our newest Ameri-
A bill that would create a strong-
have won the competition six times
"It's what we've been working
kicking myself
can heroes," saying the students'
mayor system of government is re-
ay.
success "stirs my Texas pride."
in the plast seven years. Five of
for all year," said Wade McIntyre,
ferred to a House subcommittee
this newspaper,
those victories were by Pearce,
one of several team members who
In a lighter moment at the White
after sponsoring Rep. Steve
Veronica Hind
House Rose Garden ceremony, he
which on Monday regained the
also competed last year. He said the
boretum."
Wolens said that Dallas is "para-
crown it surrendered last year to
team "had been thinking, 'If we just
is recove
S - what a time
told Pearce's students, teachers,
lyzed" by its current form of gov-
sponsors and principal that he
district rival Lake Highlands.
Please see BUSH on Page 24A.
ernment.
Page 22A.
from an accide
schools
The Dallas Morning News: Marco A Ruiz
fessional" filings, the order said.
The judge ordered Ms. Hunter to
appear at a May 10 hearing at which
Bush hails Pearce team
he will decide whether to fine her
for violating federal rules of civil
procedure and standards of legal
Continued from Page 21A.
practice.
unveiled education strategy and to
keep studying some more and some
hail the "decathletes" as mes-
Ms. Hunter said Thursday that
more, we'll be able to win and then
sengers for the cause of excellence
she couldn't comment on the order.
we'll be able to meet the
in education.
"I just have to stand by what I've
president.'
"Your lives and your accom-
filed," she said.
Another two-year team member,
plishments speak to other kids the
She is the state's lead attorney in
Craig Macaulay, agreed that meet-
way no words from a government
the class-action lawsuit involving
ing the president "was a lot of the
or even a teacher can," he said.
four of the state's 13 schools for the
incentive." The team knew that last
"These kids look at each of you, and
mentally retarded. The suit began
year's winners went to the White
they see themselves. They look at
in 1974 when attorneys for resi-
House, he said.
you, and they see what they, too,
dents at those schools sued the
The two seniors, who served as
can become."
Texas Department of Mental Health
team spokesmen, said they enjoyed
The students, meanwhile, gave a
and Mental Retardation over their
meeting Mr. Bush, who chatted
lot of the credit for their success to,
care and treatment.
with the group and autographed
their coaches, Dorcas Helms and
In 1987, Judge Sanders held the
their championship banner after
Linda Berger.
state in contempt of a settlement
his formal remarks.
Pearce's Christine Liu was voted
agreement in the case. The judge di-
arp
"On TV, he seems kind of de-
the nation's outstanding varsity stu-
rected the Florida sociologist moni-
tached," Craig said. "When you're
dent in the competition, which in-
toring the case to conduct annual
t persuaded we need
right up with him, he's just a regu-
cludes both written and oral ques-
reviews of the schools in Fort
tue.
Government at
lar person."
tions in a variety of academic fields.
Worth, Denton, Austin and San An-
has an insatiable appe-
Wade agreed, adding, "He was
But she said the victory was "re-
tonio.
1.
very charming and very nice."
ally a team effort."
Last year, a Philadelphia attor-
Bullock has pushed for a
The nine Pearce students, their
Also on the winning Pearce team
ney representing the current 2,000
e tax, saying it is needed
two coaches and the principal were
were Francis "Frank" Wilde, Misty
plaintiffs said the state was not
sential human services,
in the capital for three days after
Karin, Aime VonBriesen, Eugene
complying with the agreement and
education reform bill
they won the competition Monday
Chen, Chen Pin "Dardy" Chang and
asked the judge to again hold the
e sales and property
in Los Angeles. The victory capped
Kevin Barenblat.
department in contempt. A hearing
is one of 10 states with-
a competition that included teams
School principal Kirk London
on the matter is scheduled May 28
al state income tax.
from 3,500 schools across the na-
said Pearce's repeated success in
in Dallas.
ut, the state's chief reve-
tion.
the 10-year-old competition
"The issue of the assistant attor-
told the task force that
The Pearce group's Washington
stemmed from several factors.
ney general's conduct
must be
low in total tax burden
itinerary included meetings with
"We have a successful school dis-
resolved before the May 28 hear-
ents. But he said that be-
Texas' two senators, Democrat
trict," Dr. London said. "Because of
ing," Judge Sanders' order said.
e relatively high sales
Lloyd Bentsen and Republican Phil
that, we attract a lot of business and
"Zealous advocacy simply cannot be
ople are paying a larger
Gramm.
industry. They tend to bring in
allowed to escalate into combative,
ir income in taxes than
The president took the occasion
smart children. And we have excel-
oppressive behavior that under-
to put in a plug for his newly
lent faculty with a lot of stability."
mines the system of justice."
THE
PLAINS
NEW VISIONS
ON
THE
OLD FRONTIER
A Special Section on Sunday, April 28
ring the past year, Dallas Morning News photojournalist Catharine Krueger and reporters Steven H. Lee and Thomas G.
atts have crossed nearly 15,000 miles of the Great Plains, interviewing and photographing more than 400 of its people.
E PLAINS: NEW VISIONS ON THE OLD FRONTIER, a full-color special section in The Morning News on Sunday, April
recounts those travels, showing a mosaic of economic distress and inspiring determination in the region that accounts for
nearly one-third of the nation's agricultural products while supporting just five percent of its people.
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Red File
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
WAY
MEMORANDUM
JaNe
TO:
SHERRIE ROLLINS
FROM:
KATHY SUPER
SUBJECT:
APPROVED PRESIDENTIAL ACTIVITY
EVENT:
Ceremony for Academic Decathalon Champions
DATE:
Thursday, April 23, 1992
TIME:
11:15 a.m.
DURATION:
15 minutes
LOCATION:
Rose Garden
ATTIRE:
Business Suit
REMARKS REQUIRED:
Brief Remarks
MEDIA COVERAGE:
Open
FIRST LADY PARTICIPATION:
Is Invited
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
CONTACT:
TELEPHONE:
NOTE:
PROJECT OFFICER, SEE ATTACHED CHECKLIST
Chief of Staff
John Gaughan
Sherrie Rollins
Deb Anderson
C. Boyden Gray
Susan Porter Rose
Paul Bateman
Ede Holiday
Dorrance Smith
Phil Brady
Janet Johnson
Tony Snow
Sandy Bushue
Ron Kaufman
USSS-PPD
Nick Calio
Bill Kristol
Davis Valdez
David Demarest
Lower Press Office
Gary Walters
Debra Dunn
Tim McBride
WHCA Audio/Visual
Bill Farish
Ed Murnane
WHCA Operations
Laurie Firestone
Gregg Petersmeyer
Rose Zamaria
Marlin Fitzwater
Patty Presock
AJM 3/4/92
UNITED STATES ACADEMIC DECATHLON
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS - 1992: AS OF 2/14/92
THURSDAY, APRIL 9
REGISTRATION
1:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Red Lion Riverside - Ballroom Fireplace Foyer
"IDAHO WELCOMES YOU"
6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Red Lion Riverside Ballroom
Strolling Dinner
State Directors Meeting
8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Red Lion Riverside
FRIDAY, APRIL 10
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Red Lion Riverside - Northstar Room
REGISTRATION
8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Red Lion Riverside - Ballroom Fireplace Foyer
MEDIA ROOM
8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Red Lion Riverside
USAD BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Red Lion Downtowner - Teton Room, + Albion and Aspen (8:30 - 10:00)
COACHES BRIEFING
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Red Lion Riverside - Northstar Room
STUDENT ESSAY WRITING
9:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.
Red Lion Riverside - Laurel, Ponderosa, and Tamarack Rooms
INTERVIEW JUDGES ORIENTATION
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Red Lion Riverside - Ponderosa Room
SPEECH JUDGES ORIENTATION
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Red Lion Riverside - Tamarack Room
BOARD OF DIRECTOR'S LUNCH
12:00 noon -
Red Lion Downtowner
VOLUNTEER LUNCH
12:00 noon - 12:45 p.m.
Red Lion Riverside - Juniper Room
SPEECH AND INTERVIEW CONTEST TIME SCHEDULE
1:00 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.
27 Speech rooms w/ 3 judges + timer
2:20 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
27 Interview rooms w/ 3 judges
3:40 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Red Lion Riverside and Red Lion Downtowner
Red Lion-Riverside---
Speech Rooms (9)
Interview Rooms(18)
Speech Rooms (9)
Emerald
336
103
387
Garnett
339
109
487
Opal
385
121
309
Topaz
378
123
708
Cinnabar
373
126
478
Clearwater
436
127
473
Delamar
439
128
511
Liberty
485
209
611
211
Northstar
210
114
Red Lion-Downtowner
Interview Rooms(9)
Speech Rooms(9)
Albion
Coeur d'Alene
261
262
Aspen
Suite 760
263
264
Spokane
Suite 770
265
266
Bannock
270
267
268
Cascade
269
STATE DIRECTORS MEETING
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Red Lion Downtowner - Selway
45 Directors
VOLUNTEER RECEPTION
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Red Lion Riverside - Tamarack Room
250 Volunteers, State Directors, USAD Personnel
SPEAKERS SHOWCASE
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Red Lion Riverside - Juniper, Ponderosa and Laurel Rooms
BREAK AREA
8:15 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Red Lion Riverside - Northstar Room
DIGNITARIES RECEPTION
8:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Red Lion Riverside - Clint Eastwood Suite 500
75 People: USAD Board, State Directors, Donors, Dignitaries
SATURDAY, APRIL 11
LEAVE HOTEL
7:30 a.m.
