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Home-schooled classes

HOLDEN – Fields Pond Audubon Center is offering classes for home-schooled children. Each class will include an outdoor activity and participants are advised to dress warmly. Preregistration with payment will secure a place in the class. The fee is $10 per child. Class size is limited to 15.

The schedule is:

. Skulls and Bones, 2-3:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 26. Pupils will put a disassembled animal skeleton back together. They will handle a variety of skulls from the center’s collection and learn scientific techniques in identifying the species of the skull.

. Maine Birds, 2-3:30 p.m. Monday, March 12. Pupils will observe bird mounts, taking special note of beaks and feet, then do fun activities to learn about birds’ adaptations.

. Geo-caching, 2-3:30 p.m. Monday, March 26. Pupils will learn the basics of high-tech treasure hunting. Using the Internet, GPS units and compass skills, they will uncover hidden treasure while exploring outdoors.

The register for the classes or to obtain more information, call Fields Pond Audubon Center at 989-2591.

Hermon kindergarten

HERMON – Parents of Hermon children who will enter school in the fall should call soon for information about registration. Children who will be 4 years old by Oct. 15 may register for the pre-kindergarten. Children who will be 5 by Oct. 15 may register for kindergarten.

At this time, parents need only call and provide the child’s name, date of birth and address. Information about pupil screening, registration and parent orientation will then be mailed to parents in March.

Call Hermon Elementary School at 848-4000, ext. 3011, to ensure the receipt of information about these activities, scheduled for April and May.

SAD 64 kindergarten

Kindergarten registration is scheduled for the following communities:

. Kenduskeag and Corinth children, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday, March 13, Kenduskeag Elementary School.

. Bradford and Hudson children, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesday, March 14, Bradford Elementary School.

. For Stetson children, 8-11 a.m. Thursday, March 15, Stetson Elementary School.

Children who will be 5 years old on or before Oct. 15 are eligible to enroll in kindergarten. A birth certificate, a record of physical examination dated six months before entry into kindergarten and a medical provider’s record of immunization are required at the time of registration. A brief screening of children will be conducted at registration. Parents should call the school to schedule an appointment for registration.

Orono kindergarten

ORONO – Parents of children who will be 5 years old on or before Oct. 15 are asked to register for kindergarten enrollment 1:30-6 p.m. Wednesday, March 7. Registration is by appointment. To make an appointment, call 866-2151 or 866-4141 between 8:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. weekdays.

A legal state birth certificate or a copy of the birth record is required at the time of registration. A record of the dates of immunization also is necessary. It is required that children who enter school in the fall receive immunization against communicable disease.

Parents do not need to bring the child to registration. Screening and parent orientation will be held at a later date.

Colleges

Boston University

BOSTON – These area students were named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Boston University:

. Brian Roach of Holden.

. Gerald Herlihy of Old Town.

. Brendan Horton of Old Town.

. Adina Rosenthal of Bangor.

. Sarah Templeton of Bangor.

Colby College

WATERVILLE – Colby College has named these area students to the dean’s list for the fall semester:

. Andrew Bolduc, a first-year student, the son of Stephen and Katherine Bolduc of Bangor. He attended Bangor High School.

. Adam Boss, a junior majoring in history, the son of Daniel and Sara Boss of Veazie. He attended Bangor High School. Boss will spend the spring semester in France studying through the University of Minnesota-Montpelier program.

. Margosia Jadkowski, a first-year student, the daughter of Mark Jadkowski of Hampden and Margaret Southworth of Winterport. She attended Hampden Academy.

Colby College

WATERVILLE – Joel Alex of Old Town, a junior majoring in international studies and environmental studies, has returned to Colby College after spending the fall semester in Madagascar through the School for International Training.

Alex, a graduate of John Bapst Memorial High School, is the son of Joseph and Joanne Alex of Old Town.

Eastern Maine Community College

BANGOR – Loving a book so much you want to gobble it up is an experience everyone should have. That’s what Books2Eat is all about.

This one-of-a-kind celebration of reading put on by Eastern Maine Community College’s Friends of the Library challenges the entire community – from elementary students to chefs – to exercise their culinary creativity by cooking up a totally edible creation based on the title of a favorite book.

