Durango Emblem Club awards scholarships
The Durango Emblem Club has announced its scholarship recipients for the upcoming school year.
Each of these recipients will receive $500: Kevin Flohr of Durango, Jonathan Rudolph of Bayfield and Austin Riley of Ignacio.
For more information, call 946-4304 or 385-7853.
Animas High School announces programs
Animas High School announces these programs:
The main office is currently closed for the summer. The school’s summer switchboard will handle all inquires and messages at 247-2474.
Parents should plan to attend these mandatory Parent Orientation Nights from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.: ninth grade, Aug. 6; 10th grade, Aug. 8; 11th grade, Aug. 13; and 12th grade, Aug. 15. Parents should bring their son or daughter. Participants will have an opportunity to meet faculty and staff members, learn about the College Counseling Department and curriculum, review AHS policies and procedures and more. People who have more than one student at AHS, should try to attend each appropriate event as some information will be grade-specific.
Leonard Cain scholarships awarded to two students
Two recent Montezuma-Cortez High School graduates were presented with $500 Leonard Cain Medical Center scholarships to pursue higher education in medical fields this fall.
Aryana Lee and Kaitlin Whited were selected after previously being enrolled in the Med Prep program and earning college credits at Southwest Colorado Community College while simultaneously attending high school.
Lee and Whited will continue their health-care education by attending area colleges. Whited will attend SCCC in Mancos to study medical assisting, while Lee plans to complete her prerequisite classes at Fort Lewis College before returning to the nursing program at SCCC in Durango.
The Leonard Cain Medical Scholarship was established for Dr. Leonard Cain, who was a physician in Cortez for 25 years until his death from cancer.
Austin Volz graduates from Harvard University
Austin Volz has graduated from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education in International Education Policy.
He is spending the summer in Chengdu, China, with the Critical Language Scholarship Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. In the fall, he will be at Fudan University in Shanghai, on a joint Harvard-Chinese government scholarship, researching general-education programs.
Volz is a 2005 graduate of Durango High School and the son of Bill and Tamara Volz.
Durango’s Katelyn Hillmeyer named to dean’s list
Katelyn Hillmeyer of Durango has been named to the dean’s list, earning honors, for the spring semester at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa.
The honors designation requires a grade point averages of 3.6 to 3.79.
Bayfield School District to host ground-breaking
The Bayfield School District will host a ground-breaking ceremony for its Performing Arts Center, varsity baseball field and auxiliary gymnasium at 6 p.m. July 22 on the lawn west of the Bayfield High School gymnasium, 800 County Road 501.
Refreshments will be served.
Jill Hoehlein participates in AP Reading for biology
Dr. Jill Hoehlein, an adjunct faculty member of Southwest Colorado Community College and Fort Lewis College, was selected to participate in the College Board’s annual Advanced Placement Reading in biology.
Each June, AP teachers and college faculty members from around the world gather to evaluate and score the free-response sections of the AP exams.
AP readers are high school and college educators. The Advanced Placement Program enables willing and academically prepared students to pursue college-level studies – with the opportunity to earn college credit, advanced placement or both – while still in high school.
Through AP courses in 34 subjects, each culminating in an exam, students learn to think critically, construct solid arguments and see many sides of an issue.
Mary Micikas receives degree from Emory
Mary Micikas of Durango, received an Associate of Arts from Oxford College of Emory University in Atlanta.
The school’s commencement ceremony was May 11.
Elizabeth Schell named to dean’s list at Colby
Elizabeth R. Schell, a member of the class of 2014 at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, was named to the dean’s list for her academic achievement during the spring semester of the 2012-13 year.
Schell is the daughter of Jeffrey and Lori Schell of Durango and attended Durango High School.
Students whose grade point averages were 3.7 or higher were named to the dean’s list.
Herald staff
