SCHOOL NEWS

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Scholarships Available

High school seniors in Arkansas may apply for four $1,000 college scholarships from Monty’s Plant Food Company. Students must live on a family farm, be current members of FFA and plan to study agronomy, crop science, sustainable agriculture, soil science or soil conservation in a post-secondary institution.

Students must have a minimum grade-point-average of 3.25 and have participated in community service.

Applications are at ffa.

org/scholarships and must be submitted by Feb. 15 for the May awards.

Monty’s Plant Food Co.

was founded in 1997 in the Louisville, Ky., area to manufacture plant and soil enhancement products for the agriculture industry.

Student Helps

WWII Veterans

Bruce Turpin of Lincoln accompanied six World War II veterans who survived the Battle of Guadalcanal to a 70th anniversary ceremony.

The group of seven students from College of the Ozarks and the six Guadalcanalsurvivors left Dec. 2 to travel to the Pacific, where the ship stopped at in the Solomon chain to tour where hospitals and airstrips once stood vital to the campaign. Veterans will lay wreaths in waters littered with wreckages where hundreds died in the battle from Aug. 7, 1942, to Feb. 9, 1943.

Through the Patriotic Education Travel Program, students record the veterans’ stories and journal the trip with voice recorders and writing the travel blog at: cofopacific.

blogspot.com. Since 2009, the Point Lookout, Mo., the Christian college has sent 173 students on 12 trips with 73 veterans to participate in various commemorations.

Gentry Honored

For Performance

Gentry Middle School was listed for the Outstanding Educational Performance Awards by the Office of Educational Policy at the University of Arkansas.

Students scored in the top 10 in both literacy and math in the category of “beating the odds” with high-achieving schools serving low-income communities. Of 157 middle schools in the state in the category, Gentry placed 10th inmath, with the eighth-graders ranked second among all other eighth-graders. Fourth-graders ranked fourth in literacy for the category. Seventh-graders ranked fifth and eighth-graders were second among their peers in scores on the Benchmark Test.

Bianca L. Bailey of Lowell was elected for membership in the National Society of High School Scholars.

Two Rogers sophomores spent the fall semester traveling the western Pacific Rim through Harding University’s program in Australia. Russell Gardner is a health sciences major and Zachary Venable majors in criminal justice.

Sydney Abbey of Siloam Springs was among studentathletes honored for Excellence in Athletics at Belhaven University in Jackson, Miss., where she is a sophomore majoring in social work.

Stephanie Roach was inducted into the Alpha Beta Omega chapter of Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, which requires at least a 3.5 grade-point-average.

Hannah Golden of Fayetteville and Madison Heim of Springdale were named to the dean’s list at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga., which requires at least a 3.5 grade-point-average.

Tyler W. Clemence of Pea Ridge was awarded the Red and Gray Success Scholarship for 2013-2014. The son of Katherine Clemence is currently a student at Pea Ridge High School. The scholarship is equal to $1,000 per semester up to four years.

Nichole Warren, daughter of Linda Gayle Morgan of Fayetteville, wasnamed to the fall term dean’s list at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Conn., an independent secondary school.

Ashley Evans received an associate degree of general studies at Northwestern State University of Louisiana in Natchitoches during the fall commencement exercises.

Matthew Mitchell received $100 and books from Barnes & NobleBooksellers for winning the essay contest at the Red Ribbon Rally for drug awareness.

Mitchell read his winningessay to the students at an assembly at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic School, where he is a fifth-grader.

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Life, Pages 7 on 12/26/2012