graduation 2008

A NEWS-REVIEW SPECIAL SECTION – SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2008

Graduation 2008Personality features and graduate listings for Douglas County high schools

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olice officers found the new-born baby outside one of Moth-er Teresa’s orphanages in thecity of Chandigarh in the Punjabprovince of India on Oct. 31,

1990.They took the baby inside, and the

nuns named her Prema, which meanslove.

By the time Beverly Faust saw thebaby, her legs had been badly burned.Doctors believed it was from water, and

Beverly believed it was an accident.Beverly and her husband, Berno, had

lost a son years before, and she had cometo India in December of 1991 with afriend to adopt a baby. When Beverlyarrived, she was told the adoption could-n’t take place, that she should go toMother Teresa’s orphanage and see if ithad a child who could be adopted by for-eigners.

The nuns brought out the baby.“I knew she was mine from the

moment I saw her,” Beverly said. “I can’teven explain it.”

She held the baby, with her infected,

burnt legs, and called her Shivani, “a giftfrom God.”

“I said, ‘She’s mine,’ and the nun start-ed crying, and she said, ‘I know when themother and child meet each other, andyou are her mother,’” Beverly said.

Today, Shivani is one of 505 seniors atRoseburg High School. After graduation,she plans to go to Umpqua CommunityCollege and later study nursing and mid-wifery, professions that will allow her toserve in other parts of the world. Shivanispent her childhood in her father’s nativeGermany, so she was an advanced Ger-man language student during her high

school years. This year she served asdrum major in the marching band, aswell.

Shivani’s international upbringing, witha German father and an American mother,has given her a unique perspective.

Shivani started life with her new fami-ly in Braunschweig, Germany, whereBerno was a professor. She was about1 1/2 years old before she could join them,but by that time the Fausts had paid foran operation on her legs that saved herlife.

ROSEBURG HIGH’S SHIVANI FAUST

To serve the world

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Shivani Faust poses in the Roseburg High band room last week. Faust is in marching band and was a drum major.

Adopted from a Mother Teresa orphanage in India, she now seeks a future in nursing, midwifery and a chance to help others worldwide

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RAIN — KristenDavis will miss hersmall town next year.

The North DouglasHigh School salutatorian isheading to Southwestern Ore-gon Community College inCoos Bay after spending herwhole life in Drain. She’splanning to become a teacherlike both of her parents.

“I think I’m just going tomiss the small-town atmos-phere,” she said.

It’s one of the things she’sexcited to get away from — aplace where everyone knowsher and what she’s doing. Butit’s also a place where peopleare supportive, where theyknow when she’s done welland congratulate her for it.

Davis was busy during highschool, playing softball, vol-leyball, basketball and being acheerleader. She is studentbody president and a memberof National Honor Society andFuture Business Leaders ofAmerica. She volunteers with

Students Today Aren’t Readyfor Sex, or STARS, and withStart Making a Reader Today,or SMART.

Last school year, every teamshe played on made it to state,and the cheerleaders won thestate championship.

Beyond the victories, sportshas taught her about team-work.

“Definitely teamwork andhow to keep a positive atti-tude,” she said.

She gained leadership skillsthis year as the teams hadmore young players.

“This year we just workedwell together,” she said.

Davis doesn’t plan to playcompetitive sports in college,though she might play intra-murals.

She also placed second inword processing in the statefor FBLA, and she’s headed tothe national competition inAtlanta.

The competition is an exam-ple of her thoroughness, saidFBLA adviser Sharon Ruud.

North Douglas’ Daviseyes teaching tradition

Student body president Kristen Davis plans to follow her parents into the teaching profession

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North Douglas’ KristenDavis is salutatorian.

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ANYONVILLE —Young Sun Kwon isone of the few stu-dents at Canyonville

Christian Academy who’sgone to the school all four ofhis years in high school.

Kwon is from Seoul, SouthKorea. He chose Canyonvillebecause the West Coast iscloser to home than the east.

Kwon’s parents savedmoney before he was born tosend his sister and him to theUnited States for school.Before Kwon and his sistercame to CCA, they lived inSouth Africa with their motherfor a year, saving money.Kwon’s mother is an Englishteacher, and his father is anexecutive officer for Posco,the third-largest steel producerin the world.

When Kwon first got to

school, it was hard to contacthome.

Ironically, now that he’s lesshomesick, the school has wire-less Internet. He has a Webcamera and a cell phone.

Canyonville was a bit of ashock compared with Seoul,which has 10.3 million people.

But living in the dorms withstudents from 17 countries hasbeen its own education.

CCA’s Young Sun Kwon truly has international experience

Diplomatic dreamsCanyonville

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Young SunKwon of

Korea lovessports and is

the studentbody

president.

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“I learn so much,” he said,especially since the studentsare also teenagers. “They’re

very frank about what theythink.”

Since the students livetogether, they’ve had to learnto get along, too, he said.

South Korea is a very Chris-tian country, Kwon said. He’slearned a lot from talking withstudents from Russia andChina, among other places,

where the perspective is quitedifferent.

Kwon’s high school yearshave been filled with soccer,track and volunteer work. He

read with an elementary schoolstudent through Start Making aReader Today. He also servedas student body president hisjunior and senior years.

School is different in theUnited States than it is inSouth Korea.

“In America, you get tochoose your classes and there’sa variety of classes,” Kwonsaid.

He plans to major in interna-tional relations at the Universi-ty of Illinois-Champaign, andhe’ll room with some fellowstudents and alumni of CCA.

“My goal is I want to be adiplomat,” he said. “I want towork in the U.N.”

He’s interested in diplomacywith North Korea in particularand world peace in general.

Kwon already works onpeace in small ways, schooladministrator Cathy Lovatosaid.

“He has a real kind side tohim,” she said. Kwon goes outof his way to include studentswho are on the outside.

Kwon also made his ownway at CCA. His first years heavoided spending too muchtime with the other Koreans sohe could learn English better.

He’s done well. Lovato’sEnglish class challenged her totake the SAT with them, so shedid.

She beat Kwon on the lan-guage arts section of the test,but he outscored her on theessay test, and she said heoften scores higher than nativeEnglish speakers on tests.

“He’s not always contentwith just the easy way,” shesaid.

Matt Johnson, Kwon’ssocial science teacher, saidKwon can be hot and cold as astudent, but not because oflack of ability.

“He’s one of those that youreally have to challenge,”Johnson said. “As a student,he’s willing to try things thatare hard. He has leadershipability. He definitely has nofear. He’s not afraid of whatother people think of him.”

His best friends, LindseyHills from Seattle, Sarah Gior-dano from Redding, Calif., andEunhye Lee from Inchon,South Korea, describe Kwonin many ways.

“Young Sun is so manythings,” Hills said.

Energetic. Playful. Smart.Talkative. Athletic. Crazy. Car-ing.

“He’s funny in a very uniqueway,” Giordano said.

“He never takes notes inclass and still gets A’s,” Hillssaid.

“Don’t say that,” Kwon said,laughing. “Say I’m a hard-working student.”

“I’ve never met anyone likeYoung Sun,” Hills said.

Kwon is sure he’ll missCCA next year. It was hard toadjust to, he said, but it willalso be hard to leave.

• You can reach reporterTeresa Williams at 957-4230or via e-mail [email protected].

The Fausts moved fromGermany to Roseburg whenShivani was 9.

“They wanted a place thatlooked like the Black Forest inGermany,” Shivani said.

Beverly had family in Cali-fornia, and Berno was retired.Roseburg seemed a good fit.

The family traveled quite abit, for fun and with a purpose.

Beverly and Shivani went toMexico on mission trips withSutherlin Family Church, andShivani later went without hermother. But it was a trip to Indiawhen Shivani was in the eighthgrade that changed her life.

“I wanted her to experienceIndia in all aspects,” Beverlysaid, “and I wanted to take herback to the orphanage, too,where she came from.”

They spent two months trav-eling in India, like local peopleinstead of pampered foreign-ers.

“It was really emotional butgood,” Shivani said. “It wasweird for me for it to be likemy home. I mean, the firstthree weeks I literally criedalmost every other day, justfrom the poverty and every-thing. I knew what to expect.I’d been to Mexico and stuff,and my parents had told me,trying to prepare me. But noth-ing can prepare you for that,really. It hit me really hard. ...And by the end of it, I knew Iwas going to come back someday. I loved it.

“It was a big thing for me,”she said. “It was only two

months, but it was just such alife-changing experience, defi-nitely life-changing. And Ithink it’s definitely shapedwho I am today, and mythoughts and ideas about that.

“And obviously I thank myparents for taking me,” shesaid.

She’s not sure how shewould have dealt with India ifthey hadn’t been with her.

Beverly saw her daughterexperience extreme fear whenthe family visited the first oftwo orphanages where Shivanihad lived. Beverly had neverseen her happy-go-luckydaughter so shaken.

“She sobbed for days afterthat,” Beverly said.

But by the time the familyvisited the second orphanagein Delhi, Shivani relaxed.

“She opened up,” Beverlysaid.

Shivani held the babies, onewho looked like her when shewas small, and she asked oneof the nuns if she could comeback and work there during asummer.

The trip also made Shivaniaware of how wasteful Ameri-cans can be. She turns off lightsnow, and she’ll roll down awindow instead of using airconditioning. She thinks aboutenergy. She’s also grateful fortoilet paper, food that’s freefrom disease, and mattressesnot made of cardboard.

But she learned more thanthat in India.

“I learned the value of sin-cerity,” she said. “I felt therays of kindness from even the

children. ... I felt like I becamea lot more compassionate.”

The next fall, Shivani waspart of the first freshman classto study at the newly remod-eled and expanded RoseburgHigh School.

“I loved the high school,”she said. “I really felt like itopened my doors to opportuni-ties and things.”

Shivani spoke German athome with her parents andremembered quite a bit fromher childhood, but she hadn’tbeen there for a long time, soshe talked to the German teach-ers about taking German II.

After a five-minute conver-sation in German during fresh-man orientation, they decidedshe should take college-levelGerman IV. If it didn’t workout, she could always movedown. “I just said, ‘No, please,don’t. I’m not ready for that,’”she said.

The class was full of mostlyseniors and a few juniors andShivani.

The upperclassmen werecomplaining about the fresh-men being at the high school.

“I just kind of shrank downin my chair the first daybecause they didn’t know thatI was a freshman, so it wasreally funny,” she said.

German teacher Linda Bahrsaid Shivani was a muchsought-after language partner,and she shared her experienceswith her classmates.

Shivani took the class twice,then worked as Bahr’s studentaide. She also went to Ger-many with the high school,

and she worked at Sears to payfor half of the trip herself.

But not all of her classescame easy, especially at first.

“I definitely was an averagestudent,” she said. “It wasfunny because my freshmanyear I really felt like I was try-ing, and I felt like a lot of kidsdo once in a while where theyjust feel like they’re beingcheated, you know? ‘I’m try-ing so hard. Why aren’t yougiving me the grade Ideserve?’

“And then my sophomoreyear, I was better,” she said.But A’s were still relativelyrare.

Halfway through her sopho-more year, she stepped it up,she said.

Her junior year she was rec-ognized for math, even thoughit wasn’t her best subject.

“For me to even get a recog-nition in how I was trying inmath was a big thing,” shesaid. Then other academicawards came her way.

Doing career investigationsmotivated Shivani.

She knew she wanted tobecome a nurse, and she want-ed to serve in the Peace Corpsor help overseas in some otherway. Now she’d also like to bea midwife.

“Before I already knewwhat I wanted to do, but Inever put it into context as towhat I need to do now to get tomy goal,” she said.

But researching the careerchanged that.

“I realized how important itwas,” she said. “And even

though nurses were so needed,the nurses that were neededare the ones who have theirlicenses, and to get into thenursing program was the diffi-cult part. ... I realized that if Iwanted to even be consideredfor that application, then Ineeded to step it up and payattention.”

