End Of School Is No Excuse To Slow Down
Within a few days, school will be dismissed for the summer - but that’s no excuse for doing nothing more productive than sleeping in or going to the beach.
Summertime alternatives to long afternoons include sports camps, drama and art classes, travel opportunities and summer school.
A note of caution: Don’t delay enrolling, because many classes fill up quickly. Contact your school district or the Spokane Parks and Recreation Department for further information.
Parlez vous Francais?
Whitworth College will again offer summer language courses for highachieving high school students interested in studying a foreign language during their summer break.
Now in its fifth year, the program offers students a chance to earn college credit in beginning French, German, Russian or Japanese classes.
Freshmen, sophomore and junior students must have a minimum 3.5 GPA, and seniors a 3.0.
Classes begin June 19 and run for four hours a day, five days a week, and cover one semester’s requirements in three weeks. Cost is $130 per semester credit. For more information, call 466-3797.
Women’s weekend retreat
The ninth-annual women’s camp of the Girl Scouts Inland Empire Council will be Aug. 11-14 or Aug. 11-15 at Camp Four Echoes, the council’s resident camp on Windy Bay at Lake Coeur d’Alene.
Cost is $125 for Friday through Monday and $150 for Friday through Tuesday. The fee includes all meals, snacks and most activities. For more information call 747-8091.
The art of rivers and dams
“Rivers and Dams: Promises, Progress and Perils” begins the Cheney Cowles Museum’s Wednesday Night Program Series at 7:30 p.m. June 21 in the museum auditorium.
Chuck Forsman, professor of fine arts at the University of ColoradoBoulder, will discuss his large oil paintings titled “Arrested Rivers,” which are now on display.
The paintings are of dams on rivers in the western United States.
An artist’s reception at 6:30 precedes the lecture.
The second in the series will be at 7:30 p.m., June 28, with William Layman of Wenatchee speaking on “The Upper Columbia … As It Was.”
Series programs are free and open to the public. Donations, however, are welcome.
On to bigger and better things
A “good luck” reception will be at 7 p.m. Saturday for Victoria Nicacio, 1995 Miss Spokane, before she leaves for the Miss Washington competition in Vancouver, June 22-24.
At the reception at the Shilo Inn, 923 W. Third, Nicacio will model her competition wardrobe and sing the number she will perform for her talent competition. Past contestants will also provide entertainment.
Cost for the reception, which includes hors d’oeuvres and a no-host bar, is $6; children under 12 are admitted free.
Reservations must be made by Thursday. Call 535-8627 or 928-6287.
The DAR and flags
Three chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution will focus on flags during their June meetings:
Jonas Babcock Chapter will hold a flag disposal ceremony Saturday at the home of Al and Jackie Daniels of Cheney, beginning at 10:30 a.m. A potluck picnic follows. Guests are asked to bring scissors and their tattered, torn and worn out U.S. flags. Call 838-0373 for more information.
Esther Reed Chapter members will present an American flag to the Fairfield Cub Scout troop at the Fairfield Flag Day ceremonies on Saturday. A potluck lunch follows.
Hostesses for the Spokane Garry Chapter’s June 13 meeting will be Edith Dixon, Kathryn Ebey and Betty Gustafson. A noon potluck luncheon will be at the Manito Park Garden Room. In honor of flag day, Mrs. Howard Holbrook, state regent of the Washington State Society of DAR, will present a slide program on “United States and American Flags Then and Now - A History of the U.S. Flags.” For information call 466-0581.
Fellowship awarded
Madeleine DeBeer, a senior biology major at Gonzaga University, has received a fellowship sponsored by the National Science Foundation. DeBeer will work with GU biology professor Robert Prusch this summer conducting research.