Sunday, August 21, 2005 EDUCATION THE POST PAGES TUNKHANNOCK AREA HONOR ROLL Tunkhannock Area High School recently announced its honor roll for the fourth marking period of the 2004-05 school year. The following students earned honor roll status: SENIORS Stefan Adams, Kerry Albanese, Frank Anderson, Daniel Antosh, Jordan Balewski, Lori Blakeslee, Margaret Boecker, Megan Brown, Tristin Brown, Erica Burgess, Kirsten Cavany, Kathlyn Charles, Amanda Chellis, Andrea Clapp, Beth Clark, Michael Conroy, Samantha Corby, Michell Drost, Laura Fargo, Amanda Faux, Megan Francis, Kevin Green, Andrea Hettesheimer, Andrew Hilde- brand, Holly Holdredge, Ryan Hub- ert, Ashley Jumper, Victor Kalvaitis, Meghan Keefe, Justin Keithline, Samantha Keller, Alexandra Khalife, Ashley Kinney, Joshua Kukowski, Abraham Kukuchka, Sara Lechleitn- er, Anthony Lehnert, Kathleen Mason, Kelley McCarthy, Alison McKenna, Stephanie Migliori, Maris- sa Miller, Robert Mitchell, Joshua Murray, Michael Musser, Ashley Ison, Jennifer Nichols, Diann gick, Carrie Olson, Almon Otten, a tthew Prusko, Jennifer Ransom, Brent Richter, Adam Robinson, Kyle Ross, Tera Rule, Nichole Sechrist, Jessica Shaw, Ryan Sheridan, Sheila Shoemaker, Maren Siewert, Tanya Siglin, Kathryne Smith, Matthew Stark, Katherine Starzec, Martin Straczkiewicz, Michael Stroka, Jamie Thomas, Stevens VanDuzer, Suchita Varhade, Michael Voda, Katrina Walsh, Sarah Ward, Patrick Weber, Rhoades Weiss, Erica Wilbur, Aman- da Wilcox, Leah Wilsey, Sarah Wis- well, Ashley Yale and Cassie Yara- savage. JUNIORS Michael Aguilar, Amy Alesich, Court- ney Austin, David Balko, William Ball, Jordan Bancala, Rebecca Bliss, Adriana Boylan, Joseph Brennan, Jason Brotzman, Steven Brown, Natasha Burton, Ryan Carey, Ta- batha Carey, Ashten Carpenter, Thomas Cechak, Jessica Clark, Justin Corby, Jeffrey Davis, Lisa DeSando, Ashley Durland, Ashley Evans, Timothy Fetzko, Robin Flak, Ashley Forba, Sarah Frable, Matthew Franko, April Freeman, Nicholas Furman, Craig Harris, Maxwell Har- vey, Holley Hilbert, Julie Hudock, Ashley Hunt, Ashley Hunting, Mary Hurst, Amanda Jeffreys, Beckie Jones, Gregory Jones, Lydia King, Mary Kitlan, Shane Kuffa, Aubrey Kupstas, Garrett Lech, Matthew Lewis, Krista Lubinski, Jheralyn Macuga, Bo Marcy, Zachary Migliori, Joy Mokwa, Nicole Mokwa, Philip Moyer, Courtney Novajosky, Chris- topher Peters, Chelsea Pickett, Jesse Rafalko, Lauren Razawich, Joshua Reiner, Julie Robets, Stacy Robinson, Claire Roman, Jeanele Romanowski, Sierra Sands, Brittany Searfoss, Charles Secor, Kristina Shaffer, William Sheehan, Laurie Sherman, Adam Spring, Andrew St. Hilaire, Teresa Stage, Thomas Ste- vens, Codyshane Taylor, Jessica Taylor, Austin Thomas, Brooke Thomas, Tamara Troy, Sumedh Varhade, Elizabeth Wademan, Jo- seph Walter, Adam Ware, Craig Welch, Brittany Wilson, Roger Win- termute and Christopher Zdaniew- icz. SOPHOMORES Breanne Banta, Sarah Barnes, Aaron Bartron, Joseph Benko, Cassandra Boice, April Brady, Bridget Burleson, Alesia Burridge, Sarah Bytheway, Stephen Callum, Joshua Cannella, Nathan Carey, Sara Cawley, Melissa Charles, Christian Clark, Kristen Condeelis, Brittany Custer, Robert Cyphers, Stephanie Daniels, Thomas Daniels, Steven Danko, Jason David- son, Christopher Denmon, Lisa Dewolf, Samuel Dodda, Sara Dodge, Jamie Donahue, Brittany Dymond, Daniel Dymond, Angelica Evans, Makinsey Evans, Kassandra Farr, Robert Felker, Kristen Finkler, Alyssa Fiorenza, Lisa Forba, Joshua Fran- klin, Keri Franklin, Danielle Freeman, Ethan Garverick, Briant Gavek, Danielle Gilroy, Roger Giovino, Kaleb Givens, Eric Goodwin, Charles Gray, Charles Harris, Emine Havale, Shan- non Hilsey, Keith Howard, Christoph- er Howell, Samantha Ide, Bethany Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Amanda Jones, Samantha Jurista, Sarah Klein, Michael Kolodzieski, Chris- topher Koza, Kenneth Krieg, Mat- thew Kwiatkowski, Matthew Land- siedel, Sarah Lane, Benjamin Law- son, Siena Layaou, Christine Leber, Christopher Lenivy, Claire Lep- kowski, Michelle Lyman, Warren Mayer, Justin McCormick, Benjamin McCusker, Shauna McKenna, Au- tumn Merrifield, Samantha