Community Milestones

IN EDUCATION

□ The Classical Conversations Foundations Program of Clemmons recently presented its Memory Awards for the 2008-09 school year. The home-educated prekindergarten through sixth-grade students studies included historical timelines, U.S. historical events and figures, chemistry, Latin, English grammar and math. The medals and their recipients are:

Memory Master Gold medal (99-100 percent mastery of all materials): Porter Flynn, Emma Jordan, Matthew Walton, Annalisa Ebbink, Patrick Ramsey, Hunter Vaughan, Harrison Vaughan and Nate Guldberg.

Silvery Memory medal (75-98 percent): Colin Shronts, Clara Livingston, Lauren Guldberg, Kara Hanser, Zachary Turpin, Molly Monath and Lily Tobin.

Bronze Memory medal (50-74 percent): Jackson Giff and Luke Guldberg.

Hope Julia Kerr-Read has received a Sisters Scholarship totaling $12,000 to attend Salem College for the 2009-10 academic year. She is the daughter of Russel and Erin Read of Winston-Salem.

□ A team of seventh- and eighth-graders from Hanes Magnet School recently qualified for the national finals of the Team America Rocketry Challenge, the world's biggest model-rocket contest. The team members were Allison McGuire, Simeon Simeonides, Ben Hiller, Kevin Chen, Luke Renegar, Irina Viviano and Max Johnson.

To qualify for the finals, the Hanes team designed, built and tested a rocket that carried a raw egg to an altitude of 750 feet and for a flight duration of 45 seconds. A judge with the National Association of Rocketry graded the team based on how close the portion of the rocket containing the egg came to the flight-duration and altitude targets.

The Hanes team earned a high enough score on its qualifying flights to rank among the top 100 teams in the country, making the group eligible for the national finals of the Team America Rocket Challenge at Great Meadow, Va., last month. At the finals, they received an award for best design from the judges, and they were also one of only 12 teams chosen to make an oral presentation to the panel of judges. Their presentation won a telescope for the school.

□ Amber Cummings of High Point has been named to the dean's list at the University of Cincinnati for the 2009 winter quarter.

□ Doug Borwick, the director of the Not-for-Profit-Management and Arts Management programs at Salem College, has been elected vice president of the board of the Association of Arts Administration Educators, an international organization representing college and university graduate and undergraduate programs in arts administration. He has been a member of the Salem College faculty since 1985, is also a nonprofit management consultant, workshop facilitator, author and speaker.

□ Truliant Federal Credit Union has awarded 12 scholarships totaling $15,000 to their member-owners through the Carolinas Credit Union Foundation scholarship program. Truliant's member-owners received scholarships from three Scholar Vision funds: the Sarda Fund, the Pioneers Fund, the CCUF general fund and the Clyde Padgett Scholarship. Area recipients are:

Kyle Fageol of Winston-Salem, a $1,000 Sarda Scholarship; Ryan Carty of Greensboro, a $1,000 Sarda Scholarship; Sarah Gentle of Winston-Salem, $2,000 Telephone Pioneers Club Scholarship; Cory Alcon of High Point, $2,000 Telephone Pioneers Club Scholarship; Melvin Aikens, Jr. of Winston-Salem, $2,000 Telephone Pioneers Club Scholarship; Brittany Michelle Black of Greensboro, $1,000 CCUF Scholarship; Brent Sprinkle of Winston-Salem, $1,000 CCUF Scholarship; and Jessica Lynn Deare of Greensboro, $1,000 CCUF Scholarship.

□ The following area students graduated from Virginia Tech in December:

Jason Howland of Winston Salem, Bachelor of Science degree in sociology; Jason McKillican of Jamestown, Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering degree in computer engineering; Brian Wheeler of Kernersville, Bachelor of Science in Business degree in finance; Jennifer Kane of Oak Ridge, Bachelor of Science degree summa cum laude in mathematics; Thomas Upton of Oak Ridge, Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering degree in computer engineering; Adam Dimmick of Greensboro, Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry; Ashley Owens of Greensboro, Bachelor of Science degree in human nutrition, foods and exercise; Robert Atkinson of Greensboro, Bachelor of Arts degree in English; and Aaron Tompkins of Ennice, Bachelor of Science degree in dairy science.

