School Briefs

Students receive college honors

Jong Kwan Park, a 2001 graduate of Jackson High School, was named to the Dean’s List of Grove City College this spring. Grove City College is located just north of Pittsburgh, Penn.

Kjell Sporseen, of Bothell, was named to the Dean’s List at Ripon College, in Ripon, Wis.

Cascadia settles faculty lawsuit

Three non-tenured faculty and Cascadia Community College reached a settlement June 15 regarding a lawsuit.

The faculty members who filed the suit resigned their positions and withdrew their tenure candidacies, and the involved groups agreed to dismiss the pending lawsuit against the college, which claimed that there was a violation of the tenure process, the Open Meetings Act and that the denial of tenure was due to the plaintiffs’ activities in the faculty union.

Students, Rotary collaborate

For the past two years, the Community Service Committee of Mill Creek Rotary Club has been working with Jackson High School teacher Peggy Morris and her “Teens in Action” class to produce a resource brochure for local students.

The “Hope for Teens” brochure provides a list of community agencies and hotline numbers in Greater Snohomish County that offer help for young people.

Students in the class worked with the Rotarians to find the agencies and to provide up-to-date contact information. The students also designed the brochure, prepared it for printing and distributed it to high schools in Snohomish County.

The brochure, which was funded by a Rotary Community Assistance Program Grant, includes numbers of help lines for substance abuse, STDs, mental health resources and other agencies such as shelters and hospitals.

The projected was completed in May.

Local teen attends medicine forum

Rachel Krell, a student at Archbishop Murphy High School, will travel to Los Angeles to participate in the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine on July 11-20.

She will join 350 other high school students from around the country who demonstrate an interest in a career in medicine.

NYLF is a nonprofit educational organization that brings information about professions to young people.

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