Migliori, Michael Mikulski, Alyssa Miller, Mara Mitchell, Laura Moss, Brittany Neves, Chelsea Newhart, Denise Nogick, Jennifer Parduski, Amanda Parry, Melissa Patton, Andrew Perez, Nathan Pohiman, Ashley Poindexter, Geoffrey Porasky, Katherine Reese, Stacey Remington, Tiffany Reming- ton, Jessica Rhodes, Ryan Ropraz, Richard Rosengrant, Travis Russell, Rachel Seward, David Shoemaker, April Shultz, Thurston Sick, Timothy Sickler, Michael Skumanick, Aaron Smith, Jessica Solanick, Jessica Spencer, Sydney Stamatis, Emily Strange, Jessica Strohl, Earl Tho- mas, Christina Troy, Kyle Turbessi, Anna Vanderpool, Cassandra Wade- man, Vanessa Walker, Becky Weaver, Christopher Welch, Jason Whitman, William Whitmiller, Amanda Wildon- ger, Kelsey Wilkinson and Zachary Zbegner. FRESHMEN Joseph Albanese, Eric Atkinson, Tierney Ayers, Michael Bartsch, John Benko, Todd Billingsley, Hillary Bird, Robert Bishop, Colette Boylan, Ethan Brown, Alex Buckingham, Karen Bunavage, Preston Bunney, Sabrina Burris, Lloyd Burton, Desir- ee Carey, Ashley Carpenter, Jacque- line Chapin, Madeline Cielski, Joshua Clark, Bruno Cognetti, Jessica Coolbaugh, Todd Crimmel, Tory D'Ulisse, Laura Davis, Tedi Davis, Diane Dewitt, Zachariah Dickinson, Anthony Dodge, Alan Drungell, April Dulsky, Alicia English, Shane Fabiani, Corey Fassett, Rashegéd Fernandez, Edward Flaherty, Meganne Fore- sman, Gregory Franko, Alecia Free- man, Johnna Freeman, Kaitlyn Gibbons, Courtney Gruver, Jeffery Guyette, Denise Henry, Katie Her- man, Alison Hnatko, Caitlin Holehan, Andrew Hopkins, Kamron Hubbard, April Hudock, Kelly Hurst, Joshua Ide, Michelle Jeffries, Wendy John- son, Courtney Johnston, Allyson Jordan, Brianne Jordan, Nathan Kalvaitis, Aaron Keich, Jessica Keller, Miranda Killian, Laura Kingston, Carrie Kleinhans, Nicholas Kotch, Molly Kresge, Scott Kukuchka, Loren Kwitkoski, Travis Labs, Cody Lane, Daniel Lawson, Wendy Leonhart, Kaitlin Lundin, Holly Manning, Mea- gan Manning, Joshua Mason, Brana- die McCarty, Douglas Mercer, Mi- chael Millan, Donald Miller, Nicholas Murley, Melissa Murphy, Laura Murray, Denise Nerozzi, T. Norris, Alisha Nudo, William Oliver, Dillon Otten, Samantha Pacewicz, Gabriel Paduck, Kelley Parkison, Christine Parry, Kelly Pellam, Elizabeth Per- hacs, Kathryn Perhacs, Robert Perhacs, Jeff Pernot, Amy Peteritis, Elizabeth Pickett, Ryan Pitcavage, Erik Pratt, David Ramage, Andrew Razawich, Corissa Rice, Carl Rogers, Ashley Ropraz, Jenna Ross, Brittny Rule, Kelsey Sands, Mary Scarpa, Amy Shaffer, Mason Shao, Karen Sickler, Noel Sidorek, Nicole Sim- mers, Jacob Smith, Krysta Smith, James Solomon, Rebecca Stanton, Sara Strohl, Mara Stucker, Shayla Surface, Brittney Taylor, Stephanie Teel, Michael Tesluk, Kirby Thomas, Maria Thorne, Michael Truscott, Jaclyn Tschantz, Allen Turner, EI- izabeth Voda, Abagail Ware, Tiffany Wettstein, Amanda Whipple, Heather White, Aimee Wilder, Samantha Wildonger, David Williams, Nicole Wootten, James Wynd, Ashley Yachymiak and William Zaleppa. SCHOOL BRIEFS Lake-Lehman sets @ nual open house The Lake-Lehman Junior/ Senior High School will host an open house Aug. 23-25 for students in grades 7-12. Parents are also invited. The event will be held from 1-3 p.m. Aug. 23, 6-8 p.m. Aug. 24 and 9-11 a.m. Aug. 25. The annual event allows seventh, eighth, and ninth grade students to try lockers, locate rooms and become fa- miliar with the layout of the school. New students in 10th through 12th grade are also welcome to attend. Informa- n regarding the Open House ras been mailed to students, who must bring the informa- tion to the open house. Special education forum at Wilkes The Luzerne Intermediate Unit 18 will hold a Special Education Inclusion Forum from 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10 at the Henry Student Center on the Wilkes University campus in Wilkes-Barre. The event is also being sponsored by the Luzerne/Wyoming Counties Local Right to Education Task » Force. Light refreshments will be served. There is no admission charge, but reservations are required no later than Sept. 1. For reservations, call 762-8905. SAT review course offered