□ The following Winston-Salem students have graduated from Salem College:

Diana Alderman Armour, cum laude, B.A.; Carol Ann Aschenbrenner, magna cum laude, B.A.; Blanca Imelda Basurto, cum laude; James Kevin Benson, magna cum laude, B.A.; Tabbatha Tamica Burgess, B.A.; Jenny Elizabeth Bush, cum laude, B.A.; JeVon Antonio Carpenter, B.A.; Aileen Patrice Carson, B.A.; Tiffany Michelle Chaney, B.A.; Angela Marie Daly, B.A.; Kicshia Dawn Dupree, B.A.; LeeAnn Farrell, B.A.; Heidi Marie Fink, B.A.; Lorena R. Gonzalez, B.A.; Jessica Ann Graley, B.A.; Teresa Nichole Greco, B.A.; Michelle Boyd Hauser, B.A.; Tracy Elizabeth Holcombe, magna cum laude, B.A.; Kaisha McDermott Jones, B.A.; Anna Grace Keel, magna cum laude, B.A.; Linda Staten Kimbrough, B.A.; Alicia Evette Latten, B.A.; Adrienne Amos Livengood-Baker, cum laude, B.A.; Stephanie Denise McKinnon, B.A.; Elizabeth Cagle Messick, B.A.; Mary Anne Messick, B.A.; Kimberly Michelle Parsons, B.A.; Mary Ann Plowden, B.A.; Tiffana Twana Ray, B.A.; Mary Justin Rea, B.A.; Jennifer Lee Toft, magna cum laude, B.A.; Elisa Aduema Wells, B.A.; April Marie Wilson, B.A.; Rachel Marie Schultz, magna cum laude, B.S.; Adrienne Hodge Smith, summa cum laude, B.B.A.; Elisabeth Bradley Patton, cum laude, B.B.A.; James Kevin Benson, magna cum laude, B.B.A.; Lynne Lowe Eyre Miller, cum laude, B.B.A.; Nakeshia Renee McCloud, B.B.A.; Amanda Broome Deal, M.A.T.; Annette Shinault Dezarn; M.A.T.; Mary Camilla Durban-Hapner, M.A.T.; Lisa Sedaris Evans, M.A.T; M. Renae Ezra-Jordan, M.A.T.; Laura Allyson Ferris, M.A.T.; Dana Ashley Fleming, M.A.T.; Scottie Boardman House, M.A.T.; Brooke Elizabeth Jenkins, M.A.T.; Lori W. Jensen, M.A.T.; Debra East Joslyn, M.A.T.; Sarah Jean Kearns, M.A.T.; Patricia W. Minter, M.A.T.; Vance Raymond Parker, M.A.T; Laura Denise Patterson, M.A.T; Chantae L. Reynolds, M.A.T.; Carma La'Relle Tucker, M.A.T.; Erin Killeen Goliszek, M.Ed.; Katherine Lynn Mann, M.Ed.; Sheena M. Pankey, M.Ed.; and Susan O'Brien Troxler, M.Ed.

□ George Cleland, V, a student at Reynolds High School, has been elected lieutenant governor to district 20 of Key Club International, a Kiwanis International Service Leadership Program for high-school students, for the 2009-10 academic year. As lieutenant governor, he will act as a liaison between the clubs in his division and the district Key Club board. He will also visit each club, publish a monthly divisional newsletter and contribute to a regional newsletter, as well as hold a monthly division council meeting and stay in touch with Kiwanis clubs within his division.

George has been an active member of the Reynolds High School Key Club since 2008 and been instrumental in re-energizing the recycling program at Reynolds High School.

