C. Rodney Harrington and the Harrington Law Firm have previously been awarded an “AV Preeminent” rating by Martindale-Hubbell Rating Service which is the service’s highest possible designation of professionalism and ethics.  This rating was generated by a survey of Harrington’s peers and only 10% of attorneys across the United States receive this coveted designation.  

Martindale-Hubbell is widely recognized as the world’s most respected service for rating attorneys.  They have been conducting and publishing attorney ratings for over 130 years and are regarded the “Gold Standard” of attorney ratings. 

Now, the Harrington Law Firm is proud to announce that attorney C. Rodney Harrington and the firm have also been awarded by the same rating service the highest possible distinction by the judiciary.

C. Rodney Harrington and the Harrington Law Firm have added to their previous award the Special Edition Judicial Award which is especially noteworthy because it is based upon the confidential opinions and recommendation of members of the judiciary familiar with Mr. Harrington and the Harrington Law Firm.  The Judicial Edition Award indicates perfect ratings from the judiciary on the attorney’s legal ability and ethical standards.

According to Harrington, he is particularly proud of this recognition because it is based upon reviews from other attorneys and area judges who are familiar with his and the firm’s legal standards and professional ability, and not some “Buy an Award” marketing ploy.

“We’re a small, family law firm in a small town and we strive every single day to be ethical and professional in the representation of our clients,” said Harrington.  “That’s why it’s so gratifying to learn that we have received the highest possible rating by our fellow attorneys and now by judges as well.  We must be doing something right.”

C. Rodney Harrington has been practicing law in this area for over 45 years and his son and partner, C. Edward “Eddie” Harrington for over 14 years.

The Harrington Law Firm handles a wide range of cases, but primarily all types of personal injury, including Automobile, Motorcycles, and Big Truck Wrecks and Medical Malpractice, along with Bankruptcy, Social Security Disability Appeals, and Wills and Estates.

The firm’s website is http://www.theharringtonlawfirm.com

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By Brad Dison

From 1948 until 1953, David was the president of Columbia University in New York City.  During his tenure as president of the university, David hired an artist, Thomas Stephens, to paint a portrait of his wife.  As the painter worked, David, who had no previous interest in painting, became spellbound.  He was fascinated that the artist could transform a blank canvas into something so beautiful.  Perhaps he was biased because the subject of the painting was his wife, but David was amazed at how each brush stroke transformed the canvas from nothingness into something beautiful.  David had never been interested in painting, but now he wondered if he could capture someone’s likeness on canvas as Thomas Stephens had. 

David stretched a white dust cloth on the bottom of a box for a canvas and attempted to copy his wife’s portrait.  When finished, David showed his painting to his wife and Thomas.  David described the painting as “weird and wonderful to behold,” and added, “we all laughed heartily.”  Thomas asked if he could keep David’s painting as a keepsake.  In exchange, Thomas sent David a painting kit which David thought was a “sheer waste of money.”  David’s true passion was playing golf, but when he was unable to play golf due to rain or other circumstances, he painted.   

In a 1950 letter to Winston Churchill, David wrote, “I have a lot of fun since I took it up, in my somewhat miserable way, your hobby of painting. I have had no instruction, have no talent, and certainly no justification for covering nice, white canvas with the kind of daubs that seem constantly to spring from my brushes. Nevertheless, I like it tremendously, and in fact, have produced two or three things that I like enough to keep.”  He described his portrait paintings as “magnificent audacity,” and burned most of them.  Unlike Churchill who enjoyed spending hours outside painting landscapes, if the weather was good enough for David to sit outside and paint, it was good enough for golf.

When David’s tenure with Columbia University was over, David continued to paint.  He had a small studio on the second floor of the house he lived in where he would paint for 10 minutes before lunch.  Rather than using his paintings as a way to express his inner self, David preferred to reproduce what he saw before him.  Normally, he would attach a photograph to one side of his canvas and attempt to paint what he saw. 

