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Last Thursday, more than 100 of Fort Wayne’s founders gathered for brunch in the Covington Elementary cafeteria.
John Chapman was there. And a very little Chief Little Turtle. And at least five or six Gen. Anthony Waynes.
The brunch, the first of its kind, was the final event in a third-grade history unit on Fort Wayne’s founding. During the unit, students took a daylong field trip in which they visited Coney Island, the Courthouse, Parkview Field, Little Turtle’s grave and Lindenwood Cemetery.
Students produced miniature replicas of Fort Wayne’s buildings and created posters displaying what they considered the Seven Wonders of Fort Wayne. Some chose sites like Parkview Field; others chose their neighborhood pond.
“We’re having a ball,” said teacher Kim Moppert, who first had the idea of students coming to the brunch in costume.
Charles W. Ewing, known most days as third- grader Gustin Nicholas Michael France, came wearing a tan suit and a top hat. “He was the first attorney in Allen County,” France said of Ewing. “I chose him because I talk a lot and attorneys like to talk a lot, too.”
David Heiney, who was Johnny Appleseed for the day, wore a black, pot-shaped TinCaps hat and a plaid shirt.
“I like to wear a pot on my head, and I like apples,” he explained.
When asked for more information about Chapman, he pointed to his placemat, on which he’d written that Chapman, “a living legend,” lived from 1774 to 1847.
•Bishop Luers High School is hosting an Eighth Grade Day from 8:30-10:30 a.m. Friday. All eighth-grade students interested in attending Bishop Luers are welcome. Please call the admissions office to R.S.V.P. at 456-1261.
•Area educators and founders of the Festival of the Arts and Music Education, Dorothy Kittaka and Mike Schmid, will receive the Art Education Association of Indiana’s Community Award.
•Carl Drummond, dean of the IPFW College of Arts and Sciences and professor of geology, received the James H. Shea Award through the National Association of Geoscience Teachers.
•Homestead High School student Alison Mansfield placed second in the nation in the 2009 AMVETS National Americanism Essay Contest.
•Bishop Dwenger High School’s freshman cheerleading team won the state title at the Indiana Cheer Championships. Warsaw Community High placed second. Bishop Dwenger’s junior varsity team also won the state title. Maple Creek Middle School placed first in the Large Junior High Division and Woodside Middle School placed third.
•The following IPFW students received scholarships: Diane Zimmanck, Eleanor Bieberich Scholarship; Tricia Graf, IU SCS Alumni Association Scholarship, the Ford P. Hall Scholarship, and the Omicron Psi Scholarship; and Coralee Bowley, IU SCS Alumni Association Scholarship.
•Indiana University student Tyler Olson of Wabash was named an Indiana Evans Scholar. Evans Scholars are golf caddies who have earned full four-year scholarships to college based on four criteria: a strong caddie record, excellent academics, financial need and outstanding character.
•Erika Carmicheal of Kendallville received a scholarship from Con-Way Inc.
•The Enterprise Resource Center, in collaboration with Coffee D’Vine, will host a résumé workshop for displaced workers or for those who need assistance updating their résumés from 4-6 p.m. Wednesday at Coffee D’Vine, 44 Vine St., Huntington. The workshops are free, but all participants need to register in advance by calling the Enterprise Resource Center at 260-359-4104.
•The Forester Lecture Series will feature Ben Witherington III, Amos Professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary, at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Zurcher Auditorium of the Merillat Centre for the Arts.
•Former NBA player Bay Forrest will present “Shoot for the Stars: Winning On and Off the Court” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Magee O’Conner Theater in Andorfer Commons.
•Bernd Fischer, professor and chair of the history department, will present “Enver Hoxha, the little Stalin of Albania” from noon-1 p.m. Thursday on the second floor of Helmke Library.
•The 21st Century Scholars program will hold an Affirmation Meeting from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Huntington North High School, 450 MacGahan St., Huntington. A meeting will also be held from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Anthis Career Center, 1200 Barr St. All Twenty-first Century Scholars high school seniors and their parents orlegal guardians must attend one session. More sessions will be held this month.
•Richard Ball, professor of sociology emeritus at Ferris State University, will present “Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Bombs that Changed the World” at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in Classroom-Medical Building, room 35A.
•Prospective students interested in majoring in music, peace studies, pre-medicine or health care can visit the college Friday to learn more.
