Village Life Section :: Page 207

• Here comes the sun

  By YS News StaffMarch 18, 2010

  

  Lauren Sheets danced as Scott Lee of Kettering played and sang outside Brother Bear’s.

• Diversity decline linked to fewer jobs

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 4, 2010

  

  If Yellow Springs has lost a significant number of jobs in the past 15 years, it follows that villagers have lost employment opportunities, which has a visible effect on an already minority African-American population. There are fewer African Americans employed in the village now than there were 30 years ago, and though there have never been a lot of African Americans who own and operate businesses in town, the current number appears to be lower than ever.

• Green space funds go to Jacoby farm preservation

  By Diane Chiddister

  At their March 1 meeting, members of Yellow Springs Village Council unanimously approved contributing to the preservation of two farm properties, one of which includes the headwaters of the Jacoby Creek and is the first farm preserved within the Jacoby greenbelt.

• Village youth say race is still an issue

  By Brooke BryanFebruary 25, 2010

  

  Yellow Springs can be a supportive town for black youth to grow up in, according to a group of 10 current Yellow Springs High School students and recent graduates in recent interviews. But the village is not immune to the issues that tend to divide the community by color and burden some African-American families disproportionately. Instances of discrimination are very subtle, and can be unintentional, but they do occur here, the youth said, and they pose obstacles both of perception and in actual practice that young people of color are challenged to overcome.

• Achievement gap complex, but true

  By Brooke BryanFebruary 18, 2010

  

  When Joyce McCurdy accepted a teaching position in the Yellow Springs School District, there was a black chief of police, a black member of Council, and a black member of school board. The principal of the high school was black, and three of McCurdy’s colleagues were also black — and actively involved in the social issues of the day. The year was 1965.

• Bye-bye-athlon

  By YS News Staff

  

  Robert Hasek got his wintertime thrills, making his way home in the dusky hours over a fresh blanket of snow.

• Wright’s lifelong love for Japanese poetry across the ages

  By Stephanie BeasleyFebruary 11, 2010

  Harold Wright has what is sometimes referred to as a “hard head.” The stubbornness of this 79-year-old retired college professor has been one of few consistencies in a life that has taken him to places as distant as Hawaii, Tokyo and New York City.

• Diversity gap creates social divide

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  When Isabel Newman graduated from Bryan High School in 1943, Antioch Bookplate President Ernest Morgan hired her to work for the company. Soon after, he sent her to a six-week course at the Mergenthaler linotype school in New York, and upon her return, she worked for the company for over 40 years, retiring as a manager. At that company, whose president actively promoted racial integration, she recalled that typically a fourth of the employees were minorities. The support for a racially diverse staff appeared to be the same at Vernay Laboratories, where two of Newman’s sisters worked, Yellow Springs Instruments and Antioch College, the place that bred all three companies and their socially minded leaders.

• Shovelin’ in a winter wonderland

  By YS News Staff

  

  Late on Saturday morning, Francisco Cronin and Casey Grisco showed some metal by putting in a hard morning’s shovel.

• A history of racial diversity

  By Diane ChiddisterFebruary 4, 2010

  

  When Robert Harris graduated from college with a degree in physics and math, he sought an engineering job in his hometown of Philadelphia. But the year was 1952, and companies weren’t hiring blacks for professional positions.