Shivani is planning to go toUmpqua Community Collegein the fall, and she’s earned adistrict scholarship for half ofher tuition, along with theRalph “Dunk” Ohman Schol-arship for her participation inband.

While she was working onher academics, Shivani wasalso taking on a leadershiprole in the marching band.

She plays clarinet andmarimba, among other instru-ments.

Her sophomore year sheshared the duty of sectionleader with a friend.

“Being a section leader wasa big thing for me,” she said,“because I always strive to bea leader in a small way, likemaking sure things got donebut not telling people to dothem. I just wanted to makesure everything happened theway it needed to. But I neverthought anyone else would seeme as, ‘Put her out front. She’sa leader type person.’ I justthought I was the helper. Itmade me feel good, not pride-ful, but I felt good that what Ihad done paid off.”

Going into her senior year,she decided to try out for drummajor, though she didn’t want

anyone to know about it.But then she found out she

was one of three to gain theleadership spot.

She wanted to prove herselfin that role.

“It’s not like I can backout,” she said. “I didn’t wantmy band to fail.”

While Shivani has a seriousside, she also has a big smileand a warm laugh. “I love tobe the person that makes peo-ple laugh,” she said. “I like tobe the comic relief in life.”

Her parents couldn’t beprouder.

“We adopted her,” Bernosaid, “and I think (she) gave usat least, if not more, than wewere able to give her. Throughall the years, all the teachersalways said she was the sun-shine in the class. She was thesunshine here, too.”

Beverly believes her daugh-ter was a gift from God, andshe’s thankful that Shivaniwants to share the love she’sreceived.

“I think that my husbandand I love her so deeply,” Bev-erly said. “I think she knowsthat. I think she has experiencefrom most of the people thatshe’s come in contact withbeing fully accepted, and thatShivani has a special love thatshe has within her own self forothers that have less and thatneed love.”


, The News-Review Graduation Roseburg, Oregon—Sunday, May 25, 2008

Congratulations, Class of 2008Each spring, the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians presents scholarships to graduating seniors from each Douglas County High School. These $1500 scholarships are awarded to seniors who plan to attend Umpqua Community College and who have shown both civic-mindedness and academic performance during their high school years. Staff at each high school make the decision on the recipient for the scholarship.

2008 Cow Creek Tribe Scholarship Recipients

Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of IndiansGovernment Offi ce: 2371 N.E. Stephens, Roseburg, Oregon 97470 541.672.9405

Congratulations and best wishes to all of our area grads!

Camas Valley Charter High School -- Cassie PierceDays Creek Charter High School -- Erin Hemphill

Douglas High School -- Kelsey HowellElkton High School -- Kaitlyn MobleyGlendale High School -- Sean HowardGlide High School -- Rachael Frank

North Douglas High School -- Ashleigh MezaOakland High School -- Corrine Brown

Phoenix High School -- Danielle SiebrasseRiddle High School -- Katie Burdge

Roseburg High School -- Shelbi HarrSouth Umpqua High School -- Cassandra Dewberry

Sutherlin High School -- Jose VicencioYoncalla High School -- Chris Kopp

Great Job,Graduates!

It’s taken years of hard work and

dedication to get where you are

today, and you should be proud

of your achievement.

Today is your day to celebrate,

so give yourself a pat on the back.

Th e road ahead will be fi lled with

new and exciting challenges,

but we know you can make the

grade. We wish you all the best as

you forge ahead in your pursuit

of your hopes and dreams.

Congratulations!

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Davis has been Ruud’s stu-dent aide for three years, andshe’s also president of theFBLA chapter.

“Any task I give her, she isable to complete in a timelymanner,” Ruud said. “Shedraws information out of oth-ers. I’ve seen younger stu-dents approach her and offeran idea, and she’s very gra-cious.”

Ruud said Davis not onlyconsiders the ideas, she fol-lows through.

“I see her future as beingvery bright,” Ruud said. “Shehas everything she needs tomake it happen, and she alsohas the drive and determina-tion to see her goals throughto completion.”

But Davis would rather bebehind the scenes than in thespotlight, Ruud said, and shealways acts with integrity andhonesty.

Her favorite classes are herwood shop classes.

“They’re fun,” she said.She especially likes her

teacher, Jack Spencer.“He has a solution for

everything,” she said.Spencer said Davis is very

mature and diligent, exceptwhen the occasional bout ofsenioritis hits. She’s meticu-lous about her work.

“She’s just one of those stu-dents you really can’t say any-thing bad about,” Spencersaid.

Davis spends her summersworking as a lifeguard.

“You get to work with thekids and be out in the sun-shine,” she said.

Davis’ parents, Jeff andCarrie Davis, have encour-aged her to do whatever shewants, but their example hashad an influence on her deci-sion to teach elementaryschool.

“I really like to work withkids, and I know from my par-ents’ experience it would befun to teach people,” she said.“Really it all starts with teach-ers.”

Ruud is one teacher whowill be sad to see Davis go.

“I’m going to miss her,”Ruud said. “And I’ve told herfrequently that I think sheshould not graduate this yearand continue to stick aroundand be my right-hand person.But I think she’s going to optfor graduation, as she should.Life awaits.”


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Camas ValleyHigh School

Camas Valley High School’sgraduation ceremony begins at7 p.m. June 6 at the CamasValley School gymnasium.The guest speaker will be AmyWolfe, the high school girls’basketballcoach.

Bac-calaureateservicewas May 7at theCamasValleyGrange.

The hon-orary grad-uate isJackieWatson, with a cumulativegrade point average of 3.43.She is the daughter of Dan andHelen Watson of Camas Val-ley. Jackie was active in FFA,volleyball and basketball. Sheplans to attend Umpqua Com-munity College to earn anassociate degree in wildlifeand fishery. She then plans toattend Oregon State Universityto pursue a bachelor’s or mas-ter’s degree in the same field.

THE 2008GRADUATES ARE:

Emily Bidwell, Maison Cay,Eli Fisher, Cody Kievit, Char-lene Nielsen, Cassy Pierce,Jackie Watson, Dennis Wolfe.

CanyonvilleChristianAcademy

Canyonville Christian Acad-emy will have its graduationceremonies at 10 a.m. May 31in the school’s Robert ShafferGymnasium. The specialspeaker will be Gordon Mor-ton, co-founder and presidentof XanGo, LLC.

The baccalaureate service isat 11 a.m. May 25 at theCanyon Chapel. The specialspeaker there will be DanJohnson, a 1948 alumnus andformer president of ToledoUniversity.

The valedictorian is Seon-Jin Jung who has a cumula-tive grade point average of3.88.

She is the daughter of GuJeung Jung and In Suk Choi ofGwangyang-ci, Jeonllanam-doprovince,SouthKorea. Heractivitiesand awardsincludeprincipal’slist/two-year honorroll, honorstudent inclasses atOden HighSchool, tennis, and blue andred ribbons at the Associationof Christian Schools Interna-tional, ACSI Art Festival.

Post-graduation plans forSeon-Jin are to go to theSchool of Visual Arts in NewYork to major in animation.After college, she would liketo join an animation company.

The salutatorian is Young-min (Ginger) Moon, with acumulative GPA of 3.87.

She is the daughter ofChange Gook Moon and WonHae Jung of Seoul, South

Korea. Heractivitiesand awardsincludenationalLatin Iaward(magnacum laude),nationalLatin IIaward(magna cum laude), the acade-my’s principal’s list, the high/distinguished honor for threeyears and academic excellencein five classes.

Youngmin’s post-graduationplans are to major in hotelmanagement in a four-yearcollege. After she finishes herstudies in graduate school, sheplans to work in a hotel inSouth Korea.

THE 2008 GRADUATES ARE:

Jee-Hyun Ahn, DanielleBurkhert, Seung Hyun Byun,Nai-Yang Chang, VeronicaEnvoro-Mikue, Wei Jia Gao,Sarah Giordano, LindseyHills, Kazandra Hinojosa,Xuming Huang, Sung-AnHwang, Woo Seok Jung,Seon-Jin Jung, Seung-HwaJung, San Kim, Jo-Yu Kuan,Wai Wan Kwan, Young SunKwon, Anh Thuy Le, Jin-Young Lee, Eun Hye Lee, Ye-Seul Lee, Kuan-Yi Lee, Hsien-Chih Lin, Young Min Moon,Kelsey Moore, Ardak Nazaro-va, Anna Nemykina, ChiPham Minh Nguyen, Young-Seo Park, Jungsun Park, MinhPhung, Olga Prishchepa,Nathan Rhodes, DaeEyn Song,Jaravee Srisawadi, Kayla Stal-ford, Wei-Hao Tang, Lai ShanTo, Kanthana Wachirasrisrik,Xiao Jian Wang, KoichiroWantanabe, Ping Liang Wu,Sui Zhong Yuen.

Days Creek Charter School

Days Creek Charter Schoolwill hold its graduation cere-mony at 7 p.m. May 30 at theDays Creek School gymnasi-um. The guest speaker will beRon Dunn, the school’s socialsciences teacher.

Baccalaureate service willbe 7 p.m. May 28 at Cross-roads Christian Fellowship inDays Creek.

There are two co-valedicto-rians, both with a cumulativegrade point average of 4.0.

Erin A. Hemphill, daugh-ter of Keven and AlethaHemphill of Days Creek, wasactive in three varsity sports, amember of the National HonorSociety, senior class president,student store manager andyearbook editor. Erin plans toattend Umpqua CommunityCollege to get a bachelor’sdegree in nursing, eitherthrough UCC or as a transferstudent at a four-year universi-ty. Upon completion of hereducation, she would like toget a job in a pediatric hospitalworking with young children,as they are her inspiration forher career choice.

Kristofer Lyon, son ofRuss and Sandra Lyon,received the CanyonvilleLions Club First Citizens Stu-dent of the Year Award, wasactive in 4-H photography andwas the head tech assistant inthe school’s Technology Club.For three years he was award-ed the top journalism studentaward and he started and ran

the schoolpaper recy-cling pro-gram. Krisplans toattendLewis andClark Col-lege inPortland.He wantsto earn abachelor’sdegree injournalismwith aminor ininterna-tionalaffairs. Heis veryexcitedabout theschool’sstudy-abroad andoutdoorsprograms.After grad-uation, ifhe still hashis passionfor photog-raphy, hehopes toearn adegree inphotojour-nalism andwork at anewspaperor maga-zine as acombina-tion jour-nalist/pho-tojournal-ist.

Thereare two co-salutatorians, bothwith cumulative GPAs of3.98.

Allison Eichmann,daughter of Don and TammyEichmann of Days Creek, wasactive in three varsity sports,in 4-H for eight years, wasLetterman’s Club presidentand National Honor Societysecretary/treasurer. Allisonplans to attend the Universityof Oregon to major in businessadministration or somethingelse business-related.

Stephanie Rogers,daughter of Anthony Rogersof Canyonville, was active infour varsity sports, was stu-dent body president, FFAchapter vice president, aNational Honor Society mem-ber and a student storeemployee. Stephanie plans toattend Southern Oregon Uni-versity and study communica-tions, with a possible minor inphysical education or culinaryarts.


Stephanie Marie Collins,Ryan Andrew Cuthbertson,David John Dunlap, AllisonDawn Eichmann, Erin AlethaHemphill, Rustin MatthewHodgson, Samuel David Hun-nell, Elena Lynn Goforth-Johnson, William ChristopherGoforth-Johnson, Julia AnnKehoe, Kristofer Sean Lyon,Cary LeAnne O’Neill,Makaila M. Pickett, StephanieMarie Rogers, Christy AnnStone, Amber Grace Williams,Robert E.D.Williams.

Douglas High School

The graduation ceremonyfor Douglas High School will

be at 7 p.m. June 7 at UmpquaCommunity College’s JacobyAuditorium. The valedictorianand salutatorian will be thespeakers.

