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<< Previous   of   Next >> (click to enlarge) Cameron Zwaller, a senior at Archbishop Murphy High School, was named a Kimberly-Clark Bright Futures scholarship winner. (click to enlarge) Jerod Fuchs, a senior at Kamiak High School, was named a Kimberly-Clark Bright Futures scholarship winner. (click to enlarge) Laura Asbe, a senior at Bellingham High School, recently was named a Kimberly-Clark Bright Futures scholarship winner. (click to enlarge) Snohomish students recently were honored by the Rotary Club of Snohomish as Students of the Third Quarter. Back row (left to right): Megan Ess, Quenton Dunbar, Shuman Wood, Marjorie Heard, Katherine Benson, Raymond Purviance, Brandon Van Volkenburg, Shelby Pexton and Joseph Chlebowski. Front row (left to right): Jess Matthews, Caitlin Johnson, Brandon Sykes, Liam Potocsnak and Kitty Campbell-Hoerath. Not available for the photograph: Carly Ruiz and Annie Stoller-Patterson. (click to enlarge) Students from Grace Academy Worship Center in Marysville starred in "Arsenic and Old Lace," directed by Phyllis Rice. Pictured in a scene from the play (left to right) are Benjamin Hackbarth as Dr. Einstein, Garrett Weinberg as Teddy, Brian Young as Jonathan, Megan Timmerman as Aunt Martha and Andi McAuliffe as Aunt Abby. (click to enlarge) Actors in "Arsenic and Old Lace" are (left to right) Kaitlyn Schuler as Elaine, Nathaniel Lugg as Mortimer, Megan Timmerman as Aunt Martha and Andi McAuliffe as Aunt Abby.   ADVERTISEMENT   CONTACT THE HERALD Melanie Munk, Features Editor munk@heraldnet.com   Published: Thursday, May 22, 2008 Edmonds-Woodway team takes 3rd place at Academic Bowl Edmonds-Woodway High School's Deaf and Hearing Loss Team finished in third place at the 12th annual Gallaudet University National Academic Bowl. Thadeus Brown, Jordan Paradis, Daniil Dovgopolyy, Kyle Brossoit and Taylor Yukawa, led by teachers Lori Seago and Paul Glaser, beat White Station High School of Memphis, Tenn., for the third-place victory. This is the third year Edmonds-Woodway has competed as a team and made it to the national competition, but this was the first time they have placed. Bothell students win state science Olympiad Seventeen students from Bothell High School recently won the honor to represent Washington state at the national Science Olympiad Tournament at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The Bothell science team beat 40 teams during the state finals at Eastern Washington University. Winners by place and category are: First place: Mollie Holmberg and Allen Zhang, ecology; Megan Lacy, Jon Kussmann and Kellen Donohue, experimental design; Abby Sloan and Megan Lacy, health science; Kelly Fissel and Mollie Holmberg, herpetology; Kellen Donohue and Jon Kussman, physics lab; Laura Barker and Ellen Fissel, rocks and minerals; and Evan Twedt and Laura Barker, Wright Stuff. Second place: Abby Sloan and Allen Zhang, disease detectives; and Mollie Holmberg and Allen Zhang, oceanography. Third place: Megan Ewing and Evan Twedt in two categories, remote sensing and Write It, Do It. Fourth place: Megan Ewing and Ellen Fissel, astronomy; Abby Sloan, boomilever; Megan Lacy and Mollie Holmberg, cell biology; Ellen Fissel and Kelly Fissel, electric vehicle; and Sebastian Morgan and Emma Bishop, forensics. Other students advancing to the national finals are Sam Berkman, Harshad Petwe, Justin Huffaker and Trish Banik. This is the second year in a row that the Bothell High Science Olympiad team has gone to nationals. The students were led by coach Sheila Guard, an eighth-grade science teacher at Canyon Park Junior High, who was named Northshore School District teacher of the year for the 2007-08 school year. Shoreline student named to college dean's list Kate Eaton of Shoreline recently was named to the dean's list at the Jamestown College honors convocation. Eaton also received the John L. and Palma Wilson Scholarship. Established in 1883, Jamestown College in Jamestown, N.D., is a private liberal arts four-year college granting bachelor's degrees, including a nursing degree. Jamestown College is the only North Dakota school named to the top tier in U.S. News and World Report's "2008 Best Colleges." Kamiak senior goes to Naval Academy Lauren Taglialavore, 17, a Kamiak High School senior, recently received a congressional nomination and was appointed to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., class of 2012. Taglialavore was among 1,200 students who were offered an appointment out of roughly 24,000 applicants worldwide. Taglialavore is the daughter of Mike and Debbie Taglialavore, longtime residents of Mukilteo. Taglialavore will graduate from Kamiak High School in June with a 3.7 GPA. During her high school career, Taglialavore has been a member of the Lady Knights basketball team and the track and field team, and she played freshman volleyball for the Knights. She has also been a member of the National Honor Society and received several Lamp of Knowledge awards. In addition, Taglialavore has been a member of the Kamiak Forensics class and the Everett Rowing Association girls crew. Taglialavore hopes to study forensics and to become an FBI profiler. She is scheduled to report to the Academy on July 2, where she will be inducted into the class of 2012 and begin her Plebe Summer. Three high school seniors win Kimberly Clark honor Three seniors, Jerod Fuchs, Cameron Zwaller and Laura Asbe recently were named 2008 winners of the Kimberly-Clark Foundation Bright Futures college scholarship program. The foundation is the charitable arm of the Kimberly-Clark Corp. Jerod Fuchs of Kamiak High School is the son of Randy and Lecia Fuchs. Cameron Zwaller of Archbishop Murphy High School is the son of Steve and Colleen Zwaller. Laura Asbe of Bellingham High School is the daughter of Doug and Sandra Asbe. The Bright Futures program, established in 1993, awards college scholarships to children of Kimberly-Clark employees in the United States and Canada. Each grant is worth up to $20,000, or $5,000 per year for up to four years, for full-time students studying at accredited colleges and universities. Since its inception the program has distributed more than $28.5 million in scholarships to more than 1,400 students. Marysville students finish successful drama run Students from Grace Academy Worship Center in Marysville recently completed a successful performance of their school play, "Arsenic and Old Lace," directed by Phyllis Rice. The following students acted in the play: Benjamin Hackbarth as Dr. Einstein, Garrett Weinberg as Teddy, Brian Young as Jonathan, Megan Timmerman as Aunt Martha, Andi McAuliffe as Aunt Abby, Kaitlyn Schuler as Elaine, and Nathaniel Lugg as Mortimer. Other actors included Joshua Miller, Timothy O'Kelly, Bayley Galbreath, Ryan Bronder, William Crow and Sung Yong Lee. Snohomish students honored by Rotary Club Sixteen Snohomish School District secondary students recently were named Students of the Third Quarter for the 2007-08 school year by the Rotary Club of Snohomish. The following students were honored at a breakfast presented by the Snohomish Rotarians at the Snohomish School District's resource center: Megan Ess, Quenton Dunbar, Shuman Wood, Marjorie Heard, Katherine Benson, Raymond Purviance, Brandon Van Volkenburg, Shelby Pexton, Joseph Chlebowski, Jess Matthews, Caitlin Johnson, Brandon Sykes, Liam Potocsnak, Kitty Campbell-Hoerath, Carly Ruiz and Annie Stoller-Patterson. The students represented Centennial and Valley View middle schools, Snohomish Freshman Campus and Snohomish High School.

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