- The Dallas Post ® Pi Day, and pies, Dallas, PA Thursday, March 20,, 2003 11 Bishop O’Reilly honor students ®, Dallas High Dallas High School students and faculty celebrated their first an- nual Pi day on March 14 (3-14) with a variety of activities. “This winter has been so rough that we wanted to refresh them a little,” said Jim McGovern, as- sistant principal and event orga- from the Back Mountain Susan Dennen, Principal of Bishop O'Reilly High School, Kingston, has announced the school’s honor roll for the sec- ond quarter marking period. Residents of the Back Mountain area who have merited honors include the following: Freshmen: Stephane Afghani, Allison Baur, Jennifer Bonetski, Maria Gialanella, Brittany Grabowski, lan Herron, Natalie Herron and Tara Shevock. Second Honors Seniors: Jonathan Carroll, Adrienne Cebrick, Ryan Ciocca, : nizer. “There is so much stress Distinguished Honors Jane Clements, Adrienne : | with the SATs, PSSA’s and all Freshman: Laura DeCesaris. Gilbert, Maureen Hozempa, | the other testing that we wanted First Honors Adam Onzik, Meghan Reino, g i them to have a little fun with Seniors: Erin DeCesaris, Am- Laura Simkulak and Mary ; i their learning.” ber DelPriore, Jillian Durr, Molly Yanik. | : aT : Guntli, Timur Maskayev, Court- Juniors: Rebecca Hizny, and The day's activities centered ney Reap, Nora Stepanitis, Mary Herman, around the homophones, pie and Daniel Suhocki, Jamie Verazin Sophomores: Lauren Chupka, { pi, which is the ratio of the cir- and Sean Walski. Michael DeRojas, Kimberly cumference of a circle to its di- Juniors: Sarah Abrams, An- Durr, Sarah Mentis, Melissa Mil- ameter and is expressed as an ir- rational number starting with 3.14159. drew Gialanella, Leeanne Grif- fith, Meghan Mitchell and Laura Mould. lo Gregory Suhocki, and Sara Wolman. Freshmen: Joshua Aciuke- ; ; Sophomores: Robert Baur, wicz, Mary Balavage, Margaret In photos, clockwise from top. Conor Judge, Sandra Krogulski, Guntli, Ann Onzik, Javier Parez, Sandy Sprau, math department Margaret Mathewson, Grace- Carla Reino, Samantha Solak, @ joined in sampling some Wf the 87 pies brought in by stu- dents for the judging contest. Winners of the day's events will be treated to a pizza party and ice cream social in April. Pic- tured from left: Sandy Sprau, Neil Buckman, Josh Brakefield, Spencer Piontkowski, Corey Hine and Jeremy Moore. Pi Queen and King for the day, Liz Samanas and Michael Yur- chak, reigned over the activities that featured a pie eating con- test, a free-hand drawing of a perfect circle, and memorizing the most digits of pi. Junior Corey Hine helped count links in the paper chain that broke the world’s current record. Each of the color-coded paper links provided by the school’s art students represented a digit in the unending irrational number represented by pi. Math students mpiled the chain to accurately resent pi out to the 7147th digit. Sem Lower School team wins ma i: BE A y ; I: 4 PL A 54 i i : y gov ” 7 h competition Loyack named to dean’s list at Lehigh marie Mike, Joanna Smith and and Erin Tanner. Nicole Spencer. Bishop O’Reilly junior honor students Susan Dennen, Principal of Bishop O'Reilly Junior High School, Kingston, has announced the school’s honor roll for the second marking period. The following Back Mountain residents have merit- ed honors: Distinguished Honors: Allison Ustynoski, grade 7. First Honors: Peter Filak, grade 8. Second Honors: Meagan Simkulak, grade 8. Dallas El 2nd grade student standouts Katherine Marianacci, Outstanding Student and Citizen; Teacher: Mrs. Besecker. Christopher Reimard, Classroom Participation, Teacher: Mrs. Lan- don. Danielle Spencer, Quickest Transition time, Teacher: Mrs. Lyons. Emilia Kon, Most Improved Printer, Teacher: Mrs. Yurko. Chloe Alles, Outstanding Student and Citizen, Teacher: Mrs. Zez- za. Free preschool program enrolling now Luzerne County Head Start, Inc., serving Luzerne and Wyoming Counties, is now accepting applications for the 2003-2004 school year. This federally funded preschool program provided free services in education, health, social services, parent involvement, nutrition, transportation, and disabilities. For information call: Dallas Center, 674-1062 or 674-1063; Lake-Lehman Center, 639-2456 or 639- 2465; Ross Center, 477-1513 or 477-1396. : Staff will be available for evening recruitment on: Dallas Center, The MATHCOUNTS team at “retired” to their school. dle School. Tuesday March 25, 5-7 p.m.; Lake-Lehman Center, Wednesday, Wyoming Seminary Lower The full day of competition The mission of MATH- Adam Loyack of Dallas, was April 2, 4-6 p.m.; Ross Center, Monday March 31, 5-7 p.m. : School recently took first place features individual and team COUNTS is to increase interest recently named to Lehigh Univer- Bring the child's birth certificate, shot record, social security in a regional math competition competition, including sprint, and