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12 - The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, November 12, 2008
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY NEWS
Community
Philanthropist to be
Honored at STC
Opportunity Gala
SBA Provides I .ink to
Opportunities for Small
Businesses
SCCPSS Students
Achieve AP Scholar Status
Richard D. Eckburg
Annual Opportunity Gala set
for December 5
Richard D. Eckburg has
made a lasting impact on
Savannah through years of
tireless volunteerism to the
community and generous
contributions to area non
profit organizations.
Savannah Technical College
will honor his dedication
Friday, December 5, at the
college’s annual Opportunity
Gala.
The event will be held
on the Savannah Campus
with a reception beginning at
6:45 p.m. in the Atrium and
dinner following in the
Eckburg Auditorium, also
named in honor of Mr.
Eckburg. The Savannah
Technical College
Foundation along with this
year’s Signature Sponsor
SunTrust Bank is hosting the
event.
Dick Eckburg was born
and raised in Amboy, IL,
retiring after 32 years with
United Parcel Service (UPS),
only after serving in the
United States Army during
the Korean War. He rose
through the ranks at UPS to
become Vice President of
Public Affairs. Mr. Eckburg
also served with distinction
on the executive committee
of the American Trucking
Association.
Since his retirement,
Dick has engaged in a wide
variety of charitable and
philanthropic endeavors in
his twenty-two years of liv
ing in Savannah.
Organizations benefitting
from his leadership and gen-
See Gala, page 14
WASHINGTON-
Information about federal
contacting opportunities for
small businesses able to sup
port post-disaster cleanup and
rebuilding in areas devastated
by recent storms and flooding
is now accessible through the
U.S. Small Business
Administration’s Disaster
Contracting Assistance
Center.
The DCAC provides a
central point of reference for
small businesses, particularly
minority, women and veter
an-owned businesses, to reg
ister for and learn about fed
eral contracting opportuni
ties.
“A vast area—from the
Gulf States to the Midwest—
suffered millions of dollars in
property damage when these
massive storms struck, and
the rebuilding projects will
stretch well into next year,”
said Acting SBA
Administrator Sandy K.
Baruah. “We want to make
sure small businesses have
the opportunity to seek feder
al contracting dollars, armed
with detailed information that
will make it possible for them
to take advantage of thenet-
work of available resources.”
Business owners can
visit the Web site at www.dis-
astercontractingassistance.go
v for a detailed look at how to
seek government contracts.
Also on the main page is a
link to FedBizOpps, which
allows businesses to sign up
for e-mail notification of
open contracts related to
specified fields. In addition,
steps on how to register for a
Data Universal Number
System identification number
from Dun & Bradstreet, and
information on how to sign
up with the Central
Contractor Registration —
which establishes a compa
ny’s eligibility to seek federal
contracts—are provided on
the DCAC site.
The site also provides
information on prevailing
wages in construction con
tracts, sub-contractor infor
mation and federal acquisi
tions regulations.
The DCAC can be con
tacted by phone at 1-888-
4USADOC (1-888-487-
2362) Monday through
Friday 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. EST,
and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. EST
Saturday and Sunday.
Contact the center by e-mail
a t
disastercustomerservice@sba
•gov.
For more information
about SBA’s Disaster
Assistance program, visit the
Web site at
www.sba.gov/services/disas-
terassistance.
Fifty-two SCCPSS high
school students have earned
the designation of AP
Scholar by the College
Board in recognition of their
exceptional achievement on
the college-level Advanced
Placement Program® (AP®)
Exams; thirty-seven from
Savannah Arts Academy,
twelve from Jenkins High
School and three from
Windsor Forest High School.
The College Board’s
Advanced Placement
Program offers students the
opportunity to take challeng
ing college-level courses
while still in high school, and
to receive college credit,
advanced placement, or both
for successful performance
on the AP Exams. About 18
percent of the more than 1.4
million high school students
in 16,000 secondary schools
worldwide who took AP
Exams performed at a suffi
ciently high level to merit the
recognition of AP Scholar.
Students took AP
Exams in May 2008 after
completing challenging col
lege-level courses at their
high schools. The College
Board recognizes several
levels of achievement based
on students’ performance on
AP Exams.
At Savannah Arts, 9
students qualified for the AP
Scholar with Distinction
Award by earning an average
grade of at least 3.5 on all AP
Exams taken, and grades of 3
or higher on five or more of
these exams. Jenkins High
School had three students to
qualify for this award.
Savannah Arts
Academy had 7 students and
Jenkins High had 2 students
to qualify for the AP Scholar
with Honor Award by earn
ing an average grade of at
least 3.25 on all AP Exams
taken, and grades of 3 or
higher on four or more of
these exams.
Twenty-one students
from Savannah Arts
Academy, 3 from Windsor
Forest High and 7 from
Jenkins High qualified for
the AP Scholar Award by
completing three or more AP
Exams, with grades of 3 or
higher.
This year, AP exams
were offered in thirty-seven
subject areas. Most of the
nation’s colleges and univer
sities award credit, advanced
placement, or both based on
successful performance on
the AP exams. Research con
sistently shows that AP stu
dents who score a 3 or high
er on AP exams typically
experience greater academic
success in college.
For more information
about the College Board’s
Advance Placement
Program, visit their website
at www.collegeboard.com.
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The Poetry Society of
Georgia 2008-2009 reading
series continues with
Lucinda Grey on Tuesday
November 18, at 7:30 p.m.,
at Books on Bay Bookstore,
224 Bay Street. The event is
free and open to the public.
Two writer’s residen
cies she won in La Napoule,
France and Mojacar, Spain
inspired Grey’s most recent
book of poems, The Woman
Who Has Eaten the Moon.
The collection includes
poems in the personae of
Frida Kahlo and Federico
Garcia Lorca.
The poet’s other books
include Martin Flores and
the House of Dreams and
Ribbon Around a Bomb,
which won the Quentin R.
Howard Poetry Prize. Her
poetry has appeared in
Shenandoah, Tar River
Poetry, and Southern
Humanities Review, among
other journals.
The Southern Poetry
Review and Armstrong
Atlantic State University’s
Department of Language,
Literature, and Philosophy
sponsor this series. For fur
ther information, contact
Tony Morris at 344.3123 or
Tony.Morris@armstrong.edu
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United Way
Victory
Celebration
The United Way of the
Coastal Empire will host its
Victory Celebration Luncheon
at The Westin Savannah
Harbor on Friday, November
21,11:45 am. Community vol
unteers will announce their
individual Unit Division
reports, which will reflect
money raised in local business
es and agencies within Bryan,
Chatham, Effingham, and
Liberty counties.