Center Drive

The Union 91 Spelling Bee was held in Orland on March 2. David Farren won the bee with Amber Richens placing second. Tom Geaghan, Justin Shaw and Matt Skaves finished third, fourth and sixth respectively.

Seventh and-eighth graders competed in the annual Civic Oration competition on March 2. The winners were Candice White and Amanda Goody. They will be competing in the Penobscot competition later this month at Bangor Christian Schools. Both competitors gave dynamic speeches about a person who had overcome.

The Science Club went to Fort Kent Feb. 18-20 to see the Can-Am sled dog races. While they were there, they went ice fishing on Eagle Lake, snowshoeing, skiing and helped two of the sled dog teams with watering during the competition. Many thanks to all the generous host families for taking such good care of our staff and students. This was an experience of a lifetime for most of those involved.

The Exchanging Maine Cultures program continues March 13-15 with staff and students going to Noble in Berwick for the first time. The girls will participate in the Expanding Your Horizons Aspirations Conference at the University of Southern Maine.

Students will continue to work on the pen-pals program and planning future EMC activities.

Science Olympiad will be held on April 2 in Jay, Maine. Nancy Swanson will be coordinating activities starting on March 7 with the CDS students.

Jazz Band competed in the regionals at Milford on March 2. They qualified to attend the State Competition at Orono on March 18. This was the first endeavor for students.

The Math Team competed on Feb. 7. James Townsend placed second and Alec Sturrock placed in the top ten for the Eastern Maine Math League. The seventh grade team one placed second in the league as well. Due to inclement weather, parent-teacher conferences for March 3 will be rescheduled. Please call the school if you wish to reschedule.

— Seth Tremble

and James Townsend

Fruit Street

Street School will be holding its Annual Spring Fair 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, March 19, at the school in Bangor. Clowns, games and entertainment are planned to mark the onset of spring.

Garland Street

The city spelling bee was held March 1. The winner was Hilary Clark from Garland Street. She will be competing in the county spelling bee later this month.

On March 2, Garland Street had an assembly in which orchestra, band and chorus members from Bangor High performed. It was a great performance enjoyed by all.

The New England Math League Contest test was taken by all grades. The top scorers for the seventh grade were Jake Jentzer, Cassie Elmore, Jamie kenny, Richard Hetly, Chris Carlisle, Sarah Kornreich and Marin Godsoe. The eighth grade top scoring team includes Luke Kotredes, Sara Kates-Chinoy, Lyndsay Tower, Brooke Shubert and Andy Silver.

The Odessey of The Mind city tournament was Friday, March 4, at Fifth Street Middle School. Garland Street had six teams participating.

The February edition of the school newspaper News From The Nest came out the week before vacation. There were several excellent articles written by Garland Street students. The advisor for this paper is Paula Lewis.

Intramural volleyball has started. Sixth, seventh and eighth grade students chose their own teams and compete against other teams within their grade. There is also a faculty team which plays against eighth grade teams.

— Anne Sears

and Sarah Kornreich

Glenburn Middle

Lani Naihe and Courtney Guay were chosen winner and runner-up in the final competition of the Glenburn Civic Oration Contest under the sponsorship of Modern Woodmen of America. Judging contestants’ talks on the topic “People Who Have Overcome” were: Ron Lisnet, Steve McKay and Suzzane Thomas. Rebecca Wallace conducted this year’s contest.

The other school finalists were David Dauphinee, Kris Churchill, Kyle Leighton, Carolyn Miller, Jennifer Belanger, Marc Kenney, John Jones, Logan Williams, Jason Cookson and Jonathan Shuttlesworth.

The boys basketball team beat the Clippers from Winterport in the championship game at the Hermon gym. The boys ended their season with a record of 10 wins and 8 losses.

The Fleet Bank Youth Leaders “Green Team” sponsored a downhill skiing trip to Hermon Mountain to raise money for a Glenburn Student Scholarship Fund. There were 58 people taking part in the ski trip.

— Nikki Martin and Courtney Guay

Hermon High

Breakfasts will be served on March 3 by Spanish Club, and March 4 by Student Council.

There will be a Booster Club meeting at 7 p.m. on March 3, at Hermon High School.

The Winter Sports banquet will be held at 6:30 p.m. on March 8, at the Junior High School cafeteria.

Mid-quarter reports went out on March 7.

The Winter Sports banquet will be held at 6:30 p.m. on March 8, at the Junior High School cafeteria.

There will be a band concert at Hermon High at 7 p.m. on March 10, in the gym.

