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Graduates

AZUSA (CALIF.) PACIFIC UNIVERSITY

Davis Delamarter of Ridgefield, and Audra McLean and Eric Price, both of Vancouver, graduated on May 3.

CAMPBELLSVILLE (KY.) UNIVERSITY

Brandee Lassiter of Vancouver graduated on May 3. She was awarded the Sociology Academic Award at the university’s honor ceremony.

JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY, SILOAM SPRINGS, ARK.

George Bunzendahl of Ridgefield graduated on May 10.

PRATT INSTITUTE, BROOKLYN, N.Y.

Luke Swenson of Camas recently graduated.

SIMPSON UNIVERSITY, REDDING, CALIF.

Jody Robertson of Brush Prairie recently graduated.

SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY, MARSHALL, MINN.

Ryan Ecalbarger of Vancouver graduated cum laude on May 10.

TROY (ALA.) UNIVERSITY

Robin Aguilar of Vancouver graduated on May 9.

UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON (OHIO)

Sarah Yedlick of Camas recently graduated cum laude.

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, LAWRENCE, KAN.

Henry Wear of Ridgefield graduated on May 18.

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, NASHVILLE, TENN.

Aaron Gregory of Vancouver recently graduated.

Honors

HONOR SOCIETY INDUCTEES

Thomas Gregory, a former Hudson’s Bay High School student, was inducted into the Pi Upsilon Chapter of the Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society at Park University, Parkville, Mo.

Alec Masson of Camas has been elected to Lambda Sigma, a national honor society, at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis., where he is a freshman.

Shalee Mosley of Camas and Anna Stewart of Ridgefield have been initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. Both are students at Oregon State University.

INTERNATIONAL DECA COMPETITION WINNER

Liz Reynolds of Vancouver, and a student at Western Washington University in Bellingham, took first place in the Travel and Tourism category at the 2014 International Career Development Conference, April 23-26 in Washington, D.C. At the conference, roughly 2,000 college students from around the world compete in business simulations and scenarios.

LEARNING AND LIBERTY AWARD

Lori Simpson, Educational Service District 112’s executive director of communications and public engagement, has received the Learning and Liberty Award from the Washington School Public Relations Association at a May 1 WSPRA workshop in Leavenworth. During her 30-year career with ESD 112, Simpson has coordinated bond and levy campaigns resulting in millions of dollars for state-of-the-art facilities, and assuring operational resources for schools statewide.

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