Published: August 17, 2006 11:22 pm            

Honors 08/20/06

Bridget Gibson, a senior at Greenup County High School, has completed a three-week Engineering Program at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind.

Students participating in Operation Catapult were introduced to the different engineering disciplines and developed projects of interest. Her project, Turf Tester, studied the impact of athletic shoe types in relation to injury prevention.

Participants of Operation Catapult enrolling at Rose-Hulman were awarded a $5,000 renewable scholarship and two credit hours of study.

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Three area students have been named to the spring term dean’s list at Centre College in Danville.

Students must maintain at least a 3.6 grade-point average to be named.

Annie Maggard, daughter of Randall and Julia Maggard of Catlettsburg, is a graduate of Boyd County High School.

Courtney Ross, daughter of James and Darlene Ross of Ashland, is a graduate of Paul G. Blazer High School.

Sarah Samuel, daughter of Mathew and Beena Samuel of Ashland, is a graduate of Russell High School.

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Kristin Mastin, daughter of Gary and Candice Mastin of Ashland, received an associate’s degree in applied science and graduated magna cum laude from Tidewater Community College in Virginia Beach, Va.

She was named to the President’s Honor Roll and is a member of the American Society of Interior Design, where she has served as historian. She also is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

She has been accepted into the Art Institute in Washington.

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Marshall Tyler Murphy, son of Mack and Annette Murphy and a 2006 graduate of Russell High School, has received several scholarships and awards.

Murphy, an Eagle Scout and president of the senior class, graduated with highest distinction. His scholarships include the Presidential Freedom Scholarship, Monroe-Sturgell-Towler Trust Scholarship and U.S. Achievement Academy Scholarship.

He has been recognized by the College Board Advanced Placement Program as a National AP Scholar, having received an average grade of at least 4.0 on all AP exams taken and grades of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams.

Murphy will attend Transylvania University in Lexington on a Presidential Scholarship with a double major in political science and history.

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Seven students from the Ashland area recently traveled to Honduras, Hawaii, Switzerland, New York, Costa Rica and Romania as part of Transylvania University’s Innovative May term.

During the annual four-week May term, students and professors focus on a single course.

Tyler Jay Roe of Ashland, Rebecca Ann Williams of Worthington and Christopher Geiger, a graduate of Paul G. Blazer High School, were members of the first class in Transylvania University’s 226-year history to visit the Transylvania region of Romania. The trip was part of a 10-day tour in which the 38-member choir, under the direction of music professor Gary Anderson, performed concerts in Vienna and Krems, Austria; Budapest and Szentendre, Hungary; and Sibiu, Romania, in the Transylvania region.

Roe is a son of John and Carol Roe of Ashland and a senior majoring in applied music.

Williams is a daughter of Raymond and Margaret Williams of Worthington and is a junior majoring in biology.

Geiger is a junior and a son of Michael and Beverly Geiger of Newark, Del.

Andrew Collins Bramblett, who will begin his sophomore year, visited Italy, Germany, Switzerland and The Netherlands as part of the course Ceramics and Chemistry in Europe.

Bramblett is a son of Ronald and Constance Bramblett of Ashland.

Another rising sophomore, Krista Marie Miller of Worthington, traversed the jungles of Honduras for the course Race, Ethnicity and Identity in Central America.

She is a daughter of Bonnie M. Spears of Worthington and Thomas Miller of Honcoye Falls, N.Y.

John Kirby Hall and Zachary Alan Kanouse, both of Ashland, traveled to New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts to see the churches, homes and institutions that figured prominently in Edith Wharton’s “World and Fiction” characters.

Hall is the son of Charles Kirby Hall and Elizabeth J. Hall of Ashland and is a junior.

Kanouse went to Hawaii for the Tropical Ecology course.

The junior is the son of Stephen William Kanouse and Susan Young Kanouse of Ashland.

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Rachel Gibson of Argillite was honored during the 2006 White Coat Ceremony at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.

This event at Memorial Hall in Lexington recognizes the incoming class of medical students by presenting them with their first physician’s coat.

She is a 2002 graduate of Greenup County High School and a 2006 graduate of Asbury College.

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Andrew Bramblett, son of Ronald and Constance Bramblett and a 2005 graduate of Paul G. Blazer High School, has been elected a senator of the Student Government Association at Transylvania University for the 2006-07 school year.

He is a sophomore with a double major in religion and biology and this fall will mark his first term on the senate.

Transylvania’s Student Government Association is a student-led organization that plays an active role in legislation for both the academic as well as social aspects of campus life. Students wishing to be elected to the Student Government Association must petition to be on the election ballot whose final result is determined after a campus-wide election. A select number of students with the highest number of votes are named senators.

        

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