Cultural Leaders From the 2007
iEARN Learning Circle
Trinity Episcopal School
Third Grade
2007
Jann Arden
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Singer
Our important Albertan is Jann Arden. She was born in
Calgary Alberta. She was born on March 27 1962. She is
important for her singing.
Jann Arden has lots of famous cd’s and
loves singing her to hearts content. Most days she focuses
most on her singing and, though she never sang when she
was a kid.
Jann Arden wrote her first song when she was 13. In 1986
to1988 passion kicked in and she wrote every song
imaginable.
Jann Arden’s other hobbies include reading, watching the
cats, cooking, exercising. When Jann Arden was little she
wrote in a diary of all her songs.
Jon Bon Jovi
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Singer/Musician
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Jon Bon Jovi was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and was raised in nearby
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Sayreville. Jon Bon Jovi discovered the band
“Cinderella” in 1985, at the The Empire Rock Club in Philadelphia. Bon Jovi's first appearance in any
musical production was in the 1980 Star Wars album, “Christmas in the Stars.”
Jon Bon Jovi’s current age is 45. He was born on February 3rd, 1962. He has donated more than $25,000
dollars to the Democratic Party. On September 21, 2005, during an appearance on her show, the Bon Jovi
and his band donated $1,000,000 to Oprah Winfrey for her Angel Network foundation. Jon Bon Jovi has
been named the first Founding Ambassador of the Habitat for Humanity Ambassador program as part of the
international-nonprofit organization’s new outreach initiative. Bon Jovi has been raising awareness with
Habitat for Humanity since 2005 when he provided the funds to build six homes in Philadelphia and built
the homes alongside the homeowner families, as well as with members of his Philadelphia Soul Arena
Football Team.
Charles and Addison
Grade 5
Franklin Township School
Quakertown, New Jersey, USA
April 17, 2007
Kurt Browning
• Kurt Brownig was a good man.
• He was a professional men's figure skater and won the
Olympics championship four times.
• His wife’s name is Cassandra Browning. Cassandra
Browning has a job as a computer systems engineer. Kurt
is our important Albertan and we are proud of his
accomplishments. Kurt Browning is our important
Albertan, because he won two world crowns.
• Some of the things figure skaters can do on ice are pair
skating, all together ice dancing, synchronized skating,
split jumps, and ice dancing. There are many famous
figure skaters but this is the one we were given to talk
about and we are happy about it. He was born on June
eighteenth 1966 and is a son of a cowboy. He lives in
Carolina, Alberta and in 1994 he became professional
thanks to his coach Louis Strong.
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BEVERLY CLEARY
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Author
Beverly Cleary is one of the most popular writers in Oregon. She was
born in McMinnville, Oregon. Beverly loved to read. When she was
young, there were no libraries nearby. Beverly's mother knew how much
she loved to read. Her mother insisted that they should have a
library. Finally, the governor agreed. Once a week, a little wagon
would come around with books. Beverly would borrow a lot of books.
When she didn't see the books she wanted to read, she would write her
own. Sometimes, she would share them with the librarian. The librarian
loved them. She suggested that Beverly should become a writer. Beverly
loved that idea, and did become a writer!
Beverly Cleary is well known for her many books, especially the Ramona
series. In her spare time, she likes to read and write. Beverly Cleary
is a great writer. We suggest that you read some of her books.
Haley and Vanessa
Fourth Grade
Corbett Elementary School
Corbett, Oregon, USA
Grover Cleveland
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President
Stephen Grover Cleveland was born on March 18,1837 in
New Jersey, but grew up in upstate New York, and practiced law in
Buffalo. Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and the 24th President and
the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms. At 44, he
rose in his political career and eventually was elected to the White
House. The First Democrat elected after the Civil War, Grover
Cleveland was the only President to leave the White House and
return for a second term four years later. In December 1887 he
called on Congress to reduce high protective tariffs. Cleveland won
the Presidency with the combined support of Democrats and reform
Republicans, who disliked the record of his opponent. Grover
Cleveland vetoed many private pension bills to Civil War veterans
whose claims were fraudulent. After leaving the White House,
Cleveland lived in retirement in Princeton, New Jersey. He died on
June 24th, 1908.
