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Law Day Essays

BANGOR – the Penobscot Bar Association sponsored a Law Day Essay Scholarship contest for 500-word essays addressing “Assuring Equal Justice for All.”

The winners, selected by Judge Anne Murray, Judge Jessie Gunther and Justice Jeffrey Hjelm from among 42 essays submitted by Penobscot County high school seniors, were:

. First place, $500 – Rachel Irwin, Brewer High School;

. Second place, $200 – Arielle Bridges, Brewer High School;

. Third place, $100 – Lindsay Strout, John Bapst High School;

. Honorable mentions – Dan Tarr and Joel Barrett of Brewer High School.

The prizes were awarded May 10 at the University of Maine, Mahaney Clubhouse, during a Maine Black Bears baseball game.

4-H Teen Conference

ORONO – Maine teens can learn techniques of self-defense, create their own face masks and get into swing dancing at the Maine 4-H Teen Conference at the University of Maine. Participants don’t have to be members of 4-H to join the fun that runs 2 p.m. June 28- noon June 30.

Workshops include sign language, mask painting, interactive theater, swing dancing, food carving, stress management, painting and self-defense.

The weekend will include dancing to tunes played by a DJ, canoeing and kayaking on the Stillwater River and movies.

Participants will stay in dorms on the UMaine campus. Information about the event is available from the state 4-H office, (877) 444-8623. Registration is $70 before June 4 and $80 after that date.

Bangor Christian School

Angelica Vicnaire, a Bangor Christian School senior, has won a National Honor Society scholarship, sponsored by the National Association of Secondary School Principals. She competed against more than 9,600 students throughout the United States.

Richard Bach, Bangor Christian School principal, announced the award, which includes a $1,000 scholarship. The National Association of Secondary School Principals announced 200 National Honor Society winners.

Each high school NHS chapter could nominate two seniors for leadership, scholastic achievement, character and service. Nominees submitted a form on their participation in school organizations, clubs, academic accomplishments, employment experience and community service.

At Bangor Christian School, Vicnaire has been senior class president, president of the NHS, editor of the school’s yearbook, a National Merit Scholar, captain of the cross-country team and a recipient of the Maine Principal’s Association principal’s award. She plans to study business administration at Eastern University in Pennsylvania on a full-tuition scholarship.

Colleges

Bates College

LEWISTON – Sarah M. Gray of Orono is a soprano performer for the Bates College Choir, under the direction of John Corrie, a member of the Bates College music faculty.

The Bates College Choir numbers more than 70 voices and performs two major concerts a year, often with the college orchestra.

Gray, a sophomore dean’s list student, is the daughter of Ken Gray, Wiscasset, and Madeline Martin, Orono. Gray is a 2001 graduate of Orono High School.

Bowdoin College

BRUNSWICK – Joshua Preston Atwood of Hampden has been awarded a Rusack Coastal Studies Fellowship at the college’s honors day ceremony May 8.

The fellowship, provided through the gift of Geoffrey C. Rusack and Alison Wrigley Rusack, is open to students in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences involved in projects that bring new insight and understanding to coastal studies. The fund promotes and facilitates student and faculty study projects at Bowdoin’s Coastal Studies Center, the surrounding coastal areas and Casco Bay.

Atwood is a biology-environmental studies major. He is a graduate of Hampden Academy.

Robert Adam Kinney of Bangor has been awarded the James Stacy Coles Summer Research Fellowship at the college’s annual honors day ceremony.

Kinney is one of 18 students awarded the fellowship this year. These fellowships, given in honor of former Bowdoin president James Stacy Coles, are awarded to students for substantial participation in a scientific research project under the direction of a faculty member.

Colgate College

HAMILTON, N.Y. – Kelli Anne Wong, a junior at Colgate College, has been named a Dana Scholar for superior academic achievement and demonstrated leadership in the campus community.

Selection as a Dana Scholar is a significant honor, “perhaps the most significant after Phi Beta Kappa,” according to Micael A. Cappeto, dean of the college.

Wong is the daughter of Charles S. Wong and Gail M. LeClair, both of Bangor.