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST & STUDENT ORIENTATION
8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.
Boise State University - SUB Ballroom
INFORMATION CENTER
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Boise State University ...
MEDIA AREA
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Boise State University ...
USAD BOARD AND STATE DIRECTORS MEETING
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Boise State University Special Events Center
TESTROOM PROCTOR ORIENTATION
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Boise State University ...
TESTING
9:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Boise State University ...
Rooms: (9)
First Objective Test - 9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Second Objective Test - 9:35 a.m. - 10:05 a.m.
Break - 10:05 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Third Objective Test - 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Fourth Objective Test - 11:05 a.m. - 11:35 p.m.
LUNCH
11:35 p.m. - 12:35 p.m.
Boise State University - Ballroom
Fifth Objective Test - 12:40 p.m. - 1:10 p.m.
Sixth Objective Test - 1:15 P.m. - 1:45 p.m.
SUPER QUIZ STUDENT ORIENTATION
1:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Boise State University - Ballroom
2:00 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.
Parade to Pavilion
2:10 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Team Lineup in Auxiliary Gym
SUPER QUIZ PROCTOR ORIENTATION
1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Boise State University Pavilion
SUPER QUIZ
2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Boise State University Pavilion
BARBECUE AND DANCE
6:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Old Penitentiary
SUNDAY, APRIL 12
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
7:00 a.m. - 7:45 a.m.
Red Lion Riverside - ...
TOURS: See attached Schedule
USAD "THANK YOU" RECEPTION
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Boise Convention Center - Cottonwoods
AWARDS BANQUET
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Boise Convention Center
Golden Eagle and Flying Hawk Eyries
by
April 15, 1991
I am pleased to send greetings to all those
gathered to celebrate the Tenth Anniversary and
National Finals of the United States Academic
Decathlon. Congratulations to all those students
who participated in this year's competition and
especially to the 1991 USAD National Championship
Team.
The message that this Decathlon sends to all young
Americans is a very important one -- it says that
personal dedication, diligent effort, and teamwork
lead to success. Indeed, such academic competi-
tion has created a new kind of hero among American
youth today. It is heartening to see youngsters
wearing varsity letters for scholastic achieve-
ment, and I am delighted to hear of students
gathering to cheer on classmates who are striving
to excel in the educational arena. These
developments suggest that we have begun to see
positive changes in attitudes toward scholastic
endeavors at every level.
Vital to reaching our National Education Goals
is a strong commitment -- by students, parents,
teachers, and public officials alike -- to
maximizing the potential of every student. You,
our State and National champions in the Academic
Decathlon, have obviously made such a commitment,
and I commend your example. I also thank your
parents, your coaches, and the generous sponsors
who made this exciting event possible.
Mrs. Bush joins me in sending our best wishes for
your continued success. God bless you.
GEORGE BUSHA
910415
CA.
1
041095
ME002
May 4, 1989
Dear Young Friends:
I am pleased to add my congratulations to those of
your parents, teachers, classmates, and friends on
winning the National Academic Decathlon. You can
be proud of your achievement which reflects hard
work, respect for learning, and self-discipline.
Your school and community share in the joy of your
triumph. I'm certain that in the days to come your
example will inspire others to follow in your academic
footsteps.
Mrs. Bush joins me in sending our warmest wishes
for every future success.
Sincerely,
A
GEORGE BUSH
The National Academic Decathlon Winners
Taft High School
5461 Winnetka Avenue
Woodland Hills, California 91364
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TO BE FAXED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE:
To: Mr. Gary Chiate (213) 552-7542
FAX - (213) 552-7648
890504
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from ORM
UNITED STATES ACADEMIC US_AD DECATHION
®
January 9, 1992
RECEIVED
JAN 13 REC'D
Kathy Super
Deputy Assistant to the President
SCHEDULING
for Appointments and Scheduling
OFFICE
The White House
Washington D.C. 20500
Dear Ms. Super:
It was a great honor to the United States Academic Decathlon last April when President Bush
welcomed the national championship team from J. J. Pearce High School in Richardson, Texas to
the White House Rose Garden. The United States Academic Decathlon, the largest and most
prestigious scholastic competition for high school teams in the country, is particularly proud of
its non-elitist nature. (Teams are made up of 3 A students, 3 B students, and 3 C or below
students.) The President's welcome, therefore, reinforced the underlying message of the
Decathlon to all students: that great things can be accomplished by commitment, perseverance,
and teamwork.
In April of 1992, the National Finals of the United States Academic Decathlon will be held in
Boise, Idaho, where we will be celebrating our eleventh successful year. We are very hopeful
that our national championship team may once again visit the White House to meet the President.
The announcement of the championship team will be made at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday April 12,
1992. We would be able to have the students in Washington at anytime on or after April 15th.
We sincerely appreciate your consideration of this request.
Very truly yours,
Ann Joynt
Executive Director
Amrilis
&
>AnA a APA (Fran SAOS 1moth)
ANN JOYNT
Executive Director
11145 183rd STREET
P.O. BOX 5169
CERRITOS, CA 90701-5169
(310) 809-4995
FAX (310) 809-4111
April 12, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR BETH HINCHLIFFE
FROM:
MICHELE NIX
SUBJECT:
ACADEMIC DECATHLON CEREMONY
On Thursday, April 23, at 11:15 a.m., POTUS will address
approximately 200 people at a Rose Garden ceremony for the
National Academic Decathlon Champions.
We should mention that America was launched a year ago this
month -- April 18, 1991. Mention the goals. Mention the failing
education system that needs our help. Mention Teacher of the
Year as an example of the power of education. Mention number of
states adopting America 2000. Perhaps a reference to the futures
of these kids (i.e., Think about the futures that you want for
yourselves. Think where will you be in the year 2020? Will you
be driving in a solar-powered car that doesn't rob the ozone?
Will our nations schools be good enough when you enroll your 10-
year old for her first day of fourth grade? etc.)
We need to think of jokes early. Maybe a final line for the
Pres can be: "Remember, study hard and one day you'll grow up to
be President." (Or some twist on that.)
I've included the following:
Past speech (1991 remarks)
Background on Decathlon organization
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Document No.
Subject/Title of Document
Date
Restriction
Class.
and Type
01. Memo
Michele Nix to Beth Hinchliffe, re: Academic Decathlon
04/12/92
P-6, (b)(6)
Ceremony; personal information redacted. (1 pp.)
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
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File Location:
Academic Decathlon Champions 4/23/92 [2]
Date Closed:
11/29/2004
OA/ID Number:
07572
FOIA/SYS Case #:
Re-review Case #:
2004-2265-S
P-2/P-5 Review Case #:
MR Case #:
Appeal Case #:
MR Disposition:
Appeal Disposition:
Disposition Date:
Disposition Date:
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P-1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
(b)(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P-2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
(b)(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of an
P-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
(b)(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
(b)(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P-5 Release would disclose confidential advise between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
(b)(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
(b)(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of
(b)(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
(b)(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
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Expected to be at the ceremony: Mr. William Tokishi, VP of
American Honda Corp. ; Ken Barun, Executive Director of McDonald's
Children Whatever; Jill Von Dalden, Community Relations Director
for TRW; Linda Tucker, VP of Motorola Corp in Chicago
These people are reps of corporate sponsors (Dalden is
director of the Ac Decath group). They provide money for trips,
hotel costs, etc. for the competitions.
This year's winner of the Kristen Caperton Award for Inspiration
and Courage goes to Rhondee Johnson, a junior at Benjamin
Banneker HS in Washington, DC.
P-6,
(6)(6)
She participated in the Nationals. She also participated in
a speech showcase at the event and impressed one of the judges -
- who recommended she be a candidate for the award.
Rhondee won the Kristen Caperton Award and receives a
$10,000 scholarship from Morris-Knutson (I have to verify that
corp name).
The Decathlon group doesn't really have an official slogan or
motto. They use à few -- Reach for the Stars. A New Kind of
Campus Hero. (And the most well-known) Cheering for Academics
The theme of this year's Super Quiz was Habitat Earth (Ecology
and the Environment).
I talked to the coordinators of the competition and she is faxing
me some anecdotal material later today. She's also faxing sample
questions from the competition, names of winners, etc.
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9 teams
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M.W. - Willoughby South H.S., Ohio
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West - CA, El Camine Real, Wordland Hills, CA
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- Linda tucher, Matorola
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Jill Van ? - Head of Contro DRW
Wash, Hilton, - Wed.
