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High
school volleyball
Letter
winners
Katie
Wrage (grade 12)
Beth
Guy (12)
Tasha
Williams (12)
Brandi
Carter (12)
Sarah
Struebing (11)
Jaci
Cross (11)
Valerie
Tillman (11)
Amanda
Cheatham (11)
Carrie
Rayburn (11)
Ashley
Luken (10)
Danielle
Bergman (10)
Nikki
Chapman (10)
Special
awards, varsity
Kill
leader: Katie Wrage, 310
Blocking
leader: Katie Wrage, 101
Best
all-around athlete: Katie Wrage
Assist
leader: Jaci Cross, 347
Defensive
leader: Danielle Bergman
Best
serving percentage: Danielle Bergman, 259/265
Rudy
Lolling Sportsmanship Award: Valerie Tillman
Special
awards, junior varsity
Best
serving percentage: Natalie Coers, 180/181
Kill
leader: Natalie Coers, 103
Blocking
leader: Megan Leesman, 68, and Krista Ubbenga, 68
Most
improved: Vicki Tuttle
Special
award, varsity
Lowest
average: Kris Wildenradt, 36.4
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High
school golf
(Co-op
Hartem/Delavan)
Letter
winners
Kris
Wildenradt (11)
Jason
Fisher (11)
Nick
Simmons (10)
Josh
Allen (10)
Tim
McCoy (10)
Chip
Wagner (12)
Brian
Lechleiter (10)
Dan
Mammen (9)
High
school cross-country
(Co-op
Delavan/Hartem)
Letter
winner
Shane
Westen (10)
Junior
high baseball awards
Most
versatile player: Scott Ubbenga
Leading
hitter: Drew Olson
Best
defense: Tim Guy
Most
improved: Jason Rohlfs
Junior
high softball awards
Most
valuable: Jenna Leesman and Erin Dial
Best
defense: Erin Dial
Leading
hitter: Jenna Bergman
Most
improved: Erin Semple
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Lincoln
College student earns Lincoln Academy honor
Brittney
Dobson, a sophomore at Lincoln College, has been named Student
Laureate to the Lincoln Academy, a private, non-profit
organization established to honor Illinois citizens whose
contributions have brought honor to the state.
 The
26th annual Student Laureate award ceremony was in Springfield on
Saturday, Oct. 28. Winners are selected by top administrators of
their schools on the basis of academic success, extracurricular
activities and contributions to their school.
Lincoln
College, the state's only two-year private college, is included in
the Lincoln Academy program because of the college’s original
charter as Lincoln University in 1865.
Lincoln
College President Jack Nutt commented that Dobson is a very
positive addition to Lincoln College. "We are proud that
Brittney chose Lincoln College, and we are delighted to see that
she is receiving this recognition."
 Dobson,
a 1999 graduate of Lincoln Community High School, is an honor
student who is studying music and theater. She has performed in
Lincoln College theater productions, music concerts and dance
recitals. She received the Arian Award for outstanding high school
music student and represented LCHS in honors bands and choirs.
Dobson
plans to continue her education by pursuing a bachelor's degree in
music/theater. She has aspirations of performing in an opera. She
is the daughter of Kay Dobson of Lincoln and the late Carl Dobson.
[Lincoln
College news release]
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Conrady
is awarded the
Helen Heiserman Scholarship
Brett
Conrady of Lincoln is this year's recipient of the Helen Heiserman
Scholarship at Lincoln College. The Heiserman Scholarship is given
in memory of Mrs. Helen Heiserman, a longtime teacher at Lincoln
College. The scholarship is awarded to students from Logan or
DeWitt counties who are in good academic standing.
Conrady,
a freshman, is a 2000 graduate of Lincoln Community High School.
He is taking liberal arts courses at Lincoln College with an
emphasis on courses in economics. He is the son of David and Lisa
Conrady of Lincoln.
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Gurga
wins first place in haiku contest
The
winning haiku at the 2000 Midwest Buddhist Temple Ginza Festival
Haiku Contest have been reported by the judges, Joseph Kirschner
and Charles Trumbull. Working independently, each judge reviewed
all 72 entries blind — that is, not seeing the names of the
authors — and made his selection of the top haiku. They then met
on Wednesday, Aug. 23, and to discuss the many fine entries,
debate favorites and select the final list of winners. Lee Gurga
of Lincoln won first place in the general category.
This
is his winning entry:
Blackberry
picking —
the
touch of the setting sun
on
my unshaved cheek
This
verse, the judges felt, has everything a classic haiku needs: a
specific reference to the season (blackberry picking); two images
(in this case, one from nature, one from the world of humans) set
together in a way that resonate with each other (the brambly
blackberry bushes played against the roughness of the poet’s
unshaved cheek), and an appropriate touch of emotion (the
nostalgia of blackberry picking in the wistful light of the
setting sun). A textbook haiku!
Lee
Gurga, Illinois’ most prominent haiku poet, is associate editor
of the journal Modern Haiku and past president of the Haiku
Society of America.
With
his winning entry, Gurga took first-place honors at the contest
for the second year in a row.
For
information about another haiku contest, click
here.
For
a February article about Gurga, click below:
http://archives.lincolndailynews.com/020100/features/artsbook.htm
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