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Schools

Reading Recovery

ORONO – Young readers were in the spotlight May 6 at the Reading Recovery celebration at the Cole Land Transportation Museum. Reading Recovery is a partnership between the Cole Family Foundation of Bangor and Maine schools.

Representatives from the six schools that received 2003-04 grants to support early intervention literacy programs, the Cole Foundation and the University of Maine Center for Literacy marked the day with presentations that highlighted the reading skills of first-graders.

The Cole Family Foundation is a longtime supporter and advocate of Reading Recovery, which provides intensive, individual instruction to accelerate the literacy skills of first-graders having trouble learning to read. The UMaine Literacy Center coordinates statewide Reading Recovery training and delivery.

This year, the Cole Foundation issued grants of approximately $35,000 to schools to support Reading Recovery programs.

John Bapst concerts

BANGOR – John Bapst musicians will present the annual spring concert to the public at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday, May 16, at the John Bapst Auditorium, 100 Broadway.

The concert band, chorale, chamber ensemble, concert choir and jazz band will perform. Tickets are $6 per family, $3 for adults, and $2 for students and senior citizens.

Seating is reserved and tickets may be purchased in advance between 7:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. weekdays at the fine arts office at John Bapst, 947-0313, or at the door before the performance.

Interact Leader of the Month

BANGOR – The Bangor YMCA, 127 Hammond St., announced that Christie Ames, 17, of Bangor is the Interact Leader of the Month. The Interact Leaders Club is a nine-month program at the Bangor YMCA for eighth- through 12th- graders who want to develop leadership, presentation and career skills while serving the community doing local and international service projects.

A two-year member of the club, Ames has volunteered for the Bangor YMCA Auction, Family Fun Nights and the YWCA Bangor-Brewer Spring Fair. She is involved with the Forest Hills School Art Program Project, which raises money and art supplies for the Jackman school, which is currently without an art program.

Ames is a junior at Bangor High School and a member of the swim team, the Key Club and the National Honor Society. She also is part of the youth group at St. Mary’s Catholic Church and works with second- and third-graders at Downeast School in Bangor as a member of Big Brothers Big Sisters. She likes to spend time with friends and enjoys her job at American Eagle at the Bangor Mall. The daughter of Donna Ames, she plans to attend college in New England after graduation.

Interact Leaders Club is sponsored by the Bangor YMCA and Bangor Area Breakfast Rotary. For more information, call Nancy Cambridge, youth and family director, at 941-2815.

Teacher appreciation

LEVANT – If it seemed as though Levant Elementary School was inhabited by a happy group of teachers last Friday, it was with good reason.

As they have done for the past few years, members of the Levant PTF worked to put on an elaborate teacher appreciation luncheon in the library, complete with soft music.

Moreover, the PTF members relieved staff of their duties so they could take time to enjoy the luncheon.

PTF members at Carmel Elementary and Caravel Middle School also honor their staffs with teacher appreciation luncheons.

Latin excellence

HAMPDEN – What better way to spend 45 minutes than taking a Latin test? That was exactly what 30 Latin students who took the National Latin Exam this past March thought.

As Hampden Latin student John White pointed out, “The NLE is the only standardized test that can get you a medal, a certificate and yet still can’t get you into college.”

Hampden students Nate Brown, Lauren Maltz, Lauren Swalec and Chris Peverada received the Cum Laude, meaning “with praise,” distinction, the equivalent of fourth place.

James Faulkner, Katie Gower, Molly Peverada, Meghan Patrick, Lauren Hartz and John White received the Magna Cum Laude distinction, the equivalent of third place.

Hampden seniors and AP Latin students Chris Allran, Eric Kelmenson and Amelia Potvin received the Silver Maxima Cum Laude distinction, the equivalent of a second-place score.

Junior Classical League

HAMPDEN – Three hundred students from 15 schools in Maine, including Hampden Academy, will gather at Camp Mechuwana in Winthrop for a Latin sleepover on May 17. The students will celebrate the classics, the study of the cultures, people, history and languages of ancient Greece and Rome. The students, members of the Maine Junior Classical League, more commonly known as Latin Club, hold two statewide conventions each year.

At the spring convention, Latin students compete as the Greeks did in an Olympika competition, a diverse series of sports contests including a marathon and cartwheeling contest.

The creative arts competition at the convention includes costume, classical art, sight-reading and oratory contests. Other activities include chariot races, a catapult contest and a tug-of-war contest.