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FAX: (310)809-4111
DATE:
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TO:
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ATTN: BETH HINCHCLIFFE
FROM:
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WE ARE TRANSMITTING / PAGE(S) TO YOU INCLUDING THIS
PAGE. IF YOUR COPY IS UNCLEAR, PLEASE TELEPHONE OR FAX.
MESSAGE: ADDITIONAL CORPORATE SPONSON
Also USAD BOARD MEMBER
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FAX COVER SHEET
FAX: (310)809-4111
DATE:
4/20/9r
TO:
THE WHITE HOUSE
ATTN:
BETH HINCH CUFFE
FROM:
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WE ARE TRANSMITTING 4 PAGE(S) TO YOU INCLUDING THIS
PAGE. IF YOUR COPY IS UNCLEAR, PLEASE TELEPHONE OR FAX.
MESSAGE: THIS 15 RHONDEE JOHNSONS SPEECH
FOR WHICH MARY CUNDINGHAM AGEE'S EDUNDATION
AWARDED HER A $10,000 SCHOLARSHIP. SHE 15
FROM GANNEKER HIGH IN D.C. BUT
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Jeanie sat on the edge of the tub washing out some clothes.
Suddenly, a man pulled out his gun and shot her in the head.
Jeanie's killer carried her out of the bathroom to the hall
of her apartment. Her children were asleep at the time and
her mother was watching TV, so no one heard the shot. A neighbor
saw Jeanie's killer placing her body in the hallway. She was
rushed to the hospital. Jeanie lived only for another week.-
Philadelphia, 1983.
Jeanie, whom I barely knew, was my aunt who had just died
and left four beautiful children behind. I was eight years
old at the time and one hundred miles away, oblivious to the
pain my cousins were bearing and the drastic changes that would
come into my life. It was decided that the four children would
live with by grandmother. However, several months later she
died. The doctors said she had been extremely depressed and
had given up on life. No one in my family wanted the additional
responsibility of four children and rather than leave them to
the foster care system, my mother opened up our home to them.
I now accepted the fact that we had nine permanent children
in our household. In a characteristic child-like way, I began
to feel selfish. I couldn't have as much of my mother's
attention and I didn't want to accept added responsibility.
Somehow, I sensed my mother's worry that maybe there wouldn't
be enough to support all of us. I even told my cousins that
I wished they would go back home. Angry and self-centered as
only a child could be, I can't begin to imagine how much I had
hurt my cousins after all they had been through. Then came
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the crushing blow, which seemed to have ended my once happy
life. My father left home. I blamed my cousins for this because
I knew he had discouraged my mother from inviting them to live
with us. I became increasingly angry at my mother and threatened
to run away.
This is the rippling effect of drugs and violence in our
community. It goes beyond what the public sees on the evening
news. Violence does not end with death. A family's life is
touched in every way. Every time there is a. violent death,
society pays for it either through the foster care system or
through education. Taxpayers must pay for jails and for more
policemen to patrol the streets.
My aunt's killer without ever meeting me has affected every
aspect of my life. The addition of four children has caused
significant financial strain, not to mention the emotional drain
on my mother. However, the verdict isn't in yet. What will
we learn from this cruel twist of fate? Will we children all
be marked for life because we feel cheated? Or will we someday
be able to look at my mother's totally selfless response and
know that we have truly witnessed love in its finest sense.
However, I will always be curious about the personal and long-
lasting effects that will grow out of one person's willful and
mindless act. WAKE UP AMERICA!! Realize that drugs and violence
affect everyone in our community. We cannot continue to ignore
the problem. We cannot continue to support cosmetic solutions.
We must all join forces quickly to resolve this dilemma for
who knows, directly or indirectly, the next tragedy could strike
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you, or you, or you!
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UNITED STATES ACADEMIC DECATHLON
FAX COVER SHEET
FAX: (310)809-4111
DATE:
4/20/92
TO:
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ATTN:
BETH HINCHCLIFFE
FROM:
FRANN SHERMET
WE ARE TRANSMITTING 3 PAGE(S) TO YOU INCLUDING THIS
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MESSAGE: How THE REGIONALS ARE
CONFIGURED AND TOP TEN
SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS -ALL OF
WHOM WILL BK PRESENT.
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UNITED STATES ACADEMIC DECATHLON
NATIONAL FINALS
APRIL 10-12,1992
BOISE, IDAHO
REGIONAL DIVISIONS
FOR OVERALL TEAM AWARDS
NORTHEAST
SOUTHEAST
MIDWEST
Maine
Maryland
Minnesota
Vermont
West Virginia
Wisconsin
New Hampshire
Virginia
lowa
Massachusetts
North Carolina
Illinois
Connecticut
South Carolina
Indiana
Rhode Island
Georgia
Ohio
New York
Alabama
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Missouri
New Jersey
Tennessee
North Dakota
District of Columbia
CENTRAL
WEST
Mississippi
Alaska
Louisiana
Hawaii
Nebraska
Washington
Kansas
Oregon
Arkansas
California
Oklahoma
Nevada
Colorado
Idaho
Texas
Montana
New Mexico
Utah
Wyoming
Arizona
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ACADEMIC DECATHLON
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UNITED STATES COMPETITION
**** OVERALL WINNERS ****
*** OVERALL STUDENT WINNERS ***
Based on 10 events
HONOR DIVISION
Gold
9,100 Tyson Rogers
Arizona
Mountain View H.S.
Silver
8,895
Mit Robertson
Mississippi
Tupelo H.S.
Bronze
8,875
Massoud Javadi
Texas
J. Frank Dobie
SCHOLASTIC DIVISION
Gold
8,460
Andrea Jackson
Arizona
Mountain View H.S.
silver
8,450
Renee Larson
Arizona
Mountain View H.S.
Bronze
8,430
Brian Lazarus
California
El Camino Real H.S.
Jonathan Brumley
Alabama
Indian Springs H.S.
VARSITY DIVISION
Gold
8,265 Joshua Mathis
Texas
J. Frank Dobie
Silver
8,205
Gregory Rudnick
Illinois
Whitney Young Magnet
Bronze
7,900
Daniel Ramirez
Texas
J. Frank Dobie
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Document No.
Subject/Title of Document
Date
Restriction
Class.
and Type
02. List
Re: Attendees from United States Academic Decathlon at
04/21/92
P-6, (b)(6)
Rose Garden Ceremony; Social Security information. (7 pp.)
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Speechwriting, White House Office of
Series:
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Subseries:
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
Academic Decathlon Champions 4/23/92 [2]
Date Closed:
11/29/2004
OA/ID Number:
07572
FOIA/SYS Case #:
Re-review Case #:
2004-2265-S
P-2/P-5 Review Case #:
MR Case #:
Appeal Case #:
MR Disposition:
Appeal Disposition:
Disposition Date:
Disposition Date:
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P-1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
(b)(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P-2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
(b)(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of an
P-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
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financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
(b)(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P-5 Release would disclose confidential advise between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
(b)(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
(b)(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of
(b)(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
(b)(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Document No.
Subject/Title of Document
Date
Restriction
Class.
and Type
03. Memo
Re: Spelling Corrections on [Adademic Decathlon winner]
n.d.
P-6, (b)(6)
names; personal information. (1 pp.)
Collection:
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Office:
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Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
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(b)(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P-2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
(b)(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of an
P-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
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financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
(b)(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
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information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
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(b)(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
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personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
(b)(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of
(b)(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
(b)(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
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Coach Catherine Haney, United States History Teacher, tried
a different motivation after the state win. Each student
wore a button with the message, "ROSE GARDEN OR BUST,' in
Dobie's orange and white colors with a longhorn, the school
mascot. We gave these pins to family and friends for addi-
tional support.
While driving to the regional competition, team members were
shocked to see a dead COW in a field along the road, an un-
usual sight for suburban Pasadena, Texas. Another dead COW
was spotted on the drive to the state competition at A & M,
and the students called it a lucky charm. Imagine the team's
shock to see a dead COW on the city streets of Boise on the
day of the awards banquet! They decided it must be a lucky
sign, for sure!
Whether potatoes, pins, cows, or simply lots of dedicated
study time, the Dobie team is proud is proud to be tops in
the nation in 1992!
MASSOUD JAVADI plans to study international relations at
either Rice University or Harbard. SCOTT SEAGO plans to
become a chemist at either MIT, University of California
at Berkeley, or Rice. WAYNE VUONG will major in computer
science at Rice University. LARRY TOOLEY will major in art
and creative writing at De Pauw University. PAUL LAPUYADE
will major in law at the University of Texas. JEFFREY CHUNG
will major in computer science at the University of Pennsyl-
vania. JOSHUA MATHIS will study political science at Le
Tourneau College. DANIEL RAMIREZ will study law or medicine
at Texas A & M University. DAVID NORMAN will study family
counseling at Abilene Christian College.
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J. FRANK DOBIE HIGH SCHOOL ACADEMIC DECATHLON
TEAM - 1992 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!!