achievement in mathemat- gjty's dean's list for the fall 2002 cards for your child and yourself, medical card or insurance cards — the Luzerne County Chapter target, team, and countdown ics among all intermediate gemester. and proof of last year’s income. Competition at Penn =~ State ‘Wilkes-Barre. The team is now ‘qualified to move on to the ‘state competition in March. This is the second consecutive year that Sem students have claimed first place in the com- rounds. Ten other teams also competed, including Bishop Hafey Jr. High School, Crest- wood Jr. High School, Dallas Area Middle School, Freeland Middle School, Drums Middle School, Martin L. Mattei Middle school students to assist in de- veloping a technically literate population essential to U.S. global competitiveness and the quality of life. Lynda Rogers, math teacher, and Patricia Summerhill, Associate Dean for Second row: Drew Harding, Ryan Georgetti, Meghan O’Brien, Gregory Strazdus, Deidre DeLuca, Katherine Marianacci, Sarah Dennis. ird row: Robert Baker, Katie Cohen, Paul Brace, Korina Cisneros, Paul Narcum. urth row: May Stettner, Sarah Siminovich, Rikki Shotwell, Vanessa Wells, Bethany Harris. Fifth row: Megan Schwemmer, Allison Considine, Scott Heuer, Buck Taylor Absent when picture was taken: Jason Morgan, Darian Healy, Kayla Stearn, and Elizabeth Dillon. PENNSTATE SUMMER 2003 CLASS SCHEDULE BY Wilkes-Barre MC PENN STATE WILKES-BARRE www.eLion.psu.edu. etition. Any team that wins School, MMI Preparatory Academic and Student Affairs | MAY 12 - 30 (3 CREDITS IN 3 WEEKS | he regional competition three School, Valley Middle School, and Coordinator of the Middle COURSE CREDITS TITLE MEETS years in a row earns the right West Hazleton Jr. High School, School Division, coached this SPCOM 100A 3 EFFECTIVE SPEECH MTWRF 9AM - 12PM to have the trophy permanently and Wyoming Valley West Mid- year’s Sem team. y he = Three local students named to Syracuse U dean’s list | saz 4 SOC LEG ETH EVN BU TR 5:30-9:30 PM 3 i gin CHEM 012 3 CHEM PRINC TR6-9:30 PM Three local students enrolled in the College of Stephen Honeywell, Noxen, a freshman majoring h Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University in environmental design. E MCH 011 3 STATICS MW6 - 9:30 PM were named to the dean’s list for the fall 2002 se- Segan Millington, Dallas, a senior majoring in ENGL 202D 3 BUSINESS WRITING TR6-9:30 PM mester. To qualify for the dean’s list, students biology has been named to the fall semester dean's ENGL 438 3 AMERICAN DRAMA TR6-9:30 PM must achieve at least a 3.4 grade point average (on list in the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse ‘MATH 021 3 COLLEGE ALGEBRA MWG6-9:30 PM a 4.0 scale) during the semester. University. To qualify for the dean’s list, students PL SC 003 3 INTRO-COMP POL (on-line component) W 5:30 - 8:30 PM Stefanie Pollock, Dallas, a senior majoring in re- must achieve at least a 3.4 grade point average (on RL ST 001 3 WORLD RELIGIONS MW6 -9:30 PM tailing and consumer studies. a 4.0 scale) during the semester. MAY 20 - AUGUST 5 (12 WEEK SESSION) ADM J 439 3 TERRORISM T 5:30 -9 PM GEOSC 020 3 PLANET EARTH TR 5:30 -9PM MATH 141 4 CALC ANLY GEOM II MTW 5:30 - 9 PM PHYS 151 3 TECHN PHYSICS II TR6-9:30 PM STAT 200 4 ELEM STATISTICS M WR 6 - 8:15PM JUNE 30 - AUGUST 8 (6-WEEK SESSION) INART 115 3 POPULAR MUSIC MW6-9:30 PM MATH 026 3 PLANE TRIG MWG6 -9:30 PM MATH 140 4 CALCANLY GEOM 1 MTR 6 - 9:00 PM ASTRO 001 3 ASTRO UNIVERSE WF 9A - 12:30PM ADM J 012 3 CRIMINOLOGY TR 9:30A - 1PM ENGL 202C 3 TECHNICAL WRITING TR6-9:30 PM HIST 001 3 WESTERN HERITAGE 1 TR6-9:30 PM ENGL 015 3 RHETORIC & COMP TR1-4:30 PM JULY 7 - AUGUST 14 (6 WEEK SESSION) ECON 002 3 MICROEC ANLY b TR 6-9:30PM or ECON 004 3 MACROEC ANLY MW 6-930 PM < MATH 022 3 COLLEGEALGEBRA II TR6-9:00 PM JULY 8 - AUGUST 21 (7 WEEK SESSION) poet ACCTG 211 4 FINMGLACCDEC MK TR 6-9:30PM TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM Student standouts for February INTRO TO TELECOM SYSTEMS (2 credits; meets M-F 9. 11AM and 1-3PM MAY 12 - MAY 21 SWITCHING TRAFFIC - (3 credits; meets M-F 8-9:50 AM) MAY 22 - JUNE 20 Dallas Elementary School recently selected outstanding students for the month of February. INTRO TO TELECOM LAB (1 credit; meets M-F 1-2:50 PM) MAY 22 - JUNE 20 Shown from left, first row: Owen Kiluk, Courtney Wagner, Kayla Stearn, Kelly Snyder, Chris Behm, TRANSMISSION (3 credits; meets M-F 10 AM-Noon) MAY 22 - JUNE 20 Mary Gittens, Amber Habib. ADV TELECOM LAB (1 credit; meets M-F 3-4:50 PM) MAY 22 - JUNE 20 Call 675-9233 or visit Penn State Wilkes-Barre’s Registrar’s Office in Hayfield House 110 from Monday-Friday, 8 AM-4:30 PM or e-mail ksb3@psu.edu to register, or for more information. Penn State students can register by touch-tone phone (requires personal access code) or on-line at LAVA VA VEN TY TIT PENN STATE Making Life Better
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