SIOUX FALLS (AP) The superintendent of the Miller School District resigned from his job and from a seat on the state high school activities board this month, weeks after a paternity suit was filed by a former student.

Circuit Judge Jon Erickson last week ordered Michael Ruth to take a paternity test within 30 days. Erickson said that Ruth indicated through his attorney that he had no objection to the order.

Ruths attorney did not immediately return a call for comment Wednesday.

Jacqueline Maria St. John filed the paternity lawsuit in Hand County on Feb. 26, saying in a sworn affidavit that she met Ruth when he was her superintendent at Miller High School. St. John is listed on the school alumni site as being in the class of 2009.

We began a sexual relationship after I graduated high school, and I conceived a child as a result, she said in the affidavit. I told (the) defendant that he was the father but he denied being the father and refused testing.

St. John said in the affidavit that her boyfriend at the time of her daughters birth in January 2013 signed an affidavit of paternity, but that he is not the father. She stated that she has medical expenses from the pregnancy and birth and is asking the court to determine past and future child support.

The Miller School Board went into executive session at its March 3 meeting and returned to accept Ruths resignation with an immediate leave of absence, according to meeting minutes. No reason was publicly given.

Ruth was also serving a five-year term on the South Dakota High School Activities Association, which directs and coordinates interscholastic activities by high schools in the state.

The associations board accepted Ruths resignation at its March 5 meeting after going into executive session. Board members said they will be accepting nominations for the remainder of Ruths term, which runs through June 2016.

The board appreciates all of Mr. Ruths service to the SDHSAA, and wishes him the best in his future endeavors, it said in its minutes.

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The brand Manipal, which is synonymous with medical education and health care, has had a B-school with nearly three decades of history. T. A. Pai Management Institute, popularly known as TAPMI, is a well-known name in management education.

The late T. A. Pai, a nephew of T. M. A. Pai, founder of Manipal-based institutions such as Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Institute of Technology and Syndicate Bank, was a former Union Minister in Indira Gandhis Cabinet in the 70s and held the portfolios of heavy industry and railways.

He was also a Chairman of Food Corporation of India, LIC and Syndicate Bank. T. A. Pai founded Manipal Institute of Management in 1980-81. This was later renamed as TAPMI.

For almost two-and-a-half decades, the institute operated from its own campus in Manipal town. It moved to a new spacious 5.5 km away from the town, in 2009.

TAPMI is one among the two management schools in the country to get accreditation from the international body Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business for its postgraduate programme, the other being ISB, Hyderabad.

R. C. Natarajan, who heads TAPMI as its Director, graduated from IRMA (Institute of Rural Management in Gujarat), and has more than 13 years of experience in the dairy sector. Natarajan shared his thoughts and plans for TAPMI with Business Line. Excerpts:

Are you worried that with the proliferation of B-schools, TAPMI brand is getting diluted?

No, in fact our brand is getting strengthened day by day. Our brand is getting noticed.

In that case, is the location an advantage or a disadvantage?

Compared to metros, yes, there is a disadvantage in terms of conveyance of guest lecturers. Otherwise, there is no problem. Our airport is one-and-a-quarter hours from here.

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BRATTLEBORO -- Vermont Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing President Bill Gurney knows there is a future for the organization, but at this point he just doesn't know exactly what it is.

Advancements in medicine and technology, changes in education law, soaring fuel costs and a stubborn economy that refuses to turn the corner have all led to years of declining enrollment and ever-rising costs at The Austine School for the Deaf.

Deaf students have been attending school on the sprawling 174-acre Austine School campus since 1908, and at one time there were 145 residential students there. But the school is almost out of money and the board is expected in the next month or so to decide if classes will be held next September.

Along with the residential Austine School program, which currently only has about 25 students, The Vermont Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing runs statewide consulting services, a bi-lingual preschool, an audiology center and an equipment distribution center.

In the next few months the board will have to decide how the organization is going to survive the current financial crisis while planning for a future that could end up being very different from the past 106 years.

"We need to decide what the future is going to look like for us here on campus," Gurney said. "There are some big decisions to make, and at a school that has been functioning continuously since 1908 these decisions involve many more people that just the board. The graduates and the families who have been here in the past all feel like this is a home, so we want to respect that as we go ahead and make the decisions that will affect the future of the school."

Facing change

The challenges facing The Austine School are similar to those that other residential deaf schools are confronting across the country, and they are coming from a number of different directions.

It used to take parents two or three years before they could be sure if their children were deaf.

Holton Hall at the Austine campus in Brattleboro. (Zachary P. Stephens/Brattleboro Reformer)

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Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) March 13, 2014

In celebration of the release of his new book Ingredients for Young Outliers: Achieving Your Most Amazing Future, author of Ingredients of Outliers, Dr. John Shufeldt will be at Finley Farms Elementary School in Gilbert, AZ, for a book signing and speaking engagement at 6:30 p.m. on March 27, 2014.

To RSVP, invite friends or view the invitation for Dr. Shufeldts book signing at Finley Farms Elementary School CLICK HERE to visit the invitation online.

This event will be open to the public and is especially geared towards young people ages 12-21 and their parents.

