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Bangor Christian

Stephen Tozier was selected as the school winner for the Principal’s Leadership Award.

Mark Chiavelli was selected as the Century III leader. Mark’s projection for innovative leadership concerned America’s moral standards.

Maforie Bassett, Tyler Hartford and Jennifer Carson placed first, second and third in the Creative Writing Essay Contest.

Nov. 30 was Spirit Day. The cheerleaders held a pep rally, and the basketball teams were introduced. — Denys Higgins

Bangor High

Fifty-nine Bangor High students scored above the 95th percentile on at least one of the three Maine Educational Assessment tests last spring. Francis Grey and the late Megan Walker scored above the 95th percentile on all three tests. Grey has earned a four-year scholarship to the University of Maine.

On Dec. 12, BHS will sponsor a seminar on eating disorders from 2:15 to 4 p.m.

Several students in the journalism class visited the Bangor Daily News.

The BHS math team is seventh out of 72 teams in the Eastern Maine Math League.

Students in Ann Sexton’s French III classes are studying the culture, geography, foods and language of French-speaking countries.

Twenty Latin Club members were involved in a Junior Classical League convention held at Leavitt High School in Turner.

A representative from Youth for Understanding visited Spanish classes on Nov. 28. Patti Sawyer, a BHS student and participant in the program last year, also spoke to classes. — Mary Shibles, Sarah Currie, Moriah Coughlin

Brewer High

Intramural indoor hockey will begin this week.

The school newspaper Witch Review is on sale.

The Future Business Leaders of America completed sold more than 300 Brewer Witches towels to benefit the Sherrie Spofford Memorial Scholarship. Members are also participating in the Salvation Army “Give-A-Tree” campaign.

The Art Club is sponsoring a poster sale.

Grades nine-12 received yearbook proofs this week. Orders should be in by Dec. 5.

Caravel School

At the Eastern Maine Math League competition held on Nov. 14, our team placed first for the sixth grade, with individual honors going to Jim Roberts and Kris Sproul. Overall, our school placed fourth.

Our first home basketball games will be held on Dec. 6.

Our Christmas concert will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 17.

The Olympian membership has grown to 28.

Pupils will make Christmas cookies to be sent overseas to the troops at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 8.

Kristen Mellott won the academic Turkey Box.

Students of the Month for November were Josh Gardner, Pam Poland, Sandy London and Chad Nute.

Central High

The band, chorus and singers will hold a free Christmas concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, in the school gymnasium.

The Foreign Language Club will hold a rock-a-thon from 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, until 7 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, to raise money for its trip to Montreal. Students are collecting sponsors for the rock-a-thon. — Jeannine Thibeau

Center Drive

The Raiders had their first game on Nov. 27, beating Glenburn.

The chess team also did a good job representing CDS in its first meet Nov. 29.

The honor roll for the first quarter was announced.

Nancy Carter’s eighth-grade reading classes are reading and interpreting the book “Foxfire,” in anticipation of the CDS Hall of Fame presentation on Dec. 15.

Pauline Dickey’s seventh-grade music classes are working on an original pantomime to music.

Sixth-graders will be working with Debi Phinney, the hot lunch supervisor, to list of their diets so she can make hot lunch more popular.

Fifth Street

Fifth Street has six O.M. teams that will compete in the city competition on Feb. 2.

This year, Fifth Street will have a B team for boys’ and girls’ basketball. Tryouts were held Nov. 28-30.

The boys’ and girls’ varsity teams played their first games against Emersonnever heard of them on Nov. 30. These were the first games to be held in the new gymnasium.

The seventh-grade social studies class has made holiday cards to send to the American troops in Saudi Arabia.

We will have a winter carnival Dec. 10-14, concluding with Fifth Street’s second Fun Night of the year. — Tessa Lawrence, Amy Friedenberg

Hampden Academy

Don’t let your children — toddlers to grade three — miss the annual Brunch with Santa. It promises to be a fun-filled morning with a French-toast breakfast and games. The children may write letters or talk to Santa himself and have their picture taken with him. The event will run 8:30-10:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 8. in the old gym at Hampden Academy. Admission is $3 for children, $2 for accompanying adults.

The Future Business Leaders of America attended the National Fall Leadership Conference Nov. 15-18 in Baltimore.

The concert band held a performance with the Weatherbee band and the University of Maine Symphonic Band on Nov. 29 at the John Skehan Center. Michael Cook, student band teacher at Hampden Academy, conducted the combined number. Conductors included Jerry Bates, Weatherbee School; and Patrick Michaud, Hampden Academy.

The Music Association will hold a Christmas concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 11, at the Skehan Center.

