Mount Vernon School Notes: Oct. 10, 2012
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Mount Vernon School Notes: Oct. 24, 2012
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Nathaniel Chester and Julia Larsen have been named to the dean’s honors list at Connecticut College.
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Gabrielle Sakellarides graduated from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine with a degree of doctor of osteopathic medicine May 25.
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Caroline T. Kelly has been named to first honors on the Clark University dean’s list for the spring 2013 semester.
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Timothy Bryan Long graduated with a master of business administration degree through Averett University's Graduate and Professional Studies Program. Christopher Fry, who studies electrical engineering, and Jocelyn Griser, who studies mathematics, were named to the dean’s list at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Shannon Frydenlund was named to the president’s list at Clemson University. Shannon, a graduate of West Potomac High School, is majoring in elementary education. Leah Griser, Sophia Naide and Phoenix Wilson have been named to the honors list at Mary Baldwin College. Anna Dixon, who majors in nursing, and Carolyn G. Lucas, who majors in theatre, were both named to the dean’s list at DeSales University. Victoria Polchinski received academic honors from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University by making the university's dean's list for the fall 2013 semester. Matthew Heller, a fourth-year student in the ASL-English interpretation program in RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf, made the dean's list for the fall 2013 semester. Kathleen Wyskoczka was named to the deans' list/honor roll at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Wyskoczka is a junior pre-mild/moderate disabilities K-6 major in the College of Education and Human Sciences. Michael Patrick Flynn was named to the dean’s list at Texas Lutheran University.
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Homework Overload
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School Board Notes
Neighbors Push Back
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Reston Association Chooses New CEO
One-on-one interview with Mac Cummins, AICP
One-on-one interview with Mac Cummins, AICP