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 Alexandra Morris, daughter of Terry and Camille Morris, took second place (Middle School level) at the Creative Writing contest sponsored by Sinclair Community College.
All of the winners were recognized at a banquet dinner on May 14 organized by English Department faculty member Kate Geiselman.
Pictured here is Alexandra with her certificate which also included a cash award.
Alexandra was writing alongside her other teammates from OJHS in the Power of the Pen competition on May 25.
Oakwood Junior and Senior High School will offer summer school classes beginning Tuesday, June 12, 2007. Summer school packets are now available to students.
Open enrollment began on Monday, March 19. A completed registration form
with parent signature as well as full tuition and any fees for all classes must be paid in the form of cash or check at the time of registration.
Registration will take place in the Senior High Bookroom. For more information please call 297-5325.
 Whitney Saleski, who recently finished her freshman year at Miami University, has been selected for a 2-month summer internship at Georgetown University. The internship is both interactive and academic. Whitney will work for The National Center for Victims of Crime, but she will also earn 9 credit hours in law-related classes at Georgetown. Georgetown also awarded Whitney a much appreciated scholarship.
Whitney’s interests have always involved politics, law and civil rights.
Miami University’s Department of English also awarded Whitney with the Daniel and Margaret Bookwalter Award in Poetry, an award usually reserved for sophomores. Whitney will begin her sophomore year at Miami in the fall of 2007, where she currently majors in English Literature and minors in Political Science.
Whitney would like all of her Oakwood classmates to know that on May 22, she finally got her driver’s license. “No gifts necessary,” she adds.
Congratulations to Christopher Allen Smith of Oakwood who was a first time applicant receiving a passing score to become a licensed attorney in the State of Ohio. Chris is a graduate of the University of Dayton School of Law.
On May 16, the Ohio EPA met with Smith Elementary School fifth graders to perform a “Dumpster Dive” for the purpose of conducting a waste analysis on residential and institutional solid wastes.
After separating the waste into separate piles of recyclables, compostables and unusable waste, the students determined that 51 pounds of waste should have been recycled and only six pounds of the waste should have been thrown away.
Pictured above: Janie Behnke, Alec Mueller, Sam Reger, Rocco Baker and Rachel Neff carefully sift through the 57 pounds of waste collected from Oakwood parks, residences and Smith School.
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