A look at what’s going on in the field of education.

19 students named Governor’s Scholars

Nineteen juniors from Warren County’s three traditional high schools were selected for the 2006 Governor’s Scholars Program.

The Governor’s Scholars Program is a stimulating, five-week residential summer program for outstanding Kentucky high school students. Established in 1983, the program offers a concentrated academic and personal growth experience for rising high school seniors who demonstrate exceptional intellectual potential, high academic achievement, and creative ability.

Warren County students selected for this year’s Governor’s Scholars Program are:

Greenwood High School – Isaac Buck, Emily Harper, Anna King, Megan Reeves, Josh Stinson, Joe Tichenor and Tressa Tullis;

Warren Central – Aaron Buckman, Alicia Reece, Katie White, Adam Herron, Blake Cardwell, Sabina Smailhodzic and Jack Blaha;

Warren East – Jessica Coleman, RaeAnn Holmes, Mattie Parsley, Joye Beth Spinks and Kristin Studle.

Donkey Basketball is Thursday evening

Butler County High School Band Boosters are sponsoring a Donkey Basketball Game at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Butler County High School Gym.

It will feature school personnel and local candidates for office as the riders.

Advance tickets are $5 each and $7 at the door. Tickets are available at Morgantown Bank and Trust Main locations, WLBQ Radio, Melissa Cardwell at the Butler County Courthouse or by contacting Lecia House at (270) 532-0578.

Montgomery featured on headmaster’s list

Howe Military School, a private co-ed school for grades five to 12, released its headmaster’s list.

Cadet James Montgomery, a 12th-grader and a son of Melissa and Mike Montgomery of Bowling Green, was on the list for making at least a 3.0 grade-point average.

Howe is in northeastern Indiana.

Broadcast program wins Hearst awards

Western Kentucky University senior Brenna Gallegos of Lexington will compete for the national broadcasting championship in the 46th annual Hearst Journalism Awards Program.

Gallegos is one of five radio news finalists competing June 7-10 in San Francisco. Other national finalists include five in television news, six in photojournalism and eight in writing, including WKU sophomore Corey Paul of Bowling Green.

WKU seniors Will DeShazer of Bowling Green and Allen Bryant of Owensboro are among 12 semifinalists in the Hearst photojournalism competition.

Warren County resident in who’s who

Lindsey Wilson student Dustin Beard has been named to Who’s Who among Students in American Universities and Colleges.

He was selected for the honor based on academic achievement, service to the community, leadership in extracurricular activities and potential for future success.

Beard is a junior from Warren County.

Estes wins National FFA scholarship

The National FFA Organization awarded a $1,500 Monsanto Company/National Association of Farm Broadcasters scholarship to Stephen L. Estes of the Warren East High School FFA Chapter.

Estes plans to use the funds to pursue an agriculture degree at Western Kentucky University, from which he received an Alumni Leadership Scholarship.

This scholarship is one of 1,817 awarded through the National FFA Scholarship Program this year.

Currently, 168 corporate sponsors contribute more than $2.2 million to support this program.

Scholarship recipients were selected from 6,390 applicants from across the country.

Selections were based on the applicant’s academic record, FFA and other school and community activities, supervised agricultural experience, and future goals.

Alvaton poets headed for national judging

Three Alvaton Elementary School students won first place in the Garden Club of Kentucky State poetry contest and first place in the South Atlantic Regional contest.

The students’ poems will be judged on the national level now.

Winners of the contest, sponsored by Two Creeks Garden Club, are: Eli Young, first grade, Austin Massey, second grade, and Jessica McBride, fourth grade.

Phi Beta Lambda chapter wins awards

The Bowling Green Technical College Chapter of Phi Beta Lambda won a record number of awards at the 2006 Spring Conference.

FBLA-PBL’s National Awards Program recognizes and rewards excellence in a range of business- and career-related areas.

Top state winners are eligible to compete for national awards at the National Leadership Conference each summer.

The winners of the PBL Scrapbook Chapter Event and the winners of the Multimedia Presentation Team Event will represent the chapter at the National Competition in Tennessee this summer.

Winners were: Carla Collins, first place in public speaking; Courtney Yeager, second place in impromptu speaking; Tonya Tollefson, second place in word processing; Cathy Woodard, fourth place in word processing; Christie Chandler, Gynsetta McQuillar and Heather Stucker, first place in multimedia presentation; Yeager, second place in newsletter; Chandler, second place in annual report; Kristy Adams, first place in scrapbook; Yeager, second place in newsletter, Chandler, second place in business report, Adams, Collins, William Phillips, Chandler and Tonya Tollefson, first place in PBL scrapbook; second place in Outstanding Local Chapter and first place in Gold Seal Chapter.

BGTC students named in who’s who

Fifty-six students of the Bowling Green Technical College are among the Who’s Who in Americas Junior Colleges for 2006. These students were selected as national outstanding campus leaders.

Campus nominating committees and editors of the annual directory included the names of these students based on their academic achievement, service to the community, leadership in extracurricular activities and potential for continued success.

They join an elite group of students from more that 1,000 institutions of higher learning in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and several foreign nations.

