Mt. Spokane senior wins scholarship
Jeremy Dashiell, a senior at Mt. Spokane High School, has been selected as one of 95 winners of the Kimberly-Clark Foundation’s Bright Futures college scholarship program. The foundation received 380 applications for the scholarships.
The program awards college scholarships to children of Kimberly-Clark employees in the United States and Canada.
Recipients are chosen based on academic ranking, performance on college admission tests and involvement in extracurricular activities.
Each grant is worth up to $20,000 ($5,000 per year for up to four years) for full-time students studying at accredited colleges and universities. The program has distributed almost $26 million in scholarships since it began in 1993.
NWC presents Evening in Humanities
Northwest Christian High School students present special exhibits at the 10th annual Evening in the Humanities at 6 tonight at the Colbert Campus, 5104 E. Bernhill Road.
This year’s program is “One Million Connections” and includes presentations from students in humanities, history, English, theater and art.
The Art Department offers live demonstrations of chalk art in a garden setting.
Selections from the NWC spring musical, scenes from student directed plays and staged readings will also be part of the entertainment.
Spokane Public Schools staff cited
Spokane Public Schools honored Marilyn Blair, cafeteria manager at Chase Middle School; Keith Jones, Havermale High School’s student specialist/security; Linda Kilmer, special education instructional assistant at Madison Elementary and Barb Vally, instructional assistant at Regal Elementary as Distinguished Classified Employees of the Year.
In addition to managing Chase’s lunch program, Blair coaches the school’s junior varsity softball and volleyball teams. “She has ways of making everyone feel special,” a nominator wrote. “Her ability to bring out the best in each of the students she works with is remarkable.”
Jones is known as an “intervention specialist extraordinaire.” He treats each student with respect and through careful listening, taps into the heart of each student, one of his nominators wrote.
Kilmer’s nominator writes that she not only makes a difference in the lives of students, but everyone with whom she comes in contact. “She has an amazing way of connecting with students, finding their interests, and using her knowledge of those interests as a road to making a lasting relationship with each child,” a nominator wrote.
Vally has been instrumental in the planning and organizing of Regal Elementary’s Title I book room. She is “always well prepared for her class and is willing to help out anywhere she is needed,” a nominator wrote.
The program is sponsored by School Employees Credit Union and PEMCO Insurance.
Advisory committee member sought
Spokane Public Schools’ Citizens Advisory Committee for Human Growth and Development will have an opening for one member-at-large position for the 2006-07 academic year. The person selected will be a voting member.
The committee is responsible for reviewing all instructional materials and program components pertaining to the K-12 human growth and development curriculum. The committee meets from 1 to 3 p.m. the last Wednesday of each month, September through May, except November and December when a special meeting is held on the first Wednesday of December. The committee meets at the Libby Center, 2900 E. First Ave.
Membership application forms are available at the administration building at 200 N. Bernard St. and can be obtained by calling Cathy Agrella at 354-5975. The deadline for application forms is May 26.