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Good Works from page 7 Visit www.educationfoundationmc.org and click on Adopt-
A-Class on the left side navigation of the home page for links
Trio Of EFMC Programs Help to schools, as well as all enrollment information.
Fund-A-Project, as the name implies, is EFMC’s
Teachers And Schools opportunity to invest directly in projects that exemplify the
creativity and commitment found in Martin County schools.
By Jackie Holfelder Filter by the amount of money you wish to donate, type of
Along with members of the medical community and other project you’d like to sponsor or school where you’d like to
frontline responders, few occupations have become more invest. Whether you give $5, $20, $500 or more, 100 percent
beloved to the community than teachers. As parents and of your donation will directly fund the specific classroom need
other adults scrambled to become effective home schoolers, of your choice.
many viewed the importance and skill set of teachers with Visit www.educationfoundationmc.org and click on Fund-
different eyes. a-Project on the left side navigation of the home page to learn
Now, as the challenges of COVID-19 continue, teachers details of the program and how to contribute.
and educators are grappling with situations that could not Education Foundation of Martin County’s Bulletin
have been predicted. Even in the best of times, they face a Board module connects community and classrooms for
cash crunch for the extras and supplies that add so much to non-monetary needs, providing for a direct exchange of
the classroom experience. offerings and materials to support education in Martin County. Amanda Michael, a second-year teacher from Pinewood
Many families have had their incomes adversely affected Businesses can post internship opportunities for students Elementary, with some of the materials donated through an
by repercussions of the virus, but the Education Foundation and externship opportunities for teachers, offer experts to EFMC program
of Martin County (EFMC) has three programs in which speak to classes or sit on career and technical education
you can participate – sometimes without any financial advisory boards – or they can offer gently used equipment for just about endless. Students can use the site when looking for
commitment. classroom use. Nonprofits can post volunteer or scholarship scholarship, internship, or volunteer opportunities.
Adopt-a-Class is district-wide and covers elementary, opportunities for students. Individuals can post non-monetary Visit www.educationfoundationmc.org and click on
middle and high schools, as well as specialized programs. offerings like gently used children’s books or recycled Bulletin Board Listings on the side menu.
With just the click of a mouse, you can adopt a classroom materials for classroom projects. Postings can be made visible Take advantage of Education Foundation of Martin
for $100 for the entire school year and keep teachers from only to teachers and principals, not the public. Teachers can County’s three unique programs to support teachers’
reaching into their own pockets to fill their classroom needs. post need for materials for projects (old magazines, gently projects during this challenging year. For more information,
There is no limit to the number of times a classroom/program used children’s books, shoe boxes, etc.), and seek experts to call (772) 600-8062.
can be adopted. Payment by check is also an option. get involved in a class project or career day. Possibilities are Photo provided by EFMC

trivia

I Didn’t Know That ... Bet You into the King’s domain: actor Nicolas Cage. Cage married fat as nourishment when food is scarce. A camel can carry

Didn’t Know It Either Elvis’s daughter, Lisa Marie, and, as the story goes, got a up to 80 pounds of fat on its back. When a camel consumes
personal tour of the bedroom as his wedding present.
the emergency food supply, the hump will become limp and
Why Was Steve Jobs Fired From Apple? droop down. Refueling and a good night’s sleep will return
Fascinating trivia facts In 1985, Steve Jobs was fired from Apple, the company the hump to its normal upright position.
compiled by Stanley he helped to create. There was a disagreement between Jobs Who Is The Oldest Winner Of An Acting Oscar?
Morgenbesser and Apple’s then-CEO, John Sculley. Jobs wanted to drop Christopher Plummer’s acting career has spanned seven
What Does “O’Clock” the price of the Macintosh and focus more of the advertising decades. He is known for portraying Captain Georg von
Stand For? on it, instead of the Apple II. At the time, Mac sales were Trapp in The Sound of Music, and has portrayed numerous
The term “o’clock” is a not doing well, but Sculley blamed it on the software, not historical figures throughout his career. Plummer won the
contraction that has become the price. Apple’s Board of Directors sided with Sculley Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 82
more famous and used than and Jobs was let go from the company. Even though he was for Beginners (2010), becoming the oldest person to ever
its original form, which was forced out of his own company, he took it as a blessing in win an Oscar in a competitive category. He also received
“of the clock.” The practice disguise and in 1997 rejoined the firm as the CEO. He later a nomination at the age of 88 for All the Money in the
of saying “o’clock” is simply said that the feeling was very liberating, and was the most World, making him the oldest person to be nominated in
a remnant of simpler times, creative period of his life. an acting category.
when clocks weren’t very prevalent. So to distinguish the fact A 1973 Joke Told By Johnny Carson Was Blamed For A Who Was The Tallest Man Who Ever Lived?
that one was referencing a clock’s time, rather than something Nationwide Run On What Product? Robert Pershing Wadlow was born in 1918 and, at the
like a sundial, as early as the Fourteenth Century one would In 1973, Johnny Carson helped spark a run on toilet paper time of his death at age 22, he was 8 feet, 11.1 inches tall.
say something like, “It is five of the clock,” which later got when he joked about a shortage. With an audience of roughly His great size and his continued growth in adulthood were
slurred down to “five o’clock.” 20 million viewers, Carson’s mention activated a national due to hyperplasia of his pituitary gland, which results in an
Was President Clinton Denied Access To Elvis Presley’s panic. Absolute madness ensued. Millions of Americans abnormally high level of human growth hormone (HGH).
Bedroom? swarmed grocery stores and hoarded all the toilet paper Even by the time of his death, there was no indication that
The heavily guarded room where Elvis spent his final they could get their hands on. The empty shelves seemed his growth had ended.
hours remains in the exact condition it was in the night he to support the claim that there really was a shortage. In the Who Holds The Record As The Longest Living Human?
died. Clothes remain in the drawers, sheets on the bed, and aftermath, Johnny Carson received the blame for propagating Jeanne Louise Calment was born in 1875 in France;
nothing touched. It’s the Holy Grail for any Elvis fan, but the shortage myth and issued an apology on his talk show. she lived to be 122 years, 164 days old. To put it into
almost no one has ever walked through the plush double What Is Stored In A Camel’s Hump? perspective, the year after her birth Alexander Graham Bell
doors. Only Elvis’s family and the estate manager have Contrary to popular belief, camels’ humps are not filled patented his telephone. At age 85, she took up fencing, lived
keys to the padlocks, and when President Clinton toured with water. Instead, these odd protrusions are mounds of alone until age 110, and quit smoking after she turned 117.
the facility in the 1990s, he was denied access. Rumor has fat which allow camels to travel days through the desert Jeanne died at a nursing home in Arles, southern France,
it there’s only been one non-Presley to cross the threshold without stopping for a bite to eat. The camel will use the on Aug. 4, 1997.