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Community members, parents, students, faculty, and staff are invited to join Oakwood Junior High Principal, Daniel K. Weckstein at an open house.
A “Getting to Know Each Other” Open House is planned for Thursday, June 14, 2007 from 6-7:30 p.m. in the Oakwood High School Library.
 While university students across the country are making plans for summer, OHS alumna and Miami University junior Rachel Rudwall is preparing for the journey of a lifetime. She will be traveling to China, Europe, Australia and Thailand this summer as a world traveler intern with the national travel company STA Travel.
Rudwall will tour the globe for two months, sharing her experience in a blog, travel journal, video and photo diary and interviews with people she meets along the way.
“I am so excited and honored to be STA’s World Traveler Intern. I find it hard to imagine a more thrilling summer job, as this position will take me to four continents in eleven weeks...and there are no cubicles and time cards involved!” Rudwall said.
Rudwall will travel to China for 14 days where she will work in a Chinese conservation center that aims to preserve some of the world’s most endangered species; Then on to Europe for 24 days where she will visit 12 different countries; She will head next to Australia for 14 days where she will travel the east coast between Sidney and Cairns; and finally, a junket in Thailand for six days where she will trek from Chang Mai to Bangkok.
“I look forward most to the time I will spend in China and Thailand, as it is in those countries that I will be outside of the cities and truly immersed in the countries’ ways of life. Such volunteer work can have a tremendous outcome, as the assistance I provide can later be shared with and continued by others. In Thailand, I will hill trek for a number of days with the tribes of the country, and it is during that time that I will be most immersed in the way of life of another culture,” she said.
To follow Rudwall on her journey, visit www.STATravel193.com.
 Liberty University track and field athlete Arlene Zelinskas has been named the Big South Conference’s Woman of the Year for 2006-07. This season capped off a stellar NCAA Division-I career for Zelinskas who is a 2003 graduate of Oakwood High School.
Zelinskas served as captain for Liberty’s track and field teams from 2005-07 and was named the Big South Indoor Track Outstanding Women’s Performer of the Year in both 2006 and 2007. She also owns two Big South Conference records (indoor 60-meter hurdles and pentathlon), as well as four school records (indoor 55-meter hurdles, 60-meter hurdles, pentathlon and outdoor 4x100 meter relay). Zelinskas also won a total of eight Big South event titles during her career.
Recently Zelinskas was awarded Liberty’s Rock Royer/Mac Rivera Award, the university’s highest athletic honor presented each year to a senior student-athlete. She graduated in May from Liberty University summa cum laude with a 3.96 GPA in Biology.
As the Big South Woman of the Year, Zelinskas is nominated as a candidate for the national NCAA Woman of the Year Award.
1997 Oakwood High School alumnus Max Brzezinski has announced that he has graduated from Duke University and been awarded a Ph.D. in English Literature from that school. He previously graduated with a BA in English from Grinnell College. His future plans are signing on as an English professor at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC.
Max is the son of Steven and Mary Brzezinski of Volusia Avenue in Oakwood.
Oakwood High School senior Lindsay Robinson has announced she will be attending Sir Sanford Fleming College in Ottawa, Canada.
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