The valedictorian is AarikaPierce, with a cumulativegrade point average of 4.0.She is the daughter of Jeff andLinda Pierce of Winston. Shehas been a National HonorSocietymember,SpanishClub presi-dent andoutstand-ing Span-ish studentfor 2008.She alsowasinvolved inthe EarthServiceClub, andthe MockTrial Teamand hastakenadvancedcoursework in sixsubjects.Aarikaplans toattend Port-land State University to majorin environmental studies andjournalism.

Scott Mason is the saluta-torian, with a cumulative GPAof 3.98. He is the son of Jamesand Heidi Mason of Roseburg.His activities and awardsinclude DHS outstanding mathstudent for 2008, vice presi-dent of band, Winston-areamusic booster organizationmember and fundraiser andvarsity soccer, and he hastaken advanced course work insix subjects. Scott plans toattend Oregon State Universityto study engineering.


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ElktonHigh School

Elkton High School’s gradu-ation begins at 7 p.m. June 6in the Carl Grimsrud Memori-al Gymnasium. Baccalaureateservices are at 5:30 p.m. June6 in the gym.

There are two co-valedicto-rians.

Jessica Ruble, daughterof David and Tami Ruble ofElkton, has a cumulative gradepoint average 4.064. She isinvolvedin volley-ball, bas-ketball andtrack. Sheis current-ly the stu-dent bodypresidentand shealso servedas the stu-dent bodysecretaryduring herjunioryear. Jessi-ca plans toattendNorthwestUniversityin Kirk-land,Wash., andwill majorin business administration andminor in children’s ministries.

RaeJeanne Evoniuk,daughter of Mark and LindaEvoniuk of Elkton, has a GPAof 4.059. She is involved involleyball, basketball, trackand is the student body vicepresident. She is also involvedin FFA and was on the StateForestry Champion team. Sheplans to attend SouthwesternOregon Community Collegefor two years to earn an asso-ciate of arts Oregon transferdegree. Her current major isforest management; she plansto transfer to Oregon State

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University to receive her mas-ter’s degree in that field.

Thesalutatorianis Janes-sa John-son,daughter ofMargaretJohnson ofElkton.Janessa hasa GPA of3.98 and isinvolved involleyball, site council andstudent council. She has alsoreceived awards in math, sci-ence and drama. Janessa plansto attend Western Oregon Uni-versity for pre-med studies andmay transfer to Oregon Health& Science University. Sheplans to work in the medicalfield and hopes someday totravel to Third World countriesto provide health care.


Hailee Anderson, AaronCarr, Delena Carrington,Theresa Dunas, Ben Eber-hardt, RaeJeanne Evoniuk,Kaitlin Gomes, Gary Hills-man, Janessa Johnson, KaitlynMobley, Haley Rose, KurtisRose, Jessica Ruble, Alexan-dra Southern, Chad White.

Glendale High School

Glendale High School willhold its graduation at 2 p.m.June 8 at the Glendale HighSchool gymnasium.

The valedictorian is RyanDillard, with a cumulativegrade point average of 3.978.He is the son of Terri Davis ofAzalea andDallas Dil-lard. Ryanwas a two-time statequalifier inwrestling,studentbody presi-dent, phys-ical educa-tion studentof the year,a memberof theNationalHonorSociety andwrestlingteam cap-tain. Aftergraduation,he plans toattend theOregonInstitute of Technology tostudy nuclear medicine.

The salutatorian is ZoëBrown, with a cumulativeGPA of 3.946. She is the fosterdaughter of John Lovemarkand Pam Dietz of Glendale.Her activities include athletics,National Honor Society,SkillsUSA, Hellfighters YouthCamp and three-sport scholarathlete. Zoë will work at asummer job and then attendOregon Institute of Technolo-gy to study biology. She plansto transfer to Oregon Health &Science University for medicalschool.

THE 2008 GRADUATES ARE:Corey Ray Aguero, Christo-

pher Mark Allard Jr., CoreyAllison Boal, JC Scott Borre-

son, Jesse James Boucher,Luke Anthony Brenden, ZoëLeann Brown, Scott JamesBurcham, Lakia Breeze Burn-side, Kelvin Hugh RodrickCashatt, Alexander Cisneros,Tabitha Desiree Crapo, KyleRobert Cregan, Ryan JacobDillard, Jeffrey Vaughn Ellis,Stephen Thomas Fugett Jr.,James Allen Hays, JamesPhillip Henry Jr., Laura MayHicks, Sean Michael Howard,Anthony Bobby Ray Kitchens,Amanda-Rachelle DorothyLillie, Jennifer MarieMaduzia, Ashley Marie Mar-riott, Craig Scott McElmurry,John Joseph Milone, JamesNelson IV, Gretchen RoseOwens, Jacob Albert Pringle,Samantha Lynn Prock, DarrelEldon Roff III, Kyle AndrewTate, Devin Blayne Tuinstra,Derek Scott Wine.

Glide High School

Glide High School will holdits graduation ceremony at 1p.m. June 8 at Umpqua Com-munity College’s Jacoby Audi-torium. Raymon Smith will bethe guest speaker. He was anagriculture teacher at the highschool and was in charge of itsFFA program.

There are four co-valedicto-rians, each with a cumulativegrade point average of 4.0.

Angela Louise Bryant isthe daughter of MichaelWayne and Wynena SueBryant of Roseburg. Her activ-ities include secretary/treasur-er ofNationalHonorSociety,seniorclass presi-dent andcaptain ofthe varsitybasketball,volleyballand soft-ball teams.Angelaplans toattend Ore-gon StateUniversityto studyappliedvisual arts,specifical-ly graphicdesign.She plansto marry Casey Alan Walkeron Aug. 23.

Kathryn Edwards is thedaughter of Glen Edwards ofCamas, Wash., and KellyJenkins of Glide. She has beenDrama Club president, aNational Honor Society mem-ber, track statistician and stu-dent representative for theschool’s site council. She alsoplayed the flute in the schoolband. Kathryn plans to attendOregon State University topursue a career in pharmacy.

Sara Smaha is the daugh-ter of Dan and Shelly Smahaof Glide. Her activities includevarsity track and field and soc-cer, concert/pep band, DramaClub, National Honor Societyand FFA. Sara plans to attendOregon State University tomajor in biology with a marinebiology option.

Demi Stinson is thedaughter of Wayne and Kim-berly Stinson of Roseburg.Demi lettered in track for fouryears and in soccer her senior

year. Herother activ-ities andawardsincludeschoolboard rep-resentativein her jun-ior year, aBreakfastof Champi-ons honorfor determi-nation,NationalHonorSociety andstate trackmeet in herjunior year.Demi hasplans toattend theUniversityof Portlandto earn abachelor’sdegree innursing.She plansto minor inSpanishand hopesto work ina bilingualclinic orhospital where she can put herSpanish to good use.

The salutatorian is KristenNelson, with a cumulativeGPA of 3.97. She is the daugh-ter of Bryan and Kathy Nelsonof Glide. Her activities includevarsity soccer and basketball,National Honor Society andband. She works at LinusOakes Retirement Center.Kristen plans to attendUmpqua Community Collegeand then transfer to PortlandCommunity College to com-plete a dental hygiene pro-gram.


Sierra Akers, AnthonyAnderson, Brian Baker, Dar-ren Bellior, Jake Brown,Angela Bryant, Nathan Clem,Rebecca Cunningham, SeanCyphert, Rosalyn Dumont,Jordon Edwards, KathrynEdwards, Brittany Eifert,Shaun Enserink, Kyle Fields,Daniel Ford, Rachael Frank,Dennis Franklin, Cassie Garri-son, Travis Gilman, BrockHalter, Kaitlan Harris, JessicaHatley, Alyssa Holdsclaw,Justin Houde, Jeffery Jackson,Morgan Lamp, KortneyLoosli, Allan Mackey, ChrisMcCafferty, Larry Meade,Katie Meyer, Connie Miller,Michelle Moore, BrittanyMoynahan, Kristen Nelson,Ryan Norrington, ThomasO’Connor, Ji Yeong Park,Sadie Polk, Melissa Richards,Pat Ridgley, Sandra Rivera,Jason Rondeau, Amanda Rum-mel, Skylar Shrum, Tyler Sim-mons, Sara Smaha, ElliotStandish, Demi Stinson,Megan Streilein, CourtneyTaute, Craig Toevs, MelissaWeekly, Lauren Wilkinson,Kaleb Wright, Kris Wright,Courtney Yokum.

Milo AdventistAcademy

Milo Adventist Academywill hold the following gradu-ation ceremonies and events.

Consecration is at 8 p.m.May 30 at Milo AdventistAcademy Church. The speakerwill be Janice Nelson, mother

of graduate Alia Nelson. Therewill be a Passing the Flameceremony, a candlelight cere-mony that passes the spiritualand general leadership of theschool from the current seniorclass to the junior class. Thepresidents and spiritual vice-presidents of the senior andjunior classes participate. Forthe recessional, all the seniorsmarch out through a corridorof juniors holding candles.

Baccalaureate is at 11a.m. May 31 at Milo AdventistAcademy Church. The speakerwill be Dr. Ralph Perrin, deanof arts communication andsocial sciences at Shasta Col-lege and father of graduateKyle Perrin.

Tribute to Parents is at 4p.m. May 31 at the church.There will be musical selec-tions by the class and a presen-tation of flowers and tributesto parents.

Class Night is at 9 p.m.May 31 in the Milo AdventistAcademy gymnasium. It is asecular program by and aboutthe senior class.

Commencement will beat 10 a.m. June 1 at the MiloAdventist Academy Oval(weather permitting) or theMilo Adventist Academy gym-nasium (if raining). The speak-er will be Carl Wilkens, pastorof the Milo Adventist Acade-my Church for the past 11years, currently on leave forspeaking appointments aroundthe country on the Rwandangenocide.

Milo Adventist Academy isno longer naming valedictori-an and salutatorian positions.The following four studentswill receive gold cords forhighest honors for completingthe college prep diplomarequirements with a cumula-tive grade point average of3.75 or higher.

Debra Gruzensky with aGPA of3.862. Sheis thedaughter ofMichaeland ReneGruzenskyof FallCreek. Heractivitiesand honorsincludesenior classsocial vice-president,Girls’ Clubexecutivevice presi-dent forspring termand a col-lege prepdiploma.Debra’spost-gradu-ate plans are to attend WallaWalla University in CollegePlace, Wash., to major in den-tal hygiene.

Valerie Kinman, with acumulative GPA of 3.818. Sheis the daughter of Wayne andConstance Kinman of Rose-burg. Her activities and honorsinclude peer counselor/tutorfor 2007-08, co-captain of thegirls’ varsity basketball teamfor 2007-08, junior class presi-dent and a college prep diplo-ma. After graduation, Valerieplans to attend Umpqua Com-munity College for her firstyear and to major in business.

Mindy Nelson, with acumulative GPA of 4.097. She

is thedaughter ofKennethand DonellNelson ofUkiah,Calif. Heractivitiesand honorsincludehead resi-dent assis-tant forgirls’ dorm(2007-08),senior classpresident,HorseClub, jun-ior classsocial vicepresidentand a col-lege prepdiploma with an enrichment inadvanced placement. Mindyplans to attend Pacific UnionCollege in Angwin, Calif. Shehas not yet decided on her major.

Paul Stanphill, with acumulative GPA of 3.819. Heis the son of Virgil and Cyn-thia Stanphill of Winston. Hisactivities and honors includeboys’ dorm resident assistant(2007-08), senior class sena-tor, Boys’ Club photographerfor fall term 2007-08, Boys’Club pastor for fall term 2006-07 and a college prep diplomawith an enrichment in science.Paul plans to attend UnionCollege in Lincoln, Neb., andto major in international stud-ies.


