(Editors note: The following article on Merry Burgess Hanning, the 2012 Grand Honoree of the Oak Hill High/Collins High Reunion, is reprinted with permission from The Log, the reunions official publication.)

Merry Burgess Hanning, Collins High Class of 1972, is a wife, mother, grandmother, gardener, professional woman, actress, singer, political activist and lifelong Red Devil. She is a member and past president of the Oak Hill High/Collins High School Alumni Association and has been selected as the 2012 Grand Honoree.

She grew up singing at the Jones Avenue First Church of God, and gospel is still at the heart of her music. She has performed in several productions at Historic Fayette Theater, including all three of the Smoke on the Mountain shows. In 2000, the cast of Smoke was invited to perform the show in Wales as part of a cultural exchange.

Gene Worthington cast Merry in the starring role in the 2002 production of Always, Patsy Cline. Cline is one of her all-time favorite singers, which made it even more special.

She is a member of Karen Vuranchs In Cahoots murder mystery troupe, which performs shows at several West Virginia state parks as well as Tamarack and Fayette Theater.

Several times each year, she will provide musical entertainment for local civic and business groups, as well as a Church and Gospel Music in the Coal Camps program for Coal Heritage Trail tours. Merry feels fortunate to be a part of Jon Kempers 4th of July Extravaganza as a member of Jons Aint Dead Yet Band, which includes the Blister Sisters trio.

She is former vocalist for the New River Jazz Band and has performed blues and jazz (her second favorite musical genre) with Welsh jazz pianist Jen Wilson.

Velma Foster, a dear friend and founding member of the Alumni Association, has mentored Merry throughout her life. She taught her about leadership (hint its delegate, delegate, delegate) and dedication to those worthwhile activities in life, first at church and later with the Alumni Association. Following in Velmas footprints, Merry has tried to make a difference.

During the past years, she has served as assistant treasurer to Velma Foster, treasurer and president of the organization. She encouraged by-law changes to keep the Association current and to allow it to continue to be viable when school consolidation occurs.

In 2007, she took football statistics which had been maintained by Avis Partain, John Duda and Tom Mason and, with the help of Sherry Keffer, published the Red Devil Football History, the proceeds of which went to fund several scholarships.

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For prospective St. Clair College students,this yearsmost sought afterprograms can be found in the schools new state-of-the-art Centre for Applied Health Sciences.

Health sciences, by far, is the one we get the most requests for, the colleges marketing director, Ann Hetherington, said Saturday during a school open house.

The $32-million, 100,000-square-footbuilding opened on the colleges main campus in September with the addition of three new and very popular college programs diagnostic medical sonography, respiratory therapy and cardiovascular technology.

The building isone of the reasons 17-year-old Priscilla Byrne (along with her St. Clair College alumni parents, Debbie and Steve Byrne) is considering the college.

Right now were on the fence, said Debbie, 50, who toured the University of Windsor campus earlier this week with her daughter to check out the schools human kinetics program.

The Byrnes said they were quite impressed with thecolleges simulation rooms that come equippedwith 3G simulation mannequinswhich can bleed, shed tears, urinate, dilate their pupils and give birth.

It seems like the kids will graduate with a lot of experience, Steve said, applauding the hands-on experience the college offers.

Hetheringtonsaid in addition to health sciences, there is an increased interest in skilled trades. The college has brought back a computer numerical control operators program, a position Hetherington said is in very high demand.

Theres been a lot of talk about skilled trade shortages, which is very real.

Ashortage of more than one million skilled workers is forecast by 2020, according to the Conference Board of Canada.

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Marie Haasch Whitesel passed away on Nov. 23, 2012. She was born in Fruitland, Idaho, on March 19, 1916, to Frank E. and Elsie Haasch. She attended grade school in Parma, Idaho, and high school in Twin Falls, Idaho. She graduated from the University of Idaho in Moscow in 1938 with a Bachelor of Arts degree and continued at the University of Iowa on three scholarships, receiving her Master of Arts in painting. In Moscow, she met Glen Whitesel, talented leader of the Idaho Prep Band and a pre-med student. They married in 1939 and boarded the east-bound train for the University of Chicago where Glen attended medical school and Marie worked as a draftsperson at the H.M. Gouche Map Company and as a secretary to researchers at the University. Her husband Glen served with the 167th General Hospital Unit in France during World War II. Following the war, they lived in Missoula and then moved to Kellogg in 1946. In 1962, Marie and Glen moved to Coeur dAlene, although Glen continued to practice medicine in Kellogg until his death in 1978.

