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School Honors

Pantherettes are state champions

Pelham High School&8217;s Pantherette dance team earned the title of State Champion for the third consecutive year Jan. 14 at the Alabama Dance/Drill Team competition.

Held annually at Samford University&8217;s Wright Center, the competition features high school and middle school dance teams competing in jazz, high kick, pom, hip hop and novelty dances with optional ensemble and solo categories as well.

In the large high school division, Pelham earned first-place trophies with its high kick routine, its beach-theme prop/novelty dance and its jazz routine to Bohemian Rhapsody, which proved popular with the crowd as well as the judges.

The Pantherettes earned the highest overall score among the 16 competing high schools, receiving the Alabama State Dance Team Championship Award. The team also won the Highest-Scoring Routine award for high kick performance.

Senior and team captain Elizabeth Cochran won second place in the solo category.

The 2005-06 Pantherettes are: senior Elizabeth Cochran, captain; senior Samantha Rayburn; senior Jordan Strang; senior Erin Warner, co-captain; junior Molly Burns; junior Katie Jones; junior Dawn Lowery, co-captain; junior Suzanne Moore; junior Caroline Usher; sophomore Ashley Aenchbacher; sophomore Stephanie Boyd; sophomore Liz Grimes; sophomore Georgia Nolen; sophomore Annalee Woods; freshman Emily Busby; and freshman Morgan Vice. The team&8217;s choreographer is Allison Festavan of the Dance Et Cetera studio. Laura Cochran is sponsor.

Vincent teacher receives $2,400 grant

Sharon Martin, interventionist at Vincent Middle/High School, was awarded a $2,400 grant from State Rep. Mike Hill recently.

Half of the grant was received on Jan 25. The funds are to be used for purchase of computers, encyclopedias and calculators. The other half will be received in October, Hill told Martin.

&8220;These items will be valuable tools for students placed in ISD to complete assignments more effectively,&8221; Martin said. &8220;They certainly won’t be able to use the excuse that I have Stone Age material for them to use while doing research.&8221;

ISS students achieves perfect score

Jenna Caldwell, daughter of Harry and Carol Caldwell of Indian Springs and a junior at Indian Springs School, was the only college-bound student in Alabama and one of only 23 nationwide to achieve a 36, the highest possible composite score, on the December 2005 national test administration of the ACT.

Chelsea High School

A Honor Roll

Ninth Grade

Bookout, Lauren

Dinwiddie, Jacob

Dunkerley, Courtney

Evans, Zachary

Groothuizen, Mieke

Joukov, Artem

Smith, Sara

Yousif, Mariam

10th Grade

Dyer, Jared

Howell, Whittney

Jacobs, Wyatt

McKeand, Sarah

Messina, Katherine

Smith, Jonathan

Wolf, Amber

11th Grade

Driver, Heather

Marbury, Rebekah

Wilson, Benjamin

12th Grade

Hester, Stephanie

Higgins, Christine

Hooper, Morgan

Miller, Madelynne

Nivens, Brandy

Quick, Ashlee

Stanishevskaya, Inessa

A-B Honor Roll

Ninth grade

Antonetti, Jonathan

Barber, Daniel

Bookout, Lauren

Cardy, Michael

Cason, Alex

Coleman, Natalie

Coleman, Nathan

Dinwiddie, Jacob

Dresbach, Dustin

Dunkerley, Courtney

Evans, Zachary

Flamerich, Ryan

Gowins, Nathaniel

Groothuizen, Mieke

Hilliard, Zachary

Icolano, Anthony

Joukov, Artem

Kappinen, Michele

Kemp, Emily

Latremore, Miranda

Levinson, Rachel

Lovett, Blake

Michalec, Megan

Miller, Alex

Mitchell, Kelli

Moore, Luke

Naugher, Kirk

Norris, Joshua

Parker, Brandon

Pruett, Lindsay

Roberts, Hobson

Rogers, Leah

Rustin, Alyssa

Sanders, Melissa

Smith, Harris

Smith, Rebecca

Strange, Katherine

Sturdivant, Alexander

Sumeral, Tyler

Wanninger, William

Williamson, Morgan

Wing, Chyna

Yance, Blake

Yousif, Mariam

10th Grade

Alaniz, Adrienne

Arnold, Morgan

Baswell, Leigh

Bowman, Adair

Boyington, Stephanie

Brasher, Joseph

Brown, Hanna

Bryant, Devin

Dearmond, Michael

Decker, Rachel

Dunz, Cynthia

Dyer, Jared

Foster, Joshua

Freeman, Sydnie

Gordon, Cassandra

Grater, Brittany

Griffie, Terrance

Hancock, Brett

Hollis, Stephanie

Hooper, Meredith

Howell, Whittney

Jackson, Paul

Jacobs, Wyatt

Jarrar, Hala

Jones, Kyler

Kamppinen, Daniel

King, Kristen

Lafferty, Austin

Lawley, Aaron

Lawley, Anna

Leasure, Brittany

Macon, Sarah

McGehee, Carrie

McKeand, Sarah

Messina, Katherine

Morris, Lauren

Phillips, Lindsay

Polke, Richard

Ray, Patrick

Rose, Wesley

Russell, Matthew

Shaddix, Katherine

Smith, Jonathan

Stevens, James

Studdard, Caleb

Thomas, Justin

Thurman, Jason

Upton, Stephanie

Vines, Cory

Ward, Kirstie

Waters, Page

Weeks, Jackson

Wilbanks, Shelly

Wilson, Amy

Wolf, Amber

11th Grade

Chase, Michael

Chesser, Tyler

Cochran, Brooke

Cochran, Patrick

Donaldson, Shawn

Driver, Heather

Duff, Haleigh

Garmon, Joseph

Gowins, Nicholas

Graben, Stephen

Graves, Matthew

Hodges, Heather

Holliman, Danielle

Houston, Jennifer

Lee, Brennan

Lovorn, Alex

Marbury, Rebekah

Marcrum, Kelsey

Martens, Jennifer

Maynor, Samantha

McGuire, Kaitlyn

Merrifield, Matthew

Miller, Katelyn

Mitchell, Lauren

Mullane, Erin

Rice, Natalie

Shelton, Andrew

Sumerel, Julie

Walker, Clarissa

Wallace, Stacey

White, Tiffany

Wilbanks, Brock

Wilson, Benjamin

Wood, Charity

12th Grade

Cheney, Ben

Crumbly, Christopher

Curtin, Rachel

English, Jennifer

Fisher, Melissa

Goodwin, Michelle

Hester, Stephanie

Higgins, Christine

Hooper, Morgan

Jackson, Jessica

Jassim, Sarah

Lisella, Gina

Longshore, Caitlin

Martin, Jessica

Miller, Madelynne

Mims, Meredith

Nivens, Brandy

Norton, Mary

Parise, Megan

Parker, Amanda

Quick, Ashlee

Samuelson, Benjamin

Sloan, Casey

St John, Kenneth

Stanishevskaya, Inessa

Walton, Kara

Weldon, Danna

West, Laci