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Charles and Addison
Grade 5
Franklin Township School
Quakertown, New Jersey, USA
April 17, 2007
Victoria Calihoo
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Historian
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Our important Albertan is Victoria Calihoo.
Victoria Calihoo is important because she lived to be 104 years old. She was a
buffalo hunter, a Métis woman and a mother of twelve. She was a widow for forty
years also she was born in Lac Ste. Anne in 1861 and died on April 21 in 1966.
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Accomplishments that Victoria made was being a historian as in writing the past
down so that the people of the past can know about the past and certain
accomplishments.
Albert Einstein
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Scientist
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Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved
to Munich and he began his schooling there at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert
continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in
Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he
acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was unable to find a teaching post, he accepted a position as technical
assistant in the Swiss Patent Office. In 1905 he obtained his doctor's degree.
After World War II, Albert Einstein became a leader in the Government Movement. In the 1920's, Einstein
embarked on the construction of unified field theories, although he continued to work on the interpretation of
quantum theory. He persevered with this work at Princeton University in New Jersey.
Einstein always appeared to have a clear view of the problems of physics and the determination to solve them. He
had a strategy of his own and was able to see in his mind the way to his achieve his goals. He considered his
major achievements as just a beginning place for future scientists to advance.
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Alicea and Matt
Grade 5
Franklin Township School
Quakertown, New Jersey, USA
Mircea Eliade
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Philosopher
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Mircea Eliade was born in Bucharest, Romania on 13 March 1907. Although Romanian records
give his date of birth as 28 February, this is according to the Julian calendar, since the Gregorian
calendar was not adopted in Romania until 1924. Eliade’s Orthodox Christian family celebrated his
birthday on the Day of the Forty Martyrs, which is 9 March by the Julian calendar, and Eliade
himself gave that date as his birthday. Despite a childhood interest in entomology and botany
(which doubtless first attracted his attention to Goethe, a lifelong role model and inspiration), he
developed an interest in world literature and was led from there to philology, philosophy, and
comparative religion. As a youth he read extensively in Romanian, French, and German, and
around 1924-25 he learned Italian and English to read Raffaele Pettazzoni and James George
Frazer in the original.
In 1925 Eliade enrolled at the University of Bucharest where he studied in the department of
philosophy. The influence of Nae Ionescu (b.1890), then an assistant professor of logic and
metaphysics and an active journalist, was keenly felt by the young Eliade and the shadow which
fell on the older scholar because of his involvement with the extreme right in inter-war Romania
has darkened Eliade's reputation.
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By Pop and Popa
4th grade
International School Cluj, Romania
Hazel Hutchins
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Author
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Hazel Hutchins was born in a farm in the
Southern Alberta. She had two older sisters and
one older brother. Her family was kind and
loving.
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She is important because Hazel Hutchtins writes
books. She writes magical stories and picture
books. She writes them for children because we
think that she wants kids imaginations to fly
open wide. She lets her imagination go magical.
She has written a lot of books and won a lot of
awards because she has good thoughts.
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We should be proud of this Albertan because she
takes time to write books for people to read. We
are also proud because she is a very good author
in Alberta. She writes them more then fifty times
to get it right!!!!!! We should be proud of this
Albertan because she writes for Alberta.
Leavender Johnson
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Boxer
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Leavender Johnson was a world champion lightweight boxer who died September 22, 2005. He was born
in Jersey City, New Jersey and died in Las Vegas, Nevada. He won the International Boxing Federation
version of the world title on June 17, 2005 against the Italian boxer Stefano Zoff.
Then, 3 months later, he defended his title for the first time. On September 17, 2005. Leavender faced the
Mexican fighter Jesus Chåvez. Early in the 11th round the fight was stopped because Leavender took a
barrage of punches from Chåvez. He was rushed to the hospital and had emergency surgery to correct a
subdural hematoma (swelling and bleeding on the brain). Leavender survived into the next week and was
showing some early sings of improvement. Sadly, on September 22, 2005 He stopped improving doctors
decided to stop efforts to artificially prolong his life. He was pronounced dead at 4:23 P.M. PDT (Pacific
daylight time). Where we live Leavender would have died at 7:23 P.M. EST (Eastern standard time).
