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Show Thursday, May 19, 2005 Page 4 OREM GENEVA TIMES note AND IDEAS 2005 GRADUATION PREVIEW M 0 U N TA IN VIE W H I G H SCHOOL Graduates positive about school, life Duane Hilton I he 2UOr Brum class will he r'-iiiriiibi'icd ;is a "pretty positive posi-tive nmup" bv school counselor I .any Wiiherspoon, " I hi-v arc a group ol fun kid, ilia! are positive alMHit v In ml and lile in general," he said While the 2005 class was (here, the halls ol Mountain View High School were free from the discord other scIkxjIs have. Wiiherspoon said. I'.ul the students have not only been a positive group, Wiiherspoon said: "This is has been one of our good academic ( lasses." I he students earned good A("l scores, had high numbers num-bers in concurrent enrollment programs, and many of them even earned associate college degrees at the same time as I heir high school diploma, he said Schedule to graduate are 484 Mountain View students who will gel I heir diplomas May 20. The school has prepared a program for the event complete com-plete with a theme from the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson Em-erson "What lies beyond us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." OREM HIGH 4 1 - f 5: ' J'S; MATT SMITH North County Kirsten Siebach and Alex Stiles will be two academic speakers ut Orem High's graduation. Orem High grads aim to change the world Duane Hilton "You must ! the change you wish to see in the world," Mahatma Gandhi said And that is the theme of Orem High School's 2(K)5 graduation. Maybe the 38!) potential graduates will le able to make the changes they wish to in the world The 2005 class is special, said Toby Bullock. Orem High School assistant principal. " They are a better class academically aca-demically than in the past," he said "They have a little more spirit " Hullock has been with Orem High for four years He said this class has high participation in activities, sports and dances. The senior members of Orem High's student government have been a special group too, said Annette Newsom. Orem High ScrKxil's student government govern-ment teacher. "They have been amazing." Newsom said They have worked very hard for the students stu-dents here at the school." A special class deserves a special graduation, and that is what the school has planned. The T igerLine staff will FROM CLASSROOMS AND EDUCATORS These students will deliver gruduation addresses at Mountain View Angela Dustrup, Selh Vogel and Emmerin Day. Emmerin Day and Seth Vogel Vo-gel will give addresses. Bridgette Strickland, senior class historian, will talk about the highlights of the 2005 Mountain View class. Angela Dastrup will give a tribute to parents speech. Principal Richard D. Clark, SCHOOL : U Graduation Date: May 26, 2005 Location: Marriott Center, BYU Time: 9 a.m. Number of graduates: 389 play a farewell video they put together. It has clips of things that have happened during the year. Anna Ratsapasith will give a tribute speech to parents. Rachael Cardoza will give an address called To Change The World" Kristin Skousen will give an address called The Heroes of Tomorrow." Student Body President Derrick Der-rick Wakamatsu, Valedictorian Alexander Stiles, and Salutato-rian Salutato-rian Kirsten Siebach will also speak. Andrea L. Forsyth, Board of Education vice president, will be the guest speaker. Music will be provided by the a cappella choir with Sterling K eyes as director and the symphonic sym-phonic band with Paul Lemen as director. JoDee Sundberg of the Board of Education, and Senior Class President Shawn Merrill will also give some remarks. Musical numbers will be performed by the orchestra, directed by Mike Hendriksen, and a cappella choir, directed by Rosemary Mathews. TIMPAN0G0S HIGH COBB CONDIENorth County Kyle Cornwall (left), Karlan Evans (center) and Taylor Wood will be speaking at Timpanogos's graduation ceremony Grads are big on service Reva Bowen N Win COUNTY STA-r The 421 graduates of Timpanogos High School will participate in ceremonies to be held at BYLTs Marriott Center in Provo on May 26 at 4 p.m., capping a year in which ser- vice was integral to the Class ! of 2005. "This has been a great ser-j ser-j vice year," said Luanne Olson, student council adviser at the service year." Among the service projects completed by students was a fund-raiser that collected $1,700 to help provide adaptive adap-tive activities for students with disabilities. Timpanogos students also assembled 100 Easter baskets, filled with nonfood non-food items, that were donated and personally delivered to patients at Primary Children's Medical Center. The theme for services this year was taken from several lines of poetry attributed to Walter D. Wintle, said Carrie Whitney, couaseling department depart-ment chair, who, along with Sharon Bodily, AP English teacher, has headed up the graduation committee. The theme is: "Life's battles don't always go to the stron JEREMY HARMONNorth County High School From left to right, Graduation Date: May 26, 2005 Location: Marriott Center, BYU Time: 12:30 p.m. Number of graduates: 484 ger or faster man, but sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can." Four seniors who are in the top five percent of the class, measured by a weighted grade point average, were selected as graduation speakers after auditioning. Kyle Cornwall will speak on "The Potential of Dreams." Taylor Wood will give an address ad-dress using Abraham Lincoln as an ideal. Matt Lisonbee's speech is titled, "On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!" A tribute to parents, "The Brew of Life," will be given by Karlan Evans. Principal Brad Kendall and Alpine School District Board of Education representative Debbie Taylor are also scheduled sched-uled to speak. Musical numbers num-bers will be provided by the a cappella choir and symphonic band. Emily A. Buxton, Daniel Larsen, Tricia Terry and Leslie Les-lie OLsen are National Merit Scholarship winners. Two students stu-dents Michelle Aucoin