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Schools

Center Drive School

ORRINGTON – Center Drive School will re-open Wednesday, Sept. 1, for pupils in grades one to eight. Teacher workshops will be held Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 30 and 31.

Kindergarten screening will be held by appointment beginning Tuesday, Aug. 31. The first day of school for kindergarten pupils will be Tuesday, Sept. 7. New pupils may register from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday, Aug. 23-27.

Breakfast and hot lunch will be available the first day of school and prices will remain the same as last year. To obtain information about bus schedules, call 469-7673.

Hampden Academy

HAMDPEN – Sophomore Kim Gondek and junior Lindsay Savage, both of Newburgh, participated in the Beach to Beach breast cancer swim at Green Lake on Aug. 8. Gondek swam two miles and Savage served as Gondek’s kayaker. Both young women have friends whose mothers have died from breast cancer or whose mothers have survived the disease.

National Honor Society

HAMPDEN – Elizabeth Lloyd has been selected for membership in the National Honor Society of High School Scholars, which invites only those students who have superior academic achievement and who are among the top scholars of the nation.

Pacific High School

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – Maria Diaz is a recent graduate of Pacific High School, where she was salutatorian and class president. She will attend UCLA in the fall to major in history.

Diaz is the daughter of Carolyn Hamel Diaz of San Bernardino and the granddaughter of Theresa Tracy of Bangor.

Colleges

Cianbro Bros. Scholarships

PITTSFIELD – Cianbro Brothers Scholarships have been awarded to several young people throughout the state recently. They include:

. Rebecca Moore of Winthrop, a business major student at Maine Maritime Academy in Castine.

. Mary Page of Palmyra, a nursing student at the University of Maine.

. Joshua Philbrook of Hampden, newly graduated from St. Michael’s College in Colchester, Vt., with a degree in political science. He is a graduate student in international relations at Concordia University in Montreal.

. Rachel Stone of Newport, a graduate of John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor. She will be a senior at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Penn.

. Eric Saucier of Pittsfield, a dean’s list student in construction management at the University of Maine.

Massachusetts College of Art

BOSTON – Joel Egland of Bangor was awarded a bachelor’s degree in graphic design from the Massachusetts College of Art during commencement ceremonies May 21.

Thomas College

WATERVILLE – Glenn Tyree graduated recently from Thomas College with a master’s degree in business administration. He is employed at the Calriant Corporation as a senior sales account manager for the New England district.

University of Maine

ORONO – Kenda Scheele, director of campus recreation at the University of Maine since 2001, has been named associate dean of students at UMaine. She was selected for the job after a national search.

“Kenda brings a wonderful set of complementary skills and experiences to this new position,” said Robert Dana, UMaine’s dean of students. “She has done a great job moving our recreation programs forward over the past three years, and I know that she will excel in this new position. While our search attracted many fine applicants, we were gratified to find the ideal candidate right here in our own community.”

As associate dean, Scheele will lead and supervise several program areas related to campus life.

“I’m very excited to start this new position, it’s a great opportunity,” Scheele said. “I have always enjoyed working with university students. Their enthusiasm and vitality are infectious. I hope I can do great things with the students here at UMaine.”

Before her arrival at UMaine, Scheele spent 19 years working at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Neb. She started there as assistant coordinator of intramural sports and held several positions of increasing responsibility, advancing through the ranks to become senior associate director of campus recreation before leaving for UMaine. Scheele earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, a master’s from Colorado State University and a doctorate from Nebraska. Earlier this year, she completed a law degree at the University of Nebraska Law School.

Scheele fills a position vacated in March 2003 by Calli Sanders, who is now senior woman administrator and associate athletics director at Iowa State University.

University of Southern Maine

PORTLAND – Area students who attend the University of Southern Maine on a part-time basis named to the dean’s list for the spring semester are Russell Griffin of Bangor, Jessica Libby of Orono and Emily Atwood of Winterport.


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