The first place national winner of the Academic Decathlon
competition for 1992 is a team from J. Frank Dobie High
School in Houston, Texas. The school, while located in
Houston city limits, is a part of the Pasadena Independent
School District. Theeschool was named for folk writer
and Texas historian J. Frank Dobie, also an English pro-
fessor at the University of Texas at Austin. Since win-
ning the national competition, the school has received a
letter from Dudley R. Dobie, Jr., representing the Dobie
family. He wrote that the inscription on J. Frank Dobie's
tombstone in the state Cemetery in Austin states, "I
have come to believe that a liberated mind is the supreme
good of life on Earth," and called the Dobie students'
academic honors a tribute to this concept.
Dobie High School, home to 2100 students in a middle class
area of southeast Houston, has a diverse population. The
1992 Academic Decathlon Team is quite international in
spirit, with 2 Chinese members, one Hispanic, one Iranian,
and one son of a French immigrant.
Coach Richard Golenko, Latin teacher, gave each team member
a large Idaho potato as "inspiration" after the big win at
the regional competition in Port Arthur, Texas in January.
Each team member was to carry the potato at all times as a
reminder that we wanted to reach the national level of com
petition in Boise, Idaho. It must have worked, because the
team defeated last year's national championship team at the
state competition at Bryan and Texas A. & M University in
February.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
April 23, 1992
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
TO ACADEMIC DECATHLON CHAMPIONS
The Rose Garden
11:18 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Welcome all. And first, may I greet our
distinguished number two over at the Energy Department, David Kearns,
coming down here from a fantastic leadership role in American
business to help us in this important America 2000 education program.
So I'm delighted he's with us here today.
I want to salute the President and the Board of
Directors of the U.S. Academic Decathlon -- all of them -- thank
particularly all of the corporate sponsors who make so much of this
possible. And also single out Danny Ramirez, Chris Roorda, and Greg
Rudnick, standing up here with me today; salute the coaches and the
friends. And most of all, a warm Rose Garden welcome to our newest
American champs, newest American heroes, if you will -- the 1992
Academic Decathlon Champs, the team from J. Frank Dobie High in, yes,
you guessed it, Houston, Texas. Now, where are they? Stand up.
(Applause.) And they've got a good front-row seat, too. Thank you,
guys, and welcome.
It's a great feat for my hometown -- the highest score,
I'm told, in the history of the competition. And I'm very proud to
welcome you all here. I hear that you wore "Rose Garden or Bust"
pins. They work. And I'm wondering if you have an extra one for the
fall. (Laughter.)
Congratulations also to our Silver and Bronze medalists
from Mountain View High in Mesa, Arizona; Whitney Young Magnet High
in Chicago; our regional winners from New Jersey, Alabama, Ohio,
Nebraska and California; our small school winner from Wisconsin; and
our 10 individual student scholarship winners -- nine from our top
three winning schools, and then Mit Robertson here from Tupelo,
Mississippi. Welcome all.
I want to send special good-luck wishes to those who
will represent us at the International Decathlon in a couple of weeks
-- the Academic Decathlon, that is. And since you're the star
decathletes, tell me who is going to win at Barcelona -- Dan or Dave?
(Laughter.)
You've all done something remarkable. And this year's
contest began with 30,000 -- more than 30,000 students at 3,500
schools coast to coast. And now it's just you. And not only did you
work all year to conquer environmental science in a range of 10
categories, you also survived the blizzard of 25,000 pieces of test
paper out in Boise. And I was impressed by your Habitat Earth Super
Quiz questions like this one: "In a molecule of methane, the carbon
atom is at the center of what?" For you out there in the press --
(laughter) -- the answer is "a tetrahedron with four s-p-three
bonds." Did you get that one down? I'll be glad to repeat the
question -- never mind. (Laughter.)
That was easy. Not! Actually, pretty tough. But I
know a category I could enter: computers. I was just in there with
Secretary Kearns talking about it. I've been learning how to work
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one because one of our education goals is that nobody is too old to
learn. I wrote my first program a while ago. I'm not sure what
happened to it. It was called "Michelangelo." (Laughter.)
Now, you kids here today represent every team member
from across the country. And I want to tell you and them what all of
you have done for America. You've shown that great things can be
achieved by commitment, perseverance, hard work and, yes, teamwork.
And I salute you, and I envy you. And you've found the sheer joy of
learning, beginning to understand the world.
One day a scientist will discover the cure for cancer,
the cure for AIDS. Other people will find new ways to feed the
hungry. And there will be writers whose wisdom will touch lives.
And right now, those men and women are kids in our classrooms or
maybe even sitting right here in the Rose Garden.
Remember, study hard and one day one of you might grow
up to be president. But let's face it, even then you'll never make
as much money as your dog. (Laughter.) Millie, who normally comes
to events like this, but she used to just roll over on the grass, and
now all she rolls over is her money market account with -- in the
street.
But, look, you've shown your peers that it is as
exciting to root for an academic team as an athletic one. And that's
a point I wanted to make for our entire country. You've shown that
it takes skill, stamina and intensity to achieve in the classroom as
well as in the stadium. And you've given them a priceless gift, your
peers: the belief in their ability to reach out and shape their own
lives.
There is a new century coming, one with absolutely
unlimited horizons. And we must make sure all our children enter
this new world equipped with the skills that will let them dream
dreams and know they can make them come true.
One of the things that impresses me most about this
Decathlon is that each team is made up of A, B and c students. And
there's a great lesson there. What matters is simply that each kid
be the best that he or she can be. As George Patton said, "If a man
has done his best, what else is there?" We don't want the moon for
our kids. We want something more important: a future.
And so one year ago, I unveiled America 2000, our long-
range strategy to achieve our six national education goals. And it's
a challenge posed to each of us in communities throughout America to
literally reinvent American education. It urges us to reach deep
within ourselves to find answers so that our kids can reach for the
stars.
Changing our attitudes about education is too important
to wait or waste a generation. To be competitive in this changing
world, we must realize that we succeed economically at home; if we're
to do that, we must lead economically abroad. Open markets, free
trade, they mean jobs for American workers and economic growth for
American companies. But we must be prepared to compete, ready to
take advantage of these high-tech opportunities in the global
marketplace.
We know our economic health, our economic survival,
depend on how we educate ourselves to face the challenges of a new
century. So we've set these six education goals to reach by the year
2000 -- when today's third and fourth graders will be taking part in
this event, this Academic Decathlon by then and you all know these
goals.
One of them, the first one: Our kids will start school
ready to learn. That's more than Head Start. Head Start's a part of
that. Our high school graduation rate must be 90 percent. The third
- 3 -
one: Our students will be achieving world-class standards. And then
fourth: We'll be first in the world in science and math, a
particularly important one. And then the fifth one: Every adult
will be literate. No one is too old to learn. And sixth: Every
American school must be safe, must be disciplined, must be drug-
free. In other words, an environment where people can learn.
You will help us meet those challenges. Real excellence
demands commitment from everyone as we create a new generation of
American schools that demands more of the same choices of schools --
public, private or religious -- for middle class and poor Americans
that wealthier families already have. Give them a chance to choose.
It demands new creative partnership among parents, teachers,
businesses and kids like the community involvement that encourages
this Decathlon and the local and national corporate partnerships that
fund it.
And by the way, I want to give a special note to the
corporate sponsors with us today, whose leadership and vision make
this Decathlon possible. This bond, really I referred to it
earlier -- but this bond between industry and the individual is the
keystone of the American spirit. The country needs to follow this
decathlon's example in all these areas because for our future every
citizen must now help every community develop a plan of action.
All ready 43 states and over 1,000 communities across
this country have answered the call and have joined America 2000.
This isn't Democrat or Republican or Liberal or Conservative. It is
literally a move to revolutionize education. And together we are
reinventing American education, neighborhood by neighborhood,
community by community all across this country. And at the heart of
it are you students, you kids, a new kind of campus hero. With the
good values you learn from discipline determination. From a sharp
mind that is not wasted on drugs and from the confidence and pride
that comes from proving yourselves. And you will help this America
2000 dream come true.
For a great example of this we don't have to look
further than a woman who is not with us today, D.C.'s Rhondee
Johnson, a junior at Benjamin Banneker High who just won the National
Academic Decathlon's Kristen Caperton Award for Inspiration and
Courage. She takes her school responsibilities so seriously that
she's helping her team at a track meet right now instead of joining
us. And we all hope she wins the blue ribbon, but she's certainly
winning it in life with her example.
Rhondee's lived with the tragedy of violence. When her
aunt was killed, her four children came to live with Rhondee's
family, making eight year-old Rhondee the oldest of nine kids in a
single-parent household. She takes on a parent's duties and she
still manages a 4.0 average. She is an inspiration, accepting
responsibilities and challenges and still striving to excel.
She and all of you give a 1990's example of how Abraham
Lincoln defined his own life when he said, "I do the very best I know
how, the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing SO until the
end."
I am proud of the message all of you winning decathletes
send, that personal dedication, effort and teamwork lead to success.
