Andrea Stranger graduates valedictorian from art academy

Andrea Stranger, Coeur d’Alene, has earned the honor of valedictorian of the 2004 graduating class at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, where she will receive a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

Stranger also has been designated one of the top 100 graduating graphic designers in the nation and recently traveled to the prestigious New York Art Directors Club in New York City to have her designs reviewed by “Who’s Who in Design in New York.”

She graduated from Coeur d’Alene High School in 1998 and then spent a year at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma before studying for a semester at the University of Idaho. Stranger then studied for one semester on exchange in Italy before pursuing her four year degree at the Academy of Art. She currently works part time with the design firm of Studio/lab in San Francisco while finishing her studies.

She is the daughter of Scott and Linda Stranger of Dalton Gardens, Idaho.

• Todd Underhill, a member of Boy Scout Troop 228, recently attained the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest available in Boy Scouts.

During his six-year membership in Troop 228, Underhill worked toward the Eagle Award by earning 27 merit badges, becoming a troop leader and recently completing a service project at Twinlow Camp. Troop 228 is chartered by Community United Methodist Church in Coeur d’Alene.

Underhill is a sophomore at Lakeland High School and the son of Rod and Marianne Underhill. He plans to attend college and study aerospace engineering.

• Honor society chapters at the University of Idaho recently inducted local students as new members.

Students and their hometowns are listed by honoraries.

For Phi Beta Kappa, the liberal arts and sciences honorary, UI students are elected for scholarship and character from among the top 15 percent of the graduating class of the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences, with a minimum grade-point average of 3.75 for juniors, and 3.50 for seniors. Members must also complete a foreign language through the intermediate level and take a minimum of 90 liberal arts credits.

Seniors

Bonners Ferry: Sonia Ponce. Moscow: Catherine Cronquist, Kristen Hagen, Kristina Hanford, Matthew Petersen, Dorothy Scallorn and Aimee Stormo Potlatch: John Hartman. Sandpoint: Michael Filipowski. St. Maries: Jessie Waddell.

Juniors

Moscow: Rachel Potratz.

For Phi Alpha Theta, the history honorary, students must have completed at least 12 credits in history with a 3.1 minimum grade while maintaining at least a 2.9 overall academic grade average.

Coeur d’Alene: Ryan Butherus. Hayden: William Urdrian. Moscow: Matthew Peterson. Potlatch: Tammy Woolverton. Spirit Lake: Christopher Robinson.

During UI’s recent honors convocation, recognition was awarded to the Student Board of Editors of the Idaho Law Review, which is published three times a year by law students at the UI College of Law. These students oversee scholarly discussion of timely legal issues and have exclusive control over the editing and publishing of the journal.

Honorees are: Coeur d’Alene: Colleen Diener. Hayden Lake: Brian Buckham. Moscow: Elizabeth Schierman, Gretchen Stewart and Judith Potter. Rathdrum: Hilary Soltman.

Member’s of Sigma Alpha Iota, international fraternity for women in music, are recommended to the honorary by an applied music teacher or faculty member and are required to take a minimum of 12 credit hours and maintain a 3.0 minimum grade-point average in music courses.

Hayden: Kelsey Hoskins. Moscow: Mary Donohoe. Post Falls: Shannon Allen. Sandpoint: Jennifer Lund.

• Lynn Baird, a professor with the University of Idaho Library Access Services Department, has been selected to attend the 2004 Bryn Mawr Administrative Training June 27-July 23 in Bryn Mawr, Pa.

The summer institute offers women administrators and faculty intensive training in education administration to enhance the status of women in the middle and executive levels of higher education administration.

Baird is currently working toward her doctorate in educational leadership at UI. She came to UI in 1974 and received a master’s degree in library science from the University of Oregon that year. She received a master’s degree in public administration from UI in 1979.

Vickie Parker-Clark, director of District I Cooperative Extension, and Pat Sturko, interim assistant vice president of human resources, will attend the administrative training in 2005.