Schools

Junior Classical League

HAMPDEN – Amelia Potvin, a senior at Hampden Academy, was elected 2003-2004 secretary of the National Junior Classical League. The election took place at the 50th annual National Junior Classical League Convention, held July 29-Aug. 3 at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.

Forty-one Maine students, accompanied by 12 teachers and chaperones, traveled to Texas for the convention, part of a group of more than 1,500 attendees from 35 states.

The Maine students represented Hampden Academy, John Bapst Memorial High School, Sacopee Valley High School and Winthrop High School. Students participated in contests in academics, creative arts, graphic arts and sports. There also were state competitions in spirit, sports, publications and membership.

Maine received the following state awards:

. Soccer – first, Chelsea Atkinson, Mark Dennett, Eric Kelmenson, Laura Kenney, Chris Pevarada, Ashley Sanford.

. Boys relay – first, Jon Brophy, Eric Kelmenson, Dan LoPotro, Chris Pevarada.

. State publications – second, Dan LoPotro, editor.

. Girls relay – second, Chelsea Atkinson, Kim Johnson, Renee Rioux, Ashley Sanford.

. Coed relay – second, Jon Brophy, Kim Johnson, Eric Kelmenson, Shawna Hynes.

. Basketball – third, Max Beauregard, Jon Brophy, Joey Burnham, Shawna Hynes, Ben Mayhew, Brian Lynch, Ashley Sanford.

Hampden Academy placed seventh in scrapbooks, small school division. Jennifer Swalec was the editor.

Individual awards by school:

Hampden Academy, Ben Johnson, teacher.

. Lauren Hartz, sixth, costume, senior girls.

. Kim Johnson, second, long jump, senior girls; sixth, 100 meters, senior girls.

. Eric Kelmenson, fifth, long jump, senior boys; seventh, high jump, senior boys; ninth, sight Latin, advanced prose.

. Dan LoPotro, sixth, sight Latin, advanced prose.

. Christine Mosley, fourth, pastel-chalk, grades 11-12.

. Chris Peverada, third, open certamen, lower division; seventh, 400 meters, senior boys; ninth, sight Latin, level II.

. Amelia Potvin, first, marathon, senior girls; ninth, Latin oratory, advanced.

. Jennifer Swalec, first, sight Latin, level II; eighth, impromptu art, grade 10.

. Hannah Thieme, fourth, oil-acrylic, grade 10; sixth, impromptu art, grade 10.

. John White, fourth, English oratory, grade 10.

John Bapst Memorial High School, Bangor, Brenda LoPotro, teacher.

. Chelsea Atkinson, fifth, essay, grade 11; ninth, computer photography, grades 11-12; tenth, 50-yard back-stroke, senior girls.

. Genna Duplisea, second, modern myth, middle division; eighth, computer photography, grade 10; tenth, essay, grade 10.

. Renee Rioux, second, 50 yard breast stroke, senior girls; seventh, 50-yard butterfly, senior girls; eighth, reading comprehension, advanced prose III.

. Ashley Sanford, first, discus, junior girls; first, shot put, junior girls; third, mosaics, grade 9; fourth 400 meter, junior girls; fourth, 50 yard butterfly, junior girls.

. Althea Wong-Achorn, fifth, chess; eighth, miscellaneous art, grade 10.

Several awards were also given to students from Sacopee Valley High School and Winthrop High School.

The Maine Junior Classical League will hold its fall convention Friday, Nov. 21, at Hampden Academy.

Maine JCL president Dan LoPotro of Hampden Academy is in charge of arrangements. He will be assisted by NJCL secretary Amelia Potvin, as well as the other Maine JCL officers: first vice president Joel Dumont, Cony High School; second vice president Molly Masenga, Camden Hills Regional High School; parliamentarian Max Beauregard, Winthrop High School; secretary Katie Foss, Camden Hills Regional High School; historian Shaila DeLea, Sacopee Valley High School; editor Jeff Labrack, Edward Little High School; and Webmaster Jason Riethmann, Edward Little High School. The Maine Junior Classical League is advised by state chairmen Meg Cook, Winthrop High School, and Rick Lent, Leavitt Area High School.

Orono High School

GREENVILLE – In celebration of Maine author Sanford Phippen’s new book, “Standing Just Outside the Door and Two Other Plays,” the Depot Street Development and Northern Lights Repertory Theatre will present a program featuring several scenes from the three plays published in May.

The play will be performed at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, at Depot Street Development in Greenville.

With the playwright as narrator, the program will feature Phippen’s students from Orono High School who were members of the original cast of the title play.

The students are Jon Bailey, who won a state acting award for the play; Evan James, Joelle Clingerman, Lauren Onsrud, and Savana Leveille.

“Standing Just Outside the Door” revolves around the coming out of a teenage student in a New York high school in 1966. The play had its premiere in 2003.

“The Police Know Everything” is an adaptation of Phippen’s popular book of Maine stories and was first produced in 1992. “The Straight and Crazy Doped-Up World” was first produced in 1973 in Syracuse, N.Y., during the “race riot” days.

The play is a compilation of student journal writings and was performed by his students in 1974 and again in 2003. All of the plays were written for Phippen’s students.

In the afterword to the book, Kent McKusick, founding artistic director of Northern Lights Repertory Theatre, writes: “Sanford Phippen is an observer and chronicler of life. The words, sounds and descriptions are uncanny in the fashion that they capture the spirit of independence and interdependence where the sea meets the woods and the mountains, where the locals meet the summer visitors, and where the students meet the teachers.”

Admission is $5. Signed copies of Phippen’s new book, as well as his other books, will be on sale. Call 695-3170 for information on the play presentation.

Viola Rand School

BRADLEY – The Viola Rand Elementary School will hold registration for new pupils from 8 a.m. to noon Friday, Aug. 22. Call 827-2508 to make an appointment.

Children entering school for the first time must bring birth certificate and verification of immunizations.

Colleges

Colby College

WATERVILLE – Heather Lynn Meyers of Corinna, a member of the incoming Class of 2007 at Colby College, was selected as an L.L. Bean Scholar at Colby for 2003-2004.

A graduate of Nokomis High School, Meyers is the daughter of Thomas and Cynthia Meyers of Corinna. L.L. Bean Scholarships at Colby are presented annually to four Maine students who have both a strong academic record and the need for financial assistance.

Meyers, the salutatorian of her high school class, was a member of the National Honor Society. She has been involved in her high school’s show chorus and acted as manager of the jazz chorus her senior year. Meyers, who also plays trumpet, is a three-year member of the school band.

Colby’s L.L. Bean Scholarships were established in 1982 when the college received an endowment from the Freeport-based clothing company and sporting goods retailer.

University of Maine

ORONO – United States Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman has presented the department’s most prestigious award to Darrell Donahue of Old Town, a University of Maine engineer, for his role in a multi-state research project. Donahue’s research is leading to new technology that maintains quality in harvested wild blueberries.

Donahue, associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, is one of 26 researchers in 13 states working on the project, Technology and Principles for Assessing and Retaining Post-harvest Quality of Fruits and Vegetables. He focused on the use of near-infrared spectroscopy to assess fruit quality.

Associate Dean Steve Goodwin of the University of Massachusetts, the group’s administrative adviser, accepted the award on behalf of its members at a ceremony this summer at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center in Washington.