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The INDEPENDENT, June 20, 2001
Scholarships and awards go to Vernonia High School graduates
The following scholarships
and honors were awarded to
Vernonia High School seniors
at graduation ceremonies on
June 10.
lege Athletic Scholarship, Two
terms, full tuition, $1,200
munity Service Award
Amy Spry - NW League
Principal’s
Scholarship, $200;
Blaine Vandehey - Boost
er’s Club Scholarship, $500; Proehl Scholarship, $500; Uni
Lew’s/Rick Curl Scholarship, versity of Oregon Dean’s List
Bethany Green - Karen Pitt- $1,000; Bourne Scholarship, Scholar, $1,000; Oregon Honor
Kilgore Scholarship, $500; $500; Alumni Scholarship, Graduate.
Oregon Honor Graduate
$1,000; Holce Scholarship,
Colin Plews - Holce Logging
$900; Oregon Wrestling Clas
Myriam Gendron - Tony
$3,000;
NW
sic Award (only 10 wrestlers in Scholarship,
Dettmers Memorial Scholar
the state receive this award); League Principal’s Scholar
ship, $100; Nelson Scholarship
VHS Top Five Honor Graduate; ship, $200; Wallace McCrae
for Academic
Excellence,
Award-
Oregon Honor Graduate
$1,000; Portland State Univer
Alishia Buffum - Butch
sity Oregon Laurels Scholar,
Eric Patterson - Lew’s/Rick Dettmers Memorial Scholar
Full Tuition; Wallace McCrae Curl Scholarship,
$1,000; ship, $100»
Award; VHS Top Five Honor Steve Hanson Scholarship,
Kayla Hennessey - PEO
Graduate; Oregon Honor Grad $300
Sisterhood Scholarship, $500;
uate; Class Salutatorian
Jessica Soderback - Gene Western Oregon University
Abby Pond - Lew’s/Rick Weller Memorial Scholarship,
Presidential
Scholarship,
Curl Scholarship,
$1,000; $500; Holbrook Masonic Lodge
$1,500 (renewable for 4 years);
Clackamas Community Col- Scholarship, $500; PEO Com-
VHS Top Five Honor Graduate;
Oregon Honor Graduate-
Elisabeth Brookins - Boost
er Club Scholarship, $500;
Bourne Scholarship, $500;
Holce Logging Scholarship,
$1,500; Biola University Acade
mic Scholarship, $6,500; Se
nior Cup; VHS Top Five Honor
Graduate; Oregon Honor Grad
uate; Oregon Scholar; Class
Valedictorian
Bonnie Buchan - Art Insti
tute of Portland Scholarship,
$500
Kelly Roberts - Vernonia
Federal Credit Union Scholar
ship, $600; Holce Logging
Scholarship, $900
Doug Hillyer - Holce Log
ging Scholarship, $900; Ore
gon Honor Graduate
Meghan Dougherty - VEA/
OSEA, $500
Chris Gambell - Vernonia
Youth Corps, $500
Melissa Devlaeminck -
Holce Logging Scholarship,
$900; Oregon Honor Graduate
Christy Benes - Legacy Ju
nior Volunteer Scholarship,
$500
April Inman - Holce Logging
Scholarship, $900
Tiffany Sexton - Condit
Family Citizenship Award,
$1,000; Woodgrain Mill Schol
arship, $1,000; VHS Top Five
Honor Graduate; Oregon Hon
or Graduate
Phil Elliott - Vernonia Youth
Corps Scholarship, $1,500
John Vaughn - Holce Log
ging Scholarship, $900
Washington Grade School students receive special awards
Junior high students at
Washington Grade School won
the following awards:
Art, 7th Grade - Jessie
Gehrke,
Jessica
Shaw,
Akeshia Maldonado, Desiree
Martin, Corey Hooker, Jacob
Rice, Amanda Rogol, Sarah
Tatman, Kristel Norby and
Lindsay Lennen.
Art, 8th Grade - Alex Bar
ton, James Benes, Torie
Clement, Samantha Cook,
Tiffany
Cutright,
Jessica
DuPuis, Kyle Elliott.
Luke Enneberg, Ashley
Forster, Kaishia Friedrick, An
drew Grittman, Travis Gwin,
Rody Johansen, Brandi John
ston.