David had no false pride in his artistic abilities, but he enjoyed painting and never gave it up.  In the last 20 years of his life, he painted about 260 paintings.  In 1967, when some of David’s paintings were displayed at a show in a New York art museum, David told reporter Richard Cohen, “Let’s get something straight here, Cohen.  They would have burned this [expletive] a long time ago if I weren’t the President of the United States.”  The house where David had the small painting studio on the second floor was the White House.  In addition to being a painter, golfer, and the President of the United States, David was five-star Army general and Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe, Dwight David “Ike” Eisenhower. 

Sources:

1.      Jonathan Alter, “Bush Nostalgia Is Overrated, but His Book of Paintings Is Not,” New York Times, April 17, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/books/review/george-w-bush-portraits-of-courage.html.

2.     “Eisenhower Paintings,” The White House Historical Association, https://www.whitehousehistory.org/galleries/eisenhower-paintings.

3.     “President Eisenhower: The Painter,” The White House Historical Association, https://www.whitehousehistory.org/president-eisenhower-the-painter.

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QUALIFICATIONS:

• Valid Teaching Certificate
• Master’s Degree in Education (preferred)
• Minimum of five years of teaching with evidence of successfully impacting student achievement, particularly those who have the greatest needs.
• Exemplary evaluation scores on the NIET Teaching and Learning Standards Rubric. (COMPASS-highly effective)
• Demonstrated expertise in content, curriculum development, student learning, test analysis, mentoring and professional development, as demonstrated by an advanced degree, advanced training and/or career expertise
• Excellent communication skills and understanding of how to facilitate growth in adults

JOB SUMMARY:

To provide teachers using school site level professional development and support during the school day and to conduct observations and teacher conferences. While the master teacher is modeling/teaching the requirements of the teacher job description must be utilized.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Job-Embedded Instructional Coaching
• Facilitate school-level Communities (TAP Cluster Meetings)
• Support teachers with development of standards-aligned proficiency exams
• Collect, organize, and disaggregate academic data
• Oversee school-level Response to Intervention (RTI) program, WIN (Whatever I Need)
• Redeliver and support implementation of district and state professional Development
• To assess teacher evaluation results and maintain inter-rater reliability
• To participate in all TAP trainings and become a certified TAP evaluator.
• To monitor goal setting, activities, classroom follow-up and goal attainment for cluster groups and for teacher growth plans.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:

• Resume`
• Evidence of successful teaching experience (for example: VAM, Student Performance Data, COMPASS, CLASS, etc.)
• Original transcripts from institution(s) awarding degree
• Three professional letters of recommendation, one of which is from your immediate supervisor
• Submit a ten to fifteen-minute video clip of a model lesson involving students or professional development session involving teachers where the applicant is leading the event (share link via Google Drive to demetris@npsb.la

SALARY: Position will be 9-month, salary based on teacher pay scale with applicant’s years of experience, and the addition of a substantial TAP Master Teacher stipend.

DEADLINE: Wednesday, April 10, 2024 by 4:00 p.m.

WHERE TO APPLY:

Linda G. Page, Director of Personnel
Natchitoches Parish School Board
P.O. Box 16
Natchitoches, LA 71457
Phone: (318) 352-2358
Fax: (318) 352-8138
Website: www.npsb.la

EOE

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Jewel Marie Holland
February 7, 1957 — March 29, 2024
Service: Thursday, April 4 at 10:30 am at New Hope Church of Provencal, located at 140 Bellwood St. in Provencal

Jackie Lamar Davis
May 21, 1973 — March 31, 2024
Service: Saturday, April 6 at 10 am at Fountain of Life Church in Natchitoches

Ida Nell Beaudion
October 17, 1955 — March 29, 2024
Service: Saturday, April 6 at 10 am at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Cloutierville

Betty Marie Sutton Moore
April 6, 1937 — March 26, 2024
Arrangements TBA

Lillian Babers Cocherl
August 11, 1931 — March 24, 2024
Service: April 20 at 10 am at Trinity Episcopal Church, 533 Second St. in Natchitoches

Gwendolyn Baldwin
April 14, 1959 – March 13, 2024
Arrangements TBA

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Color: Red Merle and White
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And Has a Tail

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