News Release
May 16, 2007
Hill Campus of Arts and Sciences Hosts Roundtable on Tuesday, May 22
Hill's Prominent Speakers meet with students and parents
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 from 6:00-7:00 p.m., marks the culmination in a series of speakers to visit Hill Campus of Arts and Sciences. The luminaries, hosted by Dr. James Mann, an internist and gastroenterologist and retired chief of staff of St. Anthony Hospital, over the course of the school year have spoken to six, seventh and eighth graders on the paths they chose growing up. This past Wednesday, Dr. Benjamin Moultrie, a senior scientist and mathematician with IBM, engaged the Hill students with his tales that led him to one of the world's largest corporations. Hill's Roundtable brings these speakers together with students and parents to discuss what direction to take to embrace the future.
Mr. Don Roy, principal of Hill, in response to an article in Gifted Child Today, "Enhancing Culturally Diverse Males' Scholar Identity: Suggestions for Educators of Gifted Students," by Gilman W. Whiting, collaborated with Ms. Cassie Perlmutter, the school's Gifted and Talented teacher, to create a speakers' bureau. "This is a first step in acquainting our students with prominent African-American members of the community who are where they are by virtue of educational excellence."
The Roundtable concept was envisioned by Dr. Mann, the host of the series, in collaboration with Dr. Whiting, a professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and Ms. Perlmutter. These participants considered it paramount to bring all of the ideas and experiences expressed to date into an arena where parents as well as students could understand the task at hand: to make choices now that guarantee, to the greatest extent, success in the future.
For more information, please contact Ms. Lynne Lake at 720-423-9680. Hill Campus of Arts and Sciences is a Denver Public School, grades 6-8, located at 451 Clermont Street. The public is encouraged to attend. Our website: www.hill.dpsk12.org.
The following is a complete accounting of speakers:
Hill Campus of Arts and Sciences
451 Clermont
Denver, CO 80220
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Mr. Marc Wallace
Entrepreneur and former partner in a human resource firm
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Mr. Gary Jackson
Practicing attorney, alumnus of Hill (1960)
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
The Hon. Ray Jones
Retired appellate judge, practicing attorney, Metro professor
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Mr. Craig Jones
Principal in Barclay, Boston & Jones, financial advisers to athletes
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Dr. Benjamin Moultrie
Senior scientist for IBM, mathematician