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MARCH 2, 2016
Educational Foundation awards 2016 Glasrud Fellowships In 2004, Ted Glasrud, a 1933 graduate of White Bear High School, and his family made a generous contribution to the Foundation by establishing the Ted Glasrud Family Endowment. Glasrud was instrumental in helping to organize and create School District 624 and acted as the first School District 624 School Board attorney. Glasrud and his family have been generous with many philanthropic contributions to their hometown community of White Bear Lake. Ted Glasrud and his wife, Lorraine Glasrud, along with their children Sharon Glasrud, Theodore G. Glasrud, and Debra Lentsch, asked that the Glasrud Family Gift be used to create annual “Glasrud Family Fellowships” for teachers within School District 624. Grants are awarded to teachers for personal professional growth with the hope that these awards will allow teachers to pursue professional development which would otherwise not be possible.
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This year’s recipients are listed below. A total of $15,946 was awarded. Ben Nakagaki, ninth-grade math teacher and youth development coordinator at North Campus, will attend the 99U Conference in New York City. This motivation and communication conference will instruct how to turn ideas into actions. WBL students, under Ben’s leadership, perform over 35 projects and initiatives and volunteer more than 3,000 hours of service each year. Karin Hogan, sixth- and eighthgrade math teacher at Central Middle School, will travel to Sweden to spend five weeks observing how the IB program is implemented there. Karin will also explore how Swedish classrooms are designed and how they use technology to impact their students’ education. Melissa Wickert, ninth- and 10thgrade American history teacher at North Campus, will travel to Washington, D.C. to see and experience U.S.
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history. She will bring her firsthand experiences back to her students to connect them with what they are learning. Melissa hopes to meet with Senator Amy Klobuchar while she is in the nation’s capital. Janel Toussaint, French teacher for ninth through 12th grades at North Campus and South Campus, will travel to Paris, France. The Louvre is bringing French teachers together to develop curriculum for teaching art and culture. Janel will develop skills to interpret and construct inquiries into art history and visual culture. Sarah Fuhrman, Janeen Kuemmel and Erika Heltner, counselors at Sunrise Middle School, will attend the American School Counselors Association annual conference in New Orleans. This conference will address mental health concerns, provide sessions on a protocol to analyze data and connect it to student-learning objectives.
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Alex Carlson, 11th-and 12th-grade social studies teacher at South Campus, will attend the “Teaching and Engaging with Poverty in Mind” workshop in California, where he will learn better ways to intervene to help students succeed and close the achievement gap for students. Joshua Lane, 11th-and 12th-grade language arts teacher at South Campus, will explore the Vietnamese culture during his 19-day trip throughout Vietnam with the group Vietnam Explorers. Every year Joshua’s students read “The Things They Carried,” by local Minnesota author Tim O’Brien. Joshua will expand both his personal and professional understanding of Vietnam, which he will share with his students as they read the book.
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Caddies earn full ride
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Janel Toussaint
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Two area high school seniors have been awarded the Chick Evans Scholarship, thanks to a summer job caddying. The scholarship, created in 1930, is the largest for caddies and offers housing and tuition valued at more than $80,000 over four years. Local recipients include White Bear Lake residents Kyle Hinseth, who attends Mahtomedi High School, and Brenden Petersen, who attends White Bear Lake Area High School. They were sponsored by the White Bear Yacht Club. Both will attend the University of Minnesota. Twelve seniors received the scholarship in Minnesota. Founded by Chicago amateur golfer Charles "Chick" Evans Jr, it is one of the nation’s largest privately funded scholarship programs. Evans won the U.S. Open in 1916, the same year he won the U.S. Amateur. Scholars are chosen based on a strong caddie record, academics, financial need, leadership and character.
STUDENT NEWS Named to a college or university dean's list: Bemidji State University: Derek Dorau, White Bear Lake University of Iowa: Kathryn Brooks, Mahtomedi Winona State University: Christian O'Brien, White Bear Lake St. Mary's University of Minnesota: Katie LeTourneau, Karly Lunda and Misty Hanson, White Bear Lake University of Sioux Falls: Gretchen Ahrens, White Bear Lake Graduating from a college or university this winter: University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire: Caleb Olson, BS computer science and Tessa Stransky, BA Spanish, Vadnais Heights; Hannah Semonick, BS geology, White Bear Lake and Andrea Arko, BS kinesiology, White Bear Township
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