James Fleming Graduates From Air Force Academy

Fri., Aug. 18, 2000

Compiled By Cheri Robel.

James Bartram Fleming graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy on May 31 with a bachelor of science degree in management and was awarded a commission as a 2nd lieutenant.

Lt. Fleming is assigned to pilot training at Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma.

Fleming is the son of Doug and Kitt Fleming and a 1996 graduate of Mead High School.

The following Eastern Washington University students have been selected to receive the Edmund J. Yarwood Dean’s Honor Student Award. The award is given to graduating seniors who have achieved academic excellence and demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities at Eastern and in the community.

The award recipients are:

Susan Carol Elias, Spokane, received a bachelor’s degree in government. She is a graduate of Santa Ana High (Calif.) School.

Whitney Hooper, Spokane, earned a bachelor of arts degree in Englishliterary studies.

Michelle Krupp, Spokane, received a bachelor of arts degree in history.

Stephanie Etter, Spokane, earned a bachelor of arts degree in French and plans to return to Eastern to earn her master’s degree in French after traveling for one year. She is a graduate of Lewis and Clark High School.

Rebecca Ann Cook, Greenacres, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in theater. She is involved in theater productions and the Symphonic Choir at Eastern, is a disc jockey and production director for KEWU Jazz 89.5 radio and has assisted with Stage Door to the Future, a summer theater experience for youths at Eastern the past two years.

Cook is the daughter of Gil and Diane Cook, Greenacres, and a 1994 graduate of Central Valley High School.

Thirteen commercial baking students from Spokane Community College were award winners at the Washington Cake Show in April.

In the beginner division, first-place awards were presented to Jodi Brittain, decorated items; Joan Roberts-Cheek, mixed medium; Mark Boisjolie, novelty item; Akiko Ote, mixed medium; Wendy Ahern, special occasion cake; Melody Hotrum, hand-molded sugar; and Rebecca Knapp, novelty item. Creations by Roberts-Cheek and Ote also were selected as best of division and best of category, respectively.

Second-place awards in the beginner division were presented to Stephanie Culp, special occasion cake; Robert Saige, decorated item; and Jesse Drew, novelty item.

In intermediate competition, three SCC students collected second-place awards. They were Dusty Williams, decorated items; Breck Breckenridge and Heidi Tatman, hand-molded sugar.

Instructor Harry Wibisono was a first-place winner in the chocolate division. His creation also won best of division.

Roy Dickens, a Spokane Falls Community College math student, placed seventh among 2,040 Washington community college students in a nationwide math contest sponsored annually by the American Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges.

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