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All-State chooses 27 to perform College Board awards Steve Ramsey Staff Writer
After auditions last Saturday, 27 CFHS students were chosen to be among those at the Iowa All-State Music Festival on Nov. 16-18, celebrating the 60th anniversary of this event. Auditions for the event were held at six sites across the state on Saturday, Oct. 21. Students from Cedar Falls auditioned in Hampton. Approximately 17 percent of the students who auditioned statewide were selected. In addition to the 27 students selected to participate, an additional five were designated as alternates. An alternate may be asked to perform with the group if another district does not fill all of its positions, or if a selected student cannot attend the festival. Cedar Falls students that were selected for the choir are Amanda Trae-
tow, soprano; Emily Stortz and Natalie Takes, alto; Andrew Nielsen and Alex Ulfers, tenor; and Eric Eichelberger and Rhys Talbot, bass. Alternates selected from the choir are Camory Winsor, soprano, and Joe Fagersten, bass. Orchestra members selected are Heather Harrast, Julia Abbot, and Katie Lee, violin; Caitlin Glade, viola; Olivia Hahn and Alex Bruess, cello; and Nina Savage, bass. Band members selected are Emily Lentz, Molly Troendle, and Kavin Sundaram, flute; Rachel Jensen and Elise Berry, oboe; Kiran Gustavson, Vanessa Hensley, Bethany Olson, and Lucy Weilein, clarinet; Mark Lukasiewicz, tenor saxophone; Nadia Honary, French horn; Logan Vander Wiel, trumpet, and Kegan Bakken, percussion. Students from the band who were designated as alternates are Stephanie Koltookian, alto saxophone;
Joe Citta, trumpet; and Megan Creasey, French horn. All Participants will rehearse in Ames on Thursday through Saturday, November 16-18. The Festival Concert will be presented to the public at 7:30 p.m. in Hilton Coliseum at Iowa State University in Ames on Saturday evening. Cedar Falls High School Band Director Gerald Ramsey said, “We’re always proud of the hard work and dedication that the kids put into preparing for these auditions. We’re pleased, too, with the students who auditioned but were not selected. They always come out of this process as stronger musicians.” Iowa Public Television will be recording the concert. Broadcasts are tentatively scheduled for Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 23, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 26 at 1:30 p.m.
Helping the World One Meal at a Time
Local church participates in nationwide service project: Feed My Starving Children
By the Numbers The volunteers’ goal was to package 250,000 bags of food, feeding six children each, which would in turn feed 1,500,000 in Indonesia The group of over 1,068 volunteers exceeded their goal and packaged 289,656 bags of food — enough for 1,737,936 meals Within two hours of packaging food, the volunteers made enough to feed 30 children for a whole year
Right: Packaging their final product and preparing to ship it out are volunteers from Nazareth Lutheran Church Wednesday night. Bottom: Filling bags with chicken, vegetables, soy and rice are senior Dan Twito, sophomores Elsa Jehle and Kailey Kress, and junior Danielle Sturm at the Feed My Starving Children service project.
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class of ’06 for several AP achievements Olivia Schares Hi-Line Online Editor
Twenty-seven students at Cedar Falls High School have earned the designation of AP Scholar by the College Board, in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the college-level Advanced Placement Program (AP) Exams. The College Board’s Advanced Placement Program offers students the opportunity to take challenging college-level courses while still in high school. This will enable them to receive college credit, advanced placement or both for successful performance on the AP Exams. About 18 percent of the more than 1.3 million high school students in 16,000 secondary schools worldwide who took AP Exams, performed at a sufficiently high level to merit the recognition of AP Scholar. Students took AP Exams in May 2006 after completing challenging college-level courses at their high schools. The College Board recognizes several levels of achievement based on student’s performance on AP exams. One CFHS alumni, Vivek Pamulapati, qualified for the National AP Scholar Award by earning an average grade of four or higher on a five-point scale on all AP Exams taken, and grades of four or higher on eight or more of these exams. Three alumni qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of three or higher on five or more of these exams. These previous students are Kristin Iehl, Vivek Pamulapati and Adam Schwertner. Six alumni qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of three or higher on four or more of these exams. Last year’s seniors who met these standards are Laura Formanek, Kellee Kirkle, John Luze, Brendon Rose, Megan Rutzmoser and Margaret Schatzberg.
Eighteen alumni qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP Exams, with grades of three or higher. The AP Scholars are Elyse Callahan, Alex Christensen, Jeffrey Cook, Jordan Francik, Jason Hershey, Andrea Holcombe, Megan Hullerman, Lisa Jiang, Katherine Lee, Aviva Milner-Brage, Laura Neill, Michael Sanders, Cassandra Tindall, Sarah Young and Ashley Zhorne. AP classes offered at Cedar Falls High School include Great Books II, Composition and Rhetoric II, AP Psychology, AP Biology, AP Chemistry and AP Calculus. English department head Judy Timmins said, “AP courses offer strong instructional material and are of great educational benefit to those who take them. For some students, it earns them college credit by taking AP tests before they even step on campus.” Most of the nation’s colleges and universities award credit, advanced placement or both based on successful performance on the AP Exams. More than 1,400 institutions award a full year’s credit (sophomore standing) to students presenting a sufficient number of qualifying grades. In 2006, 35 AP Exams were offered in a wide variety of subject areas, each consisting of multiple-choice and freeresponse (essay or problem-solving) questions (except for the Studio Art exam which evaluates students’ original artwork). The College Board is a non-profit membership organization whose mission is to connect students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900, the association is composed of more than 5,000 schools, colleges, universities and other educational organizations. Each year, the College Board serves seven million students and their parents, 23,000 high schools and 35,000 colleges through major programs and services in college admissions, guidance, assessment, financial aid, enrollment and teaching and learning. Among its best-known programs are the SAT, the PSAT/NMSQT and the Advanced Placement Program (AP).