Jones public schools will be closed tomorrow Thursday, February 28 due to inclement weather.
Black History Month Did You Know...
Ralph Waldo Ellison was an American Novelist from Oklahoma. He was also a literary ciritca nd scholar. Ellison is best know for his novel "The Invisible Man" which won the National Book Award in 1953.
Black History Month Did You Know..
Mae Carol Jemison is an American Engineer, Physician, and NASA Astronaut. She became the first African AMerican woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992. After Medical School and a brief general practice, Jemison served in the Peace Corps and then was selected by NASA to join the astronaut corps. She resigned from NASA in 1993 to found a company researching the application of technology to daily life. She has appeared on television several times including an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She is a dancer and holds nine honorary doctorates. SHe is quoted, " Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live"
Congratulations to JHS Senior, Jordyn McDonald. She has been selected as recipient of a Weokie Foundation Scholarship.
JHS students: The Oklahoma State University Department of Management Science and Information Systems is hosting the 11th Annual Information Systems Technology Exploration Academy in June 2-7 at OSU campus in Stillwater. They will accept 25 on full scholarship. Apply by April 5. For more information and to apply go to www.cepd.okstate.edu\ISyTE
Track parent meeting for MS/HS Tuesday, March 5 in the HS commons @ 6pm.
JHS SENIORS planning to attend OCCC: The Deadline for the Freshman Tuition Waiver scholarship is March 1. Make sure you have your application for admission complete and submitted before March 1.
Jones High School had a Great Black History Month Assembly. Great message of power and change! Would like to thank Mr. Lee Roland, Lt. Wayland Cubit, and Mr. Justin King for a great, dynamic assembly. Would also like to thank Stephan and Scotia Moore and Shiloh Camps for helping to organize this assembly.
Reminder that today is last day to purchase a yearbook.
The Oklahoma City Zoo is excited to share details about this year’s Dr Pepper Vending Machine Art Contest. Oklahoma students in grades K-12 are eligible to win wild prizes and the chance to have their original art design on a Dr Pepper machine at the OKC Zoo for an entire year! This year’s theme, “A Future for Pollinators”, challenges students to share their creativity and love of nature to show a future safe for butterflies, bees and other species that perform the critical role of pollinating plants in nature.
Official entry forms are available online at www.okczoo.org/drpeppercontest.
All submissions must be postmarked by Monday, March 25, 2019
Congratulations to JHS Senior, Reilly Hunt. In addition to her Softball scholarship at Northeastern State University, she has been awarded a four year Baccalaureate Scholars Award in the amount of 12733.00 per year. Congratulations Reilly! It's A Great Day to Be A Longhorn!
Jones High School is in need of a Certified Special Education Teacher for the 2019-2020 school year. Send resumes to Mike Watkins at mwatkins@joneshs.k12.ok.us
Jones High School is in need of a Certified Spanish Teacher for the 2019-2020 school year. Send resumes to Mike Watkins at mwatkins@joneshs.k12.ok.us
JHS Seniors: THe $2500 State Fair scholarship application is open. Application deadline is March 29 at 4:49pm. For more information and to apply go to
https://okstatefair.com/osf-gives-back/scholarships?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=osf-19scholarshpnow&utm_term=scholarship&utm_content=osfscholarship&utm_source=OK+State+Fair+Main+List&utm_campaign=a1e658c420-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_21_03_01_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d0df3e1fff-a1e658c420-163009581
JHS Juniors: East Central University's Junior Day is coming up! This year’s Junior Day will highlight a few of the programs that we offer at East Central University. It will include “meet and greets” with some key faculty and staff members as well (i.e. Band, Honors, Nursing, Athletics, Etc.)
If you are interestested, want more information, or want to sign up go to this link.
https://www.ecok.edu/admissions/junior-day
Congratulations to Jones High School Senior, Jordyn McDonald. Jordyn signed scholarship to continue her Cheer Career at Oklahoma City University. It's A Great Day To Be A Longhorn!