Students named this year from Bowling Green Technical College are: Kristy Adams, Jamie Avery, Joy Centers, Christy Chandler, Mary Coleman, Dan Collins, Emelene Cook, Tosh Cook, Tammy Crawford, Cynthia Davis, Walter Dobring, Erica Dobson, Mary Lauren Duncan, Stacy Dyer, Leslie Eans, Soleil Fernandez, Rex Goodrum, Staci Grubb, Corey Gumm;

Melissa Holland, Bobbie Huckaby, Teresa Irwin, James Isenberg, Dorothy Isomura, Donna Key, Jaclyn Kirby, Todd Krantz, Susanne Lindsey, Shirley Lowe, Kate Marsh, Rose Martin, Christie Miller, Theresa Miller, Keisha Mosby, Mary Moses, Shandi Oakes, Tara Partinger, Kaleb Payton, James Peterson, Peggy Phelps, William Elliott Pinson, April Priddy, William Rippy, Doug Roberts, Vanessa Robey, Geraldine Sherfey, Evelyn Sizemore, Marsha Smith, Nelson Keith Smith, Heather Stucker, Jim Valentine, Jason Voyles, Jamie Williams, Gene Worley, Courtney Yeager and Matt York.

Greenwood student wins art competition

Greenwood High School student Tressa Tullis won the 2006 Artistic Discovery Congressional Art Competition on April 27 in Elizabethtown.

Her oil painting will hang in the Cannon Tunnel in Washington, D.C., for a year representing our Congressional district.

Two professors at tech school earn awards

The Center for Advancement of Food Service Education honored assistant professor Lisa Hunt and executive chef Michael Riggs with the Leadership Initiative Award for Excellence in Foodservice Education.

The award is given each year to an individual or program that exhibits innovation and initiatives and proven results in culinary/baking/pastry arts education. Café is a national organization that provides professional development, conferences, and resources for Culinary Educators.

The recognition is at the opening night’s reception of the Annual Café Leadership Conference on June 23 in Charleston, S.C. This award recognized several ongoing innovative projects the program has developed and participates in.

WKU in search of chemistry scholars

A career in chemistry for six high school students could take root this summer thanks to Project SEED at Western Kentucky University.

Eric Conte and Larry Byrd, associate professors of chemistry, were awarded the American Chemical Society grant to encourage economically disadvantaged high school students to pursue career opportunities in the chemical sciences.

Conte and Byrd are working with local school districts to recruit qualified students for the summer program.

The six students will conduct hands-on laboratory research with six WKU chemistry faculty members from June 1 to July 31. Faculty mentors are Stuart Burris, Thandi Buthelezi, Eric Conte, Wei-Ping Pan, Kevin Williams and Tingying Zeng.

Each student receives a $2,275 stipend for working on a research project for eight weeks full time this summer. At the end of the program the students prepare a research poster to be presented at a special luncheon at WKU and at regional science fairs.

The list of summer projects at WKU include:

• Fluorescence Quenching of Chlorophyll by Titanium Dioxide Nanocomposites
• Impact of Surface Roughness on Acidity Constants of Acid-Thiol Self-Assembled Monolayers
• Extraction of Phenols using surfactant modified solid phase extraction
• Development of a new technique for speciation analyses of Arsenic and Selenium
• Reaction of a platinum(II) bipyridine complex with methionine
• Clean Organic Molecules for Resident Wastewater Using Titanium Dioxide Nanocrystals

The summer program is funded by the American Chemical Society, the Provost’s Initiatives for Excellence, Ogden College of Science and Engineering and the Department of Chemistry.

For more on the American Chemical Society program, visit http://www.chemistry.org/ and scroll down to Project SEED in the Quickfind menu.

Women’s Club gives Finn scholarship

Lisa Finn has received a $2,000 Women’s Club of Smiths Grove Scholarship to attend Western.

Finn, daughter of John and Cindy Finn of Bowling Green, is a senior at Warren East High School and plans to major in design, merchandizing and textiles.

Broemer is selected as Beta scholar

Johnathan Bromer, a senior at Greenwood High School, was named a Beta scholar, entitling him to $1,000 scholarship.

Bromer was one of 210 winners selected from more than 1,000 candidates nationwide. He plans to attend Western.

Bromer is the son of Tom and Nancy Bromer and grandson of the late Winnie Bromer and Lillian and Eugene Briggs.

He was recommended for the award by principal Mark Davis and sponsor Nate Quarcelino.

Wilson gets invite from Phi Beta Kappa

Rebecca Wilson, a junior at University of South Carolina in Columbia, was invited to membership in the national academic honor society, Phi Beta Kappa.

She was also selected to receive the 2006 J. Maximillian LaBorde Memorial Award given to a junior English major. She was on the dean’s list and president’s honor roll for students with a grade-point average of 4.0.

Wilson, whose parents Gene and Chrys live in Bowling Green, is studying for a semester in Curitiba, Brazil.

SBDM meeting

Parker-Bennett-Curry’s Site-based decision-making Council has a meeting at 2:30 p.m. May 11 at the school.

Groups joining hands Saturday

Modern Woodmen’s Junior Youth Club No. 11852-1 partner with Boy Scout Troop 515, Camp No. 11908 and Junior Youth Club 11908-1 to work Saturday morning at the Bowling Green-Warren County Humane Society’s Animal Shelter.

They are participating in Join Hands Day 2006 in which fraternal benefit societies around the country perform community service.