Sarai Avitt-Blackburn,Megan Blair, Dakota Brown-ing, Mikaela Campbell, KylieColson, Katrina Cooksley,Jose Dzul, Nels Freeman,Debra Gruzensky, AustinHummel, Lise Ingabire, Hyun-woo Jang, Andrew Jones,David Kerr, Valerie Kinman,Edgar Ledezma, Bo Yeon Lee,Nikole Modrow, Lindsey Nay-lor, Alia Nelson, Mindy Nel-son, Kyle Perrin, BrandonPoirier, Cara Ponder, BrittanyReynolds, Thomas Search Jr.,Soo Hwa Song, Paul Stanphill,Joshua Starr, Brandon Sumer-lin, Matthew Walker, StevenWauran, Whitney Weems.

The following students fromMexico will be receiving cer-tificates of completion fromthe English Language Learn-ing Program: Marisol Angeli-no, Hector Hernandez, CarlosLopez, Hugo Lopez.

North DouglasHigh School

The graduation ceremonyfor North Douglas HighSchool will be at 4 p.m. June 7at the North Douglas HighSchool gymnasium.

Stephanie Hescock is thevaledictorian, with a cumula-tive grade point average of3.93. She is the daughter ofTerry andAthenaHescock ofDrain.Stephanieis a four-sport schol-ar athlete, amember ofthe Nation-al HonorSociety andFutureBusiness Leaders of America,executive student council sec-

retary and a youth group mem-ber of the Drain Church ofChrist. Her plan after gradua-tion is to attend NorthwestChristian University in Eugeneto study business and humanservices and to run cross coun-try and track for the school.She hopes to ultimately workon the business side of a non-profit organization.

Kristen Davis is the salu-tatorian, with a cumulativeGPA of 3.829. She is thedaughterof Jeff andCarrieDavis ofDrain. Heractivitiesincludemember-ship in theNationalHonorSociety,three var-sity sports and cheerleading.She has been president of theFuture Business Leaders ofAmerica and the student body.Kristen plans to attend South-western Oregon CommunityCollege and then the Universi-ty of Oregon. She would liketo become an elementaryschool teacher.

THE 2008GRADUATES ARE:

Kyle Anderson, AnthonyAnderson-Hurd, Dustin Andes,Kristen Davis, Troy Ellis,Cynthia Garcia, Justin Harrod,Stephanie Hescock, JustinJohnson, Ariane Marquis, Ash-leigh Meza, Luis Munoz, Mar-cus Nash, Derek Peterson,Michelle Roe, Amanda Sulau,Tyler Vancil, Robert Vest,Jacklyn Villiarreal, MarkWard, Mariah WiIson.

Oakland High School

Oakland High School willhave its graduation ceremonyat 1 p.m. June 7 at UmpquaCommunity College’s JacobyAuditorium. The featuredspeaker will be Jeff Clark, Oak-land High social studiesinstructor and basketball coach.

There are three co-valedic-torians, each with a cumula-tive grade point average of 4.0.

Julie Basque is the daugh-ter of Dana and Luann Basqueof Oak-land. Shewas presi-dent of theNationalHonorSociety,EcologyClub and4-H club;studentbody vicepresident;reporter/editor/layout directorfor the school newspaper; andwas on varsity basketball andtrack. Her post-graduationplans are to attend the Univer-sity of Oregon to major injournalism and business so shecan become a reporter forNational Geographic.

Amber Huckaby is thedaughter of Lon and DawneHuckaby of Oakland. Heractivities include NationalHonor Society, Future Busi-ness Leaders of America, vol-leyball, golf and Ecology Club.After graduation, Amber plans

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Bethany DeAnn ChappellHonors Years at UVCS: 5Activities: Student Council 3 years, Soccer 3 years, Basketball 2 years, Homecoming Princess 1 year, Honor Roll 4 years.Future Plans: Attend UCC, transfer to Northwest Christian University or George Fox to obtain Business/Music degree.

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to attend the University ofNevada, Las Vegas, and majorin journalism.

Jake McLean is the son ofStan and Jodi McLean of Oak-land. His activities includevarsitybaseball,basketball,academicchallenge,youthgroup and4-H. Jake’spost-gradu-ation planis to attendthe Univer-sity ofIdaho toearn abachelor’sdegree inmechanicalengineer-ing.

The salu-tatorian isTomMcKay,with acumulative GPA of 3.98. He isthe son of Dennis and KarenMcKay of Umpqua. Tom’sactivities include varsity crosscountry, varsity track andfield, National Honor Society,youth group and reportingsports for The News-Review.Tom’s post-graduation plan isto attend Seattle Pacific Uni-versity to major in communi-cations and minor in journal-ism. He would like to do mis-sion work at some point andeventually begin work for amagazine.


Cristin Jeanne Barnes, JulieVeronica Basque, DeanaRenee Bodenschatz, CorinneMarie Brown, Leighsa MarieCosta, Jacob Lee Cottier,Jason Cranley, Justin Swift-River McGuin, MatthewMicaiah Dickson, AmberMarie Dikkers, Nicodemus

Levi Dodson, Clinton EdwardEnos, Michelle Lynne Good-man, Levi Andrew-WillisHarding, Megan Alishia Hart,Erik Erwin Dean Holm,Amber Nicole Huckaby,Alexandria Berlin Johnson,Candy Rose Ellen King,Joseph Edward Lee, DakotaJake Mathis, Thomas CharlesMcKay, Jake Brooks McLean,Jessica Chantel Odle, KylePerry, Seth LaBrie Ritchie,Blair Richard Robertson,Trevvor James Simmons,Laura Irene Mastin, SolomonaM. Tuiolosega, Brittney Chris-tine Tabor, Jordan Lee Talburt,Keggan James Tenbrook,Andrew Robert Young.

Phoenix SchoolPhoenix School will hold its

graduation ceremony at 7 p.m.June 10 at Umpqua Communi-ty College’s Jacoby Auditori-um. The guest speaker will beJacie Pratt. A reception willfollow.


Mike Adams, BreanneAddis, Danille Benwell,Dustin Boggs, Britney Bow-den, Grant Bowler, SusieBreier, Shane Brewer, Christo-pher Brookbank, AlishyaClark, Mike Clement, JasmineCodd, Cheyenne Conn, Vanes-sa Davis, Brent Durand, RyanFugate, Tanesha Garboden,Bryant Garcia, Corey Gross-man, Thomas Guevara, Bran-don Heckers, Brianne Hughes,Kaley Hulse, Fabian Kemp-Wharton, Julia LaRaut, KelaLevin, Amanda Lore, AngelinaMarez, Mike Marsters, JackMayes, Sean McCraw, JamieMeil, Brittney Mesica-Led-ford, Jordan Murray, AdrianNelson, Amanda Nunley,Crispin Oglesby, Jordan Page,Shawn Parsons, JonathanPierce, Tyler Powers, KoryRamsay, China Robinson,Holly Seeber, DanielleSiebrasse, James Stokes, DarraStorms, Jeremy Stringer, Kyle

Struthers, Shaunna Tinker,Jody Vernoy, Jacob Watts,Chrystle Wheeler, Jenna Whit-tington, Marcus Wright.

ReedsportJunior/SeniorHigh School

Reedsport Junior/SeniorHigh School’s graduationbegins at 2 p.m. June 8 atReedsport Junior/Senior HighSchool, 2260 LongwoodDrive, Reedsport. The speakerwill be Keith Tymchuk, U.S.government and social studiesteacher and the mayor ofReedsport.

Baccalaureate service is at 7p.m. June 4 at Pacific Audito-rium, Reedsport Junior/SeniorHigh School.

There are two co-valedicto-rians, both with a cumulativegrade point average of 3.98.

Brianna Ekelund is thedaughter of Rod Ekelund andTonya Wahl and Mike Wahl,all of Reedsport. Brianna hasbeeninvolved inthe Nation-al HonorSociety, ofwhich shewas presi-dent,FutureBusinessLeaders ofAmerica,KnowledgeBowl and has participated invarious sports. She is therecipient of the Chamber ofCommerce Future First Citi-zen Award. Brianna plans toattend Oregon State Universityto major in nuclear engineer-ing and hopes to play on theOSU softball team.

Brian Law is the son ofRobert and Patricia Law ofReedsport. Brian lettered infootball and golf for threeyears in addition to participat-ing in varsity pep band andconcert band, playing first

trumpet.Brian alsoparticipatedin FutureBusinessLeaders ofAmericaandreceivedNationalMerit Com-mendation.Brian plansto attendthe Univer-sity of Ore-gon tomajor inhistory andmusic.

The salu-tatorian isKellyMcLain,with a GPAof 3.89. Kelly is the daughterof Jim and Leslie McLain ofWinchester Bay. Kelly has let-tered three years in volleyballand basketball. She also hasbeen involved in Future Busi-ness Leaders of America andNational Honor Society and isthe student body president.Kelly plans to attend the Uni-versity of North Dakota tostudy commercial aviation andairport management.


Kayla Raylee Barcklay,Kyle M. Birch, Cadence R.Blum, Kaylee Prozialeck,Nicholas Lloyd Bryan, AtinaMarie Capps, Kayla AshleyCarrell, Michael L. Cassaro,Robert M. Christy, Daniel J.Clemens, Katherine ReneeCorcoran, Dorothy L. Cramm,Brianna M. Ekelund, Jason L.W. Fishel, Amanda MarieFoote, Eli F. Garner, BenjaminM. Goff, Jason Wayne Hayes,Lynsay RaeAnne Holden,Melissa Marie Thompson(Holt), Lea Grace Hoover, Jor-dan Danielle James, BrittanyNicole Jones, Destiny MarieKettman, Haylea MarieKwiatkowski, Jesse Lacewell,

Emily E. Lavigne, BrianRobert Law, Cody LeeManues, Heather TiffanyManues, Sabrina AmberMcCartney, Kelly MichelleMcLain, Kelsey Renee Moore,Nicolas Gene Morris, BrandonWayne Neves, David CharlesOrr Jr., Devon J. Orr, HeatherLynn Parker, Daniele PatriciaPlagmann, Amber LynnQualls, Bradley Reinoehl,Jesse Rueb, Holly G. Sassmen,Charity Donn Scherer, HannahElizabeth Smith, Ryan LeeSmith, Annette Solorzano,Rachel Ann Stauffer, TravisStanley Stevens, SharaeaDalyn Wright, Brittany RanaeSwartz, Christina MeganSwift, Richard Justin Terra,Jenelle LaRee Thornton, CodyAllen Wicks.

Two foreign exchange stu-dents, Kathrin Schwaegerl andAnna Timm, will also be a partof the ceremony.

Riddle High School

The graduation ceremonyfor Riddle High School will beat 7 p.m. May 31 at the RiddleHigh School gym.

The valedictorian is RobBixby,with acumulativegrade pointaverage of3.74. Robis the sonof Tom andDebbieBixby ofRiddle. Hehas beenactive in 4-H, FFA,sports and National HonorSociety. Some of his awardsinclude fourth in statewrestling, first in state bandand pole vaulting qualifier.After graduation, Rob plans toattend Oregon State Universityto major in agricultural man-agement and possibly to minorin music.

Thesalutatori-an is Jere-mySchwab,with acumulativeGPA of3.35. He isthe son ofJeff andSheriSchwab ofRiddle. His activities includevolunteer firefighting, footballand wrestling. After gradua-tion, Jeremy plans to attend aheavy equipment operatorschool in Eugene. He alsowants to take classes in con-struction, welding and get hiscommercial driver’s license.


Keely Michelle Adams, RobO. Bixby, Garrett L. Bracken,Katherine R. Burdge, AnthonyCushing, James Dornbusch,Michael M. Doyle, NathanAndrew Egenhoff, AmandaKristine Fox, Jessie J. Fritz,Shelsie Fritz, Brandon Hab-blett, Ashley Humphrey, JacobC. Jones, Caleb Linton, MarkRobert Livingston, AdamRobert McKinney, TreyAlexander Morgan, MelissaLynn Mumford, Josh A. Pet-tengill, DeAnna Robbins, SethChristopher Roy, ChristophSchnieder, Jeremy LloydSchwab, Andrea Nicole Strat-ton, Alishia A. Wiggins.

