Birth Announcement
Entertainers
Frank Sinatra
Jackie Gleason
Julia Child
Lucille Ball
Mikey Rooney
Orson Welles
Rita Hayworth
Politicians
Abe Fortas
Gerald Ford
John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Tip O’Neill
Athletes
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Ben Hogan
Byron Nelson
Jackie Robinson
Jesse Owens
Joe Dimaggio
Joe Lewis
John Wooden
Nile Kinnick
Ted Williams
Humanitarians
Billy Graham
James Van Allen
Norman Borlaug
Entrepreneurs
Sam Walton
Others as Approved
Directions:
Include the individual’s full name, birth date, parent’s names (siblings if applicable, and/or notable relatives), and city of birth.
Provide a brief clue into the child’s future.
5 points
Example:
Brent, Amanda, and big sister Lillian are proud to announce the arrival of son Bennett Alexander Jorth. Bennett was born in Des Moines, IA, on May 27th, 2010. Little Bennett was said to have already hit for the cycle. Please join the family for a baby shower hosted by Bennett’s grandfather the Honorable Gary Alexander.
Obituaries
Entertainers
Mark Twain
Humanitarian
Booker T. Washington
Clara Barton
Florence Nightingale
Harriet Tubman
Politicians
Teddy Roosevelt
Melville Fuller
William Jennings Bryan
Industrialist
Andrew Carnegie
Edwin Houston
F.W. Woolworth
J.P. Morgan
Richard W. Sears
Robert W. Johnson
Others
“Buffalo Bill” Cody
Albert Goodwill Spalding
Joseph Pulitzer
Wilbur Wright
Others as Approved
Consider the following elements while writing the obituary:
INTRODUCTION
Full name of the deceased, including nickname (if any)
Age at death
Date of death
Cause of death
LIFE
Date of birth
Childhood: stories, schools, siblings, and/or friends
Marriage(s): name of spouse (if any)
Children (if any)
Achievements, awards, and other recognition
Employment: jobs, activities, and/or stories
Interests: hobbies, sports, activities, and/or other enjoyment
CONCLUSION
Quotation or poem
10 points possible
Example:
Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple, helped to usher in the era of personal computers and led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday, October 5. The cause of his death due to complications of pancreatic cancer, he was 56.
Tributes to Mr. Jobs flowed quickly on Wednesday evening, in formal and impromptu statements, with President Obama, technology industry leaders and legions of Apple fans weighing in. For those of us lucky enough to get to work with Steve, it’s been an insanely great honor,” said Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder. “I will miss Steve immensely.”
Jobs was born in San Francisco on Feb. 24, 1955, and surrendered for adoption by his biological parents, Joanne Carole Schieble and AbdulfattahJandali. He was later adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs.
Mr. Jobs is said to have developed an early interest in electronics. He was mentored by a neighbor, an electronics hobbyist, and was said to have been brash from an early age. As an eighth grader, after discovering that a crucial part was missing from a frequency counter he was assembling, he telephoned William Hewlett, the co-founder of Hewlett-Packard. Mr. Hewlett spoke with the young Steve Jobs for 20 minutes, prepared a bag of parts for him to pick up and offered him a job as a summer intern.
Mr. Jobs met his future Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak while attending Homestead High School in Cupertino, California. In early 1976, Jobs and. Wozniak, using their own money, began Apple with an initial investment of $1,300. By April 1977, Mr. Jobs and Mr. Wozniak introduced the Apple II which would catapult Apple onto the Fortune 500 list by 1983; at the time, no company had ever joined the list so quickly. Eight years after founding Apple, Mr. Jobs led the team that designed the Macintosh computer, a breakthrough in making personal computers easier to use thanks to the use of a point and click device now known as a mouse. After a 12-year separation from the company, Jobs returned in 1997 to oversee the creation of one innovative digital device after another, including the iPod, iPhone, and iPad.
Mr. Jobs’ personal life was well-publicized. He enjoyed romantic relationships with, folk singer Joan Baez, before marrying Laurene Powell. “She’s one of my best friends in the world.” The two would have three children, Reed, Erin and Eve. Mr. Jobs’ eldest child, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, was from a previous relationship with Chrisann Brennan.
Jobs’ fight with cancer became public in 2004 whenheannounced he had a rare but curable form of pancreatic cancer. Four years later, questions about his health resurfaced when he appeared at a company event looking excessively thin. Privately, he said his cancer surgery had created digestive problems but insisted they were not life-threatening. Jobs passed away at his home in Palo Alto in the early hours of October 5th.
If he had a motto, it may have come from “The Whole Earth Catalog,” which he said had deeply influenced him as a young man. The book, he said in his commencement address at Stanford in 2005, ends with the admonition “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” “I have always wished that for myself,” he said.