Leavender Johnson: Statistics
Total Fights: 42
Wins: 34
Wins by KO: 26
Loses: 5
Draws: 2
No Contests: 1
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Leavender Johnson: Boxing record
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Hailey and Zachary
Grade 5
Franklin Township School
Quakertown, New Jersey
USA
ERIC KIMMEL
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Children’s Author
Eric Kimmel is a very famous author. He was born in Brooklyn, New York,
in 1946. He moved west to Easton, Pennsylvania, and graduated from
Lafayette College in 1967. Eric worked as an elementary teacher in
Manhattan. Then he went to the Virgin Islands to work as a librarian.
He had wanted to be an author since kindergarten. His first book came
out in 1974. He has published over fifty titles; many have won awards.
Now, he and his wife, Doris, live in Portland, Oregon. He is turning 61
years old this year.
Morgan
Third Grade
Corbett Elementary School
Corbett, Oregon,
USA
WALT MOREY
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Walt Morey wrote lots of adventurous animal books. He traveled the
Pacific Northwest, and lived most of his life in Oregon. Walt Morey was
born in Hoquiam, Washington. His date of birth was February 3, 1907.
Sadly, he died of a heart attack on January 12, 1992.
Walt Morey wrote stories for magazines and two adult books. Then he
took a break from writing. He did other jobs like boxing and diving.
Walt Morey wrote many children's books. One of the books was called
_Gentle Ben_, about a kodiak bear. It was published in 1965, and has
sold almost a million copies. It became a movie and a television
series. Most of his books were based in the Pacific Northwest.
Walt Morey visited many schools and talked about his life. (He even
visited our teacher's school when she was in sixth grade!) There is a
school near us that is named after him.
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Taylor
Fourth Grade
Corbett Elementary School
Corbett, Oregon, USA
Eddie Murphy
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Entertainer
Childhood: Eddie Murphy was born in Brooklyn, New York April 3, 1961. His Father was stabbed to death when
Eddie was only 8 years old. His mother, Lillian Murphy, raised Eddie and his brother, Charlie, and his half-brother
Vernon Lynch Jr. Eddie was a very bright child. Even though he tested into a lot of gifted and talented programs,
he liked to spend most of his time practicing stand-up comedy routines and impressions. When he was about 15,
Eddie began to write and perform his own routines with his partner Mitchell Kyser. Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor
heavily influenced these routines. Eddie eventually decided to look for his own comedy work and finally made it to
a Manhattan showcase called The Comic Strip Live!
Eddie Murphy was voted most popular while attending Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School in Roosevelt, New
York. Eddie Murphy then attended Nassau Community College in Long Island, New York before he started his
acting career. He is 5’10” full grown.
Eddie Murphy started acting at a young age and is still acting today.
List of movies staring Eddie Murphy
Norbit…2007
The Haunted Mansion…2004
Daddy Daycare…2003
I Spy…2002
Dr. Dolittle…2001
Shrek 1,2,and 3/voice of Donkey…(Shrek 1) 2001
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps…2000
Hailey and Zachary
Grade 5
Franklin Township School
Quakertown, New Jersey, USA
April 17, 2007
Bruce Springsteen
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Singer/Songwriter/ Musician
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For our living person we chose Bruce Springsteen. He is a really famous musician who was born in New
Jersey. He’s won many awards including several Grammys, an Oscar, and induction into the Rock and Roll
hall of fame, plus a very large, devoted, and long- lasting fan base. His most famous albums are Born to
Run and Born in the U.S.A.
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Franklin Township School
Quakertown, New Jersey
U.S.A.
Shaquille O’Neal
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Pro Basketball Player
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Shaquille O’Neal is 7 foot 1. He weighs 325 pounds. He averages 17.1 points per game, and 7.3 rebounds per game.
He went to Louisiana State College. Shaquille O’Neal was born on March 6, 1972. He prefers to be called “Shaq” and his
nickname is SUPERMAN.