Ashley Kozachenko, Bran
don Peura, Nicolas Phelps,
Shirea Ray, Chris Richardson,
Natalie
Rombach,
Eric
Schmidlin, Kyle Suess and
Jessica Westlake.
Bridges - Jessica DuPuis,
Bridge
Tender;
Kaishia
Friedrick, Most Motivational
Drama - Laura Brookins,
Best Actress; Kyle Suess, Best
Actor; Rocky Jones and Rus
sell Lende, Best Technical Sup
port; Tiffany Cutright, Most In
spirational
Drama Awards - Janelle
Bashaw, Mackenzie Bassett,
Kimberly Bernardi, Elizabeth
Bobbitt,
Marisol Borquez,
Larinda
Botchie,
Laura
Brookins, Mikal Brucken, Bryan
Budge.
Jennifer Busch, Robert Car
rigan, Kristin Cota, Gina Cropp,
Tiffany Cutright, Jessica Dahl,
Calvin Dinger, Kristina Driver,
Cassandra Fogel.
Ashley
Forster,
Jessie
Gehrke, Samantha Gunter,
Tara Gwin, Julie Hales, Jordan
Harrison, Colin Hayes, Timothy
Hein, Heather Hennessey.
Skyler Hoyt, Samantha Jef
fers, Brandi Johnston, Casey
Jones, Rocky Jones, Kristin
Kelly,
Rebecca Knowlton,
Kristina Lamping,
Russell
Lende.
Lindsay Lennen, Akeshia
Maldonado, Mark McMurtrey,
Shirea
Ray,
Christopher
Richardson, Mary Richardson,
Heather Robertson, Cassandra
Rochester, Natalie Rombach.
Eric Schmidlin, Ben Schorz-
man, Joshua Staggenborg,
Kyle Suess, Jessica Westlake
and Danielle Young.
Leadership - Kristina Driver,
Tara Gwin, Kristin Cota, Jessi
ca Dahl, Kristina Lamping, Ben
Schorzman, Katie Roberts,
Lindsay Lennen and Ashley
Forster.
National Fitness Award -
Mackenzie Bassett, Marisol
Borquez,
Laura Brookins,
Kristin Kelly, Akeshia Maldona
do, Ashley Parker, Torie
Clement,
Danielle Young,
Shirea Ray, Kristina Driver.
Mikal Brucken, Timothy
Hein, Russell Lunde, Jacob
Rice,, James Rode, Ben
Schorzman, Samuel Thornton,
Royd Johansen, Kyle Suess,
Shawn Naillon and Nicolas
Phelps.
Science Bowl -
Laura
Brookins, Christopher Richard
son, Tiffany Cutright, Danielle
Young, Patrick Schilling, Torin
Tierney, Jim Benes, Ben
Schorzman, Royd Johansen.
Corey Hooker, Samantha
Jeffers, Elizabeth Bobbitt,
Kevin Swayze, Jennifer Busch,
Jodi
Reynolds,
Heather
Robertson and Heather Smith.
Health, 7th Grade (Out
standing) - Laura Brookins,
Jessica Dahl, Ben Schorzman,
Mikal Brucken, Tim Hein and
Russell Lende.
Health, 8th Grade (Out
standing) - Royd Johansen,
Eric Schmidlin, Tara Gwin,
Danielle Young, Kyle Suess,
Elizabeth Bobbitt, Natalie Rom
bach, Tiffany Cutright and Josh
Staggenborg (Most Improved).
English, 7th Grade (Out
standing) - Kristin Cota, Ben
Schorzman, Marisol Borquez.,
Laura Brookins, Colin Hayes
(Most Improved) and Cassie
Fogel (Outstanding Writer).
English, 8th Grade, Best
Public
Speaker -
Chris
Richardson, Ashley Forster;
Best Attitude - Jim Benes,
Samantha
Jeffers,
Lisa
McMillen, Cody Toward, Jason
Hennessey; Most Dedicated -
Julie Hayes; Excellence in Lan
guage Arts - Natalie Rombach,
Kyle Suess, Elizabeth Bobbitt,
Rebecca Knowlton, Brandon
Peura, Royd Johansen; Best
All-Around Language Arts -
Tiffany Cutright.
8th Grade Journalism, Out
standing - Kyle Elliott and Jim
Benes.
Science Students of the
Year - Kyle Suess (8th Grade)
Laura Brooks and Ben Schorz
man (7th Grade).
