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Schools

Summer art camp

BANGOR – Summer 2004 marks the sixth annual Summer Art Camp to be held at the University of Maine Museum of Art.

This year the museum will offer seven weekly sessions of art and fun for pupils from grades one through eight, providing a unique opportunity for children to observe and practice art in a dedicated classroom at the museum.

Each camp session will be taught by professional art instructors who use observation as a springboard for instruction while sparking creativity through a wide variety of media. Children will also spend time exploring the galleries and summer exhibitions as well as selections from the permanent collection.

Finally, each individual camp session ends with an “exhibit opening,” where parents and family are invited to view their child’s masterpieces.

Most camps will be held 8:30 a.m.-noon.

The July 6-9 session will be four days, 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

. June 28-July 2, grades three and four, Nancy Lloyd-Fitch.

. July 6-9, grades three and four, Nancy Lloyd-Fitch.

. July 12-16, grades one and two, Mike McCuddy.

. July 19-23, grades one and two, Mike McCuddy.

. July 26-30, grades five and six, Michele Fournier.

. Aug. 2-6, grades five and six, Kal Elmore.

. Aug. 9-13, grades seven and eight, Kal Elmore.

Tuition is $115, including all materials, or $100 for museum members. Camp Bangor scholarships are accepted.

For registration, contact Kathryn Jovanelli at 561-3350 or visit www.umma.umaine.edu.

Art festival and concert

CORINTH – Central High School will hold its second annual art festival and spring music concert from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 26, at the school.

Dessert and punch will be served by members of the drama club. Those in attendance are invited to vote for their favorite piece of art. The CHS band and chorus will perform at 7 p.m. in the gym.

Regional Envirothon

BRADLEY – The Penobscot Soil and Water Conservation District served as host May 19 for the Central Maine Regional Envirothon at Leonard’s Mills in Bradley. Students from nine area high schools in Penobscot, Piscataquis and Somerset counties competed in a natural resource problem solving competition. The students were tested in soils, wildlife, forestry, aquatics and a current environmental issue, conservation in urban areas.

The three top teams from the Central Maine Envirothon will advance to compete in the Maine Envirothon on Thursday, May 27, in Augusta. Winners of that competition will compete in the Cannon Envirothon in West Virginia in July.

Kids Making Connections

BREWER – The Brewer school system will serve as host to 10th annual Community of Caring Day, Kids Making Connections, beginning at 9 a.m. today.

Brewer students in grades K-12 will participate in fun-filled, enriching activities throughout the day. The activities promote the five core values of Community of Caring: trust, respect, responsibility, caring and family.

Arts talent search

ORONO – Jeremy William Viner of Orono is one of five high school students from Maine chosen by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts for the 2004 Arts Recognition and Talent Search Program.

A student at Interlochen Arts Academy, Viner plays saxophone.

Brewer High School

BREWER – Brewer High School Key Club officers were installed at a recent Kiwanis Club meeting. They are: Melanie Moore, president; Sarah Breau, vice president; Ashley Hawkins-Kimball, secretary; Erica Hayes, treasurer; Ashley Duran, points and projects; Ryan Riley, public relations; and Brad Libby, bulletin editor. Michael Hutchins is the Key Club adviser.

Brewer Kiwanis Club members are planning to help Project Graduation by sponsoring a casino as part of the entertainment.

Brewer Kiwanis meets 6-7 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at the Heritage Community Room on Chamberlain Street. Those who would like to join the club may call club president Jane Newberry at 945-0746.

Central High School

CORINTH – Garry Spencer, principal of Central High School; Sharon Humphrey-Mason, library media specialist; and Karen Girvan, English teacher, attended a self-study seminar May 12 at Bangor High School.

Sponsored by the Commission on Public Secondary Schools of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, the seminar was designed to orient principals and steering committee members of schools scheduled for evaluation in the fall of 2006 about the evaluation process and the critical components of the standards for accreditation.

Vine Street School

BANGOR – Bangor Wal-Mart presented a Teacher of the Year Award to first-grade teacher Julie Ervin on May 17. The school also received a $1,000 check from Wal-Mart to be used to support a program of Ervin’s choice.

Receiving the Teacher of the Year Award automatically makes Ervin a candidate for a National Teacher of the Year Award.

Heavy equipment grads

BANGOR – Sixty students, all of them displaced paper mill workers from Millinocket, East Millinocket and Lincoln, graduated May 13 from Associated Constructors of Maine heavy equipment operator and construction supervisor training programs. All were educated under a federal retraining grant. The ceremony was held at the Job Corps Center.

Colleges

Clearwater Christian College

CLEARWATER, Fla. – Lisa Phinney, who grew up in Brewer and is a junior at Clearwater Christian College, was elected to the Alpha Chi National Council, which convened April 22-25 in St. Louis, Mo.

Phinney presented her paper, “The Call to Fight Human Cloning,” at the organization’s regional convention, and was nominated out of 120 students for a place on the council. She was elected after giving a one-minute extemporaneous presentation highlighting her qualifications for receiving the honor. She is the first Clearwater Christian College student elected to any regional or national office.

As a national council member, Phinney will serve a two-year term and participate on various planning and decision-making committees that will affect Alpha Chi nationwide.

“It is a great honor,” Phinney said. “I feel it is going to be a wonderful experience to represent the school on such a recognized level.”

“Lisa is in the top 10 percent of students that I have taught in 36 years of college teaching,” said Dr. Wayne Deckert, a science faculty member at the college. “She has great ability and she uses it well in thinking, analyzing and focusing in her objectives.” Phinney wrote her paper on cloning for Deckert’s cellular biology class.

The assignment, Phinney said, “was an opportunity for me to catch up on the latest developments in human cloning, study the science of it further and to express my adamant stance against human cloning, biblically and ethically.”

Besides serving as the Alpha Chi secretary-treasurer, Phinney is a dorm devotion leader, the chaplain for her Greek club, a member of the science club and is involved in Student Missionary Fellowship. She also works in the student services office and is a laboratory assistant. This year she has done an internship at a local family practice office.

Rochester Institute of Technology

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Josiah Allen of Orono has been named to the dean’s list for the winter quarter at Rochester Institute of Technology.

A 2000 graduate of John Bapst Memorial High School, Allen is a fourth-year student in RIT’s B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, and is the son of Dr. Robert and Marybeth Allen of Orono.