Area students earn honors at North Idaho College

Area North Idaho College students recently earned honors for excellence in communication. The Achievement and Excellence in Communication Award was created last year to honor students who excel in communications and to provide them with a certificate that could be used as a reference to validate their competence in the field of communications. Eligible students must complete a minimum of nine credits and earn a letter grade of B or better in communications courses at NIC.

Recipients and their hometowns are listed.

Michael Hiebert, Rathdrum; Linda Lee, Jenny Estep and Linsey Baker, all of Coeur d’Alene; Larisa Stipek, Athol; Kelly B. Smith, St. Maries; Amy Godwin, Kellogg; Julie Clayton, Sandpoint; and Anne Cocchiarella, Liberty Lake.

• Winners of the River City Fiddle Fest held June 12 and 13 at Q’Emiln Riverside Park in Post Falls are listed.

Champion Division: First place, Tony Ludiker, Coeur d’Alene; second place, Kimber Ludiker, Spokane.

Adult Division: First place, Sheila Everts, Post Falls; second place, Beth Weber, Cocolalla.

Young Adult Division: First place, Tyson Jones, Newman Lake; second place, Aimee Barnes, Spokane.

Junior Division: First place, Jesse Maw, Kalispell, Mont.; second place, Ryan Cysewski, Mica.

Junior Junior Division: First place, Brendon Loftus, and Joe Loftus, both of Coeur d’Alene.

Small Fry Division: First place, Aaron Castilla, Spokane; second place, Haley Beeching, Greenacres.

Senior Division: First place, Mabel Vogt, Potlatch; and Don Spaulding, Bonners Ferry.

Senior, Senior Division: First place, Kenneth Brank, Winlock, Wash.

•ConnieLynn Fry, Coeur d’Alene, recently attended the Global Young Leaders Conference held in Washington D.C. and New York City.

Fry was nominated by the College Board to represent the United States at the conference and was then selected by a conference committee to attend the August 2004 session.

During the 12-day event, Fry was among 350 outstanding scholars from across the globe who had the opportunity to take part in carefully designed leadership skills curriculum and to interact with key leaders and newsmakers in learning to study and resolve global conflict. The conference ended with the Global Summit, which allowed students to apply their learned leadership skills through debate, negotiations and by building coalitions dealing with issues of foreign aid, terrorism, human rights and global warming.

Fry is the daughter of Judy and Kirk Fry of Coeur d’Alene.

•Dr. Bill Prosser, a humanities and Advanced Placement and honors literature teacher at Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy, was chosen and recently participated in the annual reading and scoring of the College Board’s AP Examinations in English literature in June.

Prosser was among the more than 6,000 readers selected from universities and high schools to evaluate approximately 1.9 million examinations in 19 disciplines. The AP Program is sponsored by the College Board and gives more than a million high school students the opportunity to take rigorous college-level courses and to possibly earn credit or advanced placement upon entering college.

Prosser has 27 years of teaching experience and holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Pacific University, an Master of Arts in English from Arizona State University and a Master of Education from the University of Idaho.

•This is a partial list of Inland Northwest spring graduates from Eastern Washington University.

Graduates and their fields of study are listed by their hometowns:

Chattaroy: David Shoemaker, bachelor of arts in education, social studies; Kailie Hansen, bachelor of science, biology; Mandy Moskwik, B.A.E., reading; Shawna Terherst, B.S., mechanical engineering technology.

Cheney: Daneille Hansen, B.A., sociology; Luke Cammack, B.S., applied developmental psychology; Roger Hagenbuch, B.A.E., mathematics; Shaye Lange, B.S., dental hygiene; David Rawson, B.A. in business, management information systems; Janel Turkington, B.A., history; Irma Gross, B.A.E., reading; Craig Gelber, B.A.E., earth science; Joy Scott, B.A., anthropology; Lisa Bowen, B.A.E., special education; Christine Jackson, B.A., humanities; Nancy White, B.S., health promotion and wellness; Connie Allen, B.A., social work; Amanda Edwards, B.A.E., mathematics; Ann Connell, B.S., exercise science; Christopher Simchuk, B.A.B., finance; Cory Luttermoser, B.A.B., general management; Dale Peterson, B.A., government; Danielle Block, B.A.E., English; Duane Ott, B.A., electronic media and filmic arts; Erin Conrath, B.A., communication studies; Heather Fryling, B.S., biology, B.A., German; Heidi Soennichsen, B.A.B., economics; Jack Myers, B.A., interdisciplinary studies; Jason Oberg, B.A.E., social studies; Jeremy Gross, B.S., computer science; Joseph Shaffer, B.A.E., natural science; Kimberly Benner, B.A., communication studies; Lisa Klemme, B.A., government; Mathias Reinbold, B.S., biology; Meghan Conrath, B.A.B., human resource management; Nicole McClenahan, B.A., communication studies; Randi Kooyman, B.A.B., finance; Rebecca Myers, B.A.B., professional accounting; Shawn Brash, B.A.B., human resource management; Kathy Walker, B.A.E., reading; Lilli Hansen, B.A., communication disorders; Jason Radtke, B.A., urban and regional planning; Debbie O’Neill, B.A., communication studies; Lois Jensen, Master of Social Work; Jacqueline Johnson, M.S.W.; Lisa Francis, M.S.W.; Lorraine Kirsch, M.S.W.; Christine Fitzgerald, M.S.W.

Chewelah: Alisa Lacy, B.S., dental hygiene; Cory McLaughlin, B.A., interdisciplinary studies; Keith Garner, B.S., biology.

Colbert: Brian Barnes, B.A.E., social studies; James Sagen, B.S., biology; Jeannine Banks, B.A., social work.

Colfax: Bryan Carter, B.A.E., English; Emily Hall, B.S., biology; Kristina Grubbs, B.A., communication studies; Stephanie Rudd, B.A.E., reading.

Colton: Christopher Davis, B.S., communication studies.

Colville: Gregory Pitts, B.A.E., reading; Laci Chipps, B.A., social work.

Davenport: Johanna Brown, B.A., social work; Angela Smith, B.A.E., reading; Bradley Sweet, B.A.B., management information systems; Gabriel Gants, B.A.E., social studies; Joy Smawley, B.S., technology; Nance Jones-Batch, master of science, applied psychology.

Deer Park: Heidi Miller, B.A.E., reading; Karyn Kirkingburg, master of education, educational leadership.

Edwall: Brett Bishop, B.S., chemistry; Theodore Stuhlmiller, B.S., computer science.

Ephrata: Erin McGurran, B.A.E., reading; Jospeh Killinger, B.A.B., human resource management; Michael Wickert, B.S., computer information systems; Sara Borck, B.A.B., marketing; Sarah Ponozzo, B.S., journalism.

Garfield: Chris Hammond, B.A., history.

Greenacres: Leonard Davis, B.A.B., professional accounting; April Taylor, B.S., biology; Kimberly Hittle, B.A., Spanish.

More spring EWU graduates will be listed in future Achievements columns.