Schools

Host families

ORONO – AFS Intercultural Programs, an international exchange program, is seeking families to serve as host to AFS students for the 2005-2006 school year. The students, ages 15-18, are carefully screened in their home countries, fully insured, oriented and supported locally and arrive eager to participate in family life. For more information, call Nancy Grant at 866-4542, or (800) AFS-INFO.

Asa Adams School

ORONO – Pupils at Asa Adams School have put together a display in the school library that features Ireland. Decorations include castles and farmhouses. The children also have special costumes to wear when they visit the library. The exhibit opened Feb. 28 and will be in place for several weeks.

Bangor High School

BANGOR – Bangor All Sports Boosters will hold its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, March 14, in the ROTC room at Bangor High School. Nominations for officers will be made at the meeting. Voting will take place at the April 11 meeting. For more information, call Pam Tweedie, 947-7245, or Alan Dall, 942-5610.

BANGOR – Plans are under way for a Project Graduation party for the seniors of Bangor High School. Parents of the senior class organize the all-night, chem-free event. The free party is open to the more than 300 BHS seniors to help keep them safe on graduation night.

To raise money for the event, Project Graduation is sponsoring a raffle that includes a month’s worth of prizes. The grand prize is $1,000. Tickets are $10 and the drawing will take place in April. To obtain tickets, call Project Graduation co-chairmen Mary Turner, 990-0707, or Chris Dunbar, 947-4294. Tickets also are available by calling fund-raising chairman Donna Ingraham, 942-0524.

Young Leaders Conference

BANGOR – Erika Rogers of Levant, a junior at Bangor High School, has been selected to attend the National Young Leaders Conference March 15-20 in Washington.

The theme of the event, sponsored by the Congressional Youth Leadership Council, is “The Leaders of Tomorrow Meet the Leaders of Today.”

Four hundred participants will interact with personnel from the three branches of government, the news media and the international community. Also included will be leadership skill-building activities and simulations, such as “If I Were President.”

Rogers is the daughter of David and Sandra Lewis, and granddaughter of Jack Gallagher. Gallagher served in the diplomatic corps as public affairs officer for the U.S. Information Agency in countries such as Guatemala, the homeland of Rogers’ grandmother, and El Salvador, where her mother was born.

Rogers hopes to join the medical field, and would like to be a researcher in neurology.

Conference for LeadAmerica

BREWER – Bradley Libby, a student at Brewer High School, has been selected to attend LeadAmerica’s 2005 Congressional Student Leadership Conference in Boston. Students are selected for academic achievement and extracurricular and community involvement.

Students choose from several academic areas in which to participate, including government and politics, engineering, science and robotics, global business and entrepreneurship, intelligence, diplomacy and national security, junior war college, crime scene investigation, law and trial advocacy, and medicine and health care.

Conference participants experience leadership in action through discussions and briefings with national and international leaders.

Hermon prekindergarten

HERMON – Hermon children who will be 4 years old on or before Oct. 15 are invited to register for prekindergarten in March. Registration will take place with teacher Melissa Biehn Fridays March 11, 18 or 25 at the prekindergarten center. Parents must bring their child’s birth certificate, immunization record and Social Security number in order to complete the registration. For an appointment, call Hermon Elementary School, 848-4000, ext. 3019.

Old Town High School

OLD TOWN – “Our Students’ Art Exhibit” will be held at the Bangor Mall until March 20, presented by teachers of art and sponsored by The Heart of Maine. Old Town High School students in grades nine to 12 will exhibit their work in painting, drawing, print making, colored pencils and pastels.

. JROTC cadets Jacob Cyr, James Cyr, Daniel Wheaton, Rachel Sargent, Ryann Grant, Eric Roy and Jennifer Sullivan acted as the color guard for the American Legion birthday in Orono on Feb. 19.

The JROTC cadets are selling raffle tickets on an Old Town “Otter” kayak with life vest and paddle. Tickets, at only $2 each, are on sale through 18 March. Proceeds will help pay for the cost of the annual military ball. The winner will be announced at the military ball and the winner does not need to be present to win.

