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Cooper visiting,
performing
Katheryn Cooper, 11, of Glen Mills, Pa., will perform shows at Butterfield Trail Village in Fayetteville and at the Springdale Rotary Club while visiting friends and family this month.
Katheryn, a former Northwest Arkansas resident, moved to the Philadelphia suburb in February 2012. Prior to moving, she studied piano at the Marcia McGowen Music Studio for almost five years and performed at various events around Northwest Arkansas including the Walmart Home Office patriotic show, the POW/MIA Veterans Day Recognition Ceremony, shows at Bernice Young Elementary School in Springdale, with the Arts Center of the Ozarks children's choir and at the Burlsworth Trophy presentation. Her first audition, when she was 5, was to sing "The Star Spangled Banner" for the Northwest Arkansas Naturals.
Since moving to Pennsylvania, she has performed with the Media Theatre in plays including Dr. Doolittle with Emmy winner Bill Vargus, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Kyle Lowder, Three Little Pigs, Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz, Cinderella and Annie. She just finished a five weekend run as one of the daughters in "Fiddler on the Roof" and has also continued her music lessons with McGowen via Skype.
Katheryn will perform a patriotic show at Butterfield Trail Village on Saturday and will sing at the Springdale Rotary Club on Monday. She'll then return to Glan Mills to start sixth grade at the Center for Performance and Fine Arts, an audition-based program that is part of the Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School.
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Local student
wins FBI award
Morgan Mitchell of Rogers has received a scholarship from the Former Agents of the FBI Foundation for the 2014-15 academic year. Mitchell, the granddaughter of former FBI agent Harlan Phillips, is attending the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville this fall.
The scholarship was funded by an endowment from the late Rosamond Woodruff Morgan in honor of her late husband, Judge Roy L. Morgan. Winners are chosen based on financial need, academic achievement, leadership and community involvement.
Mitchell received the award at a recent meeting held by the foundation's trustees.
Music teachers
meet Saturday
The kickoff meeting for the 2014-15 session of the Northwest Arkansas Music Teachers Association will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the Heritage Bay Club on Beaver Lake in Rogers.
A potluck lunch is planned. Piano teachers in Northwest Arkansas are invited to attend.
Meetings are held monthly and include a Sonata-Sonatina Festival in November.
Information: Linda Rogers, (479) 442-7310.
Juggling group
wins world gold
Galen Harp and Ellen Winters of the Institute of Jugglology in Fayetteville won the gold medal at the International Juggling Championship on July 31.
The contest was held at the 67th annual International Juggling Festival. Their performance, Mandala, used juggling props that sprayed sand as they are juggled, creating giant patterns in the air.
The competition is judged by a panel of juggling and theater arts professionals. This is the fourth time Harp and Winters have been accepted into the finals, having previously placed sixth in 2011, second in 2012 and fourth last year.
Grad students
earn scholarships
Mark Janowiecki and Joseph O'Neill, both graduate students in the University of Arkansas entomology department, recently earned national scholarships.
Janowiecki earned the master's scholarship from the National Conference on Urban Entomology. The conference emphasizes work on structural and public health pests.
O'Neill was awarded the National Garden Clubs of America Scholarship. The scholarship is for students in the fields of horticulture and the environment.
Entomology graduates Carey Minteer and Tara Wood have received national recognition as well. Minteer, who earned her doctorate in 2012, received the Student Activity Award from the Entomological Society of America, while Wood, who earned her master's degree in 2009, won the Future Leaders in Science Award from the American Society of Agronomy, the Crop Science Society of America and the Soil Science Society of America.
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Kannan chosen
to write on birds
Ragupathy Kannan of Fort Smith, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, has been chosen to write monographs on three neotropical birds for the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology's Neotropical Birds website.
Kannan was chosen due to his field work in Central America and his work with Cornell's Birds of North America project. Kannan's work will cover three Belizean birds: the Montezuma oropendola, the crimson-collared tanager and the royal flycatcher.
The Neotropical Birds website, neotropical.birds.cornell.edu, began in 2008 and now includes more than 4,000 entries that include analysis of each bird, identifying marks, behavior, mating patterns and demography.
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UAFS professor
cited for advice
Linda Fair, an assistant professor of geography at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, has been named to the Executive Director's Outstanding Advisors of the Year for 2013-14 in the National Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society for First Year Students.
Five advisers were selected from chapters across the nation. Fair has taught geography, globalization and human immigration at UA Fort Smith since 2010 and served as adviser to the Alpha Lambda Delta chapter since 2013.
Send information about birthdays, honors and reunions to [email protected], [email protected] or Northwest Arkansas Achievers, P.O. Box 7, Springdale, AR 72765.
NAN Our Town on 08/21/2014