Staff Report
Chandra San placed first in keyboarding at the Future Business Leaders of America regional competition.
Other Smith students placing included Shana Brown (third in public speaking) and Travis Moore (third in Mr. FBLA contest).
These students competed on the state level April 3-5. Latisha Miles also attended the state conference as a voting delegate.
Other BLS students involved in the regional competition were: Miles (Job Interview), Catrina Harvey (FBLA Creed), Brandy Lloyd (Computer Applications), Phuong Nguyen (Business Procedures), Robin Williams (Mrs. Future Business Leader) and Sunitra Williams (Business Calculations).
Smith's FBLA also sponsored a school-wide recycling project.
Three members of the BLS Orchestra received all-regional honors in competition at Appalachian State Feb. 28-March 2.
Leigha Baugham (violin), Mario Gallucci (violinist) and LaSaundra Lindsey (cellist) earned all-regional honors.
Gallucci and Lindsey both won partial scholarships to the Cannon Music Camp at ASU this summer.
All-county included Gallucci, Baugham, Candice Carter, Travis Fleetwood, Brad Allen, Logan Strawn, LaSaundra Lindsey and Kwadwo Owusu.
Smith�s Jesse Suggs was named honors archestra conductor.
Dalat Dai, Jason Masching and Logan Strawn were first-place winners in Smith�s Science Fair.
Dai was first in Physical Science, Masching in Biology and Strawn in Applied Science and Technology.
Physical second and third place belonged to Stephen Medley and Blair Edwards, respectively; Biology second and third went to Joanne Fogle and Shoshani Hayes; Applied Science/Technology second and third went to to Kim Stanley and Boramy Long.
Stanley was honorable mention in the county-wide competition.
In the Science Olympiad, Sam Lawrence was third Chemistry Clue competition. Lawrence advanced to the regionals at Page.
Carol Hall, Salone Shaw and Ran Kong placed high enough in the Health Occupations Students of America competition at the Koury Convention Center. Hall was second in dental spelling, while Shaw was third in the job seeking skills and Kong was third in medical spelling. All three advance to the nationals, to be held in June at Anaheim, Calif.
Kong was also elected state HOSA reporter.
Reasey Heng, Thomas Jacobs, and Atmad Towens attended the conference Mar. 16-18 in Winston- Salem. Reasey and Thomas made proficiency in the ccategory of general marketing associate level. Jacobs was an event finalist for the written test consisting of 100 questions pertaining to general marketing.
Smith won five trophies at the North Mecklenburg Drill Meet. These included Individual Fancy with Arms; Individual Regulation with Arms; Individual Regulation without Arms; Squad Regulation without Arms; and Overall Champion.
The Smith ROTC also took a trip to Pope Air Force Base back in November. Students were able to sit in cockpits or Air Force jets and watch a demonstration of F-16s.
Students Against Drunk Driving obtained signatures of juniors and seniors for the Prom Promise March 15-28. Students who signed the promise received free T-shirts and are asked to wear them every Tuesday through prom week.
Leisa Huddleston was chosen Smith�s Teacher of the Year in a vote of her peers.
Huddleston is an English teacher in the ESL program. She also was con-sponsor of the International Day activities.
Traci Miller, a science teacher, was voted the Sallie Mae First-Year Teacher of the Year.
Three members of the BLS staff retired after the fall semester. They were Betty Lewis (Counseling), Anthony Szenasy (History) and Marylou Holoman (English). Their replacements are Trina Bethea, Ron Roberts and Jason Baldwin.
Bethea, a North Carolina A&T State University alumna, comes to Greensboro from Montgomery County.
Roberts is a graduate of the University of Tennessee-Martin and has coached high school football.
Baldwin, a Smith alumnus, attended Appalachian State University and will teach a course in speech and debate next year.
Another new member of the faculty is Arthur Sosa, a graduate of the University of Texas who received his master�s degree from ASU. Sosa works with the ESL programs at Smith and Allen Middle School.
Oscar Brayboy replaced Russell Woodward as the school�s athletic director. Brayboy was a highly successful coach in Winston-Salem. Woodward is now assistant principal at Northwest Guilford.
Staff Miscellany: Congratulations to Jim VonSteen and his wife on their new baby; Hank Bullard, girls� basketball coach and physical education instructor, is the scout master for the National Eagle Scout of the Year; Traci Miller and her husband are expecting their first baby in October; welcome back Robert Biasotti, whose wife and new baby survived serious illness after birth; and the Smith Chorus, under the direction of Pam Stewart, received a superior rating in state-wide competition.
Smith hosted a series of seminars for the county College Tech Prep Apprenticeship Program Feb. 27.
Sophomores with a grade-point average of 2.0 or higher and a good attendance record were invited to the seminars conducted by business leaders from Guilford County companies and corporations. These rising junior are encouraged to take classes at GTCC and get apprenticeship jobs with companies like Konica, Novartis, Bonset America, Stockhausen, Black Cadillac-Olds and AMP, Inc.