University of Maine

ORONO – With the click of a mouse, art enthusiasts around the state will soon be able to access the University of Maine Museum of Art’s Robert Venn Carr Collection.

The UMaine Museum of Art has been awarded a $27,724 grant from the Maine State Library for the catalog conversion and scanning of the Carr Collection to records that will be integrated into the URSUS/Maine Info Net systems. That will allow users of the Web catalogs to view digital images of the collection online.

The Carr Collection, donated by Robert Venn Carr of the UMaine Class of 1938, includes nearly 300 modern and contemporary prints by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Josef Albers, Alexander Calder, Kathe Kollwitz, Willem de Kooning, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney, Joan Miro and Robert Delaunay.

URSUS is the shared catalog of the eight campuses of the UMaine System, Bangor Public Library, Maine State Library and the Maine State Law and Legal Reference Library. Maine Info Net, a statewide library catalog, includes links to URSUS, the libraries at Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, the Portland Public Library, the University of New England, Maine Maritime Academy, the Maine College of Art and more than 200 local libraries.

“Fogler Library has been involved in the building of the state-wide catalog since its inception,” said Marilyn Lutz, director of library information technology planning at UMaine’s Fogler Library. “The Maine State Library, which directs the Maine Info Net project, has targeted collections of special merit for catalog conversion in order to enrich the resources available to citizens and the scholarly community. The Carr Collection fits that criteria. Support to create digital images of the paintings linked to bibliographic information about them will make the collection accessible globally.”

Windsurfing on a sailboard made of paper, a team of 15 paper science and engineering students from the University of Maine captured third place and $5,000 recently at Energy Challenge 2002.

The national, college-level event featured seven university teams windsurfing all-paper sailboards and was held at Lake Lanier’s Van Pugh Park North, in Georgia.

Members of UMaine’s team are: Son Nguyen, Bangor; Angie Dinsmore, Orono; Amie Hoffman, Dover-Foxcroft; Shawn Kelley, Clifton; Adam Killip, Orrington; Jason Michaud, Madawaska; Erin Paine, Madison; Matthew LaCasse, Waterville; Kevin Ouellette, Raymond; Susan Quintal, Chelsea; Jonida Basha and Lacie Halfacre, both of Portland; Travis Flagg and Matthew Simoneau, both of Livermore Falls; and Scott Higgins, Hanover, Mass.

Each team designed the sailboards exclusively from paper products including corrugated paperboard or liner board. Commonly used paper chemicals were allowed in the finishing and bonding of the board.

The race was the final test for the sailboards that were crafted by the teams over the past eight months.

Sponsored in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, the event allows engineering students to work with energy efficiency and waste minimization concepts that have real applications in the pulp and paper industry.

Washington University

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Shreekrishna Akilesh, the child of Dr. Manjapra Akilesh of Bangor has been named to the dean’s list for academic achievement in the school of art for the fall 2001 semester.

Hamilton College

CLINTON, N.Y. – Linwood Rumney, son of Raymond and Joyce Rumney of Corinth, was named the recipient of the William John Schickler III Prize Scholarship at Hamilton College’s class and charter day, May 10.

The scholarship goes to a student who demonstrates good academic performance, enthusiasm for life and participation in extracurricular activities.

Rumney, a sophomore at Hamilton, is a graduate of Central High School in Corinth.

Training

Northeast Technical Institute

BANGOR – David Ellis of Clinton, Richard McEachern of Oakland, Christopher Knowlton of Guilford, Kenneth Bolen of Bangor, Rebecca Wallace of Warren, Michael Wilson of Richmond, Bruce White of Millinocket, Timothy Sprague of Ellsworth and Jacob Willett of Patten have successfully graduated from Northeast Technical Institute and passed their commercial driver’s license examinations.

Penobscot Job Corps

BANGOR – Cody Norris and Jim Morrill represented the Penobscot Job Corps at the Leadership Conference held at the South Bronx Job Corps Center.

Twenty students volunteered at the HOPE Festival for National Youth Services Day.