And when one of you bright young people solve the problem of who
created "Michelangelo," just remember --, my name is Dana Carvey.
Thank you all very much for coming. Congratulations,
and may God bless you all. (Applause.)
END
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STUDY GUIDE
UNITED STATES
ACADEMIC
DECATHLON
SUPER QUIZ TOPIC
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Creates a positive school image
Creates academic role models
PUTTED
Changes student attitudes
Involves the community
A DECATHLON TEAM IS
SKILLS THAT WORK IN
OVER 30,000 STUDENTS
MADE UP OF
CORPORATE AMERICA
COMPETE NATIONWIDE.
3 A HONOR students
Teamwork
3B SCHOLASTIC students
Competitiveness
ANNUAL SCHEDULE
3C VARSITY students
Communication
in junior or senior year. All students
Self-Assurance
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compete in all ten events. Students in
each category compete only against
JUNE, JULY, AUG
NATIONAL FINALS
students in that category.
Research and reading by
1991 - California
large group
PROGRAMS ARE IN 44 STATES
1992 - Idaho
SEPT
Practice Test Booklet
AND WASHINGTON, D.C.
1993 - Arizona
released; teams formed
NOV
Local competitions
TEN EVENTS
A BROAD ARRAY OF AWARDS
FEB
Mathematics
Science
In each event, there are gold, silver, and
Regional competitions
Economics
Language and Literature
bronze medals in each category. There
MAR
State competitions
Fine Arts
Social Science
are also team awards in the Super Quiz
Speech
Interview
and for overall ranking. In addition,
APR
National finals
Essay
Super Quiz
there is a small-schools division.
2
Academic Decathlon National
Championship Team from
Richardson, Texas, receives
congratulations from
President and Mrs. Bush.
Photo: Susan Biddle,
The White House
AMERICA'S #1 SCHOLASTIC COMPETITION
FOR HIGH SCHOOL TEAMS
Each team is made up of nine students:
3 A students, 3 B students, and 3 C students.
The Academic Decathlon works to motivate all
students by conveying this message:
Study and perseverance bring rewards.
Photo:
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How CAN YOU
GET INVOLVED IN
THE ACADEMIC
DECATHLON?
Students, Teachers,
Schools
1. Call your state director (see
opposite page) for an application
form and competition dates and
locations.
2. If there is no director in your state,
call the USAD office.
3. Select a coach.
4. Contact the USAD office to order
Study Guides at $1.00 each.
5. Get together interested junior and
senior students with a range of
Business and
c. helping to support the
grade point averages.
Community Leaders
competition by sponsoring a
6. Begin general research and
banquet table, trophies, or
reading according to Study Guide
1. Call your state director to volun-
medals;
outlines.
teer your service and support.
d. becoming a board member
7. Recruit faculty and community
2.
Ascertain dates and locations of
and regular ongoing sponsor
co-coaches.
competitions and schools involved.
of the Academic Decathlon in
8. Select the nine students for the
3. Volunteer by
your area.
a. helping with the competition
4. If you or your company would
team.
as a judge, proctor, or
like to be involved at the national
9. Prepare and practice.
chairperson;
level, call the USAD office or send
10. Compete.
b. helping to coach a team;
in the coupon below.
PLEASE SEND ME INFORMATION ABOUT
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business
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OR CALL
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ACADEMIC DECATHLON STATE ASSOCIATIONS AND DIRECTORS
ALABAMA
ILLINOIS
NEBRASKA
SOUTH DAKOTA
Dale Hill
Roger Prietz
John Anstey
John Christiansen
1001 George Wallace Drive
Illinois Acad. Dec. Assoc.
Nebraska Acad. Dec. Assoc.
South Dakota Acad. Dec.
Gadsden State College
211 S. Laflin
2175 N. 124th Ave. Cr.
Supt. of Public Schs.
Gadsden, AL 35999
Chicago, IL 60607
Omaha, NE 68164
Mitchell, SD 57301
(205) 549-8375
(312) 997-3712
(402) 554-2534
(605) 995-3010
ALASKA
INDIANA
NEW HAMPSHIRE
TENNESSEE
Gladys Foris
Gerald Kolter
Walter Borkowski
James Swain
Alaska Acad. Dec. Assoc.
Indiana Sec. Sch. Admin. Assoc.
Exeter H.S.
State Dept. of Education
P.O. Box 301
7960 Castleway Dr.
30 Linden St.
Cordell Hull Building
Juneau, AK 99802
Indianapolis, IN 46250
Exeter, NH 03833
Nashville, TN 37243
(907) 463-5812
(317) 576-5400
(603) 778-7772
(615) 741-0878
ARIZONA
IOWA
NEW JERSEY
TEXAS
Anita Lohr
Dick Wiederhold
William Cobb
Lee Meyer
Pima County Schs.
Winterset Comm. Schs.
Acad. Dec. of New Jersey
Harris County Dept. of Educ.
130 W. Congress St.
302 W. South St.
125 John St.
6300 Irvington B
Tucson, AZ 85701
Winterset, IA 50273
Ridgewood, NJ 07450
Houston, TX 77022
(602) 740-8451
(515) 462-2718
(201) 652-3350
(713) 694-6300
CALIFORNIA
KANSAS
NEW MEXICO
UTAH
Judy Combs
Rosemary Moran
Toni Martorelli
Carla Brooks
California Acad. Dec. Assoc.
Wyandotte County
Albuquerque Public Schs.
Dixie H.S.
P.O. Box 28859
3600 Springfield
725 University Blvd., SE
350 E. 700 South
Santa Ana, CA 92799
Kansas City, KS 66103
Albuquerque, NM 87125
St. George, UT 84770
(714) 755-1423
(913) 677-2232
(505) 842-3758
(801) 673-4682
COLORADO
LOUISIANA
NEW YORK
VIRGINIA
Kay Lorenz
Barbara Gillis
Nancy Lederer
Bob Marshall
Colo. Acad. Dec. Assoc.
Louisiana Acad. Dec. Assoc.
BOCES #1
Fairfax County Sch. Dist.
Box 11
Northwestern St. Univ.
41 O'Connor Rd.
3705 Crest Dr.
Black Hawk, CO 80422
Nachitoches, LA 71497
Fairport, NY 14450
Annandale, VA 22003
(303) 582-5550
(318) 357-5246
(716) 377-4660
(703) 698-7500
CONNECTICUT
MAINE
NORTH CAROLINA
WASHINGTON
William P. Coan
Ron Moody
Riley Bratton
Dick Kistler
Conn. Acad. Dec. Assoc.
Maine Acad. Dec. Assoc.
Independence H.S.
Timberline H.S.
Weston H.S.
Blue Rd.
1967 Patriot Dr.
6120 Mullen Rd.
Weston, CT 06883
Monmouth, ME 02459
Charlotte, NC 28212
Lacey, WA 98503
(203) 222-2535
(207) 933-2948
(704) 343-6900
(206) 493-2941
DELAWARE
MASSACHUSETTS
OHIO
WEST VIRGINIA
Peggy Dee
Henry Lukas, Principal
Bill Kraus
Connie Strickland
Dept. of Public Inst.
Massachusetts Acad. Dec. Assoc.
Lakeland Comm. College
West Virginia Acad. Dec. Assoc.
P.O. Box 1402
Marblehead H.S.
Rts. 90 & 306
668 Elk Estates
Dover, DE 19903
Marblehead, MA 01945
Mentor, OH 44060
Elkview, WV 25071
(302) 739-4667
(508) 631-0900
(216) 953-7106
(304) 548-6238
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
MICHIGAN
OKLAHOMA
WISCONSIN
Doris Trabue
Tim Quinn
Ivalene Neptune
Meg Olejniczak
Washington, D.C., Public Schools
Northwest Michigan College
Eisenhower H.S.
CESA #7
45th & Lee Sts. NE
1701 E. Front St.
5201 W. Gore Blvd.
2280A S. Broadway
Washington, D.C. 20019
Traverse City, MI 49684
Lawton, OK 73505
Green Bay, WI 54304
(202) 724-4934
(616) 922-1010
(405) 355-9144
(414) 448-5355
FLORIDA
MINNESOTA
OREGON
WYOMING
Peggy Cole/Ron Dennis
Dee Steele
William Lakes
Greg Tatham
Putnam County Schools
Owatonna Public Schools
Oregon Acad. Dec.
University of Wyoming
200 S. 7th St.
515 W. Bridge St.
26908 Hwy 20 at Cline Creek
P.O. Box 3066
Palatka, FL 32177
Owatonna, MN 55060
Eddyville, OR 97343
Laramie, WY 82071
(904) 329-0605
(507) 451-9513
(503) 265-9281
(307) 766-3763
GEORGIA
MISSISSIPPI
PENNSYLVANIA
CANADA
Howard Stroud
Buddy Wagner
David Emery
Aileen Munro
Clark County School Dist.
Mississippi College
Methacton Senior H.S.
Memorial Comp. H.S.
500 College Ave.
P.O. Box 4063
Kriebel Mill Rd.
Box 760, 5116 55th Ave.