Black History Month Did You Know…
The United States Armed Forces were segregated from the End of Slavery until Executive Order 9981 was issued on July 26, 1948, by President Harry S. Truman. It abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the United States Armed Forces. The executive order eventually led to the end of segregation in the services. Prior to desegregation our United States Military had many all-black units that served this country with distinction.
In this spotlight we are going to focus on two highly decorated groups. The 9th & 10th Calvary “Buffalo Soldiers” and the 332nd Air Squadron or Tuskegee Airmen. These troops fought many battles to protect rights that they themselves did not get to fully enjoy.
There has been much made of where the term”Buffalo Soldier” originated but it has become the term used for the US Army units that trace their lineage back to the All-Black 9th and 10th Calvary units, whose service earned them an honored place in History. The Buffalo Soldiers spent time in Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas. They pursed Victorio and Nana and other Apache warriors during Victorio’s War. They also fought in the Ghost Dance War and the Wounded Creek Massacre. They were also used to remove SOONERS from native lands in the 1880’s and 1890’s. A total of 23 Buffalo Solidiers received Congressional Medals of Honor during the Indian Wars. These All black Calvary Units continued to serve the US Military through conflicts around the World until the Horse Calvary was disbanded in 1951.
The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of agroup of African American military pilots who fought in World War II. They were the first African American military aviators in the United States Armed forces.
The Tuskegee Airmen’s first Combat Assignment was in North Africa where it received a Distinguished Unit Citation. They were then assigned to mainland Italy. In Italy they escorted Heavy Bombers on Bombing Raids into Hungary, Austria, Czechloslavakia, Poland and Germany. The quickly won the admiration of the Bomber pilots who referred to them as Red Tails because of their distinctive plane markings The Tuskegee Airmen are credited with the following accomplishments and awards:
• 1578 Combat Missions
• 179 Bomber Escort missions , losing bombers only on 7 missions
• 112 enemy aircraft destroyed in the air
• 950 rail cars, trucks and other motor vehicles destroyed
• One destroyer put out of action
• 40 other boats and barges destroyed
• Received the Distinguished Unit Citation on 3 separate occasions
• One Silver Star
• 96 Distinguished Flying Crosses
• 14 Bronze stars
• 744 Air Medals
• And 8 purple hearts
Just a reminder that the last day to purchase a yearbook is this Friday, February 22.
Jones public schools will be closed Tuesday, February 19 due to the threat of inclement weather.
Black History Month Did You Know…
Being handpicked to be one of three black students to integrate West Virginia’s graduate schools is something that many would consider one of their life’s most notable moments, but it is just one of several breakthroughs that have marked Katherine Johnson’s Life.
**Her intense curiosity and brilliance with numbers allowed her to move ahead several grades in school
** She was attending high school at age of 13 at West Viriginia state College
** Graduated from West Virginia State College in 1937 and took a job teaching at a black public school in Virginia
** West Virginia State University president John Davis selected her and two male students as the first black students to attend West Virginia University’s graduate school in 1939.
**1953 She took position at the all-black West Area Computing section at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics(NACA) Langley Laboratory. She was assigned to a project in the Maneuver Loads Branch of the Flight Research Division. She spent 4 years analyzing data from flight tests and worked on t the investigation of a plane crash caused by wake turbulence
** 1957 Launch of the Soviet Sputnik Satellite changed History and Katherine Johnson’s Life
** The NACA groups (becomes NASA) she worked with began their foray in space travel and Katherine went with them. She did trajectory analysis for Alan Shepard’s May 1961 Freedom 7 mission. This was America’s first human spaceflight.
** In 1960 she coauthored a research report. It was the first time a woman in the Flight Research division had received credit as an author.
**in 1962 as NASA prepared for the orbital mission of John Glenn, Katherine Johnson was called upon to do the work she would become most known for.
**As part of the preflight checklist, Glenn asked the engineers to have Katherine Johnson run the same numbers and equations that had been programmed into the computer, but by hand. If she says they are good,” Katherine remembers the astronaut saying,”then I am ready to go.” Glenn’s flight was a success.
Katherine Johnson Retired from NASA in 1986
