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Mariner High School:
“We were just finishing up finals (Thursday and Friday) and we (had) to make up a half-day on Monday because of the snow day in December. We’re just getting ready for summer and helping teachers clean out their classrooms.”
– Mathews Mathison,
10th grade
Glockenspiels and more at Allen Creek
Allen Creek Elementary School music teacher Ramona Wolfkill-Hoff is all smiles these days.
The PTSA from the Marysville school recently donated $5,200 for new instruments.
“It’s kind of like Christmas in my room, opening up all the boxes,” she said.
The school ordered “Orff instruments,” or barred instruments, such as the xylophone, metallophone and glockenspiel.
Wolfkill-Hoff said the Orff curriculum is designed to let students have “a spontaneous, non-threatening and experimental experience with music.”
“In a time when music programs are being cut due to budget restrictions, it makes me feel good to know that music is valued here,” she said.
Lakewood student set to track asteroids
Lakewood High School student Suzanna Megyery is heading to the Southwest for a summer science program on the campus of New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, N.M.
Megyery, who will be a senior in the fall, is one of 20 students internationally invited to attend the six-week program. She’ll spend time doing research, then she will write her own software to track asteroid orbits using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Los Alamos government laboratory facilities.
“She’s a really deserving, bright young lady,” said Lakewood Principal Catherine Matthews. Megyery hopes to attend either MIT or Cal-Tech when she graduates in 2005.
Madison teacher leaves after 34 years
She’s taught at Madison Elementary School since Richard Nixon was president, she’s taught the children of former students, and now it’s time to go.
Joyce Janeshefskie, 58, is retiring after 34 years of teaching at Madison – the longest tenure of any teacher in the school’s history. After growing up in the Everett School District, attending Silver Lake Elementary, Evergreen Middle School and Cascade High School, she’s spent all but 11 years of her life in the district.
“When I started out (teaching), I never gave it a thought,” Janeshefskie said of her tenure at Madison. “But I’m a person who doesn’t like a lot of change in my life, and I never looked for opportunities to leave.”
She’s looking forward to spending time with her husband, Jim, her children, four grandchildren, and her 96-year-old father, Al Thompson, who still lives in Everett.
District hopes to move forward on additions
The Marysville School District has determined that an environmental impact statement is not necessary to add two classrooms and a covered area for freezers at Quil Ceda Elementary School.
Public comments on the finding must be submitted by July 7 to Jim Fenstermaker, the district’s operations director, at 4220 80th St. NE, Marysville, WA 98270.
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