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Students from 75 years of Oak Ridge Schools share memories in new book

Posted at 12:30 pm September 25, 2018
By Jessica Steed Leave a Comment

Students from each of the 75 classes of Oak Ridge Schools have shared their school memories in a new book. There is a "reveal party" for the book, "Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence in Education: Oak Ridge Schools, 1944-2018," on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018, at Oak Ridge High School. (Submitted photo)

Students from each of the 75 classes of Oak Ridge Schools have shared their school memories in a new book. There is a “reveal party” for the book, “Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence in Education: Oak Ridge Schools, 1944-2018,” on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018, at Oak Ridge High School. (Submitted photo)

 

Students from each of the 75 classes of Oak Ridge Schools have shared their school memories in a new book.

There is a “reveal party” for the book, “Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence in Education: Oak Ridge Schools, 1944-2018,” on Wednesday at Oak Ridge High School. The celebration is scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, September 26, in the Oak Ridge High School Amphitheater.

The celebration is being hosted by the Oak Ridge Public Schools Education Foundation.

Moira Kaye—ORHS graduate, former local television news anchor, and Miss Tennessee 1983—will lead a panel discussion with ORHS alumni across the decades from the 1940s to the 1980s, a press release said. The panelists and Kaye are book anchor authors for their ORHS graduation classes. Their stories and other reminiscing will be further highlighted by an ORHS choral presentation of the ORHS Alma Mater and the ORHS Fight Song and the presentation of colors by the ORHS JROTC Flag Corps. Also, volunteers who served on the book project will be recognized. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, Entertainment, Front Page News, History, K-12, Top Stories, Writing Tagged With: book, Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence in Education: Oak Ridge Schools 1944-2018, Jessica Steed, Moira Kaye, Oak Ridge High School, Oak Ridge Public Schools Education Foundation, Oak Ridge Schools, ORPSEF, reveal party

Tennessee Mountain Writers Conference in Oak Ridge from April 9-11

Posted at 7:26 pm April 9, 2015
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Evelyn Coleman

Evelyn Coleman

“Not Now…I’m Writing” is the theme of the Tennessee Mountain Writers’ 27th Annual Conference, scheduled Thursday through Saturday, April 9-11, at the DoubleTree Hotel in Oak Ridge. The conference includes writing contests, workshops, networking, manuscript evaluations, publishers, editors, book signings, a bookstore, vendors, and more.

Evelyn Coleman will lead the Writing for Young People workshops and will be the keynote speaker at the awards banquet, the concluding event of the conference. Coleman, an Edgar-nominated, award-winning author, writes across genres from picture books to young adult and adult novels. Coleman’s latest books, “Freedom Train” and the American Girl Mysteries Series book, “Cecile’s Cameo Necklace,” have received glowing reviews. Her adult thriller, “What a Woman’s Gotta Do” (Random House), was lauded byBooklist for its “vivid details and suspense.” [Read more…]

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Manhattan Project book starts with Y-12 photo, ends on NY Times best seller list

Posted at 1:16 am April 1, 2013
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Denise Kiernan

Author Denise Kiernan signs copies of “The Girls of Atomic City” after a lecture at the American Museum of Science and Energy. (Photo by D. Ray Smith)

A book project that started with a famous photo of women enriching uranium at the Y-12 National Security Complex during World War II has ended up on the New York Times best seller list.

It’s also led to appearances on major television shows for Denise Kiernan, author of “The Girls of Atomic City—The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II.” She’s recently been a guest on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, and PBS NewsHour.

Released March 5, “The Girls of Atomic City” remained at No. 33 on the hard cover nonfiction list on Sunday night.

“I’ve been thrilled with the response,” Kiernan said during a recent lecture and book-signing at the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge. “The country is just fascinated with your town and your stories.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy, Y-12 National Security Complex Tagged With: book, Denise Kiernan, Ed Westcott, Manhattan Project, Morning Joe, New York Times best seller, Oak Ridge, PBS NewsHour, photo, Secret City, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Girls of Atomic City—The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II, World War II, Y-12 National Security Complex

‘Girls of Atomic City’ author will be at March 19 lecture, book signing

Posted at 9:10 am March 11, 2013
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Denise Kiernan

Denise Kiernan

A March 19 community lecture will feature an author who has written about Oak Ridge women and the second world war.

Denise Kiernan is author of “The Girls of the Atomic City—the Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II.”

She will be the featured speaker during the Tuesday, March 19, lecture, which starts at 6 p.m. at the American Museum of Science and Energy. It’s part of the 16th Annual Dick Smyser Community Lecture Series.

[Read more…]

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