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Roseburg High School

Roseburg High School willhold its graduation ceremonyat 2:30 p.m. June 8 at theschool’s Finlay Field. Theguest speaker will be MickiHall who teaches English,advanced placement govern-ment, leadership and Americanliterature. Tim Leech andNatalie Rich will be the stu-dent speakers.

There are 10 co-valedictori-ans, each with a cumulativegrade point average of 4.0.

Hilary Boggs is thedaughter of Jerry and ValerieBoggs of Roseburg. Her activ-ities and awards include boardand recording secretary of theNational Honor Society, assis-tant editor of the “Orange R”school newspaper, STARSleader for three years, Febru-ary 2008 student of the month,and she was a multiple winnerat the Evening of Excellence.Hilary plans to go to LinfieldCollege in McMinnville tomajor in nursing or socialwork. She hopes to eventuallywork in the Peace Corps orother type of volunteer organi-zation.

Valerie Cangie is thedaughter of Victor and JaniceCangie of Roseburg. Heractivities and awards includethree years in the NationalHonor Society, president ofRHS Chamber Choir, part-time cashier at Kmart for twoyears, assistant director of theUmpqua Valley Youth Ensem-ble for six years, member ofthe National Society of HighSchool Scholars for two years.Valerie plans to attend BoiseState University on a GEMscholarship and study businessand music.

Kristen Dever is thedaughter of Tom and LynnetteDever of Roseburg. Her activi-ties and awards include varsitysoccer and lacrosse, exchangestudent through the GermanAmerican Partnership Pro-gram, Evening of Excellenceaward winner, Breakfast ofChampions and Link Crewleader. Kristen plans to attendPacific University in ForestGrove where she will major inmath and biology and take apreparation course for itsphysical therapy graduate pro-gram.

Hayden Boone Farring-ton is the son of David andTiffany Farrington of Rose-burg. His activities and awardsinclude three-year letterman invarsity basketball, NationalHonor Society and HonorRoll, Key Club, Award ofExcellence in math, science,world language and socialstudies. Hayden has beenaccepted at NorthwestNazarene University inNampa, Idaho, to play base-ball. While there, he willmajor in pre-law and criminal

justice.Ruth Heald is the daughter

of Jason and Barbara Heald ofRoseburg. Her activities andawards include singer anddrummer for Umpqua Com-munity College’s UmpquaSingers, assistant editor of“Orange R,” National HonorSociety, actively involved inUCC musicals both on stageand orchestra pit and the UCCChamber Choir. Ruth plans toattend Willamette Universityas a music major and pursue acareer as a professional musi-cian and college professor.

Timothy Leech is the sonof Thomas and Julie Leech ofRoseburg. His activities andawards include Eagle Scout,Future First Citizen, ChamberChoir, “Orange R” andNational Honor Society. Timo-thy’s plans are to attend Pacif-ic University in Forest Grove,where he will major in mathand minor in music. After hisundergraduate work, heintends to go to law school.

Dennis O’Connell is theson of Joe O’Connell and Lau-rie O’Connell, both of Rose-burg. His activities and awardsinclude triple jump and longjump in track and field, statecompetition qualifier in MathClub both junior and senioryears, National Honor Society,vice president DECA, scienceand math awards at Evening ofExcellence. Dennis plans toattend Robert Clark HonorCollege at the University ofOregon to major in businessfor its diversity and endlesspossibilities for giving back.After earning his bachelor’sdegree, he would like to even-tually earn a Master’s of Busi-ness Administration degree.

Natalie Rich is the daugh-ter of Steve Rich and JanetMcDavid, both of Roseburg.Her activities and awardsinclude National Honor Soci-ety president, jazz band, threeyears in cross country andtrack and field, and she was inthe Evening of Excellence forthree years. Natalie plans toattend the Oregon State Uni-versity Honors College andmajor in either chemistry orphilosophy with a possibleminor in music.

Victoria Walker is thedaughter of Gregory and Lyn-nette Walker of Roseburg. Heractivities include varsity soft-ball, varsity volleyball andNational Honor Society. Victo-ria plans to attend LinfieldCollege in McMinnville andpursue a degree in business.

Alexandra Walton West-

on is the daughter of Jon MarcWeston and Susan WaltonWeston of Roseburg. Heractivities and awards includeeditor-in-chief of the “OrangeR,” National Honor Society,varsity cross country juniorand senior years, first placegroup problem solving at theOregon Invitational Math Tour-nament and German-AmericanPartnership Program. Alexan-dra’s plan is to attend the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania. Atthis time her career is undecid-ed, but she will begin withpre-med requirements whilealso taking a wide variety ofcourses of interest to her.

There are three co-salutato-rians.

Corinne Borrelli has acumulative GPA of 3.967. Sheis the daughter of Kevin andLeslie Borrelli of Roseburg.Her activities include varsitytennis, church and youth groupinvolvement, National HonorSociety, mission trips andCampus Life. Corinne plans toattend George Fox Universityto study biology.

Stephanie Mathews has acumulative GPA of 3.974. Sheis the daughter of Richard andRebecca Mathews of Rose-burg. Her activities and awardsinclude Evening of Excellenceawards in history and English,science department student ofthe month, and she has beenan honor student during herfour years in high school.Stephanie plans to attend theUniversity of Montana in Mis-soula to major in business.

Danielle Nelson has acumulative GPA of 3.97. Sheis the daughter of Stephen andDawn Nelson of Roseburg.Her activities and awardsinclude Associated StudentBody vice president, NationalHonor Society correspondingsecretary, Key Club and Lead-ership. Danielle plans to attendthe University of Portland andmajor in education.


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GRADUATION 2008South UmpquaHigh School

South Umpqua High Schoolwill hold its graduation cere-mony at 7:30 p.m. June 6 atthe high school’s Loghy Field,501 N.W. Chadwick Lane, TriCity. Taylor Groth, SUHSsocial studies teacher andcross country coach, will bethe speaker. There will be aspecial release of balloons inmemory of Brittany Randazzo.

The baccalaureate, spon-sored by the South UmpquaMinisterial Fellowship, will beat 7 p.m. at the Tri CityChurch of Christ, 180 BriggsDrive. Mary Kuk, SUHShealth teacher, will be thespeaker. Students will do read-ings and present a slide show.Refreshments will follow theservice.

Hannah Moser is the vale-dictorian, with a cumulativegrade point average of 4.0unweighted. She is the daugh-ter of Harold Jr. and KristinMoser ofMyrtleCreek andattendedCanyonvilleMiddleSchool. Heractivitiesincludesports,band, AFSforeignexchangeand honing her juggling skills.She placed first at state FutureBusiness Leaders of Americain business communications.Hannah plans to attend BrownUniversity in Providence, R.I.,to study English and journal-ism. She also plans to studylanguages and study abroad.

Cassie Dewberry is thesalutatorian, with a cumulativeGPA of 4.0 unweighted. She isthe daughter of Bonita Dew-berry ofMyrtleCreek andPaul Dew-berry. Heractivitiesincludeband,NationalHonorSociety, ofwhich shewas vicepresidentand Christian Teen Fellowship.She also started a tutoring pro-gram. Cassie plans to attendUmpqua Community Collegefor two years then transfer tothe University of Oregon,where she expects to major inspeech pathology.


Theodore Cromwell Allen,Nichole Breanne Alspaugh,Eric Allan Arana, Brett JamesBailey, Kylene Amber Barnett,Chase Jordan Beberger, Brit-tany Ann Bice, Kyle EricBlankenship, Cedric PaulBlansett, Jonna Clair DeeBlomberg, Arynn JosephBoyles, Lacey DawnBuchanan, Katherine FrancisBumgarner, Crystal NicoleCable, Laurie Elise Carpenter,Lela Alexandra Carrillo,Michael Dean Clack, RogerKegon Clary, Triana ReneeCrane, Savanha Renei Crouch,D Anne Christine Crowder,David Andrew Crownover II,Cheryl Petrina D'souza, La

Keisha Jean Daboling, ReneeRose Dalziel, JacquelineFrances Maria Degroot, Cas-sandra Rae Dewberry, ChelseaDenea Duffy, Katherine TessaNoelle Falk, Richard WilliamFarmer, Cody Edward Frieler,Gabrielle Marie Garcia, Patri-cia Salazar Gonzalez, JesseAdam Gossel, Jacob AaronGrady, Shantell Suri Green,Santana Dawn Guicoza, TravisMitchell Hayter, KennethDuane Yoakum Healey, KevinMichael Heintz, Brian LeeHewitt, Andrew Lee Hines,Thomas Lee Holt, KirstenLeigh Hoodie, Amanda LynnHull, Nichole Ruth Hatcher,Ryan Daniel Jocoy, JenniferElaine Johnson, FerronEugene Kawamura, Christo-pher Ryan Kukuk, Anita Sar-ale Lampton, Jacob DanielLampton, Janet ElizabethLane, Britt Michelle Langston,Dustin Edward Lawson, Adri-ana Lopez, Luis AlfonsoLopez, Devin MichaelLoughridge, Michael EugeneLowry, Anthony Craig Match-ett, Jeremy Wade Mathews,Amanda Justine McCarley,Paige Micole McMahon, Brit-tany Alissa Mercado, RebeccaLynn Mitchell, James AureliasMoore, Megan Rae Moreau,Kyle Garrett Morgan, BrianPatrick Morris, GarrettAlexander Morris, HannahJeanne Moser, Nicholas GageMytrofaniuk, Michael Christo-pher Conklin, Allysha MarieNewton, Dalin DelRayNichols, Talon AdelbertNichols, Trent Vaughn Page,Erica Lynn Parker, CharlesArthur Parks, Justin AndrewPeterman, Jordan LanePringle, Amy Judith Rauth,Larry Allen Rios, NathanialEric Schuyler, DonavanMichael Sheets, StaceySamantha Shellard, Tosha AnnSherman, Crystal Dawn Shute,Michael Tad Smith, RobertWayne Stimpson, K.C. NicoleThompson, Shantell ElizabethTimm, Gerald Wayne UlreyJr., Courtney Leigh VanDoren,Omar Villagomez, Ryan Gar-rett Voss, Christopher WesleyWaddell, Christopher CheekWells, Britany Michele Whit-son, Sydni Corinne Witte,Kayleen Danielle Wynegar.

SutherlinHigh School

Sutherlin High School’sgraduation is at 2 p.m. June 8at the Sutherlin High Schoolgym.

The baccalaureate service isat 7 p.m. June 6 at SutherlinFamily Church, 878 W. SixthAvenue, Sutherlin.

There are five co-valedicto-rians, each with a cumulativegrade point average of 4.0.

Shelby O’Fay is thedaughter of Carmen andRobertEdmundsof Suther-lin. Shewas a four-year Acade-mic AllStar,involvedwith FutureBusinessLeaders ofAmericaand awarded the BusinessAchievement Award in 2008.Shelby played basketball and

the team won first place at the4A state championship in2008. Shelby won first placein the 2007 Wild Rose Cow-boy Race and first place in theHornet Powder Puff Car Racesat the Douglas County Speed-way. Shelby plans to attendEastern Oregon University tostudy pre-pharmacy. Sheexpects to then transfer to Ore-gon State University’s phar-macy program.

Jordan Potter is thedaughter of Laura Turner ofSutherlin and Joey Potter ofEugene. Jordan participated invarsitycheerlead-ing, Lead-ership,Community101,NationalHonorSociety andPeerHelpers.One of herhobbies isparticipat-ing in com-petitivegymnastics.Jordanplans toattend theUniversityof Oregonin the fallwith amajor inelementaryeducationand aminor inSpanish.

