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Martha's Vineyard Times is a weekly publication.
May 19 - May 25, 2005 Edition
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Achievements
May
19, 2005

Callie Jackson (center)
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Callie Jackson
(shown here, right) received an award for raising $600 in last years
Hop-A-Thon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). Callies
award was presented on May 9 by Nikke Grimes (right) the MDA program
coordinator and coach Kevin Nichols (right).
Callie is a third grader at the Tisbury School. Last year, 150 Tisbury
students raised more than $2,400 for the association. This years
Hop-A-Thon will take place on May 23.
In the gardening magazine People, Places, and Plants fifteen
of the 50 Most Influential Gardeners in the Northeast are from Massachusetts.
Included among the honorees is our own Polly Hill of the Polly
Hill Arboretum in West Tisbury.
The magazine said the nomination process took more than a year and
they considered thousands of individuals
Bishop Stang High School has placed Chantal Gomes of West Tisbury
on the Presidents List. This honor is for students who achieve
a grade of 90 or above in all courses.
Shivonne
Schofield of Edgartown is pictured here with actor, writer, and
producer John Ratzenberger. Mr. Ratzenberger visited Joslin Diabetes
Center where he met Shivonne. He was at the Boston center to promote
his Newport Under the Stars charity event, which raises money for
diabetes research and care. el Cassiani of Edgartown School, Emma
Forbes of Oak Bluffs School, Alex Bilzerian of Tisbury School.
Each winner receives a $100 United States Savings Bond as well as
having their artwork displayed on the cover of the telephone directory.
Mitchell Benway of Vineyard Haven was part of a color guard
detail appearing at the grand ballroom of New York's Hilton Hotel
to honor Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Cadet Benway is a senior at New York Military Academy. He is an academy
student of distinction, a member of the National Honor Society, and
received the Coaches Award by the football coaches this past winter.
Falmouth Academy has placed the following students on the Headmaster's
List for the second trimester of the 2004-2005 academic year.
Sam Amazeen of Oak Bluffs, Elin Nelson, Clea Baumhofer,
and Lily Cronig of West Tisbury, Taza Vercruysse of
Aquinnah, and Lagan Trieschmann of Vineyard Haven.
Clea Baumhofer of West Tisbury won first place in the jewelry
category at the Small Independent Schools Art League show. The juried
show was hosted by Carroll School in Lincoln and 15 schools submitted
hundreds of works of art.
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