This is the sixth year of Books2Eat at Eastern Maine Community College, a fun way to encourage reading and creatively engage the community.

Spicing it up a notch is the competition factor with several categories of entry, including pupils under 12, students over 12, professional chefs and everyone else in addition to a special Stephen King title category open to everyone.

Books2Eat will take place 4-6 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, in EMCC’s Rangeley Hall. For information or an entry form, call Karen Reilly at 974-4606.

Skidmore College

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Emily Newton, a student in the Class of 2007, has earned honors for the fall semester at Skidmore College.

She is the daughter of Charlie and Ellen Newton of Winterport.

University of Southern Maine

PORTLAND – These area students were named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at the University of Southern Maine:

Bangor: Hayley Adams, Nicholas Cyr, Alexander De Carlo, Ian Grady, Nicole Hill, Amber Reed.

Carmel: Megan Garland, Erin Lee, Charles Toothaker.

Bucksport: Daniel Cyr.

Hermon: Christine McIntire, Joshua Warren.

Holden: Eleni Margaronis, Meredith Morgan, Michael Tardiff.

Levant: Reanna Pelkey.

Milford: Heather Lonko.

Old Town: Joelle Clingerman, Michelle Goulette.

Orono: Emily Artesani, Lauren Onsrud, Samuel Walton.

Penobscot: Collin Henry.

Citizen Engineer Award

ORONO – Philip Dunn Jr., professor of construction management in the University of Maine School of Engineering Technology, has received the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2006 Citizen Engineer Award for Region 1.

The national award is one of nine presented nationally to a member of the engineering society in recognition of outstanding accomplishment in public service. Region 1 comprises New England, New York, New Jersey and Puerto Rico.

Jalal Vahabnezhad of Los Angeles, chairman of the ASCE committee on volunteer service, praised Dunn in a congratulatory letter, saying that Dunn has established himself as a dynamic leader who promotes civil engineering, particularly to youngsters who might consider a career in civil engineering.

Dunn recently directed and assisted civil engineering students at UMaine who built new ramps at the Good Samaritan Agency in Bangor, painted the interior of the facility and led efforts to provide holiday gifts for teenage mothers served by the agency. The Good Samaritan Agency provides adoption services and social services for single mothers and their children.

The citizen engineer award recognizes accomplishments that promote community volunteerism, influence local public policy or legislative affairs and improve the image of the civil engineering profession through personal involvement in public service endeavors.

A resident of Old Town, Dunn has been teaching at the University of Maine since fall 2003. He received the award at the ASCE’s Zone Leadership Award Conference on Jan. 27 in Princeton, N.J.

Fulbright Senior Specialist

ORONO – Kathleen March, professor of Spanish, has been named a Senior Fulbright Specialist, a designation that places her on a list of specialists selected to receive financial assistance for special teaching projects, typically in a foreign country.

The award requires a rigorous application and selection process. Though the five-year designation period does not include an immediate assignment, it positions a candidate for one, usually of two to six weeks. Specialists can propose a consulting project or they can be contacted by a foreign institution interested in a specialist’s area of expertise.

Fulbright Senior Specialist projects are designed to provide U.S. faculty and professionals with opportunities to collaborate with counterparts at non-U.S. post-secondary academic institutions on curriculum and faculty development, institutional planning and a variety of other activities.

The program, according to the Fulbright Scholar Program Web site, seeks to increase the participation of leading U.S. scholars and professionals by enabling new activities that go beyond the traditional Fulbright activities of lecturing and research, and to promote increased connections between U.S. and non-U.S. academic institutions.

March anticipates using her expertise to assist in the creation or improvement of language-teaching programs in a Spanish-speaking country. Many countries benefit from the adaptation of traditional language-teaching techniques to more interactive communicative learning, and by utilizing newer technologies that deliver the most effective instructional material, March said.

March has taught at UM since 1984, was a Fulbright scholar in Spain in 1977-1978 as a graduate student at State University of New York in Buffalo, and routinely leads UM students in service-learning or volunteer visits to Central American towns and villages.