The Moorhead School District will honor a 1945 Moorhead State Teachers College alumna and educator by naming one of its newest schools after her. The district’s newest kindergarten through fourth-grade school will be Dorothy Dodds Elementary.
By: Helmut Schmidt, INFORUM MOORHEAD – In just a few short years, the arc of Joshua Gates’ academic life has gone from meh to marvelous. Gates’ identity at Mayville (N.D.) High School was as a football, basketball, track and baseball standout. But that didn’t transfer to the classroom. He had a 2.5 grade-point average and was 47th out of a […]
Daughter of Deep South came of age during turbulent era for US By: Helmut Schmidt, INFORUM MOORHEAD – Camilla Wilson remembers the day Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. She happened to be in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968, picking up photography supplies for a newsletter she was working on for a literacy program. That evening, King was felled […]
Andrea Noonan, English Teacher Education, 2004, was named the 2013 North Dakota Teacher of the Year. By: Helmut Schmidt, INFORUM WEST FARGO – Andrea Noonan, an eighth-grade language arts teacher from Cheney Middle School, is North Dakota’s 2013 Teacher of the Year. Noonan was honored Wednesday at the middle school in a ceremony presided over by Gov. Jack Dalrymple. “This […]