— Misty Watson

Hermon JHS

A ski trip, sponsored by Surgarloaf USA, is being offered to interested Hermon students and community members on March 12. The cost for the trip will be $25 for students (grades 6-12) and the adult fee will be $32. Rentals, if needed, will cost an extra $14. These fees will cover the costs of Cyr bus transportation and a lift ticket. For more information and forms contact Cathy Tweedie.

Weather information and maps, downloaded daily by Alan Tweedie in the computer lab, are being recorded and analyzed by Shawn Kimball’s Mini-Course students each week at school. They are using weather data to provide detailed information on this winter’s weather, using charts located in our hallways. Information included on these charts deals with daily temperatures, degree day data, sunrise/sunset, precipitation and the moon phases.

The Student Council Dance scheduled for March 4 was canceled and will not be rescheduled.

The third quarter is half over. Progress reports will be going home Friday, March 18.

Anna Lee Libby, Patty Eames and many seventh and eighth grade students are working on the play production of “Ransom of Red Chief” to be presented for public enjoyment at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 22. Also available before the performance will be a dinner. Tickets are being sold in advance only. The price is $5. The dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m. with proceeds helping to cover both play and dinner expenses. The deadline for obtaining tickets is today. Seating is limited and no tickets will be sold at the door.

The winner of the Union 34 Spelling Bee held at the Glenburn school on March 7 was Mike Guthrie and the runner-up was Melissa Winslow. Guthrie will represent Hermon in the County Bee.

Lloyd Faloon and Michael Hyson represented Hermon Junior High at a chess Tournament held at John Bapst on Saturday, March 5.

— Ryan Tweedie

and Danielle Bogan

John Bapst

Winter Carnival, held the week before break, was its usual success with all classes sharing honors in the traditional, and slightly absurd, contests. Seniors, with Mark Baxter as the principal, won the toilet paper wrap and the bat spin. Juniors won the under-the-chin orange pass while sophomores won giant-people roll.

In the now infamous Mr. John Bapst contest, John Flemming, representing the juniors, took first place and freshman Hugh Whitney came in a surprise second.

The week closed with a pep rally recognizing all school teams as they entered championship play.

The Outing Club has planned its annual Sugarloaf trip for the weekend of March 26.

The senior class is working hard on Project Graduation and its other end of the year activities. — Camilla Moore

Orono High School

Last week, OHS was home to the annual Winter Carnival celebration, designed to relieve students from the winter blues. There was an insatiable array of games, activities and general merriment that was punctuated by a performence by the Orono based band Polyester Julitte.

As the week went on, the lead for competition points switched hands several times, eventually being embraced by the seniors.

The aformentioned band is composed entirely of OHS juniors and has released an album Narrow Minded Critic, avaliable at local music stores.

The One Act Play Cast has started to practice on The Billy Goat’s Gruff. The cast is: Sarah Newcomb, Michelle Butler, Amy Torrey, Brooke Monberg, Andrew Day and Ningur Akoglu. Others involved with the production are: Jeff Brazee as understudy/stage manager; Abby Curtis as the technician and Tom Logan is Director.

There is a wide variety of art on display in the library, the halls and in the Main Lobby.

New information concerning scholarships is available in the Guidance Office.

— Lani Campbell

Wagner School

Numerous eighth grade students attended the Expanding Your Horizons Conference at the University of Maine on March 8. Various fields in math and science were represented.

Nate Drummond has qualified to participate in the state level of the National Geography Bee.

Over the weekend of March 5, Wagner Middle School competed in the Maine State Chess Tournament. Ben Theriault, Doug Westman, Erin Wight and Joe West represented Wagner. Ben Theriault was awarded a medal for finishing first in the 1200-1400 category. Doug Westman was awarded a medal for finishing first in the unrated category. Wagner played Monmouth, Deer Isle-Stonington, Castine and Great Salt Bay. Congratulations to the PVJHL Holbrook team for winning the tournament.

— Ben Theriault

Bangor Christian

The winners of the school spelling bee were: first place Jennifer Wilkes, second place Ester Pier and third place Betsy Lovely. Congratulations to Jennifer Wilkes for her fourth place showing in the Penobscot County Spelling Bee.

Kevin Schroeher has qualified to compete at the state level of the National Geography Bee. Kevin will be participating with other Maine students in their quest to win the state champion’s position. The competition will be April 8 at Colby College.

Winter Carnival came and left with a whirl of festivities. The competition was dominated by the Junior class everyday until the last when, with a surprise win, the Senior class shot ahead. The final scores found the Junior class nursing their hurt feelings with a second place victory. With the crowning of King and Queen, the Junior class raised their collective fist in anticipation for next year. (For those wanting to know who the King and Queen were, they are the writers of this week’s article!)

