Arlington High School choir places at jazz festival
Arlington High School’s award-winning jazz choir Jazzmine performed Jan. 29 at the Pacific Vocal Jazz Festival at Bellevue Community College. The Pacific Vocal Jazz Festival features high school jazz choirs from around the state.
Jazzmine was one of three groups invited to perform at the evening show.
The choir placed second overall with two members winning outstanding vocalist awards. The winning soloists were seniors Brennan Kmet and Kena McClure.
Jazzmine’s next performance will be Feb. 26 and 27 at the Byrnes Performing Arts Center in Arlington.
Snohomish student on Florida Institute dean’s list
Anthony Harness of Snohomish was among the students from Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Fla., who were named to the dean’s list for the fall semester.
Harness is a physics major.
To be included on the dean’s list, a student must complete 12 or more graded credits in a semester with a semester grade point average of at least 3.4.
WWU scholarship for Lynnwood resident
Western Washington University student Amy Rounds received a $1,500 Lucille McGhee Linn Memorial Scholarship for the 2009-10 academic year.
The Lucille McGhee Linn Memorial Scholarship is awarded to transfer students enrolled in the elementary-education program, including special education majors pursuing the elementary professional program.
Rounds, a senior at WWU, is majoring in education. She has earned a 4.0 GPA and is planning to graduate in 2011.
Rounds was a room parent at Seattle Hill Elementary and her professional goals include teaching first grade in a local elementary school.
She is married to Darryl Rounds and is the daughter of Richard and Jeni Meissner of Lynnwood.
Rotary Club names its students of the month
South Everett-Mukilteo Rotary Club recently honored Stuart Pitts, a senior at Kamiak High School in Mukilteo, and Anupreet Sidhu, a senior at Mariner High School in Everett as December students of the month.
Club president, Fred Baxter, presented both students with a plaque.
Pitts, the son of Dave and Julie Pitts, is a four-year member of Kamiak’s Jazz Club and the Kamiak Show Band. He was the head drum major for 2009. Stuart was voted best drum major at the Puget Sound Festival of Bands last fall.
In November, he received the Directors Choice Award from the band’s director, Toby Bathurst, and in June he was chosen most inspirational by the band members. He also was involved in designing the band’s uniforms.
Pitts applied at the University of Washington, University of Southern California and Stanford. He plans to major in business with a minor in music performance, and perhaps economics, and he would like to continue on to graduate school to get his master’s in business administration.
Anupreet, a senior with a GPA of 3.96, is The Herald’s Super Kid this week. See today’s cover story about her accomplishments.
WSU student from Everett earns leadership award
Edison Kent of Everett, who is the Associated Students of Washington State University director of Philanthropy and Community Outreach, received a Civic Leadership Award in Olympia on Jan. 25.
The award is given to someone who works to improve his community through volunteerism, motivates and inspires others to serve for a cause, and educates his peers about an important community need.
In his position as the executive vice president of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity. Kent educated the Greek community about the importance of civil service.
Service projects included partnerships with Women against Domestic Violence on the Palouse, Habitat for Humanity, Humane Society, Ripken Foundation, Paris White Foundation and Relay for Life.
Kent created a student organization called Project GIVE. Project GIVE’s mission is Give Hope, Give Love, Give Back. It is a philanthropic group that focuses on large-scale service projects locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.
Mukilteo elementary teacher wins Lighthouse Award
Paul Church, a second-grade teacher at Discovery Elementary, was named the winner of the Lighthouse Award for the first semester.
The Lighthouse Award, presented twice each year, is considered the highest honor that can be given to a Mukilteo School District employee.
Also nominated for the honor were Jennifer Burd, administrative assistant for the curriculum and professional development department; Bruce Denton, dean of students at Horizon Elementary; Christy Johnson, dean of students at Challenger Elementary; Matt Pewitt, assistant principal at Olympic View Middle School; Marcie Polin, principal at ACES High School; Elaine Spiller, counselor at Voyager Middle School; and Brandi Wall, accounting tech in the business office.
Church has been a teacher in Mukilteo for 19 years, was one of the first teachers in the school district to receive National Board certification and now serves as a mentor to other staff members who are working toward that high level of achievement.
Harbour Pointe students of month for January
January’s theme for student of the month at Harbour Pointe Middle School was “principled,” an attribute from the International Baccalaureate Profile.
Principled students act with integrity and honesty, with a strong sense of fairness, justice, and respect for the dignity of the individual, groups and communities.
They take responsibility for their own actions and the consequences that accompany them.
Harbour Pointe Middle School selected the following students who best demonstrated these qualities:
Sixth grade: Takeru Doi, Emily Haugstad, Carolyn Petrik and Landon Slater.
Seventh grade: Laura Guilford, Michael Komala, Melanie Marshall, Travis Parker and Moses Williams.
Eighth grade: Jenna Gilbert, Julian Jacox, Ryan James and Jacqueline Tardanico.
Send School Winners items to Amy Daybert, 425-339-3491, adaybert@heraldnet.com.
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