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Show Times Newspaper Wednesday, May 7, 1997 Page 7 r. J " if""- I; I i I Vineyard Vikings of the Week for April 18 and 25 at Vineyard Elementary School: (Back row, left to right) Nora Hillstead, Bud Duren, Brian Hardman, Chris Wilcox, C.J. Lawrence. (Middle row) Jan ae Seeyouma, Tyler Phillips, Nathan Woodward, Brandi Burch, Seth Burch. (Front) Chris Day and Colton Fox. (Not pictured: Scott Moake and Stacy Stoddard) 1 a Timpanogos High School'? 1997-98 Fashion Team. Front row (left to right): Kristie Jones-President, Jones-President, Ron Aguero, Karynn Mackay, Nanette Larson, Kendra Forsgren, Stephanie Mikesell, Reagan Brunger. Middle: Courtney Wright, Veronica Diarte', Summer Gordon, Mandy Carroll, Ricann Angus, Brittney Bodily. Back: Jeremy Morris-Vice President, Jeanine Owen, Cami Longson, Dustin Turley, Allison Olsen. Missing from photo: Molly Thayne and Chailyn Larsen; Advisor: Kris Caldwell. 7 - - . P. www ,t DONELL WILLEVS SOCIAL STUDIES HONORS f - . s " ' 1 ' - 1 I I I 7 DECA officers: (Left to right) Raegan Davis, western region vice president from West Jordan High; Tomee Call, northern region vice president from Davis High; Steve Soter, president from Mountain View High; Cami Longson, southern region vice president from Timpanogos High; Brianne Garzarelli, eastern vice president from Hillcrest High. Orcm students elected to DECA offices DECA -- an association of marketing students is a national na-tional organization with tens of thousands of members. Utah DECA has over 2,000 members A ' I r - 'A V 1 t - ' - i . , V,.- - J - 40 and is growing every year. DECA helps to prepare students for careers in marketing and business and allows students to have leadership opportunities and hands-on experience through competitions. At the recent Utah DECA Career Development Conference Con-ference in Salt Lake City, the 1997-98 Utah DECA officers were elected. There are five of " 4 4 1T . - i ; " PROJECT CLASS ficers, including one president and four regional vice presidents. presi-dents. Of these five officers for 1997-98, two are from Orem City. Cami Longson, a junior at Timpanogos High, was elected as the southern region vice president. Steve Soter from Mountain View was elected as the Utah DECA president Cascade Elementary 6th grade students Melissa Samuelian (left) and Rachel Hale take a breather and enjoy a good book at the school's newly renovated Media Center, a special project for the school's 30th birthday. Cascade celebrates 30th birthday Cascade Elementary School celebrated its 30th birthday with a bang recently as students, stu-dents, parents, and invited guests gathered for the grand re-opening of its Media Center. As Principal Nancy Brooks and PTA President Christy Kirkland thought of a project that would benefit all the children of the school this year, New fashion team announced at Timpanogos High School At the Timpanogos High Fashion Show, the Fashion Team for 1997-98 was announced. an-nounced. The Fashion Team is a group of Fashion Merchandising students who model in assemblies as-semblies and put on a big fashion show in the spring for the community. Team members are chosen based on; the number of Fashion Merchandising classes clas-ses they have taken, their creative crea-tive ideas, and their modeling ability. There were 42 students who tried out for next year's team of 20. They will be performing perform-ing next year at Timpanogos High school and will all be enrolled en-rolled in the Advanced Fashion Merchandising class. Lakeridge " students win second place in state competition Mr. Donell Willey's Lakeridge Jr. High School social studies honors project class won second place in the junior high division of the State High School Model United Nations Conference Con-ference with his team earning 12 awards from their fifteen committees. com-mittees. Countries represented were Sweden, Iran, and the Holy See. The Model UN helps students learn how to see problems from other countries' perspectives and make resolutions to these problems for the good of the world. ThiswasthethirdModelUN conference the class has participated par-ticipated in this year. The class is also involved in Geography Olympiad, Constitution Bowl, and National Energy Foundation Founda-tion competition. The class will be doing a service project May 10 with the Forest Service. Orem High participates in constitution event More than 1,250 students from high schools across the country tested their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights as they competed in the tenth annual "We the People...The Citizen and the Constitution" national finals. Orem High School was Utah's representative at the event, held the last week in April. Students from 50 states and the District of Columbia studied for months to testify on constitutional constitu-tional issues in a simulated congressional con-gressional hearing. To represent their state at the national finals, classes won first place in state competitions earlier this year. . Supreme Court Justice David Souter was scheduled to address classes at the awards banquet culminating the event. Senators Edward Kennedy and Henry Hyde were to be honored with the Civitas Award commemorating com-memorating their service in promotion of civic education. they came up with the idea of renovating the school's Media Center. "Over the years, space had been taken out of the library to make room for classrooms, leaving leav-ing us with limited space, inadequate inade-quate lighting, a dysfunctional librarian's desk, and carpet that was 30 years old," said Kirkland. Eight months after the project's conception, the children of Cascade have a newly renovated Media Center! "We enclosed an atrium to make better use of the space, re-carpeted the entire area, built a new and larger librarian's desk, resurface