Chase wins fellowship
Emily Chase, an art major and Honors College fellow atthe University of Arkansas, has received a Wingate Fellowship Award for exploring an unusual artform - life-size paper gowns.
Chase is the first UA student to win the award, which comes with a $15,000grant to aid her career. The Wingate Fellowship is one of three awards funded by the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
More than 70 universities are invited to nominate two graduating seniors for the award each year, but only 10 students are selected.
Chase has been folding, sewing and sculpting paper for several years. A flock of origami cranes she created was recently installed at the Arkansas Union, and three elaborate paper gowns comprise her honors thesis, currently on display as part of an exhibition at East Square Plaza on the Fayetteville square.
Chase painted, cut, scraped, pricked and scorched the paper garments to create her unique designs. She plans to leave for Japan soon after graduating to learn about Japanese traditions in paper crafts and clothing design.
Johnson earns Eagle Scout
William Johnson, 18, of Bentonville will be celebrated as a new Eagle Scoutat a Court of Honor event Saturday in Bentonville. Johnson is a junior at Bentonville High School and a member of Troop 36, which meets at First Christian Church in Bentonville.
He is the sonof David and Christine Johnson.
Johnson transferred into Troop 36 from Troop 695 in Eden Prairie, Minn., when his family moved to Bentonville at the beginning of his sophomore year.
His Eagle Scout project included building two horse jumps for Horses For Healing, an equine therapy program for special needs children in Bentonville.
University honors
engineering alum
Jeff Koenig of Fayetteville received a Distinguished Alumnus Award at the University of Arkansas College of Engineering awards banquet on April 13 at the Fayetteville Town Center.
Koenig, a 1974 UA graduate with a degree in electrical engineering, began his careerat Black and Veatch Consulting Engineers in Kansas City before returning to Fayetteville in 1979 to work for Upchurch Electrical Supply. He eventually became president and chief executive officer of the company.
Koenig served as president of the Fayetteville Board of Education and was inducted into the Fayetteville Public Schools Hall of Honor in 2007; as president of the board of directors of the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce;
and on the board of trustees for the Fayetteville Public Library.
He is currently vice president of the Fayetteville Public Schools Education Foundation.
Local students earn honors
Jacob Love, Cora McCain and Maddy Sutton of Haas Hall Academy in Fayetteville and Blake Hanson of Southside High School in Fort Smith earned first place honors at the annual Arkansas Press Women High School Journalism Awards on April 19.
Love earned first prize in thereviews category. McCain and Sutton earned top honors in the feature story category, while Hanson took home honors in the feature photo contest.
Other local honorees include Kayla Wilson, Southside High School, news; Annie Brown and Kenzi Denham, Haas Hall Academy, feature; Alex Yang, Fayetteville High School, editorial;
Elizabeth Harp, Springdale Har-Ber High School, opinion; Justin Dhaliwal, Springdale Har-Ber High School, sports; Ryland Arnold, Haas Hall Academy, sports;
Clayton Adams, Fayetteville High School, sports; Becca McCann, Fayetteville High School, column, single-page layout and double-truck layout; Ryan Kirkpatrick, Haas Hall Academy, cartoon; Alexis Beas, Southside High School, cartoon; Ethan Wilson, Springdale Har-Ber High School, graphics;
Rima Bhakta, Southside High School, graphics, single-page layout and double-truck layout; PawPrint staff, Alma High School, sports photo; Madison Sutton, Haas Hall Academy, single-page layout; Shelby Freitas and Margaret Morrison, Haas Hall Academy, double-truck layout; and Annie Brown, Haas Hall Academy, double-truck layout.
Summers earns
top junior honor
Heather Summers of Fayetteville was the recipient of the Henry G. and Stella Hotz Award for top junior in the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
Summers received the award during an April 17 ceremony at Fayetteville Town Center.
Summers is majoring in nursing. She is the daughter of Jon and Kaylynn Toombs and is married to Page Summers.
Summers has been on the UA chancellor’s list for three years and is the recipient of the WinthropRockefeller Scholarship and the University Academic Scholarship.
She won the Hotz Award as a sophomore as well.
FHS juniors attend Governor’s School
Twenty-nine Fayetteville High School juniors have been selected to attend the 2013 Arkansas Governor’s School, and three students at the school have been selected as alternates.
Charles Adams and Rachel Ungar were selected in the field of mathematics. Erik Archer, Katherine Bacon, Lauren Cothren, Spencer Cunningham, Madelyn Freeman, Annabelle Hall, Aaron Koch, Max McCarthy, Bethany Osborn and Sophia Scalise were selected in the social sciences field of study.
Kellie Audrain, Savannah Hadley, Anna Raezer, Amanda Roberson, Julia Smith, Natalie Thibado and Sarah Williams will study English language arts. Michael Cobb, Ian Goddard, Benjamin Heil, Richard Hudson, Adam Jones, Benjamin Kieklak, Emily Lorince, Naseeruddin Naseem and Michael Thompson will attend to study natural sciences.
Clio Rom will study visual arts at the school.
Alternates are Eric Beitle, natural sciences; Hayden Hairston, natural sciences;
and Emma Scarbrough, instrumental music.
Bumpers College
honors students
The Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences at the University of Arkansas honored outstanding students, including some local students, April 12.
Alexandra Canfield of Fayetteville and Emily Culver, also of Fayetteville, were recognized as First-Ranked Senior Scholars.
Canfield is an animal science major with a minor in Spanish, and Culver is a December graduate with abachelor’s degree in food, human nutrition and hospitality.
Maggie Jo Pruitt of Bergman won the Greg Weidemann Bumpers Alumni Society Scholarship. She is a junior majoring in agricultural education, communication and technology.
Stuart Estes of Harrison was named the Bumpers College Alumni Society Ring Scholar. A junior, he is majoring in agricultural education, communication and technology.
Michael Norton of Prairie Grove was named John W. White Outstanding Student for the school year. He is a senior majoring in agricultural business and poultry science.
Amy West of Bentonville earned the Spitze Public Policy Legislative Internship Award. She is a sophomore majoring in agricultural business.
This summer she will intern at the Washington D.C. office of Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark.
Send information about birthdays, honors and reunions to [email protected], trogers@ nwaonline.com or Northwest Arkansas Achievers, P.O. Box 7, Springdale, AR 72765. Deadline is noon Monday for Thursday publication.
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