MasonReed isthe son ofCraig Reedand LisaKing-Reedof Rose-burg. He isa memberof theNationalHonorSociety andFutureBusinessLeaders ofAmerica.Mason par-ticipated inCommuni-ty 101, helped with SpecialOlympics and was the ASBtreasurer. He was also theschool’s bulldog mascot.Mason plans to attend OregonState University majoring inbiophysics and biochemistrywith a minor in Spanish.

Dallas Reid is the son ofTom and Trina Reid of Suther-lin. Dallas was a four-yearAcademic All Star and partici-pated in varsity basketball,Leadership and Community101. He is a member of theNational Honor Society. Dal-las plans to attend OregonState University and enroll inits forestry program.

Caleb Trowbridge is theson of Jack and Tami Trow-bridge of Sutherlin. Caleb is amember of Future BusinessLeaders of America, partici-pated in Leadership, Commu-nity 101, and varsity athletics.He was awarded the city ofSutherlin Future First CitizenAward. Caleb plans to attendWestern Oregon University toearn a bachelor’s degree inbusiness. He will then transferto Oregon State University to

earn a master’s degree in busi-ness.


Eric Abernathy, MarkAguirre, Brittany Anderson,Kirk Arrant, Danielle Baskin,Leigh Batson, Joshua Beattie,Stacie Bebeau, Jasmine Bee-bout, Rhiannon Beverly,Nicholas Blum, AlishaBrooks, Jared Campbell,Samantha Carlson, Sylvia Car-rillo, Brian Cook, KaitlinCorlis, Jordan Cowan, LesleeCrawford, Ricky Cummings,Logan Cummings-Reed, JoshDelamater, Erma Demuth, Jan-ice Dixon, Thomas Dunbar,Jaimie Dzana, Austin Elliott,Jakob Elliott, Aaron Garcia,Whitney George, Conrad God-dard, Rodney Gott, Tyler Har-wood, Max Hemphill, LaurynHendrix, Brook Hopkins, Dil-lan Horn, Timothy Howe-Schultz, Zachary Hudson,Spencer Hutchings, JesseIngram, Steven Jaramillo,Amanda Ketchum, TravisKeymel, Nicholas Larman,Lance Liesinger, KayleeMaloy, Justin Martin, AmyMartinez, Becky-Jo McKen-zie, Dillan McKinney, EliMiller, John Miller, JedidiahMudge, Jason Nelson, Ken-neth Nelson, Shelby O’Fay,Michael Oliver II, Omar Ortiz,Aric Ott, Jason Patterson,Rebecca Pederson, KaytlynnPeterson, Jeffery Pittsenbarger,Jordan Potter, Charles PowellIII, Jeffrey Pugh, MeganQualls, Ryan Reber, MasonReed, Dallas Reid, AsiaRikard, Stephen Rockwell,Anthony Rodriguez, DallasRosemeyer, Brittany Rossotto,Kiefer Sellers, Jessica Shearer,Dustin Sheppard, TaranSimons, Amber Smith, TiffanySmith, Dane Snyder, KevinStaninger, Camilla Steinhov-den, Anthony Terrel-Perez,Tawnie Terry, Zachary Toll,Caleb Trowbridge, Jose Vicen-cio, Joleen Walker, BrittanyWells, Teresa Wiley, AdriannaZathan.

Yoncalla High School

Yoncalla High School willhold its graduation at 1 p.m.June 1 at the Yoncalla HighSchool gymnasium.

The baccalaureate will be at7 p.m. May 29 at the UnitedMethodist Church, 75 BirchSt., Yoncalla. Rev. DannHoughton will be the speaker.

Leesa Scott is the valedic-torian, with a cumulativegrade point average of 3.745.She is the daughter of Michaeland DeniseScott ofYoncalla.Her activi-ties includevarsity bas-ketball andtrack, LeoClub (forwhich shewas secre-tary) andstudentcouncil. She also was a publicand church library volunteerand the book drive coordinatorfor the community of Yon-calla. Leesa plans to attendUmpqua Community Collegefor two years and apply to itsnursing program. If not nurs-ing, she would like to pursueanother career in the medical

field.The

salutatori-an isCourtneyMcHaffie,with acumulativeGPA of3.6. She isthe daugh-ter of Dickand LynnMcHaffie of Yoncalla. Heractivities include NationalHonor Society, track, drama,student government and band,for which she was first chairflutist. Courtney plans toattend Umpqua CommunityCollege then transfer to theUniversity of Oregon to majorin secondary education andminor in music, government,health and psychology.


Nicole Bash, Jessica Benzel,Kamisha Caillier, JacobCoburn, Ariel Coloma, BlakeDaigle, Rusty Dillon, AmberEveland, Billie Eveland,Leann Fields, Kayne Halliday,Amanda Hoeffliger, TommyHudgins, Justin Jackson, ChrisKopp, Roland Lyons, AmberMast, Thomas Mazelin, CalebMcDaniel, CourtneyMcHaffie, Adam Peterson,Mercede Russell, Leesa Scott,Sara Simons, Sheila Sinks,Tyler Thompson, Tellisa Vro-man, Nickolas Weaver.

Umpqua ValleyChristian School

Umpqua Valley ChristianSchool will hold graduationceremonies at 3 p.m. June 1 inthe Jacoby Auditorium atUmpqua Community College.The guest speaker will be CarlYates.

Alayna Fong is a co-vale-dictorian with a cumulativegrade point average of 4.0.She is thedaughterof Wardand Dalet-ta Fong ofWinches-ter. Heractivitiesandawardsincludeseniorclass presi-dent,YouthHunterEducationChallengefor twoyears onthe stategirls team,Student ofthe Monthand partic-ipation inthe National Young LeadersConference. Alayna’s post-graduation plans are to attendUmpqua Community Collegeto study for a degree in nurs-ing. She would like to becomeinvolved with an organizationwhere she can use those skillsto help people in developingThird World nations.

Amy Schneider is a co-valedictorian with a cumula-tive GPA of 3.98. She is thedaughter of Richard and AnnSchneider of Roseburg. Heractivities include varsity soc-cer for three years, choir for

two years, senior class vicepresident, art and honor roll.Amy’s plans after graduationare to attend Umpqua Commu-nity College for one year, thentransfer to the University ofOregon to pursue a degree injournalism.

Bethany Chappell is aco-salutatorian with a cumula-tive GPA of 3.97. She is thedaughter of Chuck and GloriaChappell of Roseburg. Heractivities and awards includesoccer, basketball, studentcouncil,Homecom-ingprincess,junior/sen-ior banquetprincessand wor-ship team.Bethany’splans aftergraduationare toattendUmpquaCommuni-ty Collegefor oneyear, thentransfer toeitherNorthwestChristianUniversityor GeorgeFox University to pursue abusiness/music degree.

Dustin Kummrow is a co-salutatorian with a cumulativeGPA of 3.97. He is the son ofUve Kummrow of Roseburgand Lauran Janssen of MyrtleCreek. His activities andawards include student councilfor three years, student bodypresident 2008, varsity soccerfour years, president’s honorroll four years and Homecom-ing king 2008.

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We asked the Douglas County highschool Classes of 2008 to tell usabout the highlights of their senioryear and what makes them stand out.Here is what they said:

CAMAS VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL

One of the highlights for CamasValley Charter School’s seniors waswhen the girls basketball team wentto district playoffs.

Students haven’t pulled a prankquite yet, but they are planning a triptogether.

The seniors helped raise money fora classmate who was diagnosed withcancer during the school year.

The variety of personalities makesthem unique, they said, and they wantto be remembered for leading andinspiring.

“Everyone is determined and readyto get out there and go for what theywant,” the seniors wrote.

CANYONVILLE CHRISTIANACADEMY

The seniors at Canyonville Christ-ian Academy are from all over theworld. About half the class got to goto Six Flags in California.

Teacher Jami Burkhert said unlikesome previous years, this year’s sen-iors don’t just stick with students oftheir own nationality, and they getalong well.

The students are particularly talent-ed musically, with 10 of 28 membersof the choir and most of the orchestrabeing seniors.

Burkhert said the group is mature,and the seniors wanted to get to knowand help out the staff.

DAYS CREEK CHARTER SCHOOL

Days Creek graduates count suc-cessful sports teams in volleyball,track and basketball among the year’shighlights, along with their dances,especially Homecoming and the sen-ior prom.

The students have a class prank inthe making, but they’re keeping it asecret. They’re also planning tospend three nights at the coast, takinga cruise, crabbing, and visiting amuseum and aquarium.

The whole class was involved in anEarth Day cleanup in April.

Because their class is small, theseniors are very close, and the class isfull of characters. Though they aredifferent, the students worked togeth-er well and challenged each otheracademically.

They want to be remembered fortheir hard work and dedication toacademics, athletics and community,and for their crazy antics.

The students start what they finishand don’t settle for less than 120 per-cent perfection.

DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOLThe Douglas High School class

had a bit of fun in February. The sen-iors turned shredded paper into aprank. They filled the cars of 10 stu-dents and the offices of a couple ofthe school’s counselors with thepaper. The prank was accepted asharmless fun.

The highlights of their senior yearincluded a skit at a pep assembly thatfeatured several boys in the MissDHS Pageant. The participants put ondresses for the formal wear competi-tion.

But the Trojan seniors also made aserious contribution, making a dona-tion to the new dance floor projectfor the Winston Community Center.

The school’s senior class wasknown to have quite a few outspokenstudents, but in a good way. Theyhave worked hard to get things doneand figure that will help them be suc-cessful as they move into the future.

ELKTON HIGH SCHOOLHighlights of the Class of 2008’s

senior year include the Big Red Riot,going to state in volleyball and girlsbasketball, taking a Shakespeare fieldtrip and a picnic at Honeyman StatePark, according to seniors HaileeAnderson and Kaitlin Gomes. Someseniors also sneaked out in the mid-dle of the night to paint a rock cliffwith “08 We Dominate.” The graffitiartists dove into a ditch every time acar passed by.

The class is planning to go toGrants Pass for whitewater rafting,paintball and camping for its seniortrip. It’s been generous through Com-

munity 101, giving $5,000 to non-profit organizations and $1,000 to theschool, and individually studentshave taken on many projects.

The class will be remembered,Anderson and Gomes wrote, for itspositive energy, imagination, deter-mination and unity. The studentshave a drive and passion to succeed.

GLENDALE HIGH SCHOOLThe highlights of the 2007-08

school year included a late start, earlyrelease and going to the state playoffsin three sports. Another highlight willalmost certainly be the Mexicancruise the class is taking for its seniortrip. The class sponsored blood drivesand canned food drives to help out.

“We’ll be remembered for ourspontaneous personalities and ourout-of-the-box thinking,” one seniorsaid. “I think our class will havesome very successful people in it

because a lot of us are focused,career-minded individuals.”

GLIDE HIGH SCHOOLThe Class of 2008 saw a bond levy

pass and the beginning of improve-ments to its school building. Statetrack and wrestling, a “Deal or NoDeal” assembly, senior barbecue,prom week and the 1960s dress-upday were among the year’s high-lights.

Students are planning a campingtrip after graduation. They put on ablood drive for the American RedCross.

Most of the class has been togethersince elementary school.

“We are all hard workers and havea good work ethic,” one studentwrote. “We have some good leadersand goal-oriented students. ... I thinkour class will be successful becauseof all of our determination.”

MILO ADVENTIST ACADEMYThe highlights of the year for this

year’s graduates included Senior Sur-vival — “We were stuck in the woodsfor five days. The best part was thatour class bonded,” one senior wrote— senior recognition, auto club,Spanish class, going to a tournamentin Walla Walla, and for boarding stu-dents, experiencing the beauty ofOregon. Students are heading to Cali-fornia this week to visit DiscoveryKingdom and the Jelly Belly factory.

