Susan Lam receives NIC scholar awards

Several North Idaho College students were recently notified of scholarship awards.

Susan Lam, Coeur d’Alene, received the Nancy Goodhue Scholarship for $2,500 and the Datatel Scholars Foundation Scholarship for $1,000. She is a computer information technology student.

Deann Turcott, Hayden, received the Returning Student Scholarship for $1,500 from the Datatel Foundation. She is studying in the registered nursing program.

Amy Howell, a nursing student from Hayden, received the $1,000 Datatel Scholars Foundation Scholarship for $1,000.

• Five area North Idaho College students earned recognition in the college’s annual Spring Speech Contest for their presentations of speeches written during their coursework in Communications 101 classes throughout the semester.

Students from 19 communications classes were selected by their peers to represent the class in the contest, which is judged by NIC students, staff and faculty each semester.

Winners are listed.

First place, Fabian Faro, of Clark Fork, for his entry, “Redemption;” second place, Shannon Duncan of Coeur d’Alene with her speech “Put a Cap On It;” third place, Jennifer Bassett, Post Falls, for “Uncle Sam Can’t Hear You;” fourth place, Dana Kirsten Ryberg, Sandpoint, with her speech “Locks of Love;” and fifth place, Dale Taylor, Bonners Ferry, for “Follow the Leader.”

• Two area residents who will graduate in the spring quarter from Eastern Washington University are the recipients of the Frances B. Huston Award. They are Scott Estes of Coeur d’Alene and Samantha Frazier of Hayden.

This most prestigious award given to a student by the university recognizes graduating seniors for academic excellence and outstanding leadership qualities demonstrated at Eastern or in the community. Students must be nominated for this award by a faculty member and selected by the dean of his or her college. The award consists of a medallion and special recognition at graduation commencement on Saturday at the Spokane Veterans Arena.

Estes, the son of Karen and Charley Estes of Dalton Gardens, Idaho, graduated in 1995 from Project Coeur d’Alene High School. He is graduating summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in Spanish.

Frazier, the daughter of Lisa Troxel and Chris Beck, both of Hayden, graduated valedictorian in 1998 from North Idaho Christian School. At Eastern, she has been involved with the Phi Kappa Phi honor society and maintains a 3.95 grade-point average. In the community, she has supervised and tutored Japanese college students at Mukogawa Fort Wright Institute, tutored K-12 students in reading and math at the YMCA and co-directed a summer program for children in the Hillyard neighborhood in Spokane. She is graduating from Eastern with a bachelor’s degree in elementary mathematics education with a minor in reading.

• Four area students received degrees from Eastern Washington University at the end of winter quarter 2004.

Students and their degrees are listed by hometown.

Coeur d’Alene: Tim Ochoa, Bachelor of Science in biology; Wanda Fox, Master of Social Work.

Post Falls: Amanda Hildebrant, Bachelor of Arts in business administration, human resource management.

Rathdrum: Corann Rentfro, B.A. in education, English.

• North Idaho College graduate and pre-med student Allen Rassa, 20, has been selected for a national science internship through the Community College Initiative.

From June 7 through Aug. 13 Rassa will live in a fraternity house at University of California-Berkeley, and will work at the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The lab is operated by UC-Berkeley through the U.S. Department of Energy.

During the 10-week internship Rassa will work in the field of structural biology for the lab’s Physical Biosciences Division.

Rassa earned an associates degree from North Idaho College earlier this month and is a 2002 graduate of North Idaho Christian School.

Upon completion of his undergraduate work, Rassa plans to earn a bachelor’s degree from Western Washington University and complete medical school to become a pediatrician.

• Nine area students at University of Idaho have completed Reserve Officer Training Corps and and have been commissioned as second lieutenants or ensigns during graduation commencements.

Students, rank designations and hometowns are listed.

Army second lieutenants: Thomas Ambrosetti, Post Falls; Matthew Edwards, Spokane; Michael Elfering, Moscow; Daniel Erwin, Spirit Lake; and Preston Rutherford, Coeur d’Alene.

Naval Reserve ensigns: Nathan Beach, Coeur d’Alene; Christopher Johnson, Walla Walla, and Thomas Moore, Spokane.

Air Force second lieutenants: Tiffany Broncheau, Post Falls.

• Several area students have been installed in the University of Idaho chapter of Pi Kappa Lambda, a music honorary, for outstanding musicianship and whose scholarly achievement ranks honorees in the top 20 percent of the graduating class. The honorees are Emily Marshall of Post Falls, Kent Chalmers of Kettle Falls, Wash., and Scott Krijnen of Spokane.

• Area students were recently inducted into the University of Idaho chapter of Phi Upsilon Omicron. Eligible inductees must major in family and consumer sciences, have completed 40 credits and maintained a minimum 3.0 grade-point average.

Honorees are listed by home town.

Athol: Jennifer Crump. Coeur d’Alene: Linda Harder, Jennifer McCall, Kimberly Williams. Genesee: Leah Lindquist. Kingston: Casey Lewis. Moscow: Jennifer Cuff, Andrea Desaulniers, Jeanette Ropp, Teresa Schmidt, Cheyenne Smith-Sarkkinen. Moyie Springs: Jolin Mein. Naples: Amy Wood. Pinehurst: Gwyneth Flynn. Potlatch: Tracie Bidlake. Sandpoint: Kala Morrison, Stefanie Phillips. St. Maries: Jennifer Baerlocher. Pasco: Emily Halliday. Pullman: Jessica Campbell, Stefany Larsen. Spokane: Christina Winkler. Veradale: Monica DeFelice.

• Robert Wrigley, a University of Idaho professor of English, has won the 2004 James Dickey Prize for Poetry and a $1,000 honorarium from the literary magazine, Five Points. The award is made annually each spring for a group of five to seven poems, with the winning poems appearing in the magazine, a Georgia State University quarterly. The award was instituted in memory of poet and best-selling novelist James Dickey, who died in 1997. In addition to winning the National Book Award in poetry, Dickey was the author of the novel “Deliverance,” later made into a film. In the early 1980s, Dickey visited UI to deliver the Ezra Pound Lecture to a standing-room-only crowd.