Brandon Isaac won the county-wide Reflections writing contest.
Senior Antonio Hinson earned a spot in North Carolina State University�s School of Design after his portfolio was one of the winners of an annual competition.
Hinson, an art student, put together a portfolio of 10 drawings for the competition. It included portraits, landscapes and interior design.
The Smith student plans to major in architecture and has received an Elks Foundation scholarship worth $500 a year for all five years of the School of Design program.
Senior Leigha Baugham captured the school-wide oratory contest Feb. 4.
Baugham, who plans to attend UNC-Chapel Hill in the fall, recited from William Shakespeare�s A Midsummer Night�s Dream.
Second place went to junior Niveen Kattan, whose speech came from Shakespeare�s King John.
Senior Jennifer Bowman was third. Bowman also recited from A Midsummer Night�s Dream.
Other participants were Sam Wilkes, Monique Moore, Crystal Edding, Michelle Davis, Beth Onibudo, Tiffany Cheeseborough and Brian Woodward.
Sixteen students were named junior marshalls during the spring semester.
Named head marshall was Eric Marshall, who currently carries the highest grade-point average in the junior class.
Others named included: Ashley Schmidt, Logan Strawn, Ran Kong, Erin Hicks, Thuong Nguyen, Dulat Bui, Jennifer Brown, Reasey Heng, Anna Davis, Sharon Sullivan, Jokena Smith, Latisha Miles, Sheri McCann and Elizabeth White.
Each students carries a GPA in excess of 4.0, according to Maureen Galvin, who is the group�s advisor.
Junior marshalls will perform their appointed duties at both awards assemblies and at graduation.
Three freshmen at Smith were honored for the writing prowess at the Greensboro Bar Association�s Feb. 20 seminar on the perceptions of the legal profession and the court system.
Heather Thomerson, Mary Ann Khamdy and Anna Yarborough each received prizes for essays they presented at the seminar. Thomerson was first place, Khamdy second and Yarborough third. Thomerson wrote her essay on juvenile delinquency; Khamdy on sexual harrassment, and Yarborough on child abuse.
All three students are in Gloria Turlington�s ELPSA classes.
Meanwhile, Shaquinta Platt of Smith took first prize in the American Freedom Association�s high school essay contest.
Platt�s essay was on the creative and effective use of international law to promote world peace.
The Smith student won an all-expenses-paid trip to the United Nations in New York City and to Washington, D.C. The trip occurred April 20-23. Larry Ratliff of the Smith social studies department served as a chaperone on the trip.
Seniors Nicholas Lake and Cyrus Sinclair were named North Carolina Teaching Fellows. The scholarships cover the entire cost of education at a UNC college for four years. Lake will attend North Carolina A&T State University and Sinclair UNC-Charlotte.
Both Lake and Sinclair must teach in the North Carolina public schools for four years after the graduate as part of the terms of the scholarship.
Lake and Sinclair are the first joint winners from Smith since the Teaching Fellows began.
Phuong Nguyen, a senior at Smith, won a $1,000 scholarship from Guilford County Association of Educational Office Professionals.
Nguyen plans to attend either UNC-Greensboro or North Carolina A&T.
Song Hong Bui received a scholarship from the Greensboro Jaycees and Tina Paschall was awarded a $500 grant by Jefferson Pilot.
Four members of WordSmith were honored at the magazine�s awards dinner.
Leigha Baugham, a senior, earned the Pungent Pundit award. Baugham is the magazine�s editorial columnist.
Niveen Kattan earned the Murky Muckraker award. Kattan, a junior, is the managing editor.
Anna Davis received the Unerring Editor award. Davis, a junior, is responsible for fact-checking and proofreading.
Ran Kong received the Reliable Reporter award. Kong, a junior, is the journal�s news editor.
Jokena Smith has been accepted to the N.C. Governor's School. She will attend the school to focus on choral studies. Smith, a junior, will study in Laurinburg.
Three Smith students won SECME's regional Mousetrap contest.
Kerel Fryar, Jose Paula and Nick Tribble were first-place finishers in the competition, sponsored by the North Carolina A&T State University Engineering Department.
The Smith trio and SECME advisor Edith Williams will travel to Charlottesville, Va., this summer for the national competition at the University of Virginia.
This is the 10th anniversary of SECME at BLS.
The following students were inducted into the National Honor Society during the Spring '97 semester: Jennifer Bowman, Kathryn Coulter, Ashley Fletcher, Marwan Hanhan, Antonio Hinson, Anna Davis, Reasey Heng, Erin Hicks, Niveen Kattan, Ran Kong, Thanh Le, Eric Marshall, Jason Masching, Cheri McCann, Stephen Medley, Latisha Miles, Olyvia Mitchell, June Nall, Ndidi Okeke, Victoria Oxendine, Ashley Schmidt, Jokena Smith and Elizabeth White.
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