The most entertaining part of a Junior Classical League Convention is its spirit competition. Spirit festivities include cheering, roll call and skit contests. Participants dubbed the fall convention last November the “ultimate toga party” in Maine.

Colleges

Eastern Maine Community College

BANGOR – Brandon Chadbourne of Harmony has been named the Eastern Maine Community College recipient of the WBRC Architects/Engineers 2004 Technical Scholarship, which is based on demonstrated ability in the computer-aided drafting profession and is awarded to a student who has completed the first year of the program.

Steve Rich of WBRC Architects/Engineers presented the award at the college’s annual student leadership event.

Chadbourne, a graduate of Foxcroft Academy in Dover-Foxcroft, hopes to see his architectural designs in a magazine someday.

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BANGOR – This month, 1,944 students will graduate from Maine’s seven community colleges. It will be the first graduating class of community college students since the former technical colleges assumed the name and mission of community colleges last summer. The number of community college graduates has risen by 16 percent over last year. The Eastern Maine Community College’s Class of 2004 has 276 graduates.

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins will be the commencement speaker at the Eastern Maine Community College ceremony at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 15, at Bangor Auditorium.

Hope College

HOLLAND, Mich. – Scott Dalessandro of Hampden received the Marguerite Prins French Award during Hope College’s annual Honors Convocation April 22.

The award is a cash prize to the senior whose interest and achievement in the study of French language and literature has been the most significant.

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HOLLAND, Mich. – Annie Brown, daughter of Betcinda Brown of Clearwater, Fla., and Gary Brown of Veazie, received a bachelor of nursing degree from Hope College on May 2.

Husson College

BANGOR – The Husson College radio station, WHSN, operated by students from the New England School of Communications, will broadcast the Husson College graduation ceremonies at 11 a.m. and New England School of Communications graduation ceremonies at 4 p.m. Saturday, May 15, at Husson’s Newman Gymnasium.

Mark Nason, NESCom staff member and station manager, said the primary purpose of the broadcasts is to provide a community service to Greater Bangor. WHSN will provide four or five students who will relay the graduation ceremonies to the station’s control center. WHSN is located at 89.3 on the FM dial.

AAUW convention

ORONO – Dr. Lynn Mikel Brown of Colby College will be the keynote speaker at the American Association of University Women state convention scheduled for Friday and Saturday, May 14-15 at the Black Bear Inn in Orono. Brown will discuss her newest book, “Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection among Girls.”

Brown, the author of two other books, “Meeting at the Crossroads” (with Carol Gilligan) and “Raising Their Voices,” was a visiting scholar at the University of Maine when she conducted research on girls’ friendships that led to her new book.

Phyllis Borns of Orono will be honored at the convention when she receives the AAUW Achievement Citation Award. Borns’ professional life has been dedicated to working with and supporting others. She was honored with the John W. Coombs Memorial Award from the United Way of Eastern Maine in 1988. She has been an active member of AAUW at the state and local levels. In addition to her professional life, she has given hours of volunteer time to the Bangor Homeless Shelter, the town of Orono, the Church of Universal Fellowship and a long list of community and theater groups.

The AAUW promotes equity for women and girls, lifelong education and positive societal change. For more information, call 866-3197 or 945-6711.

Bangor Theological Seminary

BANGOR – Bangor Theological Seminary will celebrate its 185th Commencement ceremony at 1 p.m. Friday, May 21. Twenty-five students will receive degrees during outdoor graduation services on the seminary’s campus at 300 Union St. Founded in 1814, Bangor Theological Seminary is celebrating its 190th year. It is the third-oldest seminary in the nation.

Dr. Daniel Maguire, professor of ethics at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wis., will deliver the commencement address, “Christianity and the American Empire.” Maguire is the author or co-author of 13 books. Among his publications are “Sacred Choices: The Right to Contraception and Abortion in Ten World Religions,” “Sacred Energies: When the World’s Religions Sit Down to Talk about the Future of Human Life and the Plight of This Planet” and “The Moral Core of Judaism and Christianity.”

President William Imes, Bangor Theological Seminary’s ninth president, will preside at the commencement ceremony. In case of inclement weather, the ceremony will be held at First United Methodist Church, Essex Street, Bangor.

For information, call 942-6781, (800) 287-6781, Ext. 124, or visit www.bts.edu.