Cody Devaney, an eighth grader from Palermo Consolidated School, part of RSU#12, recently qualified, for the second year in a row, as one of the top 100 fourth-eighth graders to compete in the Maine National Geography Bee, held at the University of Maine at Farmington. He won the school bee three years in a row and his twin brother won the year before that (who also placed in top three for the last three years.)
Young Americans Dance Center team member Silver Picard, of Winslow, performed at the Battle of the Badges benefit basketball game between the Waterville police and fire departments, to benefit the South End Teen Center, in Waterville.
Pictured are five generations of the Cunningham family. From left to right, Wade Cunningham (grandfather), baby Autumn Anne Taylor, holding baby, Rachel Cunningham (great-great-grandmother), Kara Cunningham (mother), Lloyd Cunningham (great-grandfather).
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The following local residents made the dean’s list at Rochester Institute of Technology, in Rochester, New York, for fall semester 2016-2017:
Bethany Hartley, of Whitefield, is studying in the mechanical engineering technology program.
Alexandra Mcclintock, of Athens, is studying in the photographic and imaging arts program.
Merrimack College, in North Andover, Massachusetts, has recognized two local students who have achieved dean’s list for Fall 2016:
Allison Leighton, of Oakland, and Leyna Tobey, of Augusta.
The following students have been named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2016 semester at Clarkson University, in Potsdam, New York:
Samuel A. Lambrecht, a graduating senior at Winslow High School, has been named one of more than 4,000 candidates in the 2017 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. The candidates were selected from nearly 3.5 million students expected to graduate from U.S. high schools in the year 2017.
Inclusion in the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program, now in its 53rd year, is one of the highest honors bestowed upon graduating high school seniors. Scholars are selected on the basis of superior academic and artistic achievements, leadership qualities, strong character and involvement in community and school activities.
The U.S. Presidential Scholars Program was established in 1964 by executive order of the president to recognize some of our nation’s most distinguished graduating seniors for their accomplishments in many areas: academic success, leadership, and service to school and community. It was expanded in 1979 to recognize students demonstrating exceptional scholarship and talent in the visual, creative, and performing arts.
Presidential Scholars are chosen from among that year’s senior class, representing excellence in education and the promise of greatness in America’s youth. All Scholars are invited to Washington, D.C. in June for the National Recognition Program, featuring various events and enrichment activities and culminating in the presentation of the Presidential Scholars Medallion during a White House-sponsored ceremony.
A distinguished panel of educators will review these submissions and select 800 semifinalists in early April. The Commission on Presidential Scholars, a group of up to 32 eminent citizens appointed by the President, will select the finalists, and the U.S. Department of Education will announce the Scholars in May.
Scholars will be invited to Washington, D.C., for several days in June to receive the Presidential Scholars Medallion at a recognition ceremony and to participate in events and activities.
Samuel A. Lambrecht is the son of Bruce and Hilary Lambrecht, of Winslow.
Rev. Larry Lakey
On February 28, Rev. Larry Lakey, of Winslow, served as Pastor of the Day, delivering the opening prayer in the Maine State Senate.
Rev. Lakey serves as senior pastor at the Winslow Baptist Church, where he has led the congregation since 2015. Originally from New Jersey, Rev. Lakey previously served in youth and children’s ministry in both Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Messiah College, in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts.
“It was an honor to meet Rev. Lakey today, and to have him open our day in prayer,” said Maine State Senator, Scott Cyrway, who represents Senate District 16.
Audrey Jordan, of Whitefield, a senior at Erskine Academy, has been selected to receive the 2017 Principal’s Award, Headmaster Michael McQuarrie announced. The award, sponsored by the Maine Principal’s Association, is given in recognition of a high school senior’s academic excellence, outstanding school citizenship, and leadership.
Audrey Jordan
Jordan, a consistent high-honors student in a program with numerous Advanced Placement courses and Concurrent Enrollment classes with nearby colleges, has also accumulated hundreds of hours of valuable community service, many at the MaineGeneral Medical Center and St. Michael’s School, in Augusta.
“Audrey, an exemplary student and fine ambassador of Erskine Academy and young people in general, personifies the school’s core values of scholarship, leadership, stewardship and relationships, making her most deserving of this recognition,” noted Headmaster McQuarrie when making the award.
Jordan, McQuarrie, and other award winners and their principals will attend an honors luncheon at the Spectacular Event Center in Bangor on Saturday, April 1, at 12:30 p.m.
The honors luncheon recognizes these outstanding students with the presentation of an individual plaque and the awarding of five $1,000 scholarships in the names of Horace O. McGowan and Richard W. Tyler; both were former Maine principals and executive directors of the association. Additionally, five $1,000 scholarships will be presented through the efforts of the MPA Scholarship Golf Tournament.
The Principal’s Award is presented in more than 100 Maine public and private high schools by member principals of the MPA, the professional association that represents Maine’s school administrators.
Dean’s list status, which is awarded to students who earned a scholastic average of 3.6 or better while carrying at least 12 hours of regularly graded courses, has been granted to Zachary Caruso, of Waterville, in the Fall 2016 semester, at Lehigh University, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.