Shufeldt and Outlier Publishing hope to introduce Ingredients of Young Outliers to elementary, middle and high school audiences, inspiring young students, faculty and parents to the integral characteristics or ingredients that make up an outlier.

Shufeldts new book Ingredients of Young Outliers was written with a younger audience in mind. According to Shufeldt, the book is a compilation of stories, tips, and techniques designed as a life and career guide to help inspire future thought leaders and catalysts for change.

The goal of this book is to act as a surrogate mentor for students and young professionals who want to achieve more than they previously imagined was possible, says Shufeldt. Everyone needs a mentor, whether virtual or otherwise in order to spur each other on to achieve their goals.

Ingredients of Young Outliers is preceded by the first book in the Outlier Series titled, Ingredients of Outliers: A Recipe for personal Achievement, published in July 2013. It is also the second book edition to the Outlier Series. The Outlier Team announced that Ingredients of Outliers will be followed by at least 8 other books over the course of 2014. The books are intended for students, college graduates and anyone interested in entering or furthering their career. The goal of the series is to offer books specific to sought after career fields with insider information and recommended channels for pursuing that career from experts in each respective profession.

Some of the highlighted career fields include but are not limited to: Medicine, Law, Sports, Design / Engineering, The Arts / Entertainment, Entrepreneurism / Business, Service to Country/ Service to Mankind, Writing / Journalism, and Travel / Leisure. Subscribe HERE to receive updates and follow the Ingredients of Outliers Blog.

I would like to see people lead passion purposed lives and step out of their comfort zones, says Shufeldt. I want to see people find the outliers inside themselves.

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ANDOVER, Mass. (MyFoxBoston.com/AP) -- A doctor who worked as the medical director of the prestigious Phillips Academy boarding school in Massachusetts was sentenced to 78 months in prison Wednesday on child pornography charges.

Richard Keller, of Andover, pleaded guilty to two counts of receiving and one count of possessing child pornography in November 2013.

Under the terms of a plea agreement, Keller's attorney and federal prosecutors recommended a sentence of between five years, three months and 6 1/2 years.

Keller, the former medical director at the elite academy in Andover, acknowledged purchasing child pornography from a Canadian company and having some of it sent to the student health center under the agreement.

Phillips Academy's alumni include former presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush. Keller worked as the school's medical director for 19 years until the academy failed to renew his contract in 2011.

Tracy Sweet, a spokeswoman for Phillips Academy, previously said Keller's 2011 departure from the school was not related to the case.

"At no time during his employment or during the subsequent investigation has anyone alleged criminal behavior by Richard Keller relating to his former role with Phillips Academy," Sweet said in a statement.

John Palfrey, the head of school at Phillips Academy, also had said in an email to students and parents after Keller's arrest that the decision to not renew Keller's contract was based on professional misconduct unrelated to the federal case. Palfrey said Keller had been reprimanded in 1999 for using a school computer to access adult pornography and had shown an inappropriate cartoon to students in 2002.

Keller also worked as a pediatric endocrinologist at Children's Hospital in Boston and taught at Harvard Medical School.

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Kaplan Test Prep issued the following statement regarding how prospective students should view U.S. News & World Reports 2015 graduate school, business school, law school and medical school rankings, which were just released today:

The U.S. News rankings have long played a role in the graduate school, business school, law school and medical school search process, as they can serve as an aggregate source of data around student population, academic life, job placement and other considerations. But the actual rank of each program is often more important to school administrators and alumni than it should be for prospective students, said Brandon Jones, vice president of graduate programs, Kaplan Test Prep. Whether a school ranks 16th or 24th wont matter in the long run. Ultimately, applicants should seek programs that are the best overall fit for their academic, professional, financial, and lifestyle goals and needs.

In 2013, over 1 million GRE, GMAT, LSAT and MCAT exams* were taken by aspiring students and professionals as admissions prerequisites to get into graduate, business, law and medical school, respectively.

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The 13th annual Santa Barbara High Schools Alumni Associations Wall of Fame induction will take place at 1:00 P.M. in the high school theater. This year 5 alumni will join the 55 plus Wall of Fame Recipients already honored with their pictures on wall in the mainhall.

Ceremony March14th

This years recipientsare:

Ward Kimball 32 Jack Hufford51

John Campilio 53 Stephen Benton59

Bill Oliphant64

Complete Biographies are attached of the 2014recipients.

Some of the more notable past recipientsare:

Martha Graham 13, Ernie Zampese 54, Jeff Shelton 76, Charles Ott Jr 37, Peter Jordano 52, Sam Cunningham 69, Keith Jamaal Wilkes 70, Bill Crow 32, Marshall Rose 62, Randall Cunningham 81, Gary Hart 61, Bob Kallman 44, John Northrop 13, Charles Schwab 55, Eddie Mathews 49, Ron Shelton 63, Jessie Orosco 76, Donnie Yee 50, Lynn Kern Kogel 73 and Taylor Hackford 63. Paula Lopez 81, George Burtness 49, Dr. Erno Daniel 64, Leon Litwack47

Ceremony will start at 1:00 pm in theAuditorium

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