Sunday, November 25, 2007 THE POST PAGES ® uilt raffle will benefit Dallas Students The Dallas School District is raffling off a quilt for the Commu- nity Help Fund. The quilt was made and donated by Nurse O’Malley of DHS fame and all funds raised will benefit Dallas students during the holiday sea- son. Tickets are $5 each or three for $10. Mr. Swithers will visit each school building with tickets. SUBMITTED PHOTO This quilt wil be raffled off to help needed Dallas school families. SCHOOL BRIEFS Ethics Institute honors CEQ The Ethics Institute of North- eastern Pennsylvania at Miser- icordia University recently pre- sented the Commission on Economic Opportunity (CEO) its Sister Siena Finley Ethics Award during its 16th annual dinner at the Woodlands Inn and Resort, Plains Township, on Thursday, Oct. 25. The institute bestows the award upon a person or orga- nization that has demonstrated exemplary ethical behavior in their personal, civic and/or professional life. The theme for this year’s dinner was ethical leadership in community service and outreach. Misericordia plans Nursing Open House Misericordia University will host a Graduate Nursing Open House from 5 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 28, in the Catherine Evans McGowan Room of the Mary Kintz Bevevi- no Library. Please register for open house by contacting the Center for Adult and Continuing Educa- tion at 674-6451 or toll free at 1-866-262-6363 (option 1 then 4) or conted@misericordia.edu. Madrigal Singers plan choral concert The Wyoming Seminary Mad- rigal Singers and Chorale will present their annual Christmas Choral Concert at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 2, in the Great Hall of Wyoming Seminary, 228 Wyoming Avenue, just north of Kingston Corners. The program, conducted by John Vaida, will feature “Gloria” by John Rutter and Handels “Messiah,” Part I. Mark Laubach, music director of St.Stephens Episcopal Pro- Cathedral, and soloists Rachel Ackerman, Judy Curtis, Ellen Rutkowski, Gabriel Gargari and Jonathan Hayes will join theCh- orale and Madrigal Singers in this free concert. For more information, call 270-2190. Pam Roberts is named to program Pam Roberts, of Shavertown, a student at Misericordia Uni- versity, has been selected to take part in the Scholars in Service to Pennsylvania (SISPA) corps for the 2007-08 academic year. The program is a statewide outreach effort to build quality service programs, enhance cam- pus and community collab- orations and offer state college students the opportunity to serve others in the greater com- munity. The program also allows students to perform volunteer work for two consecutive years. By performing 900 hours of community service, students can earn $2,500 that can be applied to any legitimate educa- tional expense. The program requires participants to commit to an ongoing weekly service project where they will do about 10 hours a week of service. The students are allowed to work on multiple projects and earn a large portion of their hours during the summer months. Wyoming Seminary plans Open House Parents of students who will be entering pre-school through high school next year and are interested in learning more about Wyoming Seminary, are invited to experience Sem by attending an Open House at both Lower and Upper Schools from 1 to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 9 on Sem’s Forty Fort and King- ston campuses. At Lower School, families may tour classrooms from pre- school to eighth grade. The admissions staff and the deans of both primary and middle school will be available to an- swer any questions regarding curriculum, the admission proc- ess or the upcoming Middle- School Merit Exam on Feb. 2, 2008. The Upper School Open House will feature tours of the campus, opportunities to meet teachers and students, and in- formation on admission and financial aid. Visitors are invited to come to the Admission Office in the Stettler Learning Re- source Center on North Sprague Avenue to begin their tours and receive information. December concert planned at Seminary The Wyoming Seminary/PAI Civic Symphony, conducted by Jerome Campbell, will present its annual December concert at 8 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 10, in the Great Hall of Wyoming Seminary, 228 Wyoming Ave- nue, just north of Kingston Corners, and at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 11, at 7:30 p.m. in the Houlihan-McLean Center, University of Scranton. The concert is free and open to the public. Diana Smith is a ‘Commended Student’ In National Merit Scholarship Program By REBECCA BRIA rbria@timesleader.com Seventeen-year-old Diana Smith of