Athens, GA 30610
Clinton, MS 39058
Fairview Village, PA 19403
Stony Plain, AL
(404) 546-7721
(601) 925-3353
(215) 489-5043
Canada TOE 2G0
(403) 963-2255
HAWAII
MISSOURI
RHODE ISLAND
Joan Yanagi
Randy Wortman
Judy Edsal
UNITED STATES
State Dept. of Education
Southwest H.S.
Rhode Island Dec. Assoc.
ACADEMIC DECATHLON
P.O. Box 2360
6512 Wornall Rd.
3288 Post Rd.
Ann Joynt
Honolulu, HI 96804
Kansas City, MO 64113
Warwick, RI 02886
Executive Director
(808) 396-2530
(816) 871-0900
(401) 732-1100
11145 183rd St.
Cerritos, CA 90701
IDAHO
MONTANA
SOUTH CAROLINA
Jerry Helgeson
Rich Wilson
Neal Martin
Frann Shermet
Idaho Acad. Dec. Assoc.
Fergus H.S.
South Carolina Acad. Dec. Assoc.
Executive Coordinator
4600 McMillan Rd.
201 Casino Creek Dr.
Coker College
P.O. Box 5169
Meridian, ID 83642
Lewistown, MT 59457
Hartsville, SC 29550
Cerritos, CA 90703-5169
(208) 939-1404
(406) 538-2321
(803) 383-8126
(213) 809-4995
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"
The Academic Decathlon is one of the finest examples of an effective corporate-
education partnership that exists today. Utilizing very reasonable dollars, the
United States Academic Decathlon has created a program that stimulates learning and the
promotion of skills critical for the business
world throughout the high schools of America.
"
Bruce W. Ferguson
President, United States Academic Decathlon
Director of Human Resources
Kenneth Leventhal & Co.
UNITED STATES ACADEMIC DECATHLON BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Dr. Alex Aloia
Bruce W. Ferguson
John J. Moeling, Jr.
B. Franklin Reinauer II
Loyola Marymount University
Kenneth Leventhal & Co.
Scientific American
New Jersey
Robert Broaddus
John H. Foley
Dr. Arnold C. Oates
Suzanne Roberts
CappCare
Foristall Co.
Texas A & M University
Santa Monica
Marilyn Bush
Lawrence Ganzell
Dr. Alfonso B. Perez
Robert Suarez
Los Angeles U.S.D.
Scantron
Los Angeles
Raytheon Company
Dr. Arnold Chandler
Joe Johnson
John S. Peterson, Esq.
Jill von Delden
Wisconsin Department of Education
The Telein Group
Victory Holding Co.
TRW, Inc.
Dr. Richard Cooper
Anita Lohr
Dr. Robert Peterson
Franklin R. Wurtzel, Esq.
Occidental College
Arizona Academic Decathlon
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Home Savings of America
Louis Davis
Dr. C. Lee Meyer
Dr. Paul Possemato
Ann Joynt
Los Angeles
Texas Academic Decathlon
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The United States Academic Decathlon and D.C. Heath and Company would like to thank the many artists and photographers whose work appears
on the pages of the Study Guide. Much of the artwork and photography that is shown within can be found in the following D.C. Heath textbooks: Math CONNECTIONS, ALGEBRA I,
Heath SOCIAL STUDIES, Heath BIOLOGY, Heath CHEMISTRY, Heath ENGLISH, ECONOMICS FOR DECISION MAKING, THE CHALLENGE OF DISCOVERY Series.
Cover photography for the Study Guide was created by Ralph Mercer of Boston. The bird on the cover was used courtesy of Timothy J. Santel, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "Clouds" on pages 2-23
are from WestLight.
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BOISE:
AN ENVIRONMENT
TO EXPERIENCE
Experience Boise's unique environment
at the 1992 United States Academic
Decathlon competition. As Idaho's
capital city, Boise enjoys a rare blend of
exciting urban activities and the easily
accessible great outdoors. A scenic
20-mile riverfront pathway through the
heart of the city is the perfect place for
walking, running, biking, skating, and
skateboarding. A city of the 90's, Boise's
urban amenities include such sights and
attractions as the World Center for
Birds of Prey, the Morrison Center for
the Performing Arts, and the sprawling
MICRON
MVS
high-tech complexes and numerous
corporate headquarters. The state of
The Peregrine Fund, Inc.
Idaho also offers outstanding opportuni-
ties for white-water rafting, hiking, and
World Center
fishing and is home to Sun Valley, Hells
for
Canyon, and the Bruneau Sand Dunes.
Birds of Prey
THE COMPETITION SITE
Rocky Mountain Peregrine Falcon Program
Idaho's largest university is ideally
located along the banks of the scenic
Boise River.
HOST HOTEL
Situated on the banks of the Boise
River and the city's renowned
Greenbelt, the Red Lion Riverside
offers great river views, fine restau-
rants, a full fitness center, and a
swimming pool.
"The city of Boise is proud to be the
host city for the 1992 United States
Boise State University
Academic Decathlon national champi-
onships. The Academic Decathlon is
an outstanding program, and the
commitment and dedication necessary
to achieve your goals in this competi-
tion will serve you well in future
activities and careers. Good luck to
each participant, and I look forward to
seeing you in Boise!"
Mayor Dirk Kempthorne
Mayor Dirk Kempthorne
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ECONOMICS
Paul Silverman/Fundamental Photographs
I. Basic concepts
26%
II. Microeconomics
30%
A. Scarcity
A. Law of demand
1. Four basic questions
1. Demand curves
2. Factors of production
2. Factors affecting
demand curves
B. Production possibilities
frontier
B. Law of supply
1. Trade-offs
1. Supply curves
2. Opportunity costs
2. Factors affecting
C. Characteristics of a
supply curves
market economy
C. Equilibrium price and
1. Economic freedom
quantity
2. Private property
1. Surpluses and shortages
3. Economic incentives
2. Shifts in supply
4. Competitive markets
and/or demand curves
5. Limited role of
government
III. Macroeconomics
30%
C. Fiscal policy
D. U.S. business
1. Government
A. Circular flow
1. Sole proprietorship
1. Households and firms
spending
2. Partnership
2. Taxes
2. Factor and product
3. Corporation
3. Gross national
markets
product
E. Market structure
B. Money and business
4. Business cycle
1. Pure competition
1. Money supply
5. Inflation
2. Pure monopoly
2. Federal Reserve
3. Oligopoly
3. Monetary policy
4. Monopolistic
IV. International
competition
economics
14%
A. International trade
1. Comparative
ROFFILF
McDonald's
advantage
2. U.S. trade partners
McDonald's
3. Trade restrictions
and protectionism
B. Other economic systems
1. Socialism
2. Communism
James Holland/Stock, Boston
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MATHEMATICS
I. General math
10%
D. Complex numbers
IV. Trigonometry
10%
A. Applications involving
1. Operations with
A. Right triangle
integers, fractions,
complex numbers
relationships
decimals, and percent
2. Complex numbers
as roots of equations
B. Trigonometric functions
B. Basic counting
C. Inverse trigonometric
techniques
III. Geometry
34%
functions
1. Multiplication
principle
A. Right triangles
D. Graphs
2. Permutations and
1. Pythagorean
theorem
E. Identities
combinations
2. Special triangles
F. Equations
C. Probability of equally
likely events
B. Coordinate geometry
1. Midpoint
V. Differential
2. Slope
calculus
10%
II. Algebra
36%
3. Distance formula
A. Basic limits
A. Solving equations -
4. Parallel and
polynomial
perpendicular lines
B. First and second
1. Linear and
5. Quadrilateral
derivatives and their
quadratic
properties
graphical interpretation
2. Higher order
a. Quadratic form
C. Plane and solid figures
C. Equation of tangent line
b. Remainder and
1. Area of triangles,
D. Velocity and
factor theorem
quadrilaterals, and
acceleration
circles
c. Rational roots
2. Area and volume of
E. Maxima and minima
theorem
prisms, pyramids,
B. Solving inequalities
cylinders, spheres,
1. Linear and
and cones
quadratic
3. Properties of similar
2. Absolute value
figures
C. Functions: rational,
4. Properties of circles
it
exponential, and
a. Angle measures
MRC
logarithmic
b. Tangents,
M-
M+
1. Domain range
secants, and
2. Composition
intersecting
3. Inverses
chords
4. Graphing
5. Images under
ON/C
rotations, reflections,
translations, and
dilations
The use of calculators will be permitted.
FINE ARTS
Pete Saloutos/The Stock Market
MUSIC AND ART
C. Voices and orchestral
ASSOCIATED WITH
instruments
NATURE, RESOURCES,
D. Definitions
AND THE ENVIRONMENT
1. Programmatic music
2. Absolute music
I. General knowledge
about music
10%
II. Area of concentration:
A. Properties of a musical
music associated with
tone
nature, landscape,
1. Pitch
and environment
40%
2. Duration
A. Romantic ideal in
3. Volume
music: programmatic music
4. Tone quality
1. Composers' stated use of
B. Elements of a piece of
nonmusical associations
music
through the following:
1. Rhythm
a. Title
2. Melody
b. Story
3. Texture
c.