8th Grade Science Out
standing Effort - Nicolas
Phelps, Brandon Peura, Jason
Hennessey, Shirea Ray, Alex
Barton, Torie Clement, Tiffany
Cutright, Luke Enneberg, Royd
Johansen, Jim Benes, Torin
Tierney, Kyle Elliott and Tiffany
Snook.
Algebra - Nicolas Phelps,
Natalie Rombach and Tiffany
Cutright.
Pre-Algebra
-
Marisol
Borquez, Jessica Shaw, Ben
Schorzman, Akeshia Maldona
do, Tim Hein and Kristin Cota.
8th Grade Intermediate
Math - Jodi Reynolds and
Heather Robertson.
7th Grade Intermediate
Math - Kristel Norby and Kristi
na Lamping.
Geometry - Kyle Suess.
Band - Torin Tierney
Journalism - Kyle Elliott and
James Benes.
Paul Gordon Memorial Tro
phy - Natalie Rombach and
James Benes.
James T. Johns Award -
Nicolas Phelps.
Outstanding Scholars - Kyle
Suess, Laura Brookins and
Ben Schorzman.
Presidential Scholars - Kyle
Suess, Natalie Rombach,
Tiffany Cutright, Royd Jo
hansen, Lucas Enneberg, Torin
Tierney, Rebecca Knowlton,
Danielle Young and Alex Bar
ton.
Washington Grade School Honor Roll___________
The following students were
named to the 4th quarter aca
demic Honor Roll at Washing
ton Grade School.
7th Grade: Principal’s Hon
ors - Laura Brookins, Kristin
Cota, Akeshia Maldonado and
Ben Schorzman
High Honors - Marisol
Borquez, Larinda Botchie, Jes-
sica Dahl, Cassie Fogel, Timo
thy Hein, Heather Hennessey,
Kristin Kelly, Kristina Lamping
and Jessica Shaw.
Honors - Bryan Budge,
Jonathan Kintz, Russell Lende,
Kristel Norby, Jacob Rice,
Kailie Stover, Danyelle thomas
and Samuel Thornton.
Increased GPA by .5 or
Flynn earns honors at So. Oregon
Among students at Southern
Oregon University who were
recognized for their academic
excellence at the Southern
Oregon University Annual Aca
demic Honors and Awards Cer
emonies and Reception was
Kirstyn Flynn, of Vernonia. She
received an Outstanding Grad
uating Senior in Criminology
Award.
Ashland-based SOU offers
its 5,500 students a broad-
based curriculum through the
undergraduate and graduate
programs in its four schools:
Arts and Letters; Business;
Sciences and Social Science,
Education; Health; and Physi
cal Education.
Stacklie-Solberg earns UO dgree
Jamie Lynn Solberg (Stack-
lie) was one of approximately
3,900 students who completed
their work toward a degree dur
ing the 2000-2001 academic
year at the University of Ore
gon.
The
University’s
124th
spring commencement took
place on Saturday, June 16.
Mrs. Solberg received her
Master of Accounting degree.
She is the daughter of Robert
and Pat Stacklie of Vernonia.
Please see page 16
more - Victoria Bates, Nick Tara Gwin, Brandi Johnston,
Ashley
Kozachenko,
Lisa
Sohler and Samuel Thornton.
McMillen,
Josh
Reynolds,
8th Grade: Principal’s Hon
ors - Tiffany Cutright, Jessica Heather Robertson, Zack Rum-
DuPuis, Royd Johansen, Na bolz and Torin Tierney.
Increased GPA by .5 or
talie Rombach and Kyle Suess.
High Honors - Elizabeth more - Kim Bernardi, Jennifer
Bobbitt, Luke Enneberg, Ash Busch, Eric Davis, Kyle Elliott,
ley Forster, Kaishia Friedrick, Julie Hales, Jordan Harrison,
Hesselman,
Casey
Andrew Grittman, Julie Hales, John
Rebecca Knowlton, Brandon Jones.
Ashley Kozachenko, Chris
Peura, Nicolas Phelps, Mary
Richardson, Tiffany Snook and Mathews, Lisa McMillen, Jodi
Reynolds, Heather Robertson,
Danielle Young.
Zack
Rumbolz, Kyle Smith and
Honors - Alex Barton,
James Benes, Torie Clement, Josh Staggenborg.
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