You are invited to the ordination
service for Dr. Lucy F. Shaw
at St. James Baptist Church
located at 1505 F Street (corner
of F Street and MLK). The service
will be held on Sunday March
11, 2018 at 3:00 p.m. God has
truly been in the blessing business
with me. I am truly thankful that
He chose me for the duties of His
ministry. Please come out and help
me celebrate this joyous occasion
in my life. For further information
call (912) 571-2224.
Dr. Lucy F. Shaw
God’s Blessings,
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Just over a year ago, Vince Vawter, the award-winning author of
“Paperboy,” mailed a copy of his book and a note to Jim Wann, a
Tony-nomi-nated composer whom he’d never met.
In the note, Vawter asked Wann to read his book and to consider
how it might be transformed into a musical.
The pair have worked on the project for a year now. Wann is a
resident of Tybee Island, and Vawter lives in Knoxville, Tenn.
Across that distance, they’ve exchanged ideas and song samples,
craft-ing the musical.
That work led them to Fred-erica Academy on Wednes-day, when the
two men un-veiled pieces of the play for the fi rst time to a group
of students.
“This is the fi rst time we’ve told the public about it,”
Vaw-ter said.
Vawter fi rst visited Fred-erica’s students in the fall of 2016,
when he talked with
them about his book “Pa-perboy” and its inspirations. Many
students at the school have been assigned to read the book.
“I had a great experience with the students the last time, and I
thought that it might help that some had read the book,” Vawter
said. “… This is such a friendly campus, I felt like we could have
a dia-logue with the students, and they would give us their hon-est
feedback about what they thought about the songs and what they
thought about our idea.”
“Paperboy” is set in Mem-phis in 1959, and it tells the story of
an 11-year-old boy who struggles with a stutter. The boy takes over
a paper route one summer, forcing him to communicate with the
customers along the route. He uses his typewriter to fi nd his
voice.
The novel’s protagonist represents Vawter as a young boy.
When Vawter began to con-sider turning the book into a play, he
shared the idea with
a friend, who recommended he make “Paperboy” into a musical.
“He said it should be a musi-cal because it’s got the perfect
feeling and it’s got the perfect form,” Vawter told Frederica’s
students on Wednesday. “And I said, ‘Well OK, but I don’t know
anything about music. I don’t know how to write songs. I do know
three chords on the guitar, but that’s it.”
So Vawter reached out to Wann, who created and starred in “Pump
Boys and Dinettes” on Broadway.
The timing, Wann said, was perfect.
“It just caught me at just the right time,” he said. “I was
really ready for a new chal-lenge. And so I read his book and I
loved ‘Paperboy.’”
Wann began to send Vaw-ter songs every week. Vawter said he’s
been blown away with Wann’s musical cre-ations.
“What Jim does is he takes my story and he doesn’t re-peat the
story,” Vawter said. “He adds to it with his songs.”
Wann performed several
of the songs for Frederica’s students, and Vawter read parts of
the script to set up the scenes.
They hoped to gauge the students’ initial reactions.
“No one has ever heard these songs. They’re com-pletely new,”
Vawter said. “And we think they’re good, but we kind of want to see
what other people think about it.”
Vawter will also soon pub-lish “Copyboy,” the sequel to
“Paperboy,” at the start of August. Capstone Publishers will
publish the book.
“I’m excited about it,” Vaw-ter said. “It continues his sto-ry,
although it skips six years … It tells how he has matured with his
stutter and with his personality.”
Vawter’s unsure right now how the musical version of “Paperboy”
will make it to the stage.
“It’s just evolving purely organically,” he said. “We don’t know
what path we’re going to take. We’re kind of hoping that somebody
can produce it.”
Author, composer share musical project
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Author Vince Vawter, le� , and composer Jim Wann discuss with
Frederica Academy students their collaboration turning Vawter’s
book ‘Paperboy’ into a musical.
By LAUREN MCDONALD
[email protected]
The Glynn County Board of Education plans to vote Tuesday on
whether to adopt a new strategic plan that has been in the works
for several months.
Valerie Whitehead, execu-tive director of strategy and
innovation for Glynn Coun-ty Schools, reported to the school board
at a work session Thursday that the strategic plan is ready to be
approved.
The plan will allow Glynn County Schools to regain fo-cus and
ensure that all federal and state guidelines are met, Whitehead
said. The plan also aligns with the Georgia Vi-sion Project, a
multi-year ini-
tiative to improve the state’s public schools.
“This has been a huge amount of work,” said Virgil Cole, Glynn
County Schools superintendent. “It’s great stuff. I think it really
puts our district in a good place, and I’m very excited about
it.”
Whitehead began in November to craft the plan and seek
feedback.
The school system posted the plan on the district web-site, had
school staff review the plan and sought commu-nity feedback at
meetings.
The plan includes a balance scorecard to provide progress
updates and a literacy score-card to show Lexile score progress at
each school.
It also offers an effective
leadership structure guide-line.
“She’s done a lot of work getting a lot of stakeholder feedback,
and we really feel like it’s really research-based good practices,”
Cole said. “It’s going to be a great way to communicate with (the
school board) as well.”
The school board also plans to vote Tuesday on whether to
approve the Golden Isles College and Career Academy charter renewal
request.
If the school board approves it, the request will be sent to the
Georgia Department of Education, to be discussed and potentially
approved in May.
“We don’t expect any snags during the renewal process,”
said Rick Townsend, GIC-CA’s chief executive.
This will be a fi ve-year charter, rather than GICCA’s original
10-year charter.
In other business, a recom-mendation was made Thurs-day for R.H.
Tyson Construc-tion to receive approval for its bid proposal to
complete the modernization of Glynn Academy’s Sidney Lanier
building.
The school board will decide Tuesday whether to approve R.H.
Tyson’s bid of more than $4,683,000.
The Sidney Lanier build-ing is the next one on Glynn Academy’s
campus in line for renovation, as part of a plan to renovate
several older build-ings on campus.
School board to adopt strategic plan
