®Dallas High School awards | Summer school, sports, held its annual Na- tional Honor Society Induction and Awards Banquet at Irem Tem- ple Country Club on May 25. Awards in recognition for aca- demic achievements. were given to 146 high school students. Stu- dents from all grades who have received A’s in all classes were recognized. In photo at right, Joseph Bednash, left, was Salutatorian, and Meredith Lacey, Vale- dictorian of the Dallas High School Class of 2004. @::0v. Juniors with Cumulative A’s are | | from left: Sarah || Vodzak, Diana Glicini, | Megan Vodzak, Chris- [| tine Zavaskas, Coral Stredny and Jered We- i instock. Absent from photo were Christo- pher Baiamonte and Ashley Wolanski. FOR THE POST/M.B. GILLIGAN Wyoming Seminary has a wide range of academic, artistic and athletic programs of inter- est to area students ages 8 to 18. The programs are held at both the Upper School campus in Kingston and the Lower School campus in Forty Fort, and feature experienced teach- ers and coaches and outstand- ing facilities. Beginning on June 28 and continuing until August 6, the Blue Knights Sports Camps for girls and boys ages eight to 14 offers organized athletics, games, swimming, weekly field trips and lots of fun in one- week sessions. Girls who want to play lacrosse can enter the Lady Blue Knights Lacrosse Clinic for grades five through eight, running July 26 to July 30. High school students inter- ested in taking either for-credit or non-credit high school class- es may enroll in the four-week College Prep Institute, which offers classes in communica- tion, fine arts, history and gov- ernment, science and mathe- matics, and computer skills. These classes begin June 28 and continue until July 23. Stu- dents may take classes in the morning and afternoon. The Institute also offers the Yoho SAT Preparation Course, given in two sessions in July and August. Serious students of music, dance and theater are encour- French contest winners The National French Con- test, sponsored by the North- eastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French, concluded with 69 chapter and 22 national winners from a pool of nearly 500 elementary to high school students who competed from public and private schools. Nancy Abramowitz, a junior at Wyoming Seminary, won the Langenscheidt Publishers Award for the student who par- ticipated the greatest number of times with the greatest success. Other winners from the Back Mountain were: Kelly Dickin- son, Ross Feinstein, Kaytlin Kopen, Stephen Levandoski, Samantha Marquart and Nina Shah. All attend Wyoming Sem- inary. aged to audition for the Wyoming Seminary Perform- ing Arts Institute (PAI), held June 27-August 8. PAI attracts students from across the coun- try and around the world as well as a nationally and inter- nationally acclaimed faculty. In- strumentalists and vocalists perform in public concerts sev- eral times each week, and dancers rehearse for one major dance production held on July 25. Both dancers and students interested in theater will per- form in this year’s production of “West Side Story,” to be held on August 5 and 6 at the Kirby Center for the Performing Arts. Student musicians in ele- mentary and middle school may take part in three Junior PAI programs. For children ages seven to nine, the Music Makers program, held July 5 to July 17, fosters creativity and music programs at Sem imagination while providing a solid foundation in pitch, rhythm, phrasing and music lis- tening. The Young Artists Mu- sical Theater, held July 12-24, is open to students aged 10-13 interested in building musical and theater skills. The PAI Ju- nior Division for students in grades five through eight is held July 26 to August 7 and al- lows students to develop their skills and interests in instru- mental and vocal music. For more information, or to apply for any of these pro- grams, call 270-2186, go to the Summer at Sem website at www.wyomingseminary.org (www.wyomingseminary.org/p ai for those interested in PAI programs) or e-mail at sum- meratsem@wyomingsemi- nary.org (onstage@wyomingseminary.o rg for PAI information). Photography by Joan Barker When you invite a city child to your home to experience the country for the very first time, . u may be the one who benefits most. Because nothing is like the thrill of opening a child's ey > @ whole new world. 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