Literary inspiration
4. Tone color
d.
Place or people
5. Form
e.
Myth or legend
f.
Nature: birds,
trees, animals,
water, storm, etc.
g.
Emotions such
as joy, sorrow,
love, hate, peace
2. Symphonic poem
3. Programmatic suite
B. Biographical
summary of
composers in IIC
Pueblo Indian figurine
of a storyteller and
her listeners
Guy Monthan,
U. of Arizona
Press
Adrian Boot/Retna
10
C. Background and
D. Recognition of selected
5. Space
recognition of selected
works
6. Perspective/
works*
1. Neil Diamond:
dimension
1. Claude Debussy
Captain Sunshine
7. Variation
(1862-1918): La Mer -
2. Manhattan Transfer:
8. Light
Dialogue of the Wind
Jungle Pioneer
9. Contrast
and the Sea
3. Rush: Red Tide
10. Emphasis
2. Ferde Grofé (1892-
11. Balance
1972): Grand Canyon
* Any or all of the music may
B. Techniques and
Suite
be ordered on cassette from
3. Alan Hovhaness
processes
the Wherehouse in Hollywood,
1. Painting - oil,
(1911- ): And God
California. A price list and order
watercolor
Created Great Whales
form may be obtained from your
4. Ottorino Resphigi
state director.
2. Photography -
zone, tonal system
(1879-1936): Pines of
3. Graphic arts -
Rome
III. General knowledge
woodcut
5. Jean Sibelius (1865-
about art
10%
4. Open-air painting
1957): The Swan of
Tuonela
A. Elements of
6. Bedrich Smetana
composition and design
(1824-1884): The Moldau
1. Line
7. Igor Stravinsky
2. Shape/form
(1882-1971): Three
3. Color
Japanese Lyrics
4. Texture
THE
Many legends have been written
about Quetzalcóatl, this Aztec
Indian god. Laurie Platt, Winfrey, Inc.
Crossing the Ford, Platte River, Colorado, by Thomas Worthington Whittredge. The Century Association
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IV. Area of concentration:
3. View of Toledo, El
art associated with
Greco (1541-1614)
nature, landscape,
4. Nichols Canyon,
and environment
40%
David Hockney
(1937- )
A. Major art movements
and historical
5. Great Wave off
perspectives relative to
Kanagawa,
Katsushika
artists in IVC
Hokusai
1. Environmental
(1760-1849)
sculpture/earth art
6. Grainstack at
2. Mannerism
3. Realism
Sunset,
Claude Monet
4. Impressionism
(1840-1926)
5. Postimpressionism
An Aztec
6. Fauvist
7. The Starry Night,
Indian calendar
7. Hudson River School
Vincent Van Gogh
Norman Prince
(1853-1890)
B. Biographical summary
8. Half Dome and Moon,
11. Rain, Steam, and Speed:
of artists in IVC
Ansel Adams
The Great Western
C. Selected works
(1902-1984)
Railway, Joseph Mallord
1. Nevada Falls, Albert
9. Mist on Coast, Big
William Turner
Bierstadt (1830-1902)
Sur, California, Eliot
(1775-1851)
2. The Trees (Les Arbes),
Porter (1901-1990)
12. View of Salisbury
Andre Derain, (1880-
10. Spiral Jetty, Robert
Cathedral, John
1954)
Smithson (1938-1973)
Constable (1776-1837)
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
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LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
NONFICTION:
BIOGRAPHY/
AUTOBIOGRAPHY/ESSAY
I. Features of the
nonfiction genre
16%
A. Style
1. Thesis
2. Focus
3. Coherence
4. Diction
5. Sentence structure
B. Reader's perspective
1. Author's bias
2. Date of writing
3. Scope
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4. Significance
5. Purpose
6. Author's credibility
D. Autobiography
III. Essay: Henry David
1. Story of a person's
Thoreau, Walden:
C. Biography
1. Reconstruction of
life written by
Solitude; The Ponds;
himself or herself
Baker Farm
the life of a real
10%
2. Individual's
person
2. Life history
interpretation of his
IV. Biography: Farley
or her own life
Mowat, Woman
E. Essay
in the Mists
40%
1. Formal
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II. Major environ-
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20%
V. Feature film:
A. Buckminster Fuller
Robert Redford,
B. Rachel Carson
The Milagro
Beanfield War
14%
C. Jacques Cousteau
Movies Unlimited
D. Jane Goodall
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E. John Muir
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F. Henry David Thoreau
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U. of the Pacific, ©1984, Muir-Hanna Trust
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SCIENCE
BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY:
II. Diversity
20%
OCT 5, 1987
DAY
270
FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS
A. Classification
RELATED TO THE
ENVIRONMENT
1. Systems
2. Nomenclature
I. Ecosystems
40%
B. Monerans and protists
A. Structure
C. Fungi
180
0
1. Abiotic and biotic
D. Plants
factors
2. Biological
1. Bryophytes
2. Tracheophytes
organization
3. Biomes
E. Animals
a. Terrestrial
1. Sponges and
b. Aquatic
coelenterates
90
NI
TO
4. Succession
2. Worms and
SOUTH POLAR PLOT
mollusks
NASA
B. Function
3. Echinoderms and
1. Feeding
relationships
arthropods
4. Chordates
a. Food chains and
webs
b. Symbiotic
relationships
c. Pyramids
(1.) Energy
(2.) Biomass
2. Material cycles
C. Balance and imbalance
1. Self-sustaining
requirements
2. Imbalance
a. Air
b. Water
c. Soil
d. Population
3. Human
influences
a. Positive
b. Negative
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III. Organic chemistry
40%
3. Compounds
A. Classification of
containing nitrogen
a. Amines
hydrocarbons
b. Amino acids
1. Aliphatic
a. Alkanes
C. Organic reactions
b. Alkenes
1. Oxidation,
c. Alkynes
combustion
2. Cyclic
2. Substitution
a. Cycloalkanes
3. Addition
b. Cycloalkenes
4. Esterification
c. Aromatic
5. Saponification
hydrocarbons
6. Fermentation
7. Polymerization
B. Other organic
a. Addition
compounds
b. Condensation
1. Compounds
containing halogens
8. Cracking
2. Compounds
D. Petroleum products and
containing oxygen
synthetics
a. Alcohols
1. Petroleum products
b. Aldehydes
2. Plastics
c. Carboxylic acids
3. Synthetic rubber
d. Esters
E. Biochemistry
e. Ketones
1. Carbohydrates
f. Ethers
2. Lipids
3. Proteins
4. Nucleic acids
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SOCIAL STUDIES
GEOGRAPHY OF
THE WORLD
II. Physical geography
of the world
10%
I.
Basic concepts in
A. Elevation regions
geography
10%
throughout the world
A. Map reading
B. Major landforms
1. Scale
2. Longitude and
III. Climatology
10%
latitude
A. Climate regions
3. Symbols
throughout the world
4. Legend
B. Natural vegetation
B. Terminology
regions
IV. Political geography
50%
A. Continents
B. Countries
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C. All capital cities and
other major world
centers
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RISK
ARCTIC OCEAN
all
V. Oceania 20%
ALASKA
A. All oceans, seas,
bays, and gulfs
B. Major waterways,
rivers, and lakes
Hudson
ROCKY
Bay
C. Major ports
NORTH
olumbia
GREAT PLAINS
Great
Lakes
Ottawa
Lawrence
MOUNTAINS
AMERICA
HAWAII(U.S)
Missouri River
Colorado
River
River
Ohio PLAINS APPA River ALAGHUAN MTS. Washington,
D.C.
CENTRAL
PACIFIC
Mississippi
ATLANTIC
Grande
Gulf of Mexico
Mexico City
CARIBBEAN SEA
BLACK
HILLS
Missouri
Great
Lakes
REAT
Great 2 Salt
Lake
GREAT
River
Ohio
Arkansas
River THE MOUNTAINS RAIN
SOUTH AMERIC
ASIN
CENTRAL PLAINS
Chesapeake
Bay
PLAINS
River
ATLANTIC
Rio
Grande
River
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
Red
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SPEECH
The students will be scored on
First, there is a presentation of a
Speeches must be the original
their ability to do the following:
4-minute prepared speech.
work of the student performing
the speech and may have been
1. Organize ideas in a clear
Rules:
used for no other competition
and logical pattern that is
1. Note cards may be used.
other than this year's Academic
appropriate for the
2. The speech may not be read.
Decathlon. At the national
speaker's purpose and is
3. The speech must be given
finals, there is no required
convincing to the audience
while standing before the
speech topic. At state and local
2. Express ideas using
judges.
competitions, the determination
effective vocabulary and the
4. The speech must be no less
of speech topics is made by the
structures of the English
than 31/2 minutes or more
competition manager. Coaches
language appropriate to
than 4 minutes.
should check with the appro-
formal usage
5. No props may be used
priate competition manager for
3. Present a physical image
that aids the audience in the
during the speech.
possible topic designations or
other local rules.
acceptance of the spoken
ideas
Point System: A maximum of
4. Use voice (pitch, volume,
700 points can be earned.
and flexibility) to establish
and maintain maximum
Second, there is a presentation of a
attention
11/2- to 2-minute impromptu
speech on one of three topics that
In addition, the speech will be
will be given to each student
judged on the following:
following the prepared speech.
