School Briefs

Pianists perform

at SCC

Nancy Matesky and Gloria Swisher, both pianists, began performing as a duo at Shoreline Community College in 1981. They will play “Petite Suite” by Claude Debussy, “Suite Francaise” by Darius Milhaud, “Sonata for Two Pianos” by Francis Poulenc and “An American in Paris” by George Gershwin at 3 p.m. April 24 in the Campus Theater at SCC . A reception will follow. This performance is free to the public.

SCC sponsors ASL competition

Shoreline Community College will host teams from around the state for the first annual American Sign Language (ASL) Bowl on April 30. The goal of the competition is to give ASL students an opportunity to improve their skills in ASL, develop a deeper appreciation of ASL as a language and gain a better appreciation of the deaf culture.

The ASL Bowl is being developed by Professor Richard Jacobs, one of the ASL instructors at the college and the ASL Student Club will assist in running the competition. The bowl will consist of teams of five players who will answer questions in several categories such as finger spelling, deaf culture, giving directions, visual gesture and math. Point values will be assigned to the difficulty level of the questions and teams will accumulate points by answering questions correctly.

For more information about the ASL Bowl or to register a team, call 206-546-4634 (voice) or 206-546-4647 (TTY only). Shoreline Community College is located at 16101 Greenwood Ave. N., west of Aurora Avenue and just north of the Seattle city limits.

Golf for Shorecrest classroom grants

Calling all golfers … mark your calendars and register for the annual Shorecrest High School PTSA Golf Tournament Saturday, May 7 at Jackson Golf Course. This festive event will feature 18 holes of two-person scramble golfing and will include handicapping. Businesses or individuals can sponsor holes on the course for $200 or $100 for co-sponsorship.

All proceeds from the golf tournament will benefit Shorecrest High School academic grants for classrooms. For details and information visit http://home.comcast.net/~sparlings2/ or call Sherrill Sparling at sparlings2@comcast.net.

Shoreline resident studies abroad

Rosalie Gail Adams, a junior majoring in biology at the University of Rochester, is spending the spring 2005 semester in London. Adams is a graduate of Shorewood.

Merit Scholarship winners named

The first group of winners in the 50th annual National Merit Scholarship Program were announced earlier this week. Shorewood senior Elizabeth D. Edwards was selected to receive a GenCorp Foundation, Inc. Merit Scholarship.

Most corporate-sponsored scholarships are renewable for up to four years of college undergraduate study and range from $500 to at least $2,000 per year. Others provide a single payment between $2,500 and $5,000.

Edwards is one of 1,070 students in the United States to receive corporate-sponsored National Merit awards.From the group of 15,000 finalists, approximately half will be selected as Merit Scholarship winners by the conclusion of the 2005 competition. These 8,200 Merit Scholar designees will receive a total of about $33.9 million in scholarship for college undergraduate study.

Grad performs on Whitman’s stage

Whitman College sophomore Daniel Scalise, a graduate of Shorewood High School, portrayed Paster Baldbelly and Masked Man in Whitman’s March production “Spring Awakening.”