IN CIVIC AFFAIRS

□ Danner Washburn, a student at Reagan High School, recently served as a Page for the North Carolina House of Representatives. He is the son of Scott and Karen Danner of Pfafftown, and was sponsored by N.C. Representative Dale Folwell (R-Forsyth).

□ Haley Elizabeth West of Kernersville and Stephen Ray Folwell of Winston-Salem recently participated in the Governor's Page Program in Raleigh. The students spent a week gaining valuable life experience and providing administrative support as pages for the North Carolina Department of Administration and the Office of State Budget and Management.

Haley is the daughter of Mary Renuart and Tim West, and a sophomore at East Forsyth High School. Stephen is the son of Dale and Synthia Folwell, and a freshman at Reynolds High School.

IN THE ARTS

□ Leo Hurley, a music student at the UNC School of the Arts, has been named one of the recipients of the 2009 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers Award. He won for his saxophone quartet composition Zydeco, written as part of the PRISM Quartet 21st Century Residency, held at the UNCSA School of Music in January, and is the first UNCSA student to receive the award.

Hurley is a college sophomore studying composition in the School of Music at UNCSA, where he is a student of Lawrence Dillon. He is a native of Rollinsford, N.H.

□ Wesley Taylor, a recent drama graduate of the UNC School of the Arts, has been named a winner of a Theatre World Award for his performance as Franz in Rock of Ages. He also received a nomination for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical.

Taylor, a native of Orlando, Fla., is a 2008 B.F.A. graduate of the School of Drama at UNCSA where, as a student, he played Falstaff in Dean Gerald Freedman's Henry IV and Action in the all-school production of West Side Story.

□ Chad Beroth of Clemmons has won the Yadkin Arts Council logo contest. John Willingham, the president of the Yadkin Arts Council, presented Beroth with his award of $200. The new logo, titled Four Artists, will be used to help brand the Yadkin Arts Council and the Yadkin Cultural Center.

Beroth is a full-time student in the advertising and graphic design degree program at Surry Community College.

IN PUBLIC SERVICE

□ The Enrichment Center honored several members of the Winston-Salem Police Department for their concern when the Center was broken into and most of its percussion ensemble's instruments stolen. The officers and detectives went above and beyond the call of duty to investigate the theft and recover many of the instruments that belonged to the group of musicians with developmental disabilities.

Those honored were: Sgt. Mickey Hutchens, Cpl. Matt Winnicki, Capt. David Clayton, Lt. Natasha James, Det. John Boger, Det. Jeff Thompson, Det. Matt Sisson and Det. Mark Snow.

□ Jack Marion of Pinnacle has been awarded the North Carolina Asa Philip Randolph Institute's Community Service Award for his work as the North Carolina field organizer for the Alliance for Retired Americans. He was recognized for his efforts in protecting jobs for Americans, defending seniors' benefits and supporting affordable health care for everyone.

The APRI was founded by labor leaders Asa Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin in 1965 as a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of black trade unionists to fight for racial equality and economic justice. Its chapters provide support for local unions during organizing campaigns, and provide outreach programs and services for community members in need.

□ Eleanor Elizabeth "Blitz" Hoppe has been awarded the Congressional Award Gold Medal, and will be recognized at a ceremony to be held this month in Washington, D.C.

The Congressional Award is the U.S. Congress' award for young Americans. To earn a gold medal, participants must complete more than 400 hours of volunteer service as well as excel in three other areas: personal development, physical fitness, and expeditions and explorations.

Hoppe gave her voluntary service hours to Salem Academy as well as to Salemtowne Moravian Retirement Community and the Children's Center for the Physically Handicapped, where she remains active. For the personal development area, she studied for the SAT, researched colleges to which she is interested in applying and studied nutrition to become better informed about long-term health and fitness. For physical fitness, she pursued both team and individual sports, as well as a strength-training regimen. Her expeditions and explorations requirement consisted of hikes and planning trips to cities that she had never visited.