Breeze Way in Sha- vertown took the Prelimina- ry Scholarship Aptitude Test (PSAT) in October 2006 and forgot about it. Then in April of this year, she was notified that she had been named a “Commended Student” in the 2008 Nation- al Merit Scholarship Program. Commended students are those who place in the top five per- cent of over 1.4 million students who take the 2006 PSAT. “I guess I was pretty ex- cited,” said Smith, a well- spoken Dallas High School senior. “I wasn’t expecting it.” Smith began her education at Westmoreland Elementary School until it closed and then attended Wycallis Ele- mentary School and Dallas Middle School. She took the SAT three times and did the Biology, Math I and Literature subject tests as most of the 12 schools she applied to, in- cluding Yale, the University of Pennsylvania and the Uni- versity of Chicago, require her to complete at least two subjects. “I'm really lucky because my parents said, ‘you worked so hard’ and they’ll allow me to go to the best school I could get into,” Smith said of her parents, David and Ellen Smith. Smith enjoys writing, En- glish and speech. She is in- terested in journalism and advertising and plans to pur- sue a degree in the communi- cations field. “I like to be creative in arts and poetry and dance and do choreography,” she said. This semester, her favorite classes are Sociology/Psy- Smith chology and Advanced Place- ment Calculus. At school, Smith is in- volved with the school liter- ary magazine, Writing Con- test Club, Key Club, the Math Club, Peer Helpers, Diversity/Amnesty Club, National Honor Society and is a peer tutor. She was elected as a freshman to be a Peer Helper where she works with the school guid- ance department and assists the student body. Being a member of the Diversity/ Amnesty Club, of which she has been president and is currently serving as secre- tary, is also important be- cause of her Jewish faith. “'m a strong believer in tolerance and acceptance of other people,” she said. Last year, Smith was a member of Junior Leadership Wilkes-Barre (JLWB), a lead- ership training program for students from 18 local high schools that addresses issues such as diversity and govern- ment. As a sophomore, she was selected to attend the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leader- ship Program at Millersville University and started an alumni club for it in which she is active. In the summer of 2007, Smith traveled to Costa Rica on an excursion by Rustic Pathways, an international travel organization that runs trips for high school and col- lege students and families. She went on the trip alone, but she met students her age from all over the country. She stayed in the middle of the rainforest next to a volca- no where she taught English to children and helped build a school library. “It was so eye-opening,” Smith said. “The people were really poor there.“It re- ally made me appreciate what we have here, not just plumbing and that kind of stuff but education and the economic status we have here.” Smith was surprised that people she spoke to would often grab her hand. “lI guess it was really nice to see how friendly everyone was and how helpful they were when we went to help them,” she added Since she was just 4 years old, Smith has been training in ballet with Kristen Deg- nan at the Degnan Ballet Center and Ballet Northeast and in December, will alter- nate roles of Snow Queen and Mouse King in Ballet Northeasts’s production of “The Nutcracker.” For the past four summers, Smith has participated in the Wyoming Seminary Perform- ing Arts Institute that re- quires her to spend eight hours a day, five days a week for four weeks dancing. Prior to the Performing Arts Insti- tute, Smith never took a for- mal dance class in a style other than ballet. “It really helped me a lot because before then I was just a ballerina...it kind of pushed me out of my comfort zone,” she said, referring to the new types of dance and physical demands of the pro- gram. In addition to ballet, Smith also studies jazz and modern dance. She enjoys choreogra- phy and once choreographed a piece performed by the Young Dancers’ Repertoire of Ballet Northeast. At last year’s productions of “The Nutcracker,” Smith held a food drive called “Cans for Klara” (named for the main character in “The Nutcracker”) for the Com- mission on Economic Op- portunity as her senior pro- ject. She raised 240 pounds of food and $110. The re- sponse was so great she plans to have the drive again at this year’s perform- ances. Smith played softball and field hockey before high school but has given up sports to focus on dance. 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