. These seniors have been accepted to college: Adam Aucoin, Endicott, Ithaca, and St. Joseph’s College; Gloria Deconte, Courtney Shorey and Julia Allen, Pierre’s; Amanda Lonko, Husson; Alivia Moore, Bowdoin College; Barbara St. Peter, University of Maine, Farmington, and University of Maine, Presque Isle; Travis Vicary, Gordon College, Messiah College and Houghton; Rachel Allen, University of Maine and Allegheny College; Josh Marcho, D’Youville; Adam Avery, University of Southern Maine and University of Maine.

Penobscot Job Corps

BANGOR – The Penobscot Job Corps Center honored six students for earning their General Equivalency Diploma during January and February.

They are: Joshua M. Carberry, 17, Farmington, N.H.; Joshua W. Simmons, 17, Bowdoinham; Ryan P. Steele, 17, Norway; Joel R. Bagley, 17, Center Harbor, N.H.; William Bones-Silva, 17, Fitchburg, Mass.; Nathaniel K. Vinson, 17, Bridgeport, Conn.

BANGOR – The Penobscot Job Corps Center will hold the school’s spring graduation at 10 a.m. Friday, March 25, as 36 students from culinary arts, business and construction receive diplomas. The Hon. Judge Sergio Gutierrez of the Idaho Court of Appeals will serve as guest speaker. Graduates are:

Felicia Abrahams, 17, Rockland; Kimberly Batty, 17, Mexico; Sarah Bemis, 21, Milford; Nicole Caldwell, 22, Waterbury, Conn.; Kelly Cole, 22, Sanford; Kacey Davis, 18, Norridgewock; Sarah Deeds, 19, Lebanon; Rupert Dellaway, 18, Gray; Ashley DeWildt, 19, Somersworth, N.H.; Jason Dore, 23, Bangor; Jason Doucette, 21, Hinsdale, N.H.; Cobi Duarte, 22, New Bedford, Mass.; Shernetta Dunmore, 20, Bridgeport, Conn.; Matthew Grass, 17, Skowhegan; Yadicel Guerra, 21, Bangor; Nadar Hassan, 22, Portland; Bonita Hill, 25, Bangor; Fatima Holley, 20, Portland; Anthony Howard, 20, East Haven, Vt.; Courtney Loring, 18, West Paris; Joshua Maciulavicius, 18, Candia, N.H.; Joshua Marks, 22, Providence, R.I.; Holly Morrison, 25, Bangor; Mark Pantalone, 21, Rockland; Nelsy Parra, 17, New Britain, Conn.; Christina Porter, 17, Steep Falls; Offer Rivera, 19, Dorchester, Mass.; Megan Robinson, 18, Owls Head; Desiree Rogers, 17, Newberryport, Mass.; Adam Scribner, 18, Candia, N.H.; Cindy L. Sok, 17, Portland; Rebecca Sugarman, 18, Londonderry, N.H.; Kevin Symonds, 20, Windsor; Randy Vargas, 25, Rockland; Paul Wentworth, 18, Steep Falls.

Gutierrez received a General Equivalency Diploma in 1970 from the Wolf Creek Job Corps Center in Glide, Ore., where he was a student in the carpentry program. He received a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Boise State University and a juris doctorate from Hastings Law School, University of California.

For information about Job Corps, call (800) 949-1937.

Colleges

Boston University

BOSTON – Travis Ford of Bucksport has been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Boston College.

Dickinson College

CARLISLE, Pa. – Stephanie Schreiber, a senior majoring in Spanish, was named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Dickinson College. A graduate of Hermon High School, she is the daughter of Carl and Nancy Schreiber Jr. of Hermon.

Gettysburg College

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Michael Whorton of Orono, a senior at Gettysburg College, has been placed on the dean’s commendation list for outstanding academic achievement for the fall semester at the college.

Maine Maritime Academy

CASTINE – Richard Collenburg Jr. and Robert Canning, both of Eddington, and Steven Case of Bangor were named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Maine Maritime Academy.

Regis College

WESTON, Mass. – Elise Doucette of Hampden has been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Regis College.