and Tricia Terry are being honored hon-ored for maintaining perfect, 4.0 CPAs for four years. Timpanogos students have qualified for more than $600,000 in scholarship money, mon-ey, with several colleges yet to report in, said Whitney. TIMPANOGOS HIGH Film festival winners Timpanogos High School students recently competed with 30 other high schools throughout the state in eight separate video categories during dur-ing a film festival held at Utah Valley State College. In the music video category, Aaron Sorenson and Matt Brown won first place, and John Davis took third. Ana Breton and Kylie Brown captured cap-tured first place in the comedy video category. Portions of the winning entries were to be featured on T-Wolf Television, said Richard Collette of the Applied Technology Department at Timpanogos. LAKERIDGE JUNIOR HIGH History day hopes As the result of placing first or second in statewide competition, compe-tition, five Lakeridge Junior High students are hoping to attend National History Day at the University of Maryland June 13-17 to present their winning win-ning projects. The students are: Andrew Galloway and Alexis Caldwell, who worked together on a 10-minute 10-minute dramatization of the Living Newspaper, a venture of the Federal Theater Project during the Depression; sisters Quinn and Aubrey Colter, who won first place in the state in the documentary division of the competition; and Sean Peterson, who will present a paper he authored. All five are enrolled in Sara Hacken's academic studies program at Lakeridge. Despite its name, National History Day is a actually a yearlong, nonprofit academic program designed to promote the study of history. One of the major corporate sponsors is The History Channel. Galloway and Caldwell recently re-cently visited a meeting of the Orem City Council to explain their involvement with National History Day and the upcoming trip. Anyone interested in making mak-ing a contribution to help fund the students' trip can contact Hacken at 227-8752. N0RTHRIDGE ELEMENTARY Language winners For the third year in a row, Northridge students have brought home the overall trophy tro-phy for the elementary division in the BYU Foreign Language Fair. "I was just very excited and proud," said Aurie Petrie, Northridge North-ridge fourth-grade teacher. Fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders from Northridge competed in many events while speaking speak-ing Spanish,' including the knowledge bowl, show and tell, prepared talks and impromptu conversations. The students speak Spanish very well even though most of them come from homes with parents who do not speak Spanish, Span-ish, Petrie said. People at BYU thought the children spoke Spanish well too, she said In fact, when the BYU fan-was fan-was not split into divisions and the high school students competed com-peted against the elementary students, "our little kids used to beat the high school kids," Petrie said. Northridge's classrooms could have something to do with that. Most of the students have been learning Spanish since the first grade, she said. VV JA rVVe have an Extensive Credit Program. We can help with a and Reestablish your credit. No Hassle 24 hr. Credit Line. (801)492-1870 Or For One-on One Help Call Jake at 492-0100 DOUG A 523 W. Main, American Fork, Utah Exit 281 801-492-1110 CASCADE ELEMENTARY A week of music This week, Cascade Elemen-tary's Elemen-tary's halls and auditorium were full of music. The school's choir sang on Tuesday at their Cougar Choir Assembly. The school orchestra or-chestra members will also have a turn when they play for their peers in the Orchestra Assembly Concert on Friday. The musically musical-ly talented students of Cascade have their week to shine. ORCHARD ELEMENTARY A.G. visits Orchard This Monday, students of Orchard Elementary learned about the importance of staying stay-ing away from drugs and other self-inflicted dangers. The Attorney At-torney General of Utah, Mark Shurtleff , visited the school and spoke in an assembly for the upper grades. He discussed what effects drugs, pornography, pornogra-phy, alcohol, and other harmful addictions will have on people the rest of their lives. Thanks to Mark Shurtleff, these students will have a deeper knowledge of what-not-to-do. ASPEN ELEMENTARY Sixth-graders vs. faculty The game is on. On May 26, Aspen Elementary's sixth-graders sixth-graders will be challenging the school's faculty and staff to a softball game. The members of the faculty who are brave enough to take on the mob of hyperactive youngsters will be faced with quite a game. OREM ELEMENTAL End-of-year activities A number of year-end activities activi-ties are slated at Orem Elementary, Elemen-tary, beginning with Field Day on Friday at 8:30 am The traditional tradi-tional softball game pitting the faculty against the sixth-grade students will begin about 12:30 p.m. Sixth-grade graduation exercises exer-cises will take piace on Monday at 9 a.m. at the school. On Wednesday, the kindergarten kinder-garten classes will hold their own field day, beginning at 9:45 a.m., to be followed by an evening program that night at 7. An awards assembly is scheduled for next Thursday at 9:45 a.m., and the last day of school on May 27 is a shortened schedule that will have students attending from 8 to 9:30 am. VINEYARD ELEMENTARY Viking Venture Days Viking Venture Days, Vineyard Vine-yard Elementary's family -oriented school carnival, will be held Friday from 4:30 to 730 p.m. Fun and games will include inflatables, a dunking booth, 'rocket launch, raffles, radar throw, engraving, carnival games, cake decorating contest and auction, and free entertainment. entertain-ment. A variety of food will be available for purchase. There will also be prizes and a balloonist. balloon-ist. Game tickets will be four for a dollar. I Final week events Calendar Cal-endar items for Vineyard Elementary include: field day, Wednesday, 9:30 -11:30 a.m.; awards assembly, Thursday, 10:15 a.m.; and last day of school, May 27. New or Used car POOR C( |