Each senior was given $100 to helpothers, and most also took part in a30-hour famine to raise money forAfrican children.

The seniors come from all over theworld, and the class is filled withstrong personalities.

The class hopes to be rememberedfor a variety of reasons, from beingfriends with the underclassmen tobeing outgoing and crazy. Severalstudents talked about being kind andloving God. The graduates believethey’ll succeed because they arebrave, hardworking, talented andhave faith in God.

NORTH DOUGLASHIGH SCHOOL

After 20 years, North Douglas’boys basketball team went to stateand finished third.

For the moment, the graduateshaven’t pulled any pranks, and theydon’t have a trip planned. The class isunique for its diversity and will beremembered for its “Whatever, Idon’t care, it doesn’t matter” attitude.

At the same time, the students areknown for being persistent and want-ing to do things their way.

OAKLAND HIGH SCHOOLFourteen of Oakland’s 33 graduates

have gone to school together sincethey were in kindergarten. The sen-iors said the class is close and getsalong well for the most part.

They expect to be remembered forathletics and being high achieversacademically. The football team hadan undefeated season, and boys bas-ketball and baseball teams were alsosuccessful. Future Business Leadersof America students will compete atnational competition.

The students are planning a SeniorSkip Day, too.

Seven of the students are going tocollege out of state, and six will go toOregon universities. Nine are plan-ning on community college, two havejoined the military, and one is a part-ner in a family business.

“The class is hardworking anddriven to make a positive mark onsociety!” the seniors wrote.

PHOENIX SCHOOLThe senior class at Phoenix took a

camping trip to Honeyman Park, theSpace Needle and the Aquarium inSeattle, and they worked on the IronChef Competition, which was a bene-fit for Riverside Center. That compe-tition was very important to the class,since they were involved in the firstcontest in the county. They have aSenior Barbecue planned after gradu-ation.

Students spent time volunteering atseveral nonprofit organizations,including the Family DevelopmentCenter and the food bank.

They also had some fun puttingtoothpaste on the door handles of theclassrooms.

The class thinks it will be remem-bered because the new Phoenix

Senior classes reflect on year’s highlights

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School sign was put up while theywere in school.

“Our class will be successfulbecause we have overcome all thehigh and low tides and are still ‘Rid-ing the Waves’ to the future,” the sen-iors wrote.

RIDDLE EDUCATION CENTERThe Riddle Education Center sen-

iors are excited about graduating.“We all had the same problem,”

Tracee Moulder wrote. “Regularschools just weren’t working out forus. So we all came here with one goalin common, and that was to succeed.And we did!”

The students want to be remem-bered for their hard work and com-munity service. The most importantthing to the students was the SaveOur School Committee. When theschool was in debt and in danger ofbeing shut down, the students pulledtogether to help with raising $20,000to keep the school going. They saidthat brought them closer to eachother, and it helped them appreciatetheir education even more.

“We’re all strong and willing andwill go on to live our dreams to thefullest,” one senior wrote.

RIDDLE HIGH SCHOOLRiddle High’s senior class was

marked with unity and growing up.“With no class project or prank,

and having an uncertainty of taking asenior trip, it makes our class beyondthe ordinary,” seniors Shelsie Fritz,Katie Burdge and Alishia Wigginswrote. “A good conversation andsome steaks in the park make theclass who we are.

“For the class, we want to beremembered as being peace makerswhile bringing change, encouragingthe class behind us, and others to keepup the hard work and dedication ...

“Through using resources, main-taining common sense, and having a

class safety net, the senior class willbe successful with any challenge orobstacle they face in the next stage oftheir life.”

ROSEBURG HIGH SCHOOLRoseburg High School students

didn’t fill out our questionnaire.Instead, they came up with five waysto describe the class:

■ Eccentric■ Creative■ Individuality is byword (perhaps

the reason they didn’t tell us more) ■ Gentle cynicism■ Activism

SOUTH UMPQUA HIGH SCHOOL

South Umpqua High School’sgraduates will remember their finalyear of high school’s special events— homecoming, winter formal, promand senior barbecue. The class isworking on a bench to leave in theschool courtyard.

No trips or pranks are planned. Theclass spent time collecting toys forDoernbecher Children’s Hospital.

Four seniors said the graduates areunique both for their diversity andbecause they are tight knit. Theyhope they are remembered for theiryoung spirits.

“We have integrity and we are hardworking,” they wrote. “We have avariety of interests.”

SUTHERLIN HIGH SCHOOLHighlights for the Sutherlin High

School graduates included state play-offs in football, the dance contest atthe prom, Homecoming when theguys did the Robin Hood: Men inTights dance, Mr. Bodeen’s stories,and playing Halo and Rock Band allnight long.

“Even though there is a wide rangeof people, our class is unique becauseall of us get along well and havemutual respect for each other,” senior

Erma Demuth wrote.“We will be successful because we

recognize there is global competitionfor the jobs we want, and as a class,we’re a group that is ‘shooting for thestars!’ Dane Snyder wrote.

UMPQUA VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

One of the highlights for half thegraduates at Umpqua Valley Christ-ian School was Senior Skip Day,when half the class got together forbreakfast at IHOP. Taking picturestogether for the graduation ceremonyslide show also stood out.

The class spent a day volunteeringat Saving Grace Animal Shelter thisyear.

“Our class is unique because weare all casual friends,” senior ViennaAdams wrote. “There are no concrete‘cliques’ that can’t be broken. Whenwe spend time together, we have fun.

“I hope our class will be remem-bered for its fun-loving attitude. Ihope people will think of us as agroup of fun people that cared for ourfriends at school.

“I think our class will be successfulbecause we are very adaptable peo-ple. We adjust to any situation andmake it enjoyable.”

YONCALLA HIGH SCHOOLYoncalla High School’s graduating

class is most likely to be rememberedfor its diversity, Principal Brian Berrysaid.

“This is the first group that tiedtheir senior projects strictly into thecommunity,” he said.

Students went to the school boardand other community meetings. Theyraised money for a former studentwith cancer, collected books for ele-mentary students and others, organ-ized blood drives and more. The classcared about the environment, too.

It also produced outstanding ath-letes.

“I’m excited for them to send themoff into the real world,” Berry said.

• You can reach reporter TeresaWilliams at 957-4230 or via e-mail [email protected].

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Quick:Cochabamba is the third-largestconurbation in what country?

Your answer might be, “Huh?”But 11-year-old Akshay Rajagopalanswered “Bolivia” to clinch the20th annual National GeographicBee on Wednesday.

A conurbation is a large, denselypopulated urban area — andCochabamba is the third-largest onein the South American country.

Akshay’s correct answer capped atwo-day event in which he got everyquestion right. A sixth-grader at LuxMiddle School in Lincoln, Neb., hewon a $25,000 scholarship.

Along the way, Akshay answeredquestions that included the western-most Asian national capital (Ankarain Turkey), the country whereMakossa is a popular type of music(Cameroon), and the location ofTillya Tepe (it’s in Afghanistan).

“Some of them were hard but otherswere OK,” Akshay said as he held anoversized check. “I think I was just lucky.”

As he blitzed the competition, his fami-ly looked on from the front of the audito-rium at the National Geographic Societyheadquarters in Washington. He boned upfor several months by studying geographyDVDs and textbooks.

“He’s been interested in geography

since he was 5,” said his mother, SuchitraSrinivas.

One student from every U.S. state andterritory, along with a student from a mili-tary family, took part in the competitionrun by National Geographic. Akshay wasthe youngest of the 10 finalists, all boys.

“Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek moderat-ed the bee.

“The kids never cease to amaze us,”Trebek said.

The runner-up was13-year-old HunterBledsoe, 13, a studentat Hewitt TrussvilleMiddle School,Trussville, Ala.

Akshay, whose hob-bies include collectingcoins, is consideringsome kind of careerthat involves geogra-phy, but he has plentyof time to make up hismind. For now, he justlikes to study the globe.

“I get to learn aboutthe world and how itworks, which is cool,”he said.

The eight other final-ists, and their schools,are: Nikhil Desai, 13,Challenger School,

Newark, Calif.; Benjamin Geyer, 14,British School of Washington, Washington;Erik Troske, 14, Barker Middle School,Michigan City, Ind.; William Lee, 13, JoyceMiddle School, Woburn, Mass.; IsaacPasley, 14, West Junior High School,Columbia, Mo.; Joseph Perea, 13, homeschooled, Eureka, Mont.; Milan Sandhu,13, Ross A. Lurgio Middle School, Bed-ford, N.H.; and Taylor Morris, 13, CharlesD. Owen Middle School, Swannanoa, N.C.

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WASHINGTON (AP) —Backpacking in Europe? Nah,the dollar’s too weak — andfor some, the needs closer tohome are too great.

More than ever, graduatingcollege seniors are signing upto spend two years in Ameri-ca’s poorest communities aspart of Teach for America, thenonprofit organization thatrecruits and trains top collegestudents for teaching jobs.

The group saw applicationsjump by more than a third thisyear from about 18,000 tonearly 25,000.

Of those, about 3,700 areexpected to step up to theblackboard as new teachersthis fall. That’s up more than25 percent from the 2,900 whodid so last year.

Several factors appear to bebehind the trend.

In a slow economy, teachingoften becomes more attractivebecause it is generally consid-ered stable.

Still, Teach for America’sgrowth can’t be attributed justto economic conditions.

The group, around since1990, increased its recruitingstaff this year and arrangedone-on-one meetings with30,000 students at about 400colleges, up from last year.

“We are not in the businessof just going after anybody,”said Elissa Clapp, who over-sees recruiting. “We are look-ing for a very specific person.”

That has given Teach forAmerica “cachet,” says Har-vard University education pro-fessor Susan Moore Johnson.“The status of the program hasgrown steadily among collegestudents,” she said.

Healthy fundraising helpedpay for the additional recruit-ing efforts. The group’s annualbudget grew from about $40million in 2005 to about $110million this year.

Philanthropists like Eli

Broad, whose foundation hasgiven $16 million to Teach forAmerica, say they are increas-ingly motivated by studiesshowing the program has apositive impact on kids’ learn-ing.

“The results speak for them-selves,” Broad said, addingthat he plans to make a largercontribution soon. “It’s one ofthe best investments our foun-dation has made.”

Several studies have foundTeach for America corps mem-bers are as effective or moreeffective than educators whocome through traditionalteacher preparation programswithin colleges of education.

The latest study, by theUrban Institute, found that

Teach for America high schoolteachers have a particular edgein boosting math and sciencetest scores.

But Johnson, of Harvard,cautions that there isn’tenough research to makedefinitive conclusions aboutthe effectiveness of Teach forAmerica’s teachers. The stud-ies also haven’t quieted critics,who say Teach for Americarecruits are far too unpreparedfor the challenges of teaching,particularly in poor communi-ties with low-performingschools.

Recruits often have no prioreducation experience or coursework. They get five weeks ofintensive training the summerbefore they start teaching, and

then they get professionaldevelopment during the schoolyear provided by Teach forAmerica and the districts inwhich they work.

Elizabeth Venechuk, whoteaches third-grade in Wash-ington, D.C., said the Teachfor America training wasstrong given the obvious timelimitations. “I don’t think anyteacher is prepared for thatfirst year,” she said.

Venechuk, in her secondyear, is clearly in command ofher class of squirmy eight- andnine-year-olds. During arecent late afternoon lesson inlines and shapes, she had kidsenthusiastically and politelyasking questions and demon-strating with their bodies — in

yoga-like fashion — whatlines, line segments and rayslook like.

Asked what surprised hermost, Venechuk said, “howmuch organization you need tohave and how much you loveyour kids.”

She plans to stay at leastanother year at Powell Ele-mentary School, a neglectedold building with mismatchedclassroom supplies. Nearly allthe kids are poor and eitherblack or Hispanic, two minori-ty groups that generally lagbehind their white peers aca-demically.

