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An alphabiography is an autobiography, often set as an English studies project for high school or college students, consisting of a set of twenty-six short stories or chapters about the writer's life. [1] Each story or chapter has a title starting with a different letter of the alphabet, for example: "Apple growing", "Baseball", "Cynthia" etc ...
Liquori rose to fame when he became the third American high schooler to break the four-minute mile by running a 3:59.8 in 1967, three years after Jim Ryun first did it. [1] He grew up in Cedar Grove, New Jersey and attended Essex Catholic High School. [2] After high school, Liquori enrolled at Villanova University. [1] There he was coached by ...
The National High School Hall of Fame is a program of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) that honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to high school sports or performing arts. As of 2019, a total of 482 individuals have been inducted since the first class in 1982.
Herman Ike Boone (October 28, 1935 – December 18, 2019) was an American high school football coach who coached the 1971 T. C. Williams High School football team to a 13–0 season, state championship, and national runner-up.
Executive Superintendent of New York City Public Schools for the Bronx; In office 2018 – March 15, 2021: Chancellor: Richard Carranza: Personal details; Born November 18, 1973 (age 51) Citizenship: United States: Spouse: Norris Porter: Children: 3: Education: Queens Technical High School: Alma mater: Hunter College Mercy University Fordham ...
Elizabeth Ann Eckford (born October 4, 1941) [1] is an American civil rights activist and one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at the previously all-white Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
For high school, Cisneros attended Josephinum Academy, a small Catholic all-girls school. Here, she found an ally in a high-school teacher who helped her to write poems about the Vietnam War. Although Cisneros had written her first poem around the age of ten, with her teacher's encouragement, she became known for her writing throughout her high ...
Iris Stevenson-McCullough is an American academic, public school teacher, and choir director. The 1993 American musical comedy film Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit is loosely based on her time as a choir director at Crenshaw High School.