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OPSB Meeting – Roneagles Needed

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We need all alumni to be present at the December 20, 2018 OPSB meeting at 5:30pm at the Central Administration Building (address). Dr. Henderson Lewis may make a recommendation regarding the management of McDonogh 35 High School. While we will continue to advocate for OPSB to directly run McDonogh 35, he may go against the wishes of the stakeholders.
Wear your McDonogh 35 gear. Sign up to speak about this issue, although his recommendations are not action items, and you can only speak to action items. Until the agenda is posted, we won’t know which action items will be relevant to our situation.
Please call your individual board member and let them know that it is their constitutional duty to directly run schools. Pawning all schools off to charter management organizations is unacceptable. Our school district does not have to be an all-charter district. Stakeholders are willing to work with OPSB to create a collaborative model of management.
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Executive Board of Directors Installation Ceremony

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Omar Mason installed the 2018-2020 Board of Directors at the beginning of our November general membership meeting. Join the association, if you are not a member, Encourage members of your graduating class to join. Join a committee, if you are a member.

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Roneagle in the Spotlight: Yvette Alexis

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Yvette Alexis is a proud graduate of the McDonogh 35 Senior High School class of 1985 and Southern University at New Orleans. She has years of experience in Human Resources which afforded her the opportunities to work with a NFL Super bowl as well as the 1996 Olympic Centennial Games in Atlanta , Ga. Upon returning to New Orleans she also worked in Human Resources with her primary capacity being training for Southern University at New Orleans and then The Ritz Carlton Hotel.
Since 2003 she has been employed with Delgado Community College, the second largest institution of higher education in the state of Louisiana second only to LSU. Yvette has had a pivotal role in the construction and management of two new sites, Sidney Collier on Louisa Street and River City in Avondale. Currently she is the Assistant to the Vice Chancellor of Workforce Development. She serves as Delgado’s president of the unclassified association, a member of College Council, Workforce Development Executive Team, and the following committees: Endowed Professorship (chair), Student Technology Enhance Plan (coordinator) Commencement, Athletic and Multicultural.
Yvette is a lifetime member of the McDonogh 35 Alumni Association. She has faithfully serve the alumni association since its reorganization and has been a member of the executive board. Yvette has worked with the Centennial, School Relations and Scholarship Committees.
Yvette is a lifelong member of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church where she serves as the Church Secretary, Willing Workers Ministry, New Members Ministry and Director of the Youth Ministry.
She is the proud mother of two adult sons, Destin and Troy.
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McDonogh 35 Students using Quizdom

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Qwizdom is used to present the subject material to the students to take notes and with the ability to call on the students randomly to read. It also allows for quick quizzes to check students’ understanding of the material and enables the teacher to give instant feedback. Teachers are able to give multi-choice tests with standards attached and receive item analysis reports instantly. We must move from Chalk Board speed because our students are living in a world that is moving at NANO speed. Qwizdom helps us to keep our students engaged with continuous interaction and feedback.
The McDonogh 35 Alumni Association paid for batteries so that students could get started with Qwizdom. Keep those contributions coming as they are used to support our students.
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Sponsor a Scholar

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Mr. Harold Clay, Executive Director of McDonogh 35, and his leadership team have decided to provide academic incentives to students as per the attached document. Of course, alumni support is needed to help fund the awards for students. Each one of us is requested to give at least $135 to provide a jacket or cash incentive to students who earn the awards. In addition, at the end of the school year, Mr. Clay would like to recognize students who make noteworthy growth during the year. The first awards will be given at the end of the first semester so we have some time to make our contributions and raise funds for this important endeavor. A link will be added to the drop down menu on our Association’s website so you can donate online. If you prefer to write or send a check, make it payable to the McDonogh 35 Alumni Association and in the memo line write: Donation for Sponsor a Scholar. All donations are welcome. Of course, we are looking for donors who are able to give substantial dollars, so if you are able, give more, and please share this request with others who may have philanthropic goals and financial resources. In addition to financial support, mentors are needed to support and encourage students throughout the year. If you are interested in mentoring a student or a small group of students, contact Ms. Gipson who will be in charge of Culture and Climate at the school.

