AMHS graduates rack up service to community
The senior class at Archbishop Murphy High School, which graduated last month, racked up 12,000 hours of community service, among other accomplishments, before graduating.
The class:
• Contributed 12,000 hours of service to the low income. That number doesn’t include several other service projects, including those done in conjunction with Interact, Scouting, Catholic Relief Services, or raising money for breast cancer research.
• Participated with and led retreats for younger students.
• Organized and led the school in raising over $10,600 in Rice Bowl charity events, breaking the record for the school.
Also:
• Forty percent received the sacrament of Confirmation in the Catholic Church.
• Ninety-two percent are going on to four-year universities.
• Twenty percent will continue their Catholic education by attending a Catholic university.
• Three students were offered appointments to U.S. Military Academies
• Seventy percent took Advanced Placement and/or other courses that generated college credit while at the school.
• Sixty-one percent were offered scholarships totaling nearly $4.5 million, though only $1,739,010 will be used.
• There was one National Merit Finalist and three National Merit Commended Scholars.
• The top 10 percent of all graduating seniors in the state win state Honors Awards, and 42 percent of the class earned the award.
Families sought for Japanese students
Fourteen Japanese students aged 13 and 14 are coming in July to study English at Advent Lutheran Church in Mill Creek.
Host families are needed for some of the students, who come from Kagoshima, who will arrive July 22 and stay through Aug. 10.
The visitors will be taken on field trips and tours. Classes are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Families fill out an evaluation at the end of their stay.
To say thank you for hosting, three tickets (one for the student) will be provided to teach host families for the Aug. 5 Seattle Mariners baseball game.
For information call Nicole Bingay at 425-337-7633.
Everett School District names new principals
The Everett School District is greeting new principals for three schools.
Garfield Elementary School will welcome Shannon Arnim, who has both elementary and middle school administrative experience in the Shoreline and Franklin Pierce school districts.
Current principal Janet Gillingham is heading to Heatherwood Middle School this fall.
Concie Pedroza will replace Toby Brenner at Jefferson Elementary School. Brenner has accepted an elementary principal position in the Lake Washington School District.
Pedroza has been the assistant principal at both Emerson and Hawthorne elementary schools for the last year. Before coming to Everett, she was an elementary and bilingual teacher in Seattle.
Sara Hahn will replace Betty Cobbs as principal at Hawthorne Elementary School. Cobbs is taking a central office position in human resources.
Hahn has been a principal for five years at an Oregon elementary school in Salem-Keizer Public Schools that has a schoolwide bilingual Spanish program.
Tuition-based preschool added
Parents who have students without special needs but who wish to enroll them in an Everett School District preschool can pay $110 per month in tuition.
Preschool classes currently are offered for free to students with special needs. Many of those students would benefit from an inclusive environment that includes being around typically developing peers.
Charging tuition would help the district meet that goal while covering part of the added costs. Additional costs would be covered from voter-approved Initiative 728 funds for school improvement, staff said.
Preschool is held 2-1/2 hours per day, four days per week, for children ages 3 to 5.
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