Shaquille O’Neal is one of the most famous American Professional Basketball players. He is mainly known as one of the
most dominant players in the NBA. His number is 32 and his position is center. Shaquille has been a pro for 14 years.
He entered the NBA in 1992. Shaq first played for the Magic. From 1992 to 1996 he was also the center for the Lakers. From
96 to 04 Shaq played for the Miami Heat.
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Blaise and Mike
Grade 5
Franklin Township School
Quakertown, New Jersey, USA
April 17, 2007
LILLIAN PITT
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Artist
Lillian Pitt in one of Oregon's unique and talented artists. She
creates masks, paints pictures, and makes sculptures. She is Native
American. Her Indian name is Wak'amu, which means "strongly
rooted".
She has shared her art in the U.S., Europe, New Zealand, and
Japan. She
was born in Warm Springs, Oregon, in 1943, and is still living.
Morgan Bucher and Ryan Martinez
Third Grade
Corbett Elementary School
Corbett, Oregon
USA
Jerry Potts
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Adventurer
Our Important Albertan is Jerry Potts. He was
born is 1840. He was a Métis. He had started helping the
N.W.M.P in 1874. His father is from Scotland and his
mother is a Blood Nation. He was a dangerous man and
first killed Antoine Primeau, a French Canadian trapper
who he killed when he was the age of 22 for picking on
him.
Jerry Potts is important because he guided the
Mounties and if he didn’t guide them they would have
died. He was important because he interpreted the
Blackfoot for the Government of Canada in Treaty
Seven. Jerry Potts showed the Mounties the islands and
build Fort Macleod. He had to guide the Mounties
through a snowy snowstorm. He had fanatics shot with a
rifle and was a great knife fighter. . He could not read or
write but he could sign his name. Jerry was born into
the Blood Tribe. Jerry later married two members of the
Piegan Tribe named Panther Women plus Spotted Killer.
He considered himself a Piegan but Jerry kept his Native
name Kyi-Yo-Kosi, which means ‘bear child’ that had
given to him by the Blood Tribe.
Meryl Streep
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Actress
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Meryl Streep was born in Summit, New Jersey, on June 22,
1949. Her first feature film was Julia in 1977, she had a
small but pivotal role in a flashback scene. After the first
show, Streep did her second movie in which she got her
first Academy Award nomination, for Best Supportive
Actress.
Then many more shows followed after. When that
happened, Streep received many more Academy Awards.
Some were Best Actress, Best Actress in a Mini-Series,
Best Actress-Motion Picture Drama, and Best Leading
Actress in a Leading Role.
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Meredith and Cheyenne
Grade 5
Franklin Township School
Quakertown, New Jersey, USA
April 4, 2007
Ruth St. Denis
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Dancer
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Ruth St. Denis was born in Newark New Jersey on January 20, 1875. She was a
dancer and opened her own school. Ruth was interested in Egyptian dance, and that
was her favorite kind of dance to perform.
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Ruth was a perfect dancer and influenced many peoples lives. She also was a dancer
good enough to do solos around the world. She went on to live a great life dancing
and acting in plays. Ruth St. Denis passed away on July 21, 1968.
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Meredith and Cheyenne
Grade 5
Franklin Township School
Quakertown, New Jersey, USA
April 4, 2007
Cora Taylor
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Author
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Cora Taylor is well known for her books. Some of her books include Murder in Mexico, Ghost Voyages and The Doll. At the
moment she lives in Edmonton, Alberta and her place of birth was Fort Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan. She lived there until she
was 16 years old.
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Cora Taylor has won many awards such as the Canadian Council Award for Children’s Literature, Book of the Year
for Children’s Award (Canadian Library Association) and the R. Ross Annett Juvenile Fiction Award.
This Albertan is important for her wonderful way of writing for young adults and children.
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We should be proud of this Albertan because she has won many awards and made many of us have an enjoyable time
while reading her books.
Rudy Wiebe
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Our important Albertan is Rudy
Wiebe. He is important to Alberta
because of his amazing books such as
River of Stone, My Lovely Enemy
and Far as the I can See. We think we
should be proud of this Albertan
because we feel that he really does
admire Alberta.