The INDEPENDENT, May 17, 2007
Page 11
Vernonia tae-kwon-do gives wrap-up of 2007 events
OSU honor roll
As the school year comes to
a close, so do the tae-kwon-do
classes. This year, Vernonia
tae-kwon-do hosted Grand-
master Tesdal’s Annual Friend-
ship Tournament on February
24. The unofficial head count
for participants was around 200
martial artists with another 100-
200 people as spectators.
Tournaments offer partici-
pants an opportunity to spar
against people they haven’t
sparred with during training.
Local area participants who
attended and placed in their di-
vision include: Jacob Alf, 1st in
sparring; Amy Donaldson, 1st
in sparring and also placed in
hyungs; Soul Donaldson, 1st in
sparring; Hera Hopkins, 1st in
Names of students who
have made the Scholastic
Honor Roll Winter term have
been announced by Oregon
State University.
A total of 535 students
earned straight-A (4.0). Anoth-
er 2,314 earned a B-plus (3.5)
or better to make the listing. To
be on the Honor Roll, students
must carry at least 12 graded
hours of course work.
Vernonia students on the
Honor Roll included:
Straight-A Average; Shawn
S. Hillyer, Junior, Business Ad-
ministration.
3.5 or Better; Laura R.
Brookins, Freshman, Universi-
ty Exploratory Studies; and
Kari L. Hoerauf, Sophomore,
Psychology.
sparring; Jarred White, 2nd in
sparring; Caleb Olsen, 3rd in
sparring; Samuel Thornton,
2nd in sparring.
There was also a team com-
ponent to the tournament, with
over seven teams represented
at the Friendship Tournament.
The teams who placed were:
The East Portland team placed
1st, followed ny Vernonia – 2nd
place; OHSU – 3rd place, and
Forest Grove – 4th place.
There were teams from as far
off as Olympia and Walla Walla,
Washington. In past years
teams have come from as far
as Arizona.
The Vernonia Team included
Orissa Burghard, Natalie Wal-
lace, Josh Butcher and Kaytee
Vernonia’s tae-kwon-do group in a picture taken at the tour-
nament. Photo courtesy of Orissa Burghard.
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Burghard. Teams must perform
three separate demonstrations.
First the team completes a si-
multaneous Hyung, or Form,
demonstration where all the
members must be in sync with
each other. This is followed by
a breaking demonstration. The
Vernonia team did outward and
inward elbow strikes and each
person made their strike. Final-
ly, teams end with a sparring or
self-defense demonstration.
The self-defense skit the team
put on was enjoyed as light-
hearted comedy.
Vernonia tae-kwon-do had
22 new students, 12 who fin-
ished the full year. Over the
course of the year, eight stu-
dents were sent up for promo-
tion, some of them twice. Each
student went in-front of Great-
grandmaster Kim at his down-
town Portland Dojang to earn
the newest rank and belt.
May 21, will be the last night
for this school year and the an-
nual picnic will be May 23, at
Anderson Park at 6:30 p.m.
Vernonia instructors Ruth
Brown and Orissa Burghard
said, “We look forward to see-
ing everyone in the fall when
we start back up in September
or October. Perhaps we will
even see each other at Grand-
master Tesdal’s Dojang in For-
est Grove over the summer
months.”
For information about Ver-
nonia Tae-kwon-do, call Orissa
Burghard at 503-429-6022.