Hoppe, a graduate of Summit School, is a rising senior at Salem Academy, where she serves on the Fellowship Council and has just been elected president of the Student Council for 2009-10. She is the daughter of Mark and Betsy Hoppe of Winston-Salem.

IN THE MILITARY

□ Jason G. Cibelli has enlisted in the Air Force Obligated Reserve Section through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program, and received a 31/2-year scholarship to attend the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The scholarship offers payment of full college tuition and most lab fees, an annual book allowance, and a monthly nontaxable stipend during the school year.

Cibelli is the son of John T. and Teresa R. Cibelli of Advance, and he is a 2008 graduate of Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School.

□ Army Pvt. Richard D. Frost has graduated from One Station Unit Training at Fort Knox, Ky., which consisted of basic military training and advanced individual training. He is the grandson of Marvin and Reba Mangum of Walnut Cove, and a 1998 graduate of Forbush High School.

□ Army Pvt. Brandon D. Coston has graduated from the Infantryman One Station Unit Training at Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga. The training consists of basic infantry training and advanced individual training. He is the son of Joseph and Camilla Lewis of Winston Salem.

□ Army Pfc. Roger C. Simoneau has graduated from One Station Unit Training at Fort Knox, Ky., which included basic combat training and advanced individual training. He is the son of Vicki Hufstetler of Lewisville, and a 2008 graduate of Reagan High School.

□ Air Force Airman Michael H. Lackovic graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. He also earned credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.

Lackovic is the son of Connie and Michael Lackovic of Kernersville, and a 2007 graduate of East Forsyth High School.

IN SCOUTING

□ Boy Scouts and Cub Pack troops 815 with St. Stephen Missionary Baptist Church were recently recognized as first in North Carolina for their community volunteer work. Winston-Salem mayor pro tempore, Vivian Burke, presented the troops -- along with scout master Emanuel Mickens, assistant scout master Handy Douglas and Anna Mickens -- certificates of appreciation for volunteerism. Troop 815, in turn, presented Burke with an award in recognition of her long-term support.

Also recognized was Boy Scout Michael Howell, who is on his way to become St. Stephen's first Eagle Scout.

IN OTHER AREAS

□ Eric A. Aft has been promoted to chief operating officer for United Way of Forsyth County. He was previously vice president of community planning and investment.

□ Catherine Freeman has been voted 2008-09 North Carolina Federation of College Republicans Chapter Chairman of the Year. She is the current president of the UNC-Wilmington College Republicans. She is a senior majoring in political science.

Freeman is the daughter of Ladd and Janet Freeman of Winston Salem, and is a 2005 graduate of Mount Tabor High School.

□ The Miss Molly Foundation and the Winston-Salem-based Molly Maid franchise owned and operated by Stanley and Melissa Robinson presented a check in the amount of $1,650 to Next Step Ministries, a domestic-violence shelter in Kernersville. The donation was the result of an effort begun last October, where Molly Maid businesses throughout the country donate a portion of the service fee for every home cleaned to assist shelters and safe houses in the communities they serve. In addition to the financial support, Molly Maid collected cleaning and paper products from its customers and donated to the shelter.

□ Cameron Brosnan of Jamestown and Megan Hitchcock of Greensboro have been named semifinalists in the 2009 search for Huggable Heroes sponsored by Build-A-Bear Workshop. The search recognizes young people who are making a difference in their communities and/or worldwide. Cameron and Megan are two of 208 young people recognized by Build-A-Bear for helping make the world a better place.

Cameron is nominated for his efforts to raise funds and awareness for autism. As a team leader in the Walk Now for Autism event in Concord, he has raised $815 for Autism Speaks. Megan is nominated for her efforts to bring joy to children in hospital. She collects donations to purchase and donate teddy bears. She has collected $1,500 and used it to donate 85 teddy bears to children in hospitals.

Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc. is the leading and only global company that offers an interactive make-your-own stuffed animal retail-entertainment experience.

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