While in college, Marie was a member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority and served as president of the sorority board for many years, as well as serving as collegiate editor for their national publication, The Lyre, for thirty-three years. Marie served as a member of the Idaho Medical Auxiliary and Shoshone and Kootenai County Medical Auxiliaries. In 1973, Marie became a member of the University of Idaho Alumni Association Board and served as its first woman president from 1977 to 1979. She also served on the University of Idaho Foundation Board for many years, receiving Volunteer of the Year in 2000. The University of Idaho awarded Marie an Honorary Doctorate Degree in 2002. She was also a member and past chair of the Advisory Board of the College of Art and Architecture. When the University merged that college with the liberal arts college, Marie, along with notable architects around the country, persuaded the University to re-establish the Art and Architecture as its own college again, one of Maries proudest achievements. Marie also was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, AAUW, PEO, St. Lukes Church Guild and served on the Board of EXCEL, a local program to raise money for schools. She was named Honorary Chair of the fund-raising campaign at North Idaho College for a nursing facility, and served on its nursing scholarship committee. Perhaps her favorite activity has been the Art Study Club in Coeur dAlene, where she has been a member since 1963, developing each years course of study for many years.

Marie, together with attorney Scott Reed, spearheaded the effort to Save Our Shores, fighting the placement of I-90 along Coeur dAlene Lake to replace Highway 10. They succeeded and now the Centennial Trail is enjoyed by residents and visitors in Coeur dAlene.

A professional artist, Maries vocation and avocation have always been painting, oils in her earlier years and watercolors for the last thirty years. One of her paintings was selected to be shown in the New York Worlds Fair in 1938. Her painting of Autumn Leaves was selected to be shown in the Pacific Northwest Artists Exhibition in 2009. Other paintings hang in buildings in the University of Idaho and North Idaho College, at the Coeur dAlene Resort, and in private homes in the Northwest and around the country. Recently, an article in IDAHO Magazine, written by her daughter Julie, featured her career and her art. An exhibition of her paintings has been continuing since August 2011 at the University of Idaho Extension Office in Coeur dAlene. Most of her paintings depict the landscapes of Idaho, her favorite subject.

Maries brother, Donald Haasch, predeceased her. She is survived by her three children, Bill of Sandpoint; Julie Weston (Gerry Morrison) of Hailey, Idaho; and Mary Reber (Gary) of Coeur dAlene. Her grandchildren and step-grandchildren are Bills children: Beth, Brenda, Lois, Mary, Bill Jr., Michael, Todd and Nick and Jeff and Joel; Marys children: Garth, Rejane and Julie; and Julies daughter, Melanie. Her twenty-two great-grandchildren are: Danny, Lucy and Arlette; Henry; Victor, Naomi, and Malcolm; Chloe; Brenden, Sydney and Nathan; Oscar; Emma and Connor; Eleanor and Charles; Bowen and Tagish; Frannie and Zosha; Jupiter and Jettson; and by her nieces and nephew, Dianne Freeman, Steven Haasch and Gay Adams.

A memorial service will be held 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Coeur dAlene with Yates Funeral Home, Coeur dAlene, in care of the arrangements. The family prefers memorial contributions in Maries name to the University of Idaho Marie Whitesel Art Scholarship Fund, North Idaho College Nursing School, or Hospice of North Idaho. You may visit Maries online memorial and sign her guestbook at http://www.yatesfuneralhomes.com.

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Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Mathew Martoma got off to a slow start in the hedge-fund world.

A former student at Harvard Law School, he co-wrote papers on medical ethics before seeking a business degree at Stanford University and joining a little-known Boston hedge fund. Former colleagues say he was nondescript, and other hedge-fund managers never heard of him.

Yet in 2006, at age 32, Martoma made it to SAC Capital Advisors LP and gained the attention of the firms billionaire owner Steven A. Cohen. Cohen, one of the most successful hedge- fund managers in the world, trusted Martomas recommendations enough to accumulate about $700 million in shares of Elan Corp. and Wyeth LLC two years later and then sell them all within a week after Martoma had changed his view on the companies.

Those recommendations, which earned the young portfolio manager a $9.38 million bonus, have now landed Martoma at the center of what U.S. prosecutors describe as the most-lucrative insider-trading scheme theyve ever uncovered, with profits and averted losses of $276 million. Early in the morning of Nov. 20, FBI agents arrested the 38-year-old at his Boca Raton home. The charges against him mark the first time prosecutors said Cohen had talked with a defendant about stocks in an insider-trading case, pulling the art collector deeper into one of the biggest investigations of securities fraud in history.

Mathew Martoma was an exceptional portfolio manager who succeeded through hard work and the dogged pursuit of information in the public domain, his lawyer Charles Stillman said in an e-mailed statement, adding that he expected Martoma to be fully exonerated.

Martoma grew up in Florida, according to social security and voter registration records. As an 18-year-old, he lived in Merritt Island, Florida, less than 10 miles from Cape Canaveral, where NASAs Kennedy Space Center is located. His mother, Lizzie Thomas, was a doctor, according to public records. His father, Bobby Martoma, owned a dry cleaner until two years ago.

