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Lewis Libby School

MILFORD – Dr. Lewis S. Libby School in Milford has announced students of the week for October and November. Pupils are recognized for conscientiousness, caring and improvement of personal goals. They receive a certificate and a Wildcat T-shirt.

Kindergarten: Libby Spencer, Maddie Mahan, Brandon Crouse, Courtney King, Ethan Harris, Tyler Loyte, Kendra Chappelle, Kristine White.

Grade one: Justin Tapley, Caitlin Goodwin, Brook Cole, Jesse Moody, Morgan Smith, Christopher Hogan, Emily Carr, Tyler LeBlanc.

Grade two: Kayla Merrill, Megan Patershall, Kauri Hamel, Chad Collins, Sarah Willard, Kayla Myers, Meagan Cousins, Tyler Higgins.

Grade three: Megan Hamel, Lindsey Blair, Lucas Dalton, Anthony Parent, Brandon Cyr, Rachel Goodwin, Cody Kochis, Brad Ehman.

Grade four: Brandon Levasseur, Kyle Bard, Robbie Bickford, Nick Michaud, Meghan Curtis, Sarah Bragdon, Ian England, Lauren LeBreton.

Grade five: D.J. Legere, Hilary Campbell, Kayla Curtis, Josh Coffin, Brandon Winchenbach, Charlotte Lonko, Lindsey Johndro.

Orono High School

ORONO – Guest speakers Nancy McKaig and Gary Cole of the Cole Land Transportation Museum recently presented a financial program, “This Is Your Life,” to the life plans class at Orono High School.

The class is taught by Diane Batty, family life and consumer science teacher.

The speakers presented savings strategies, explaining interest rates and how money compounds. They also discussed certificates of deposit, individual retirement accounts, stock investments, credit and loans.

The Cole Museum offers the finance education course free to schools and organizations.

Penobscot Job Corps

BANGOR – Members of the Bangor Chapter of the National Job Corps Alumni Association volunteered their time at the Sprague’s Nursery Haunted House for area youth. Alumni members dressed up and staffed the event.

The Penobscot Job Corps Center has been certified as a nontraditional, limited purpose private school. The certification enables students to earn credits toward a high school diploma from their “sending” school while participating in Job Corps.

Service academy nominees

BANGOR – U.S. Rep. John Baldacci has nominated the following area students to attend military service academies:

. James Belanger, Glenburn, Bangor High School, U.S. Military Academy, West Point.

. Conrad Brown, Holden, John Bapst Memorial High School, U.S. Military Academy, West Point.

. Cynthia Dehm, Kenduskeag, Central High School, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis.

. Ryan Dunbar, Bangor, Bangor High School, U.S. Military Academy, West Point; U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs.

. Paul Gillett, Orono, Orono High School, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis.

. Donald Martin, Winterport, Hampden Academy, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs.

. Christopher Patterson, Brewer, New Mexico Military Academy, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis.

Colleges

Northeastern University

BANGOR – David Souweine of Bangor has received a Legacy Scholarship from Northeastern University College of Engineering in Boston.

Up to 20 freshmen each year are chosen to receive the Legacy Scholarship, a renewable grant of $5,000. Recipients receive the award for five years, but are required to maintain a grade point average of 3.0, and a successful history of cooperative education experience.

The scholarships are funded by engineering alumni of Northeastern University.

Souweine is a graduate of Bangor High School, and the son of Leon and Ruth Souweine.

University of Maine

ORONO – Heidi Corliss of Winterport, a graduate student in choral music at the University of Maine, has been awarded a graduate assistantship as director of the UMaine Collegiate Chorale.

The nearly 100-member chorale meets twice a week during the regular semester. The group is made up of those from the UMaine community who share an interest in singing.

The Collegiate Chorale recently presented its annual fall concert in Minsky Recital Hall on the UMaine campus. The group’s repertoire included works ranging from the Romantic to a spiritual finale based on the traditional “Swing Low Sweet Chariot.”

The Collegiate Chorale also performed at the annual Yuletide Concert held in the Maine Center for the Arts.

Corliss, who graduated from UMaine in 1983 with a degree in music education, is on sabbatical from her teaching position in SAD 22 (Hampden, Newburgh, Winterport).

In spring 2001, she was awarded the Distinguished Choral Director of the Year Award by the Maine Chapter of American Choral Directors Association, for which she is the high school repertoire and standards chairwoman.

ORONO – The opening for an art exhibit by Rebecca Krupke was held Dec. 12 at Lord Hall. She is a senior at the University of Maine and a graduate of Bangor High School.

ORONO – Jennifer Brill of Milford and Katherine Fraser of Winterport are members of a University of Maine research team working to identify conditions that might affect speech and language development in early life. The women are majoring in communications sciences and disorders.

The research team, led by professor Suneeti Nathani, is studying and analyzing infant vocalizations.

“We hope to learn the role of audition in the development of the rhythmic organization of speech and language,” Nathani explained. “Infant vocalizations are not influenced by environmental factors, and so it allows us to look at fundamental aspects of human speech and language development.”

Part of the project includes transferring taped vocalizations from analog tape to digital recording.

Fraser is a graduate of Hampden Academy.