Schools

Bangor Christian School

BANGOR – Amber Leathers of Brewer, who attends Bangor Christian School, has received Russell Sage College’s designation as a Student Sage.” Award winners are invited to visit the college in the fall for a Student Sage Day to recognize young women of excellence.

Bucksport High School

BUCKSPORT – Caleb Grindle, a recent graduate of Bucksport High School, has been awarded the Sam Walton Community Scholarship of $1,000. Grindle will attend Boston College in the fall where he will study marketing.

Grindle served on the student council, played varsity basketball and soccer, and was a member of the band and jazz band. He attended Dirigo Boys State in 2004, where he was elected to the Senate and assisted with the Federalist Party’s gubernatorial campaign. He is the son of Terrance and Cynthia Grindle.

Hermon Middle School

HERMON – An essay written by Hermon Middle School eighth-grader Brittany Roberts has been selected for inclusion in the anthology, “What’s Important to Me,” to be published by Creative Communication Inc. of Logan, Utah. Brittany is the daughter of Scott and Wendy Roberts.

Orono High School

ORONO – Orono High School recently recognized several students for outstanding academic achievement.

Members of the senior class received the following honors:

UTC skills awards: Jason Canaar, Cody Theriault and Tony Trask; art: Tim Berry, Jessica Twitchell and Ana Blagojevic; computer: Ryan Cota and Mo Nazmy; math: Stacy Scott and Leah Bilyk; music: Stacy Scott, Joe Hallman and Eileen O’Donnell; science: Matt Newsom, Stacy Scott and Tracy Dyment; social studies: Dan Kittridge and Tracy Dyment; industrial technology: Mo Nazmy; DAR Good Citizen Award: John Dudley; Wilson Peace Award: John Dudley; drama: Joe Hallman, Tim Berry, Ryan Tripp and Killian Diggins.

Chess: Ryan Tripp and Dan Kittridge; newspaper: Dan Kittridge and John Dudley; athletic: Adam Chase and Stacey Saucier; Riot Award: Lexi Wakeling; MPA Principal’s Award: Dan Kittridge; Herff Jones Leaders Award: Tim Berry; National Merit Certificate: Dan Kittridge; graduation speakers: Tim Berry, Dan Skall and Stacy Scott; class marshal: Cody Theriault; Spanish: Tim Berry and Stacy Scott; French: Leah Bilyk, Brenda Currier, John Dudley, Dan Kittridge, Fabiola Loss, Camila Lopez Anido, Eileen O’Donnell, Marc Schmidt, Dan Skall and Katie Wagner.

Book awards, science: Ryan Cota; social studies: Dan Kittridge; English: Tim Berry; math: Dan Kittridge; Spanish: Stacy Scott; French: Marc Schmid.

Top 10 academically ranked seniors in alphabetical order: Tim Berry, Leah Bilyk, Ana Blagojevic, John Dudley, Dan Kittridge, Camila Lopez Anido, Mo Nazmy, Eileen O’Donnell, Stacy Scott and Dan Skall.

National Honor Society: Tim Berry, Leah Bilyk, Ana Blagojevic, Ryan Cota, Brenda Currier, John Dudley, Tracy Dyment, Dan Kittridge, Camila Lopez Anido, Daniel Murray, Mo Nazmy, Eileen O’Donnell, Stacey Saucier, Stacy Scott, Dan Skall and Katie Wagner.

Seniors receiving academic recognition pins: Amy Bell, Tim Berry, Leah Bilyk, Ana Blagojevic, Chelsea Castonguay, Ryan Cota, John Dudley, Tracy Dyment, Nate Faulstick, Joe Fullwood, Loren Inman, Bryce Kennedy, Dan Kittridge, Camila Lopez Anido, Mo Nazmy, Matt Newsom, Eileen O’Donnell, Reis Perkins, Anna Riechmann, Stacy Saucier, Marc Schmid, Stacy Scott, Dan Skall and Katie Wagner.

Youth Music Camp

ORONO – More than 150 young musicians from throughout Maine and New England have been perfecting their performance skills and learning new music as they spend a week “living, breathing and thinking music” at UMaine’s annual Maine Summer Youth Music Camp.

July 15 ended a concentrated week of music immersion at the University of Maine School of Performing Arts’ Junior Camp for students in grades six through eight, and July 17 began the two-week Senior Camp for student musicians in grades nine through 12.

With an additional music theater class – a show choir – student musicians this year are tackling such productions as “Music Man Junior,” “The Pirates of Penzance” and a medley of songs from the 1939 version of “The Wizard of Oz.”