at PSU-WB The Penn State /Wilkes- Barre campus in Lehman Township is holding an up- dated review course for stu- dents who plan to take the new Scholastic Assessment Reason- ing Test on Oct. 8 or Nov. 5. In addition to critical reading (formerly the verbal portion of the test) and math, the new version of the SAT will include a section on writing which will measure a student’s grammar and usage skills and requires a written essay. Students will be required to complete home- work assignments between classes and sample SAT exams will be given. Additional topics will in- clude strategies for sentence completion and effective essay writing, increased reading comprehension, familiarity with math grids and determin- ing when to use a calculator, and the advantages and disad- vantages of guessing. The grade-free review course will be held from 6-9 p.m. each Thursday from Aug. 25 through Oct. 6 in the Center for Technology. A class for critical reading/writing only will be held from 9:30-11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 10 at the school. Students may take one or both of the writing/critical reading and math reviews. The cost for both classes is $289 and the price for one is $189, which includes a text- book. For more information, call Penn State/Wilkes-Barre continuing education at 675- 9219 or e-mail paal0@psu.edu. Financial aid to be discussed A financial aid information night will be held at the Penn State/ Wilkes-Barre campus in Lehman Township at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 12 in room 105 of the Hayfield House, Room 105. The program is open to all prospective college students and their parents at no cost. Kathy Pesta, campus financial aid coordinator, will provide a general overview of the fi- nancial aid process, including how to apply for aid, determi- nation of financial need, and an explanation of types of student aid available. The financial aid information will be general in nature and not specifically related to Penn State University. It will be helpful for any student regard- less of what college or uni- versity he or she plans to at- tend. To register for the session, call the office of student aid at 675-9242 no later than Sept. 8. Master program at Penn State/W-B Penn State Cooperative Ex- tension in Luzerne County is accepting applications for the Penn State Master Gardener program. The program consists of a volunteer training course designed to provide those with an interest in horticulture the information and skills neces- sary to share their knowledge and experience with others. The training will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each Saturday from Sept. 10 through Oct. 8 at the Penn State/ Wilkes-Barre campus in Leh- man Township. There is a fee of $60 per person or $90 per couple to cover the cost of the training manual, soil test kit, Penn State publications, and other materials. For an application or more information, call Donna Grey at 825-1701. The application deadline is Aug. 22. DALLAS SCHOOL DISTRICT 2005-06 INFORMATION The Dallas High School an- nounces that the 2005-06 school year will begin for all students in the district Tuesday, Aug. 30. The professional staff of the Dallas schools will participate in orientation programs on Mon- day, Aug. 29. Here is some information that was provided from each school: High school The first day of school is a full-day session. The high school begins at 8 a.m. and dismisses at 2:58 p.m. Any con- cerns regarding bus transporta- tion should be addressed to bus coordinator Susan Farr at the administration office. All seniors, juniors and sopho- mores should consult the bulle- tin board listings at the main entrance and cafeteria, and report to their assigned home- rooms at 8 a.m. Freshmen are requested to consult the bulletin board listings at the main office entrance and report to their assigned homerooms. Students who have not registered for school should register at the administration office. The school lunch program will begin the first day. Lunches for senior high school students are $1.80 or may be purchased ala-cart The