Venechuk says she isn’t surewhat she’ll do afterward. “Iwasn’t planning on a career ineducation. I’m still not sure ifI am,” she said.

Teach for America teachersare less likely to stay in theclassroom than those whocome through traditionalteacher preparation routes, andthat has fueled criticism.

“Recruitment is only halfthe battle. The other side ofthat battle is retention,” saidRob Weil, deputy director ofeducational issues at theAmerican Federation ofTeachers. “I’m going to saythat just having people comeand go in the profession is notgoing to make a quality educa-tion for students.”

Teach for America support-ers note that low-incomeschools already have highturnover rates. Teach forAmerica estimates a third ofits alumni stay in the class-room, while many others haveother jobs in the educationfield.

Stanford University educa-tion professor Susannah Loebsaid she thinks Teach forAmerica is addressing a needbut not solving the underlying

problem.“The shame is that we have

so many schools serving low-income, low-achieving kidsthat need teachers so badly andcan’t attract teachers in a morestable way,” Loeb said.

She has conducted researchindicating Teach for Americateachers are not as effective inreading as they are in math.Teach for America leaders saythey have responded to suchresearch by revamping literacytraining, an example of howthe program is willing andable to change, they say.

The organization also hasreworked its professionaldevelopment and stepped upefforts to ensure that recruitsare clustered in schools.

Clapp said she also hasincreased efforts to ensure thatrecruiters paint a realistic pic-ture of life as a new teacher inlow-income communities.That’s in response to criticswho say not enough is done tomake sure young idealistsdon’t find themselves shockedand frustrated by the harshrealities of the job.

“I think people don’t under-stand how little it behooves usto sell a false picture,” saidClapp. “None of us are in thisto have people quitting on usin the middle.” She said morethan 85 percent of corps mem-bers finish their two-year com-mitment.

Teach for America founderWendy Kopp said she’d like tosee the corps of first- and sec-ond-year teachers grow to8,000 by 2010, up from about5,000 now.

“We’re never satisfied,” shesaid. “That is just the naturemaybe of this work. There isjust so much more to bedone.”


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Elizabeth Venechuk, a third grade teacher at Powell Elementary School and Teach for Amer-ica participant, teaches a math lesson in Washington recently. Backpacking in Europe? Nah,the dollar’s too weak, and for some — the needs closer to home are too great. More thanever, graduating college seniors are signing up to spend two years in America’s poorest com-munities as part of Teach for America, the nonprofit that recruits and trains top college stu-dents for teaching jobs.

CINCINNATI (AP) — Aman ordered by a judge tomake sure his daughter hit thebooks has found himself in jailbecause she failed to earn ahigh school equivalency diplo-ma.

Brian Gegner, of Fairfield,was sentenced last week to180 days in jail for contribut-ing to the unruliness or delin-quency of a minor.

He was ordered months agoto make sure his 18-year-olddaughter Brittany Gegner, who

has a history of truancy,received her GED — some-thing that hasn’t happened yet.

Brittany Gegner, who saidMonday that she plans to takea required GED test thismonth, said her father should-n’t be blamed for her failurebecause she has been livingwith her mother.

“It was my wrongdoing, nothis,” said Brittany Gegner,whose fiance and 18-month-old daughter also live at hermother’s home in nearby

Hamilton. “He shouldn’t haveto go to jail for something Idid.”

Her mother agrees.“Brittany is almost 19 years

old now and I think it’s unfairto put her father in jail,” saidShana Roach. “She’s an adultnow, and it’s not right to rip aninnocent man from his home.”

Butler County JuvenileCourt administrator Rob Cle-venger Jr. said Monday thatthe court still has jurisdictionin the case because Brittany

Gegner was a juvenile whenthe truancy problems beganand when the charge againstBrian Gegner was filed in2007.

A hearing on a motion filedby Brian Gegner’s attorney toreconsider the sentence isscheduled. Messages seekingcomment were not returnedMonday at the offices ofdefense attorney Tamara Sackand the Butler County prose-cutor.

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OTHELLO, Wash. (AP) —Like Michelle and EricaWheeler, lots of twins have aspecial closeness, sharing likesand dislikes, good times andtough going.

The Wheelers also havesomething else in common,graduating from the 850-stu-dent high school in this East-ern Washington town as vale-dictorians — the only onesthis year with perfect gradepoint averages.

“We’re attached at the hip,”

Michelle joked.“It’s easy to confide in each

other,” Erica said. “We canhelp each other through diffi-culties.”

Both took advance place-ment classes, including Eng-lish, science and calculus, “thetoughest courses we offer atthe high school,” school coun-selor Norma Gonzalez said.

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— and lead the Leo Club, ateen auxiliary of the LionsClub, with Michelle as presi-dent and Erica vice president.

“You would love to have aclassroom of 30 of them or 40of them,” math teacher LaurieStickel said. “They’re good,wholesome kids.”

While they are fraternalrather than identical twins andhave some differences, includ-ing the dresses they wore totheir prom, their close rela-tionship makes them better

students, Stickel said.“Together they’re brighter,”

she said. “They make awhole.”

Erica agrees. “I don’t feelthe same if she’s not with me,”she said, “but I know if I haveher support I’ll be fine.”

Both plan to enroll at Wash-ington State University inPullman, study pharmacy andlive in the same dormitory, butMichelle said they expect tobe less involved in eachother’s lives.

Twins graduate as high school co-valedictorians

DOWNEY, Calif. (AP) —With the end of another schoolyear approaching, collegesophomore Moshe Kai Cavalinis cramming for final exams inclasses such as advancedmathematics, foreign lan-guages and music.

But Cavalin is only 10 yearsold. And at 4-foot-7, his shoesdon’t quite touch the floor ashe puts down a schoolbookand swivels around in his chairto greet a visitor.

“I’m studying statistics,”says the alternately precociousand shy Cavalin, his textbooklying open on the living roomdesk of his parents’ apartmentin this quiet suburb east of LosAngeles.

Within a year, if he keeps uphis grades and completes therest of his requirements, hehopes to transfer from his two-year program at East LosAngeles College to a presti-gious four-year school andstudy astrophysics.

One of his primary interestsis “wormholes,” a hypotheticalscientific phenomenon con-nected to Albert Einstein’s the-ory of relativity.

It has been theorized that ifsuch holes do exist in space,they could — in tandem withblack holes — allow for thekind of space-age time travelseen in science fiction.

“Just like black holes, theysuck in particulate objects, andalso like black holes, they alsotravel at escape velocity,which is, the speed to get outof there is faster than the speedof light,” Cavalin says. “I’dlike to prove that wormholesare really there and prove allthe theories are correct.”

First, he has statistics home-work to finish. Later, he’llwork with his mother, ShuChen Chien, to brush up on hisMandarin for his Chineseclass.

Then it’s over to the piano toprepare for his recital in musicclass. His father, Yosef Cav-alin, frets about the piano-playing, noting that his onlychild recently broke his armpursuing another passion, mar-tial arts. He has won severaltrophies for his age group.

“Finals are coming andeverything and he cannot play

with both hands. He’ll just tryto play with the right hand,” hesays. “I don’t know how hisgrade’s going to be in piano. Itworries me a bit.”

If past success is any indica-tion, his son will find a way tocompensate. Cavalin, whoenrolled in college more than ayear ago, has maintained an A-plus average in such subjectsas algebra, history, astronomyand physical education.

College officials couldn’timmediately say whether he isthe youngest student in theschool’s 63-year history.

Among child prodigies,Michael Kearney, now 24, isoften cited as the world’syoungest college graduate,having earned a bachelor’sdegree in anthropology fromthe University of South Alaba-ma at age 10.

Cavalin’s professors can’trecall having a younger stu-dent in their classes.

“He is the youngest collegestudent I’ve ever taught andone of the hardest working,”says Daniel Judge, his statisticsprofessor. “He’s actually apleasure to have in class. He’s awell- adjusted, nice little boy.”

Cavalin was an 8-year-oldfreshman when he enrolled inGuajao Liao’s intermediatealgebra class in 2006. By theend of the term, Liao recalls,he was tutoring some of his19- and 20-year-old class-mates.

“I told his parents that hisability was much higher thanthat level, that he should take ahigher-level course,” Liaosays. “But his parents didn’twant to push him.”

Cavalin’s parents avoid call-ing their son a genius. Theysay he’s just an average kidwho enjoys studying as muchas he likes playing soccer,watching Jackie Chan movies,and collecting toy cars andbaseball caps with tigeremblems on them. He wasborn during the Year of theTiger in the Chinese zodiac.

Cavalin has a general ideawhat his IQ is, but doesn’t liketo discuss it.

He says other students canachieve his success if theystudy hard and stay focused ontheir work.

His parents say they neverplanned to enroll their son incollege at age 8, and sought toput him in a private elemen-tary school when he was 6.

“They didn’t want to acceptme because I knew more thanthe teacher there and they saidI looked too bored,” theyoungster recalls.

His parents home-schooledhim instead, but after twoyears decided college was thebest place for him. East L.A.officials agreed to accept himif he enrolled initially in justtwo classes, math and physicaleducation. After he earned A-pluses in both, he was allowedto expand his studies.


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For students who need toborrow for college, federalloans are almost always thebest deal. But a new studyfinds that more than 1 millioncommunity college students —a disproportionate number ofthem minorities — can’t getsuch loans because theirschools decline to participatein the federal loan program.

These community collegeshave their reasons — includingtrying to protect students fromborrowing too heavily.

But the report, to be releasedThursday by the California-based Project on Student Debt,argues that such schools aredenying students an importantbenefit. It said students whocan’t get federal loans may haveto work more or take on privateloans and credit card debt.

The findings were criticizedby national groups represent-ing community colleges andfinancial aid administrators, aswell as people who work atsome of the colleges. Theynote community colleges areusually far cheaper than four-year schools, so it’s reasonablefor some schools to tell stu-dents they shouldn’t be bor-rowing.

“I’m really concerned aboutdefault rates, and ... that stu-

dents would see the dollarsigns and not use it for educa-tional purposes and maybe getin over their heads,” said Bren-da DiSorbo, director of finan-cial aid for all of the CentralGeorgia Technical College.

The report comes at time ofintense focus on federal aidprograms like subsidized andunsubsidized Stafford loans,which together accounted forabout $50 billion in financialaid last year.

The credit crisis and subsidycuts have forced dozens oflenders and guarantors out of

the federally backed loan busi-ness, and the government isdrawing up plans to ensurestudents can get such loans forschool next fall.

So far, there’s no evidenceeligible students won’t be ableto secure loans because of thecredit crunch. But this newreport highlights students whocan’t get federal loans becauseof the school they attend.

Affected students amount tojust one in 10 community col-lege students nationwide, butat least 47 percent of studentsin four states — Georgia,

Alabama, North Carolina andLouisiana.

In Montana, 95 percent ofwhite community college stu-dents attend schools wherethey can get federal loans,compared with just 8 percentof American Indians.

In Tennessee, the figure is87 percent for white communi-ty college students but just 45percent for blacks. Nationally,black community college stu-dents are more than twice aslikely as whites to attendschools that don’t offer federalloans.

Low-income students “arethe students who have themost to gain from havingaccess to the federal loan pro-gram,” said Bob Shireman,executive director of the Insti-tute for College Access andSuccess, which operates theProject on Student Debt. “Therates are low and fixed.There’s no credit check.”

Nationally, community col-lege tuition and fees average$2,361 per year, according tothe College Board — aboutone-third what public four-year colleges cost. Afterreceiving aid, most communitycollege students pay only afew hundred dollars for class-es, and often use leftover aidfrom Pell Grants for thingslike books.

Fed loans not option for many in junior college Community college aid deniedA new report shows at least 60 percent of community collegestudents in Georgia were denied access to federal loansbecause of the schools they attended.

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