Mathew Martoma got his undergraduate degree at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, according to the university registrar. During his first year, he was inducted into Phi Eta Sigma, an honors society for freshmen who attain at least a 3.5 grade point average, according to the university registrar. He graduated in December 1995.

Less than two years later, he went off to Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He wrote two medical-ethics papers, one of which identifies him as a member of Harvard Laws class of 2000 and as the former deputy director of the National Human Genome Research Institutes Office of Genome Ethics.

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By Fr. Tito Caluag Philippine Daily Inquirer

In 1995, when I was starting my work as principal at the Ateneo de Manila High School, I was blessed with the luxury of coming into my job without needing to worry much about day-to-day operations.

I spent the time learning the ropes, so to speak, and starting the process of our coming up with a 10-Year Development Plan. One of the first steps was to interview the different stakeholders of the school.

I saw all our faculty, staff and representatives of the students, parents and alumni. For the fourth-year students, I got 10 students from each class and spent an entire period, which was then 40 minutes, conversing with them in my office.

The basic goal was getting their perspective of what made the Ateneo de Manila High School distinct, what it was we did best, etc.

My final question to the seniors was what it was in their high school experience that they would take with them as they leave, to cherish and always guide them as they move on in their journey. Almost all of the close to 90 seniors I spoke with said it was the Tulong-Dunong Program that they considered the defining moment of their high school experience.

Tulong-Dunong is a program of the Ateneo de Manila High School started by the late Fr. James OBrien, SJ, in 1975-1976, when I was a senior high school student myself. We did not participate in it, since only one out of our seven sections piloted the program.

In a few years, the program was implemented for all senior year sections. It was a combination of our religion and socioeconomic classes, with close to three hours a week dedicated to tutoring Grade 6 students from a nearby public school. Each senior student, on the average, tutored two groups of six to eight students per group in two 40-minute periods. Every Tuesday or Thursday, half of the fourth year sections would go to their assigned public school.

Aside from this, the high school students did home visits, an educational tour with their students and various programs in the public schools as part of their practicum.

I taught this subject for three years before I entered the seminary, and knew it was indeed a life-changing experience for many of our students.

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In this new occasional feature, Jacksonville University School of Nursing faculty discuss symptoms, diagnoses and treatments based on composites of patient cases handled by instructors, students and alumni of JUs local training programs. Todays article is the first in the series.

Stiff muscles, joint pain, even discolored urine. A potpourri of symptoms, but how do you know whats causing it? Sometimes, having the right combination of several symptoms can lead to the right diagnosis.

This happened in two cases handled by Michelle Edmonds, family nurse practitioner and full-time associate professor of nursing at Jacksonville University. In both cases, the patients were found to have the same condition, one that is more common than people realize but if unchecked can lead to serious kidney issues.

People often disregard these symptoms due to their busy lives or think they are related to something else, Edmonds said. The signs and symptoms of this condition often have a slow onset and vague presentation so that it may go several days without intervention.

Lets take a look at what happened in these two cases.

SARAH

Sarah, a healthy 20-year-old, had experienced vague hip and upper leg pain for four weeks. She was usually very active, but was in so much pain she could hardly fall asleep at night. She had not had any recent injuries and hadnt even been running like she used to.

The only thing different was that she had taken a common prescription oral acne medication the month prior to the hip and leg pain. She did fine for the first four weeks on this medication, but during the fifth and final week, the pain started.

Sarah followed the directions of the specialist: Avoid strenuous activity because of possible muscle damage while taking the medication. But she received no relief from any over-the-counter pain medications she tried.

Edmonds ordered some laboratory tests and an X-ray of the hips. One test showed that her level of creatine kinase (CK), an enzyme found in skeletal muscle, was almost five times higher than normal.

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University of Queensland Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Hj has congratulated two UQ alumni who won their categories in the Queensland Australian of the Year 2013 awards.

QIMR Professor Adle Green, who graduated from UQ with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery and a Doctor of Philosophy, has been named the Queensland Australian of the Year 2013 for her research into the causes and prevention of skin cancer.

Physical education alumnus Laurie Lawrence received the Queensland Senior Australian of the Year 2013 award for his work in reducing the risk of small children drowning.

These honours are testament to the passion and dedication of two inspirational people whom the University is proud to call alumni, Professor Hj said.

They reaffirm that one of UQ's premium roles in Queensland is to graduate first-rate people who not only achieve academically and in their careers, but also give back to society, he said.

We have more than 200,000 UQ graduates, with vast collective capability and contributions that are highlighted by the individual honours to Adle and Lawrie.

Professor Green is a senior scientist at QIMR, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, a former Deputy Director, and Head of the Institute's Cancer and Population Studies Group.

She is also a Conjoint Professor with UQ's School of Population Health.

Her world-first research established that daily sunscreen use can prevent melanoma.

Professor Green also led a study which determined that the survival rate of patients with thin invasive melanoma was 96 percent, offering hope and reassurance to sufferers.

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