Band members who have been selected for the District Five Music Festival are Karen Sigsbee, flute; Susan Giambalvo, clarinet; Theo Konig, bass clarinet; Sarah Mossman, French horn; Joshua Whitehouse, trumpet; Tyce Toothaker and Tina Cattelle, trombone; Ernest Parkin, baritone horn; Jon Bates and Brendon Reilly, tuba; and Jason Fox, percussion.

Chorus members selected for District Five Music Festival are Terry Davis, Kelly Hamilton, Joshua Hample, Kim Ryerson, Charles Stewart, Mark Meierdirk, Ernest Stillman, Kevin Cuddy and Neill Gemmel.

Winners for the Voice of Democracy contest are Douglas Jackson, first place; Elizabeth Jackson, second; and Jennifer Dowd, third. — Theo Konig, Karen Burke

Hermon High

On Nov. 26, Steve Lindsay, Amy Downing, Shawn Thayer, Todd Scripture and Debbie Feeney visited the University of Maine at Farmington with Clayton Blood.

The Key Club is selling raffle tickets on behalf of the Hermon Kiwanis, and also for the Veterans’ Christmas Fund for underprivileged children.

On Nov. 28, Tim Withem, Jennifer Liscomb, Jackie Burgess and Heide Blaisdell attended a Student Leadership Conference on AIDS at the Bangor Hilton.

A Christmas auction to benefit Project Graduation will be held 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, the Hermon Elementary. — Vikki Webster

John Bapst

The senior class will sell wreaths and Christmas trees during December in front of the school. The price of wreaths is $10.

The Fine Arts Department will hold its holiday festival at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9. Admission is $1 for adults, 50 cents for senior citizens and children.

The Key Club has begun its Christmas toy and food drive.

On Nov. 28, several students took part in a geography contest. Winners were: Ted Curtis, first place; second, Melissa Lockman; and third, Abbey House.

A representative from Youth For Understanding visited the school.

Jennifer Seeking has been named to attend the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Conference. — Brooke Daley, John Hodgins, Robin Kirk, Michael Stewart

Old Town High

Seniors who plan to attend college and their parents are invited to a meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, in the high school cafetorium.

The Old Town Amnesty International Chapter is holding a raffle on several gift certificates.

In an effort to make every child’s Christmas merry, the Old Town High School Peer Helpers are sponsoring a toy drive. The donation box is located in the main lobby.

Kara Chappelle has been named the DAR Good Citizen for our school.

The 1990-1991 Presidential Classroom Scholar is Adam Dupuis, who will represent us at the national program held in Washington, D.C., in February.

Smith School

Leroy H. Smith School in Winterport will participate in a math tournament in February. Results will be sent to Portland for tabulation. About 20-25 pupils will compete against pupils from many other schools in the tournament. Leslie Devaney is the coach.

Principal Keith Welch said that the 1990 first quarter was one of the better first quarters the school has seen. At a ceremony Nov. 26, said that 75 percent of the middle-school pupils received no demerits, and 92 percent received two demerits or less. More than 40 percent of the middle school pupils made the honor roll, Welch said.

On Dec. 4, members of the chorus and band in grades five-eight put on a performance. The band conductors were Patrick Michaud and Michael Cook. The conductors for the chorus groups were Heidi Bouchard, Cook and Wendy Sweet. The performance featured Christmas and Hanukkah music, as well as other songs. The basketball teams both suffered losses in their openers at Orono on Nov. 27. Kevin Moore scored 10 points for the boys, and Kerry Ryerson scored eight for the girls. — Arthur West, Andrea Newey, Shawn Whinery

Weatherbee School

Members of the boys’ eighth-grade basketball team are: Russell Bartlett, Ryan Cowan, Jeremy Dubay, Lance Dube, Brett Johnson, Kyle King, Troy Melvin, Jacob Peppard, Nicholas Rivers, Lance Stillman, Ryan Ward and Mike Wentworth. Robert Moody, Aaron Nadeau and Andrew Stepp are the managers. The coach is Pedro Quint, a social studies teacher at Weatherbee.

The cheerleaders are: Erin Atherton, Kerri Day, Alissa Findlen, Brooke Jellison, Justine McEwan-Volpi, Heidi McKinnon, Harmony Morris, Nicole Pishkur, Joanna Soares, Jenny White and Sara Goss. Debbie Barrows is the coach.

For the past three years, Weatherbee offered a writing program for seventh-and eighth-graders. Pupils write an article for the Bangor Daily News MIDWEEK section. Participants are: Aaron King, Sara Goss, Amy McInnis, Jennifer Nickerson, Jennifer Cole, Adam Sherwood, Rebekka Brooks, David Madore and Deidre Reilly. Alice Hawes is the organizer. — Jennifer Cole, Jennifer Nickerson