— Tyler Hartford

and Michelle Dauphinee

Bangor High

The BHS Speech Team made a strong showing at the State meet held at Edward Little, coming in sixth place. Individual awards went to Kristen Gwinn who placed first in Oratorical Declamation and Angie Plummer who placed second in Storytelling.

All four of BHS’s National Merit Semi-Finalists have been selected as finalists in the competition. They are Tim Bragg, Kate Merritt, Molly Tomlinson and Ed Allen.

BHS students are participating in a Work-a-thon at the Bangor Public Library. Members of the Student Council, National Honor Society and Key Club are raising money from sponsors as well as from a dance to be held at BHS to help the library update their system.

Information on several scholarships and summer programs are available in the guidance office, including the Women in Engineering Summer Program.

Parents are asked to be aware that warning notices were mailed out on Friday, March 4.

There will be a public concert featuring bluegrass music at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 12, in Peakes Auditorium. Tickets are $5 and are available in the office and in B-Lobby during school hours. Proceeds will be used to help fund the Close-Up Program in Washington, D.C.

Program of Studies booklets for the 1994-95 school year will be distributed this week.

Seventeen BHS journalism students attended The First Word Conference, sponsored by the University of Maine Department of Journalsim and Mass Communication on Friday, March 11. The workshops included Nuts and Bolts of Newswriting, Creative Interviewing, Newspaper Design, Feature Writing, Desktop Publishing, How to Start a School Paper, Advising School Publications, Editing Writers Through Coaching and Photojournalism. There was also a panel discussion on the law and ethics of journalism.

The BHS Talent Show will take place at 7 p.m. Friday, March 18. Highlighting this night of entertainment are bands, comedy and martial arts.

Applications for the following scholarships are now available from Mrs. Gary in the Guidance Office for seniors: Bangor Kiwanis Club; Zonta of Bangor and Fraternal Order of Eagles.

Application information for two four day summer programs for juniors hosted by the University of Maine for those with a strong interest in math and science is available from the Junior counselors. This is a competitive program and all costs are underwritten by the Pulp and Paper Foundation. See your counselor for further information.

The BHS Latin Club will host an Italian dinner at 6 p.m. March 22, in the BHS cafeteria. Native Italian food and entertainment will be served. Cost is $4 for adults, $3 for students and $1 for children under 6. Tickets can be purchased from Mrs. Poole or any member of the Latin Club.

— Ed Allen, Brett Cough,

Sarah Rea, Melissa White, and George Wright

Brewer High

The Brewer Project Graduation Committee will be holding a Burger Bash at the Brewer Burger King 4-8 p.m. Wednesday, March 23. Twenty percent of all cash earnings during these hours will go toward the senior class’ project graduation. Bring your family and support the Class of 1994. Due to the Burger Bash, no coupons or discounts will be honored between 4 and 8 p.m. that day.

The faculty selection committee of the National Honor Society is pleased to announce that nine Juniors have been selected for membership based upon scholarship, leadership, character and service. The new NHS members are: Kimberly Bryant, Sara Burnett, Casey Carter, Ward Libby, Andy Moreau, Judy Ring, Benjamin Roeder, Amanda Sevigny and Erin Tudor. The members will be inducted at a candlelight ceremony at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, in the Brewer High cafeteria.

— Kristi Brooks

Brewer Middle

The school Spelling Bee was held last week after students returned from vacation. Amy Crawford was the overall winner, with Becky Burns and Jessie Mellott finishing second and third. Amy will now move on to the District competion.

The seventh grade Science Fair will be held on April 7. Students are now hard at work on their research and experiments. Everyone at BMS wishes them good luck in their efforts.

Eighth grade students recently completed a project dealing with their studies on the Revolutionary War by rewriting the Declaration of Independence. Some students even made them `authentic’ by using parchment paper and calligraphy styles of writing.

The following students recently participated in class preliminary rounds of the National Geography Bee: Team 1- Matt Collins, Matt Bills, Brandon Turner; Team 2- Wendy Urquhart, Joe Knuble, Andy Rice; Team 3- Jenn Bond, Tony Leblanc, Andy Lee; Team 4- Jesse Robbins, Nate Briggs, Mike Kennedy; Team 5-Jason Bradford, Ben Armstrong, Adam Carlow. Students competed in the bee in their eighth grade history class.

The eighth grade would also like to wish good-bye and good luck to their history class student teacher, Miss Sara Ollivier, who has just completed eight weeks of student teaching.

The following sixth graders went on a field trip to follow up on a unit about the Mayan Civilization: Curtis Carter, Tamara Corey, Samantha Capponi, Aaron Morneault, Charity Bailey, Kevin Walton, Philip Haines, Ryan Snell, Katie LaChance, Brad Gonya, Deanna Stevens and Amy Haskell.

— Casey Johnson