following dress code is for high school students: All students are expected to take pride in their personal appearance. Students should come to school well-groomed, wearing clothes that are neat, clean and in good taste. All students must wear clothing that does not expose under- garments, stomachs, backs or shoulders. Shorts, dresses and skirts must be mid-thigh in length or longer. Any clothing or accessories that refer to drugs, alcohol, tobacco, sexual innuendo or poténtially offen- sive language will not be permit- ted. Middle school Preparations have been made for the opening of the Dallas Middle School. All sixth, sev- enth, and eighth grade students must report to the middle school building between 7:45- 8 a.m. Aug. 30. Sixth grade stu- dents should go directly to the auditorium. Seventh grade students should go to the gym- nasium and eighth grade stu- dents should go directly to the cafeteria. A short orientation program, including assignment to home- rooms, will be made and stu- dents will then report to their respective homerooms. Students will be able to pur- chase lunch beginning with the first day of school. The price is $1.65 for a regular lunch and 40 cents for reduced lunches. Stu- dents who participated in the free or reduced lunch program last year will begin the new year on the same status. Dallas Elementary Classes at the Dallas Ele- mentary School will begin Aug. 30. Students should ride the bus to and from school on the first day of school. If parents feel it is necessary to accompany a child to school during the first week, it is suggested that the student ride the bus and the parent meet their child at the school. Class lists will be posted at the school beginning at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 24. Students who know their homeroom assignments should report there directly. Students in grades 2-5 who do not know their home- room assignments should report to the cafeteria, while first- graders should report to the library. Volunteers will be avail- able to assist the students. School lunches are $1.55 and milk may be purchased for 45 cents. Wyecallis Elementary Classes at the Gerald J. Wycal- lis Elementary School will begin Aug. 30. The professional staff has been working through the summer to plan for a smooth opening. Students in the first through fifth grades will attend full day sessions from 9:10 a.m. to 3:40 p.m. The school building will open at 9 a.m. each day. Student supervision will begin at this time. On the first day, students in grades one through five will report directly to their class- rooms. Faculty and staff will be available to assist students to their classrooms. It is recommended that stu- dents ride the bus on the first few days of school, so they can learn their bus assignment and the district will have accurate transportation records. If par- ents feel it is necessary to ac- company a child to school dur- ing the first week, it is suggest- ed that the student ride the bus and the parent meet their child at the school. Kindergarten students will attend pre-arranged sessions Aug. 30-31. On Thursday, Sept. 1, morning kindergarten stu- dents will take buses to school with other students and be dismissed at 10:30 a.m.; after- noon kindergarten students will take buses to school, arrive at 2:15 p.m. and be dismissed with other students at the end of the day. On Sept. 2, students will attend regularly scheduled kin- dergarten sessions. Students can bring their own lunch to school or purchase a hot lunch from the cafeteria for $1.55. The cost of milk is 45 cents. The school will be closed for Labor Day, Sept. 5. Back to School Nights will be held start- ing at 7 p.m. at the Wycallis Elementary School as follows: Sept. 1 for grades 1, 2 and spe- cial subjects; and Sept. 14 for grades 3-5. Transfer students and their parents are invited for tours at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Aug. 25. An open PTO board meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Sept. 14 in the library. All parents are in- vited to attend. 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