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Day: July 12, 2013
FFRF wants Georgia teachers, students disciplined
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is asking Lumpkin County Schools in Georgia to discipline the four staffers who left their classrooms unattended and about 50 students who skipped class to …
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Priest’s JFK sermon turned her from church
Name: Cheryl Kolbe. Where I live: Portland, Ore. Where and when I was born: Boston in 1946. Family: I’ve been married for 43 years to Ed, and we have two …
Rose Alice Zerwick, 1918–2013
Freedom From Religion Foundation Life Member Rose Alice Zerwick, age 95, died as she had wished, at home in Madison, Wis., surrounded by her four children on April 10, 2013. …
John Tomasin, 1924–2013
John Tomasin, 88, West New York, N.J., died Feb. 20, 2013. He was born May 28, 1924. After graduating from high school in 1942, he served three years in the …
Hank Kocol, 1937–2013
FFRF Lifetime Member Hank Kocol made his “Final Exit” on April 20, 2013, in Roseville, Calif. He is survived by his wife, Cleo, also a Lifetime Member, and sons, Henry …
Letter brings Oklahoma commandments down
An Oklahoma school district learned a valuable lesson thanks to FFRF and its student complainant. On May 1, FFRF sent a letter to Muldrow Public Schools Superintendent Ron Flanagan asking …
School apologizes for ‘shaming’ assembly
A student at Chelsea High School in Chelsea, Ala., contacted FFRF about a school assembly speaker named Siran Stacy manipulating and shaming students. At an April 5 assembly, Stacy preached …
FFRF Legal Victories
School: No prayer, no graduation The Riverside School District Board in Lake City, Ark., voted May 6 to cancel its May 23 sixth-grade graduation ceremonies at two elementary schools after …