That’s in addition to participation in summer music camp’s traditional musical ensembles such as a symphonic band, concert band or chorus. Other ensembles include jazz bands, musical theater, the show choir and, for a small number of senior campers, a jazz combo.

Music camp offers instrumental and vocal ensembles for youths of varying skill levels, said camp director Ginger Yang Hwalek, a Maine music instructor, pianist, violist and conductor.

This is the 34th year for the senior program, and the 25th for the junior program.

Hwalek emphasized the importance of the university offering a music camp that provides an extended period of peer camaraderie and concentrated immersion in music with emphasis on chamber music and performance technique.

Staffing the music camp are music teachers from Maine public schools, faculty from the UMaine School of Performing Arts and UMaine music majors, who get an early look at what teaching young people is like.

“They’re learning from what I feel are top-notch mentors,” Hwalek said. “It’s very important for campers to see these great teachers at work.”

Each camp culminates in concert performances by the campers.

A schedule of events and concerts may be obtained by calling the UMaine School of Performing Arts at 581-4702 or visiting www.umaine.edu/spa.

Wassookeag School

BANGOR – Wassookeag School, a small, progressive learning community located at 218 French St., is accepting applications for the 2005-06 school year for ages K-8. Call the school at 945-4900 to obtain more information.

World traveler, hotographer

NEWBURGH – Windover Art Center in Newburgh has announced its summer roster of guest artists.

The week of July 25, Thomas Abercrombie will talk to campers about his more than 40 years of traveling the globe as a photographer and writer for the National Geographic Society. Abercrombie, who is fluent in six languages, has been to every continent and the North and South poles, writing stories of his travels in Australia, Alaska, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Japan and Afghanistan, and of climbing mountains, sailing the seas and flying planes to get his stories.

Abercrombie spent two years with marine research scientist Jacques Cousteau on his ship, The Calypso, in the Mediterranean and on the African coast. He lives in Maryland with his wife, Lynn, a National Geographic Society photographer.

Assemblage artist Chris Senesi of Shady Side, Md., is scheduled for the week of Aug. 8. He will make life casts of children’s hands and “thumbtacks.”

Senesi and Windover Director Mari Abercrombie are childhood pals who shared a dream of establishing an art community that housed artists of all kinds.

Senesi creates castings with moulage, a water-based substance derived from seaweed that can be applied directly to skin. Moulage is daubed onto the subject, then it hardens. It is then removed, leaving a perfect mold for pouring plaster. The process teaches the concept of positive-negative relationship that is important in all kinds of casting.

Guest artist appearances are made possible by a grant from the Bangor Savings Bank Foundation. To register for either session, call 234-4503 or visit www.windoverartcenter.org.

Colleges

Bentley College

WALTHAM – Elissa Bosley of Bangor, Justin Perry of Hampden and Jonathan Green of Hampden were named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at Bentley College.

Andrew Everett of Brewer and Jonathan Dearborn of Holden were named to the president’s list at the college for achieving a GPA of 3.7 or higher.

McGill University

MONTREAL – Michael Mahoney of Bangor graduated earlier this year with a bachelor’s degree in English and geography from McGill University.

A 2000 graduate of Bangor High School, he is the son of Larry and Sally Mahoney of Bangor.

Mahoney will spend a year teaching English to Japanese youngsters in Tajima, Japan, a city north of Tokyo. He will teach junior high pupils four days a week and kindergarten pupils on Fridays.

Norwich University

NORTHFIELD, Vt. – The following area students have been named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at Norwich University: Blake Civiello of Bangor, Brian Groshon of Hampden, Michael Peverada of Hampden, Paul Gillett of Orono and Kate McLean of Orrington.

Saint Joseph’s College

STANDISH – Saint Joseph’s College has named the following area students to its dean’s list for the spring semester:

Argyle: Shaun Tidwell.

Bangor: Caitlin Hickey.

Bucksport: Lindsay Robinson.

Eddington: William Chapman.

Hampden: Jessica Lindsay.

Hermon: Natalie Bell.

Holden: Audra Cushman.

Winterport: Amanda Hart.

Smith College

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. – Kelly Swindlehurst, daughter of Liz Hennessey and Bob Swindlehurst of Orono, was named to the dean’s list for academic achievement for the 2004-05 school year.

Trinity College

HARTFORD, Conn. – Timothy Szal has received faculty honors for the spring semester at Trinity College.

University of Maine

ORONO – Michael Swett of Old Town accepted membership in The National Society of Collegiate Scholars, an honors organization recognizing outstanding academic achievement. He is a second-year civil and environmental engineering student.

Williams College

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – Ryan Gordon of Orono is one of 42 Williams College students who have been named associate members of Sigma Xi, the international scientific research society. Gordon is studying geo-sciences.