Rotary Honors Greg Campbell For Excellence

Tue., April 21, 1998

Greg Campbell, Lakes Middle School eighth-grade class president and chairman of the eTech program, which involves a student technology team, has been honored by the Coeur d’Alene Rotary for outstanding academic and technical accomplishments.

Campbell, who maintains a 3.9 grade-point average, has presented the use of technology from a student viewpoint at educational conferences, local fairs and school board meetings.

He has been instrumental in the development of Lakes Middle School Web pages and has assisted Phyllis Tuttle in her instructional technology classes for the University of Idaho.

Campbell also demonstrated the latest student technology available at Lakes to state Superintendent of Public Schools Dr. Anne Fox.

Laura Bombino, a longtime area educator, was recently selected as the Court Our Lady of the Lake No. 1447 candidate for the 1998 Catholic Daughter of the Year.

Bombino, who received a business degree in education from the University of Idaho, has been a teacher in the Hope, Worley, Priest River, Wallace and Coeur d’Alene areas for 43 years.

She has been active in her parish at St. Thomas Catholic Church and as a volunteer in many organizations, including as secretary-treasurer of North Idaho Retired Teachers Association, and a member of the Alpha Delta Kappa Teachers Society honorary, Idaho Education Association, Parent-Teacheer Association, the Immaculate Heart of Mary Home and School Association, and Cub Scouts, and as a kindergarten teacher’s aid.

Lakeland High School has announced the valedictorians and salutatorian for the class of 1998.

Co-valedictorians, who have both maintained a 3.93 grade-point average, are Alyssa Douglas, daughter of Dann and Melinda Douglas of Hauser Lake, and Ryan McNamara, son of James McNamara of Rathdrum and Jacqueline McNamara of Post Falls; and salutatorian Tiffany Luttrell, who maintains a 3.92 grade-point average. Luttrell is the daughter of Ellen Luttrell of Hayden Lake and Ric Carothers of California.

Richard Topp, a Lewis-Clark State College junior from Sandpoint, has been chosen to receive a $1,000 Washington Water Power Native American/minorities scholarship.

Topp attends the Coeur d’Alene campus and plans to major in social work.

WWP created the scholarships to enhance the continued education of students in its service district as a way of improving the local communities.

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