Names & Notes

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:11 AM MDT

Roosevelt offers registration packets

All students interested in attending Roosevelt High School for the 2008-09 school year must contact the school and obtain a registration packet.

For more information, call 577-4630.

School to celebrate reaching reading goal

Dean Morgan Junior High School students, staff and parents have read 1 million pages.

The school will host a celebration at 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 28, to acknowledge that 1 million pages were read, meeting the year's goal.

The school band will play on the football field while balloons are released in celebration. Parents and community members are invited to come celebrate.

Reception honors UW/CC education graduates

Fifty-three graduates who have earned education degrees through the University of Wyoming/Casper College (UW/CC) Center, along with their mentor teachers, were honored recently at a pinning ceremony and reception.

Brent Pickett, associate dean and director of the UW/CC Center, began the evening by thanking the center’s partners in education, including Casper College, the Natrona County School District and the Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES), as well as the faculty and staff that support the students through their educational career.

Following are the graduates who earned their elementary education pins, along with their mentor teachers and the school where they performed their residency:

Sagewood Elementary: Victoria Greet with Susie Strom, and Tausha Willard with Shawn Galles; Verda James Elementary: Andra Arnold with Lauri Rail, Shyla Graves with Susan Schilling, Ronald Hall with Lynn Lange, Rosanna Maxwell with Annie Kepler, and Tamillia Moore with Claudia Grigg; Willard Elementary: Alicia Alger with Tina George, Veronica Gallegos with Jodie Frazier, and Charity Harkins with Kristi Smith;

Crest Hill Elementary: Alisha Adelman with Rick Black, Meghan Creel with Lynne Murray, Alicyn Davis with Ann Cornell, Krista Hiebert with Haylie Wendland, Tricia Muller with Amy Sorensen, and Denise Steffens with Cathy Quinlan; Glenrock Grant Elementary: David Rawlings with Corinne Sibrel; Glenrock Middle School: Colleen Zeglin with Sue Calmes;

Manor Heights Elementary: Sierra Barber with Kim Carpenter, Stephine Becker with Shannon Kersenbrock, Jeanine Fillinger with Angie Geiger and Wendy Johnson, Heather Gilmore with Cindy DeLeeuw, Erika Hooper with Judy Royer and Linda Heberlein, Caroline Mooren with Brenda Foy, Alana Sheffield with Jane Brown and Sheila Ker, and Denise Smiley with Susie Mayhue;

Paradise Valley Elementary: Gary Bass with Deanna Brownell and Christy Garner, Zachariah Becker with B.J. Becker, Kayla Bockman with Dana Berg, Tatiana Curtis with Diane Watson, Annette Green with Robyn Chivers, Talia Munsell with Lisa Talbott, and Amanda Puls with Marcee George;

Park Elementary: Melanie Brandon with Laura McCleary and Sue Berchenbriter, Aubrey Hazen with Nicole Latka and Barbara Maguire, Jenny Martin with Lynn Ahrndt and Lori Bluemel, Kelly Peak with Cindy Hill and Maggie Jolly, Tara Realing with Jennifer Christensen and Kala Williamson, Kimberly Sabus with Angela Ourth and Sarah Rowland, and Heather Sides with Lynn Ahrndt and Lori Bluemel; University Park Elementary: Jennifer Bowden with Cathie Hedlund and Tarra Wright.

Following are the graduates who earned their secondary education pins, along with their mentor teachers and the school where they performed their residency:

Centennial Junior High: William Jaeger with Ernie Smith in technical education, and Kayci Stripling with Shane Palmer in secondary science education; Dean Morgan Junior High: Rebecca Murray with Carolyn Jacobs in secondary science education; Glenrock High: Stephen Jacobsen with Ed Katen and Cory Yingling in technical education, and Jamie Short with Joanne Schubert in secondary science education;

Kelly Walsh High: Timothy Brown with Jerry Realing in secondary science education, Stephanie Jensen with Todd Trupp in secondary science education, and Ryan Owens with Dave Davis in technical education; Natrona County High: Tricia Larson with Lynn Bell in secondary science education, Nathanial Penn with Scott Schutte in technical education, and Jacob Zeller with Chris Iselin and Doug Urban in technical education.

Green receives excellence in education award

Annette Green, a senior in the elementary education bachelor’s degree program at the University of Wyoming/Casper College (UW/CC) Center, received the Sue Jorgensen Excellent Student in Education award at a recent ceremony.

She became the 12th recipient of the award, recognized as one of the center’s highest honors bestowed upon prospective teachers.

To receive the award, a candidate must earn a minimum 3.5 GPA while enrolled in the elementary education degree program through the UW/CC Center, exhibit professional disposition toward mentors and peers, contribute to the education field through leadership and community service and display a positive attitude to promote excitement and curiosity about learning.

Based on these criteria, candidates are nominated and selected by the elementary education faculty and staff.

“It was incredibly humbling to receive the nomination, and then to be awarded the honor,” Green said. “When you work so hard and put in so much, it is inspiring to receive the confidence from others.”

KW grad speaker at Women in Science

More than 300 Wyoming junior and senior high school students learned about research opportunities during the ninth annual Women in Science conference May 15 at the University of Wyoming.

Students from Glenrock Intermediate Middle and Glenrock High schools were among participants in the day-long forum.

The conference's keynote speaker was Kelly Walsh High School and UW graduate Ryan Prouty from the International Space Station. She is the mission evaluation room lead person at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Prouty received her B.S. degree in mathematics in 1977 from UW.

Topics were in agricultural and applied economics, animal science, astronomy, botany, chemistry, entomology, family and consumer science, geography, geology and geophysics, hydrology, molecular biology, nursing, oceanography, renewable resources, space station operations, zoology and many others.

The Wyoming NASA Space Grant Consortium hosted the event, which provides mentors and role models for students pursuing careers in science, engineering, mathematics and technology, said Michele Stark, Wyoming NASA Space Grant Consortium associate director.

Kouma earns Bachelor of Music degree

Caroline Rose Kouma of Casper received a Bachelor of Music degree in performance during Nebraska Wesleyan University’s 119th annual commencement in Lincoln.

Kouma was among the 367 undergraduate and 60 graduate students who received degrees on May 17.

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