the old tables and countertops, and had new lighting installed. Besides all this, we were able to have some electrical work done to facilitate new computers," Kirkland explained. ex-plained. However, this was not all! Through private donations, drapes were made for the windows, win-dows, plants were put above the bookshelves, a papier-mache dragon was created especially for the media center by Mr. Mar-rott, Mar-rott, a teacher at Cascade, a mural is in the works, and six tapestry bean-bag chairs were purchased. "We have been very pleased with the combined efforts of school, PTA, business partners, and the school district," stated Principal Nancy Brooks. "This has turned out to be the focal point of our school and a wonderful wonder-ful place for our students to go for information." Students, teachers, and parents celebrated with cake, and special "parent readers" in the Media Center throughout the day. Four ribbon-cutting ceremonies were held, highlighted high-lighted by a proclamation from Governor Leavitt. Attending the ceremonies were many guests from the Alpine School District, Orem Mayor Stella Welsh, business busi-ness partners, PTA, and student council. David Lawson nominated to represent Utah in FFA award program David Lawson, of Orem, has been nominated to compete in the National FFA Organization's Agriscience Teacher of the Year award program. pro-gram. Mr. Lawson, who teaches at Orem High School is one of 150 nominees. Lawson was selected by state education leaders for excellence in preparing prepar-ing young people for careers in agriculture. The Agriscience Teacher of the Year award program pro-gram recognizes outstanding agriculture instructors who emphasize em-phasize agriscience and new technologies in their curriculum. cur-riculum. Teachers are recognized recog-nized for their innovative instruction in-struction which sparks student interest in the scientific aspects of agriculture including biology, the environment, engineering and agribusiness. Participants submit applications applica-tions to their state FFA office for judging. The state winning ap-plications(s) ap-plications(s) are then submitted to the National FFA Organization Organiza-tion for further competition. The top four teachers in the nation are selected in early August. Each of these four national finalists receives a $500 cash award, a plaque and a $1,500 grant for their school to pur- chase agriscience equipment The Agriscience Teacher of the Year award program is sponsored spon-sored by the Ford Motor Company Com-pany Fund and PCS Sales as a special project of the National FFA Foundation, Inc. FFA is a national organization organiza-tion of 452,885 members preparing prepar-ing for leadership and careers in the science, business and technology tech-nology of agriculture. The organization or-ganization has 7,263 local chapters chap-ters located throughout the AUDREY PERRY Seven OHS Sterling Scholars were region finalists Seven of Orem High School's Sterling Scholars were region finalists: Amy Blake, dance; Brittany Henrie, business and marketing; Dave McDougal, music; Audrey Perry, social science; Melissa Ransom, foreign language; William Simmons, Sim-mons, mathematics; and Daniel Solen, visual arts. In March, these seven exceptional students stu-dents went to Magna High School for State Sterling Scholar interviews. The Sterling Scholar Awards program was held April 9 at Cottonwood Cot-tonwood High School. Orem High School's social science Sterling Scholar, Audrey Perry, was a state runner-up. Perry serves on Orem High's student council as a senior class officer. She attended Girls' State last summer. Perry was chosen to go to Channel One Student Produced Week as a news writerproducer. She spent two weeks in L.A. writing and producing news stories for Channel One, a news program thatis broadcast daily to 8.1 million mil-lion students nationwide. Perry is the founder and president of Orem High's chapter chap-ter of Teenage Republicans. She is on the Model United Nations team, has been chosen as outstanding out-standing lawyer for Mock Trail, and is a member of the debate team. Perry is vice president of National Honor Society, secretary of Key Club, vice president presi-dent of H.U.G.S. (Help Us Give Service), and secretary of FBLA. She is a member of the Orem High tennis team. Perry is a group leader in the state champion cham-pion Constitution Team, and recently traveled to compete in Washington, D.C. for nationals in that program. She has taken seven A.P. classes and maintains main-tains a 4.0 GPA. Perry has received the Gordon B. Hinckley Scholarship at Brigham Young University. United States, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands. FFA's mission is to make a positive posi-tive difference in the lives of students stu-dents by developing their potential poten-tial for premier leadership, personal per-sonal growth and career success through agricultural education. Local, state and national activities ac-tivities and award programs provide opportunities for students stu-dents to apply knowledge and skills learned in the classroom. Jr. High party held at Orem Fitness Center A Junior High graduation party will be held at the Orem Fitness Center on Saturday, May 17, 1997 from 9 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Organized activities will be held through out the day, such as 3 on 3 basketball, wal-lyball, wal-lyball, racquetball, and fooseball. A dance will be held from 7:30-10:30 p.m. with refreshments and prizes. The cost for Fitness Center admission admis-sion and the dance is $2.00 per student with student ID. All Junior High students are welcome. wel-come. Come join the fun at the Orem City Junior High Celebration. Celebra-tion. Call 229-7154 for details. The Statue of Liberty was originally orig-inally named Liberty Enlightening the World. |