School Briefs

Room Nine applications due

Room Nine Community School applications are due by 4 p.m. March 1 in the school office at which time the lottery for next year will be held.

Enrollment in the Room Nine Community School is open to all K-8 grade students in the Shoreline School District. It is housed at the recently remodeled Aldercrest Learning Center. Bus transportation is provided to all students who live at least one half-mile from the school.

Call the registrar for your child’s grade for more information. For grades K-5 contact Tracy Etherton at saytay1@yahoo.com, 206-227-1661. For grades 6-8 contact Jennifer Pavey at Jennifer@800bucklup.org, 206-200-5410.

Support Shoreline booster groups

The 2005 Shorewood Boosters Annual Auction will be held at 5 p.m. March 5 at the Shoreline Center. This event features a full course dinner and dessert, live auction, raffle, silent auction and no-host bar. Tickets are $50 each. Please call Tris Lewis at 206-542-3523 for more information. 

The Shorecrest Booster Club is hosting a “Shorecrest Round-Up Auction-N-Dinner” March 19 at the Shoreline Center. Registration and silent auctions begin at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner and a live auction at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are on sale for $40 per person until Feb. 28, and $50 after March 1. For more information, contact Rosie Bellert at 206-367-8619 or auction@shorecrestboosters.org.

These annual fund-raisers benefit many student activities and programs at Shorewood and Shorecrest high schools such as drama, band, athletics and Link Crew.

School board recognizes staff

The members of the Shoreline School Board and Dr. James M. Welsh, Superintendent, are hosting a reception honoring classified staff members at 7 p.m. March 7 in the Shoreline Center lobby.

The school board will announce the 2005 Support Person of the Year at the reception. All district staff and community members are invited to attend and express their appreciation to our caring and dedicated classified staff members.

Students make SPU Dean’s List

The following students made the Seattle Pacific University 2004 Autumn Quarter Dean’s List. Students on the Dean’s List have completed at least 12 credits and attained a 3.50 or higher grade point average.

Seattle Pacific University, founded in 1891, is a fully accredited Christian university of liberal arts, sciences and professional studies.

These students live in either Lake Forest Park or Shoreline.

Jonathan David Anderson, Lindsey Michelle Bain, Alexis Nicole Banks, Owen Michael Barton, Ryan D Beagle, Elizabeth Anne Bee, Ellen Lucille Broweleit, Tyson Carroll Cook, Sarah Marie Harris, Emily Lisabeth Hoffmann, Courtney Ann Irby, Kerra Marie Kline, Paul F Mach, Jared Eugene Maddox, Jennifer L Montzingo, Tam Chi Nguyen, Ryan Levi Schroeder, Christopher Peter Sharpe, Andrea Diane Steele, Kristen Leah Strid, Amy Rose Taylor, Fe Gail Parrilla Temporada, Benjamin Bram Verdoes and Benjamin Ezra Warren.

Donate phones to help soldiers

The Lake Forest Montessori School is collecting and recycling cell phones to raise money and purchase calling cards for the U.S. soldiers in the Middle East. To date, the school has already collected more than 75 phones for the program.

The school is participating in Cell Phones For Soldiers, a program started by two Massachusetts teen-agers in April of 2004. Since its inception, Cell Phones For Soldiers has raised more than $150,000 and has sent more than 4,000 prepaid calling cards to U.S. troops serving in the Middle East.

The program will accept any make or model cell phone. Anyone interested can drop off the cell phone and the attached battery to the school located at 19935 19th Street NE.

For more information on Cell Phones For Soldiers, visit the Web site at cellphonesforsoldiers.com.

Stucky newest

SCC trustee

Dick Stucky was recently appointed to the Shoreline Community College Board of Trustees. His term will last four years.

Stucky has committed his career to math and computer technology education at the Shoreline School District. He began his career in 1965 as a math instructor, teaching at Morgan Junior High School and Shorecrest High School. Since then, he has worked in a variety of capacities, most recently as a co-president of the Shoreline Public Schools Foundation from 2000-03.