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Education Briefly: May 13, 2009
Scholarship Scramble to benefit Ivy Tech
TERRE HAUTE — The 10th Annual Scholarship Scramble to benefit the Ivy Tech Community College Scholarship Fund will take place on May 22 at Hulman Links Golf Course, 990 N. Chamberlain Road. The event will include great food and prizes. Registration begins at 10:30 a.m. The entry fee is $500 per team of four.
Prizes will be awarded in each of two divisions; gross and Peoria handicap. Prizes are as follows: first place, $100 gift certificate per player; second place, $50 gift certificate per player and third place, $25 gift certificate per player. There is a minimum handicap of 40 per team. For more information call Becky Miller at Ivy Tech Community College, (812) 298-2361.
Terre Haute
Welding students take top honors
Nathan Lundsford, a South Vermillion senior, and Rodney Pritchard, a South Vermillion junior, garnered top honors in their respective divisions at the Ivy Tech Welding Competition on April 15. The students competed against eight local and regional high school welders.
As a winner of the senior division, Lunsford won a $2,000 scholarship to Ivy Tech.
Pritchard was first in the junior division.
Lunsford and Pritchard had to complete a written exam and had to weld after reading a blueprint. Pritchard had to weld lap joints, and Lunsford had to include t-joints in his project.
South Vermillion High School houses the PVETI Welding Technology class.
Terre Haute
Gerstmeyer Class
of 1969 plans reunion
The 40th class reunion of the Gerstmeyer Class of 1969 will be at the MCL Banquet Center on Sept. 12. Social hour will begin at 6 p.m., and dinner will follow at 7 p.m.
For more information contact Deb Hadley at (812) 232-1100 or (812) 229-1565, or Susan Phillips at (812) 877-2562.
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Riverton Parke to e-mail newsletter
Riverton Parke Jr.-Sr. High School has announced that the monthly newsletter, “The Panther Pause,” will now be e-mailed to parents, but will no longer be traditionally mailed.
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Share the community with an exchange student this fall
Host families are needed for high school exchange students to open their hearts, share their life and their country with international high school students this fall.
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Woods student takes service learning to heart
A college course’s service learning requirement brought Tiffany Winhold to Educational/Family Services in West Terre Haute four years ago.
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Fuqua Elementary to participate in Soles4Souls fundraising program
Fuqua Elementary School will be participating in a unique fundraising program offered by Soles4Souls Inc., the international shoe charity that distributes shoes to people in need all over the world.
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Governor receives Rose Inaugural Excellence in Innovation Award
Gov. Mitch Daniels received the inaugural “Excellence in Innovation” Award during Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology’s “Leading the Next Decade of Innovation Gala” on Feb. 27 at the Indiana Roof Ballroom in Indianapolis.
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Terre Haute North steps back in time with ‘Cinderella’
A glass slipper paves the way for intrigue and true love in the classic fairytale “Cinderella” which the Terre Haute North High School Music Department will showcase in a musical production at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the school’s auditorium.
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Commission approves new ISU programs in nursing, physical therapy
Indiana State University’s College of Nursing, Health, and Human Services is further expanding its curriculum to offer doctoral degrees in nursing practice and physical therapy.
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Fund honors Cameron, creates grant
Donations are being accepted at the Vigo County Education Foundation to support a new grant fund established to honor former standout athlete and current standout coach Cam Cameron.
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South Vigo to induct three into Hall of Distinction
A prominent local journalist, a former basketball standout and a pediatric surgeon make up the class of 2010 of Terre Haute South Vigo High School’s Hall of Distinction.
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