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Wednesday, May 29, 2002

Alys Mihok, a junior at South Fayette Township High School, is one of nine state winners in the Discover Card Tribute Award Scholarship Program, the largest scholarship program of its kind in the nation.

She won the top prize of a $2,500 scholarship in her category, arts and humanities, which makes her eligible for a national $25,000 award that will be announced May 24.

The program, sponsored by Discover Financial Services Inc. and developed in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators, recognizes the leadership, community service and personal service of high school juniors.

Several Peters Township Middle School students won first-place honors in competition at the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science recently at California University of Pennsylvania. They advanced to state competition at Penn State University.

They are seventh-graders Jennifer Bozic, Kevin Danchisko and Staci Tupta and eighth-graders Melinda Griser, Heather Milthorp and Sara Tupta.

Dana Lucas, a student at Keystone Oaks High School, was one of five students to receive a "Realize Your Dream" scholarship from the Rotary Club of Pittsburgh.

Selections for the $5,000 scholarship were based on applications, essays and community involvement.

The Realize Your Dream Foundation, started in 1993 by Bernard E. Stoecklein Jr. and his wife Suzanne, is intended to help students in the Greater Pittsburgh area and New Jersey realize their dreams through a college education.

The Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program named Bernard J. O'Keefe, a Seton-La Salle High School senior, winner of its Year 2002 Scholarship Program. He was awarded a $2,000 scholarship at the VVLP's 20th Anniversary Celebration, Partners in Leadership Awards Dinner at the Westin Convention Center.

Bret Kunash, an eighth-grader at SS. Simon & Jude School, was selected to write for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Movies n' Music" Web page. Bret submitted a sample music review to PG staff writer John Hayes. He will participate in a music review assignment and a photo shoot.

Andrew Chiccitt, an eighth-grader at SS. Simon & Jude School, has been chosen as a semi-finalist in the International Open Poetry Contest sponsored by the International Library of Poetry. Andrew's poem titled "America the Untouchable" will be published in the Library of Congress' "Letters from the Soul," scheduled for publication this summer.

The United States Achievement Academy announced that Christopher Gray of Bethel Park has been named a United States National Award Winner in Mathematics.

Christopher, who attends Independence Middle School, will appear in the United States Achievement Academy Official Yearbook, which is published nationally.

Shelby Alward of Aiken School in the Keystone Oaks School District has been named one of 50 honorable mention winners in the annual 2002 RIF National Poster Contest, a reading motivation competition developed by RIF.

Shelby created a poster that was selected as one of the 53 best out of more than 500 national entries and 80,000 competitors in local contests conducted by RIF sites nationwide.

Shelby will receive a certificate of honor and a gift certificate to purchase books. Shelby's RIF site will also receive a gift certificate to purchase books.