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Roneagle in the Spotlight: Dr. Bernadine J. Williams, MA, LPC, NCC, LAC, CCS, CCGC

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Dr. Bernadine J. Williams, MA, LPC, NCC, LAC, CCS, CCGC is a true Knitter (Class of 1978 – Keeping the Knit Together). She received her BS in Psychology from SUNO where she currently serves as an adjunct professor, and obtained her Masters in Mental Health Counseling from Xavier University. In 2009, Dr. Williams received an award for Supervisor of the Year for Louisiana.  She will be graduating from Mississippi College on August 4, 2018 with a doctorate in Professional Counseling in Psychology.  Her passion for Addiction and helping people recover lead to her dissertation: Developing a Short Term, Medication Free, Transitional Recovery Program for Adult Residents of Jefferson Parish Diagnosed with Substance Disorder.

Dr. Williams manages the Medication Assisted Treatment Prescription Drugs and Opioid Addiction (MAT-PDOA) grant for the Tri-Parish (New Orleans, Plaquemine and St. Bernard Parish).  This grant allows for the admittance of  low-income drug addicted people, especially pregnant addicted women, who cannot afford medication-assisted treatment, into treatment and change their lives.  She is the Past President of New Orleans Addiction Professional Association (NOAPA) and a board member of Addiction Disorder Regulatory Authority (ADRA).  Additionally, she is the Vice President of  the Women’s Auxiliary of James Chapel Baptist Church.  “I love the Lord.  My life would not be what it is without Him.  I also love helping people.  Someone paid it forward to me and I will pay it forward to someone else.”
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Nominations and Elections

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The Nomination Committee will present the slate of candidates at our next general membership meeting in September 6. The deadline for nominations is August 17, 2018.
If you are interested or would like to nominate an Alumni Association member to serve on the Board of Directors, please submit the nomination form via mail by August 17, 2018 or via email to the mcdonogh35alumniassociation@yahoo.com by 11:59 pm on August 17, 2018.
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2018 Football Pass

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Purchase your 2018 Roneagle Football Pass at the Alumni online store.  The cost of the Pass is $30, and they can be picked up at the tailgate on 9/1/18.  Deadline to purchase is 08/21/18.

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Calling All Alumni – McDonogh 35 First Day of School

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The first day of school is August 17. Let’s all be at the school by 7:15am to welcome our Roneagles and wish them a successful school year. Wear your Roneagle gear.

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Roneagle in Spotlight: Dr Calvin Mackie

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Dr Calvin Mackie – Class of 1985
Article courtesy of The New Orleans Agenda publication – June 26, 2018

Governor John Bel Edwards announced his selection of three leading Louisiana advocates of STEM preparation to represent Louisiana at the inaugural State-Federal Science Technology Engineering and Math Summit to be hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in Washington, D.C.  The Louisiana attendees for the June 25-26 summit will be Dr. Calvin Mackie, founder of STEM NOLA, AT&T Louisiana President Sonia Perez and Susana Schowen, director of workforce initiatives for Louisiana Economic Development’s LED FastStart program.

The State-Federal STEM Education Summit will convene a diverse group of state STEM leaders, including officials from governors’ offices, educators, workforce and industry representatives, state policy experts and non-governmental organization executives. They will participate in the development of a new federal five-year STEM education strategic plan in compliance with the America COMPETES Act of 2010.

“I am extremely excited to have been chosen by Governor John Bel Edwards to represent the State of Louisiana at the White House for the inaugural State-Federal STEM Summit along with two other leading advocates, Sonia Perez and Susana Schowen” said Dr. Calvin Mackie. “I would like to thank Governor Edwards for supporting the effort to expose our children to the careers of the future and providing the motivation for their dreams.”

Alongside the White House in planning and carrying out this summit are the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the Smithsonian Institution. STEM leaders from all 50 states, as well as U.S. territories and tribes, will attend the summit to illuminate and advance state-federal STEM alignment.

Dr. Calvin Mackie is an award winning mentor, inventor, author, former engineering professor, internationally renowned speaker and successful entrepreneur. Dr. Mackie is the founder of STEM NOLA, a non-profit organization founded to expose, inspire and engage communities about the opportunities in STEM. In 5 years, STEM NOLA has engaged over 18,000 low-resourced K-12 students in hands-on project based STEM activities in New Orleans communities.

Mackie graduated from Morehouse College earning a BS in Mathematics in 1990 and was simultaneously awarded a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech, where he subsequently earned his Master’s and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1996. He served on the engineering faculty at Tulane University for 12 years. Mackie has won numerous awards including the 2003 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring in a White House ceremony and curre