(Upon receipt of topics, one minute
1. Ideas, originality of
will be allowed for mental prepara-
thought, and sense
tion prior to the presentation.)
of value
Rules:
2. Overall impression
1. The speech must be given
At a scheduled time during
while standing before the
the competition, each student
judges.
will report to a speech room
2. The student may use notes
in which the student will
made on note cards.
remain for a 7-minute period.
3. The speech should last
A chairperson of the judges
between 1 1/2 and 2 minutes.
will give a brief explanation
of the procedures to be
Point System: A maximum of
followed.
300 points can be earned.
Rob Carlson
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INTERVIEW
ESSAY
The students will be judged on
In many competitions, the
At a designated time during the
their ability to do the following:
students are asked to complete
competition, contestants will
an extracurricular activity form
write an essay in response to a
1. Informally and orally
that is then transmitted to the
given prompt. They will be
present ideas that are
appropriate to the problems
judges and is used to formulate
allowed 50 minutes for the
being considered
positive and insightful questions.
essay, which will be scored by
trained essay graders in accor-
2. Listen to the ideas of others,
The students are scored in the
dance with a published rubric.
evaluate the ideas, and adjust
following categories:
Traditionally the essay portion
their responses accordingly
VOICE PROJECTION
of the Academic Decathlon has
3. Establish and maintain
been left entirely to the local
rapport with members of a
Volume
competition manager for
conversational group
Directness
determination of topic and
through voice, gesture, and
Flexibility
rubric. While the actual
attitudinal posture
Appropriateness
prompts will never be released
4. Use voice, vocabulary, and
NONVERBAL LANGUAGE
prior to the competition, the
language structures
appropriate to informal oral
Movement
Rapport
general topic area and the
communication
Appearance
Gesture
scoring rubric to be used
Involvement
should be made available to
At a scheduled time during the
coaches and students during
LANGUAGE USAGE
competition, each student will
the preparation period. At the
Grammar
Enunciation
report to a designated interview
national finals, the essay topic
room with a panel of two or
Appropriateness
will be associated with the
three judges. There the student
LISTENING SKILLS
Super Quiz topic. Students will
will remain for a 7-minute
have a choice between either
Appropriateness of
period. The head judge will
two or three prompts. At many
responses
make introductions and welcome
Attentiveness
local competitions, the essay
the contestant. Questions and
topic is based on the Decathlon
conversation with the contestant
ANSWERING SKILLS
literature selections or is based
will be generally limited to the
Skills in answering
on generic, universal truth
following areas:
questions
prompts. Coaches should
Clearness and
1. Extracurricular activities
check with the appropriate
2. Selecting a college
completeness
competition manager for the
3. Career goals and college
OVERALL EFFECTIVENESS
topic and rubric designations
and other local rules for the
study
Achievement of purpose
4. Preparation for the
essay event.
Interest
Reception
Decathlon
5. Experiences in the
Point System: A maximum of
Decathlon
1,000 points can be earned by
6. Values
each team member in the
7. Most influential person
interview.
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SUPER QUIZ
HABITAT EARTH
C. Water quality
and quantity
20%
The interdependence of
1. Hydrological cycle
organisms and their environment
2. Oceans
3. Rivers and lakes
I. Development versus a
4. Groundwater
sustainable society
D. Climate
5%
A. Air quality
10%
1. Global warming
1. Acid rain
2. Ozone depletion
2. Urban areas
3. Microclimate change
3. Indoor air
E. Waste management
4. Health effects
and cleanup
15%
5. Air pollution control
1. Solid waste/
B. Land use
20%
domestic
1. Forests
2. Nuclear
2. Soils and agriculture
3. Hazardous
3. Wetlands
4. Medical
4. Mineral resources
5. Waste reduction and
5. Rangeland
recycling
6. Wilderness
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II. Energy
15%
III. Plants and
Bibliography:
animals
15%
A. Traditional sources
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Science, Addison-Wesley, 1991.
1. Fossil fuels
A. Endangered and
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2. Hydroelectric power
threatened species
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3. Nuclear
1. Habitat
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B. Alternative sources
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1. Solar
B. Pest and predator
control
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2. Wind
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3. Biomass
C. Ecosystems and
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determined locally, these criteria must be
table, the school should contact the
followed to ensure uniformity and equity
Executive Director with full documenta-
among all participants in the United
tion for a ruling.
TEAM SELECTION
States Academic Decathlon.
For alpha grades without numerical
PROCESS
1. If a student receives an F in any
equivalents, all A's will count 4.0 points,
academic course, the F is counted in
all B's will count 3.0, all C's will count 2.0,
averaging the student's grades even
all D's will count 1.0. Anything below
The Team
though no credit is given. When a course
will be 0 points.
A team consists of nine full-time students
has been failed during ninth grade but
from the eleventh and/or twelfth grades
repeated prior to graduation, only the
repeat grade is counted. When a course is
Verification of Eligibility
of the same high school. A full-time
student is defined as a student who is
failed in the tenth grade or later and is
Each high school will submit official
enrolled in four or more class periods per
repeated, both grades will be counted in
transcripts to verify eligibilty of team
the GPA.
day. Each team is made up of three Honor
members. A committee at each competi-
students, three Scholastic students, and
2. Incomplete or pass/fail grades are not
tion level will verify all transcripts and
three Varsity students as indicated by the
counted in computing the GPA. Once a
notify schools of any discrepancies.
following grade point average definition:
grade is given to remove an incomplete,
The deadline for transmittal of these
Honor
3.75-4.00 GPA
then that grade will be used to determine
documents will be determined for each
the student's GPA.
Scholastic
3.00-3.74 GPA
contest.
Varsity
0.00-2.99 GPA
3. Grades for the following academic
courses shall be used in grade point
Only students whose transcripts have
Contestants may compete in a higher
division than their own grade point
computation for competition purposes:
been received by the contest deadline
academic business courses, art apprecia-
will be eligible for participation in the
average category but not in a lower
tion, art history, computer science,
competition.
division.
economics, English/language arts, foreign
The winning team at each level within a
Each team member competes in all ten
language, humanities, journalism,
state becomes eligible for the next level of
events of the Decathlon and is eligible for
mathematics, music theory, music
competition. Local competition managers
individual medals in all ten events. Only
appreciation, music history, science,
will certify the winning team and the
six scores count for the final team
speech, and social studies. Grades for all
members' eligibility under the GPA
standing in the competition-the top two
other courses shall be excluded from the
guidelines above. The championship
Honor scores, the top two Scholastic
GPA compilation unless written approval
team from each state is eligible to
scores, and the top two Varsity scores.
is obtained from the USAD Board of
participate in the national finals. The
Therefore, schools may enter with fewer
Directors.
members of the team that participates in
than nine members and still be eligible for
4. Community or college courses are
the national finals must be the same
team awards as long as there are at least
included in the GPA only if high school
members who participated at the state
two Honor, two Scholastic, and two
credit is given and the course is listed on
event. If for any reason a member is
Varsity members.
the official school transcript.
unable to participate, the state director
should contact the USAD office for a
5. A grade, regardless of whether it is
Computation of
ruling.
honors, regular, or remedial classification,
Grade Point Averages
will count the face value of the final grade
Twelfth graders' GPA's will be based on
as reflected on the official transcript. No
Exceptions
the fall and spring semesters of tenth and
weighting of grades for honors classes
eleventh grades, including summer
will be included even if this is the local
Any exceptions to these eligibility
sessions preceding the tenth and eleventh
district policy. The letter grade shown on
requirements must be approved in
grades. Eleventh graders' GPA's will be
the transcript will be used in computing
writing by the United States Academic
Decathlon Board of Directors in advance
based on the fall and spring semesters of
GPA regardless of whether a plus or a
of the submission date for entries.
tenth grade, including summer school
minus.
preceding the tenth and eleventh grades.
For numerical grades or alpha grades
Participation in the United States
with numerical equivalents, the following
Academic Decathlon is open to all
conversion scale will be used:
students regardless of race, sex, religion,
Considerations in the
or national origin.
Academic Decathlon
90-100
=
4 points
GPA Computations
80-89 =
3 points
The National Board of Directors of USAD
70-79 =
2 points
has approved the preceding selection
The following guidelines have been
60-69 =
process for teams participating in
adopted for USAD competitions and are
1 point
Academic Decathlon events. Questions
Under 60 =
to be used to compute the official
0 points
should be directed to Ann B. Joynt
Decathlon grade point average. Regard-
If a school or district varies drastically
(213) 809-4995.
less of the system used or the GPA
from this scale in its normal conversion
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