Duck stamp competition winner

Elton Chen, 17, of Crescent Valley High School, won first place for grades 10 through 12 in the 2008 Federal Junior Duck Stamp Art Competition. This is a nationwide competition, sponsored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which integrates art and science in a curriculum that fosters student awareness and appreciation of waterfowl and wetlands through artistic talent. Public, private, and home school students from kindergarten through 12th grade are encouraged to compete in this “conservation through the arts” program. This is the 16th year of the competition.

College honor roll

SEATTLE — Seattle Pacific University. Rebecca Yuna Kim of Corvallis has been named to the 2007 autumn quarter dean’s list.

Pullen, Boone win construction dollars

Quinn Pullen of Corvallis and Ryan Boone of Albany, both juniors at Oregon State University, won scholarship awards from the Schweiger Memorial Scholarship Fund and Advanced American Construction Inc. of Portland.

Pullen, who is working toward his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, was awarded $3,000

Boone, who is also in the civil engineering program, was awarded $2,000.

From a field of 43 applicants, the selection committee chose 12 students to receive $35,000 in scholarships for the 2008-2009 school year. Those who best demonstrated academic and extra-curricular excellence in the pursuit of careers in construction and construction-related fields were chosen.

LBCC’s Lodge lands business scholarship

Janet Lodge, executive assistant to the vice president of academic affairs at Linn-Benton Community College, was recently awarded a $1,000 scholarship at the National Business Education Association’s annual convention in San Antonio, Texas.

The NBEA scholarship program provides financial assistance to outstanding individuals for the purpose of continuing their study and professional development in business education. The award recognizes and supports educators who give evidence of leadership and scholarship potential in the field of business education.

Along with her executive assistant duties, Lodge teaches part-time for the LBCC Business Technology Department at the Benton Center. She has been employed at LBCC since 1990 in several administrative support roles in the Academic Affairs Office, and received the LBCC Outstanding Part-time Faculty recognition in 2005.

An Albany resident, Lodge received her associate’s degree in administrative secretary from LBCC in 1989, a bachelor’s degree in business information systems from Linfield College in 2000, and will receive a master’s degree in business education from Emporia State University, Emporia, Kan., in May.

Students eligible for Oregon Geography Bee

Anna Rose Petersen, a Philomath Middle School sixth-grader, and Preksha Naik, a seventh-grader at Franklin School, were recently notified by the National Geographic Society that they are eligible to compete in the 2008 Oregon Geographic Bee.

Bees were held in schools with fourth- through eighth-grade students throughout the state. School- level winners took a qualifying test, which they submitted to the National Geographic Society. In each of the 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense Dependents Schools, and the U.S. territories, the National Geographic Society invited the students with the top 100 scores to compete at the state level.

The state winner will receive $100, a globe and a trip to Washington, D.C., where he or she will represent Oregon in the national finals at the National Geographic Society headquarters, May 20-21. The national winner receives a $25,000 scholarship.

School awards

Franklin School of Corvallis has been named one of three recipients of the 2008 Oregon School Wellness Award. The schools receiving the award have effectively implemented their districts wellness policies, are creatively promoting healthy student behavior, and are monitoring and evaluating their programs to meet all student needs. Each recipient will receive a $2,500 cash prize, a certificate of recognition, and a banner.

Moore elected to Orion Society board

Oregon State University philosophy professor Kathleen Dean Moore has been elected to the board of directors of the Orion Society, which publishes Orion magazine.

The Orion Society is a forum for re-imagining humanity’s relationship to nature, culture and place.

Moore is a distinguished professor of philosophy at OSU, where she is the founding director of the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature and the Written Word. Her work is in the areas of environmental ethics and philosophy and nature, and she has published three award-winning books of essays: “The Pine Island Paradox” (Milkweed Editions, 2004); “Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World” (Lyons Press, 1999, 2004); and “Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water” (Harcourt Brace, 1996). She is co-editor of a forthcoming collection of articles about Rachel Carson’s legacy and challenge and the co-editor of “How It Is: A Native American Philosophy,” the collected papers of the late Viola Cordova.

Long interested in innovative teaching, Moore has been selected as a “master teacher” in the College of Liberal Arts and has received the highest teaching honor bestowed by alumni, the OSU Alumni Distinguished Professor Award.

She is the author of two textbooks that connect the skills of critical thinking and effective writing, “Reasoning and Writing” and “Patterns of Inductive Reasoning: Developing Critical Thinking Skills.”

Lammers named group’s chair-elect

Mary Ann Lammers, LBCC business technology instructor and department chair, was named chair-elect of the Policies Commission for Business and Economic Education.

The Policies Commission’s primary purpose is to identify and define existing and emerging issues in business and economic education.

Sponsoring organizations of the commission are the National Business Education Association, Delta Pi Epsilon, and the Business Education Division of the Association for Career and Technical Education.

Lammers has a bachelor’s degree in commerce from Montana State University and a master’s degree in business education from Utah State University. She is in her 23rd year as full-time faculty at LBCC.

Lammers served as NBEA’s president in 2004-05 and serves as director of the Professional Development Institute for the Western Business and Information Technology Educators, and as a consultant and president-elect for the Oregon Business Education Association. She was also elected to a two-year term as the Western region representative to the U.S. Chapter of the International Society for Business Education.

Cheldelin math team gets third place

A team of students from Cheldelin Middle School recently placed third in the state Math Counts competition.

Team members Benjamin Arvey, Michelle Beaudry, Mark Stephens and Danning Yao took first place in a regional contest in Newport in February. At the state level, they competed against 11 other regional teams.

Cheldelin math teacher John Friday coached the team in the national math enrichment program that promotes middle school mathematics achievement at more than 500 written and oral competitions held nationwide.

Pauling readers headed to state

As first-place winners in one of four regional Battle of the Books competitions, a team of Linus Pauling Middle School students is headed to the state reading competition in Salem on April 19.

Linus Pauling hosted the March 15 regional contest, which drew 20 teams from middle schools throughout the mid-Willamette Valley. Sixteen elementary schools also participated in their own Battle of the Books, a national reading motivation and comprehension program sponsored by school librarians.

Team members include Emma Brant, Sarrah Britan, Nolan Kelley and Rachael Moore. The team is coached by Marion Thenell, a math teacher at Linus Pauling.