July 13, 2006
Student news
• BATH — More than 100 Revere High School students participated in the 2005-06 Ohio Math League. Brian Six, a junior, was the school’s top scorer in the year-long competition. Michelle Chiang was the top senior scorer; Jacob Emmert-Aronson was the top sophomore scorer; and Enoch Kuo was the top freshman scorer. Revere’s team placed first in the county and fourth in the state competition. This is the fifth year in a row that Revere placed first in the county.
• FAIRLAWN — St. Hilary School seventh-graders Jack Edminister and Tyler O’Brien received a superior award for their joint science project at the State Science Day in Columbus. The youths’ experiment dealt with the effects of oral products on oral bacteria. It had previously received superior ratings both at the local science fair at Walsh Jesuit High School and at the district science fair, qualifying the boys to advance to the state level. More than 1,100 students in grades seven through 12 exhibited their projects in the event at The Ohio State University May 6.
• INDEPENDENCE — Winners of the 2006 Northeast Ohio Peacemaker Contest were named May 11 at Northcoast Conflict Solutions’ Award Ceremony. Finalists in the adult category included Tanya Dominick, of Akron (first place), and Rebecca Retzer, of Akron (first runner up). In the high school category, Amanda Parker and Morgan Underwood, both from Firestone High School, were runners up. Proclamations from U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, the Cuyahoga Country Board of Commissioners’ office and the city of Akron were bestowed.
• FAIRLAWN — On June 2, the Fairlawn City Women’s Club awarded four $1,000 college scholarships to high school seniors residing in Fairlawn. This year’s scholarship recipients were James Regennitter, Bohdon Sayre and Michael Pac-Urar, all of Copley High School, and Melanie Friess, of St. Vincent-St. Mary High School.
• COLUMBUS — More than 100 Ohio high school seniors gathered at The Ohio State University campus May 21 to receive full scholarships to the university as part of its Land Grant Opportunity Scholarship program. The program, in its second year, provides full scholarships, worth up to $17,000 per year, to at least one student from virtually every county in Ohio. Locally, Stephan Kuljko, a senior at Woodridge High School, received a grant.
• BATH — Sarah Albert, a graduate of Revere High School and a senior at Kent State University (KSU), was awarded the Salute to Excellence scholarship and represented KSU at the National Restaurant Association convention in Chicago in May. Sarah is the daughter of Paul and Donna Albert, of Bath.
• ATHENS — Lambda of Ohio Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa, initiated 137 Ohio University students at its annual initiation June 9, including Clarissa Kornell, daughter of Janet Lowery, of West Akron, and Greg and Miki Kornell, of Lincoln, Neb.; and Greg Snowden, son of Michael Snowden and Jan Naher-Snowden, of West Akron. Kornell is a senior majoring in political science and has a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Indonesia. Snowden is a junior majoring in environmental and plant biology.
• AKRON — Archbishop Hoban High School’s newspaper, The Visor, received the Buckeye Award in overall newspapers from the Great Lakes Interscholastic Press Association (GLIPA) at Bowling Green State University. The Buckeye is GLIPA’s highest award, and The Visor students scored 990 out of 1,000 points. In individual categories, Visor staffers won four superior ratings: Roxanne Sawhill, in staff editorials; Becky Pelini, in sports news and sports columns; and The Visor staff for editorial page design. Visor staffers also won 13 awards of “Excellent”: Maureen Bulgrin and Mark Cottrill, in newswriting; Amber Beery, in feature columns, personality features, human interest features, reviews and infographics; Alex Bluebond, in editorial columns, reviews and infographics; Andrew Bluebond, in personality features; Anna Edwards, in news features; and Pelini, in sports columns. Senior Emma Danford won second place in straight news, and Sawhill received an honorable mention in photo stories.
• AKRON — Women to Women of Akron has awarded $500 scholarships to three Akron Public Schools 2006 high school graduates who participated in the Upward Bound Program at The University of Akron. Jeniece Brooks, who will attend Bowling Green State University; Charles Palmer, who will attend the University of Toledo; and Christopher LeGrair, who will attend Central State University, were the awardees.
• DOWNTOWN AKRON — The University of Akron Department of English recently paid tribute to its outstanding students at the department’s annual honors and awards banquet. Scholarship and prize recipients included:
√ Sam Ella Dukes Memorial Poetry Prize: Jason Venner, of Cuyahoga Falls, and Dawson Steeber and Robert Neil Nicholas, both of Akron;
√ Frank Pixley Memorial Fund Scholarship: Anthony Williams, of Akron;
√ Dr. John Samuel Phillipson Jr. Scholarship: Kara Herrnstein, of Bath; and
√ Carl H. and Dorothy S. Bauer Scholarship: Steeber.
• ATHENS — Don Venable and Katie Ingersoll, both of Cuyahoga Falls, and Renee Lightner, of Copley, were winners in the 2006 Ohio University Research and Creative Activity Fair during spring quarter. Venable won first prize in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences category for the project “CanSat Competition.” Ingersoll won second prize in the School of Art category for her project “Transplanting Into Mexico.” Lightner won second prize in the Social Sciences 2a category for the project “Online Tutorial to Promote Learning Technologies.”
