Schools

Bangor Christian

Three pupils from Bangor Christian School were local winners in the Modern Woodmen Creative Writing Essay Contest: first place, Meredith French; second, Andrew Harriman; third, Brock Bradford.

The topic was “I Can Make a Difference.”

Colleges

James Madison University

GREENBUSH – Benjamin Polk of Greenbush, a member of the Marching Royal Dukes at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., will participate in the 75th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.

A graduate of John Bapst Memorial High School, Polk is a dean’s list student at Madison.

NESCom

BANGOR – Two new faculty members have been named for the New England School of Communications, an affiliate of Husson College. They are:

. Joanne Gula of Holden, formerly community and marketing coordinator for the city of Bangor.

. Chris Chapman, a 1990 graduate of the New England School of Broadcasting and currently the host of the Bear Morning Zoo on radio station WBFB-FM, 104.7, Bangor.

Gula is teaching classes in advertising, and Chapman teaches announcing and production for NESCom.

From 1997 to 2000, Gula was an assistant professor of advertising in the department of communications and journalism at the University of Maine. Prior to that, she was for two years the director of an acting school for children ages 3-14 in Lafayette, Calif.

Gula has a doctorate in mass communications from the University of Massachusetts, a master’s degree from Fairfield University and a bachelor’s degree from Southern Connecticut State.

She also has held positions at the University of Phoenix in San Jose, Calif.; St. Mary’s College in Moraga, Calif.; California State University; Emerson College in Boston; the University of Houston; Oklahoma State; Ithaca College; Central Connecticut State; the University of Massachusetts; Southern Connecticut and Ohio State.

In 2000, Gula was the recipient of a faculty fellowship, and she attended educational workshops and a conference with media professionals in New Orleans.

Among the numerous publications and papers she has had printed was “When Mother Nature Makes a Mockery of Technology: The Impact of Mass Media Deprivation During the Ice Storm of ’98 in Maine,” which she presented at the International Communications Association convention last year.

The recipient of an Emerson College grant to research the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, she developed a case study of gender and cultural bias in network television coverage of the event.

Chapman, who uses the name Chris Powers as his radio personality, heads up the Bangor production department for Clear Channel Communications. After pursuing a career in physical education, Chapman enrolled at New England School of Broadcasting, now New England School of Communications.

He is chairman of the board for Operation Liftoff, a Maine organization helping make dreams come true for children with life-threatening illnesses. A native Mainer, he resides in Ellsworth.

Purdue University

Christopher Ford of Bangor, a senior majoring in electrical engineering technology, is one of six students at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., to receive a $2,500 scholarship from Subaru-Isuzu.

University of Maine

University of Maine students Barry Friedenberg, Kevin Barry, Andrew Hess and Christopher Junkins of Bangor, and Drew Wiltbank of Hampden took part in the seventh annual haunted house put on by Alpha Delta Chapter of Phi Kappa Sigma. Proceeds were donated to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

For the first time, an early session was added for children. Total attendance was about 500 people, and $1,300 was raised.

University of Maine

Elizabeth Hedler of Old Town, a doctoral student in Canadian-American history at the

University of Maine, was chairwoman of a discussion panel at the annual meeting of the Atlantic Association of Historians/L’Association des Historiens l’Atlantique, held at the Soderberg Center on the Orono campus.

The topic was the challenges and rewards of the study of Atlantic Canadian history.