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Published - Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Student notes

When Onalaska and Holmen area students do well, we want to hear about it. The Onalaska Community Life and Holmen Courier publish news about student achievements from elementary to college. Here is the latest good news about Onalaska and Holmen area students:

Joan Kennedy and Abigail Walls, both of Onalaska and both dental hygiene students at Western Technical College, have been awarded scholarships from the Wisconsin Dental Association Foundation.

The following area students were named to the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus 2008 spring semester dean’s list:

  • HOLMEN: Heather Lokken, Jenna Maland, Eric Richert, Alyssa Boggs

  • ONALASKA: Gretchen Faile, Valerie Weinstein, Emily Wypyszynski, Andrew Gerstenberger, Lindsay Handtke

    Katrina Meyer of Holmen was named to the winter and May 2008 deans list at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa.

    The following area students were named to the chancellor’s list at the University of Wisconsin-Stout for the spring 2008 semester:

  • HOLMEN: Noel Braatz, Trey King, Ryan Schelbe

  • ONALASKA: Bryce Anderson, Jill Bettesworth, Paul Heuer, Hans Jungck, Tracy Landolt, Ashley Lund, Angela Morrissey, Britney Plunkett, Hannah Rosenthal, Nicholas Sorrentino

    Kyle Thompson, a native of Onalaska, won the Toy Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Chemistry Department. The $2,500 award recognizes students who excelled academically in the department.

    The University of Wisconsin-Madison has named the following area students to the dean’s list for the spring semester of the 2007-08 academic year:

  • HOLMEN: Tara Ammerman, Dylan Dettmann, Samantha Heineck, Amy Kordus, Tyler McCoy

  • MINDORO: Jeremy Ebner

  • ONALASKA: Patrick Callan, Jennifer Gerdes, Nicole Hanson, Candice Haskin, Katherine Herro, Kristen Juve, Christopher Kachel, Anne Kessler, Stephanie La Liberte, Brian Mccarthy, Tyler Mielke, Susan Hsiou-Jen Pauer, Abigail Pederson, Kelly Pickett, Abigail Roth, Mary Roth, Keaton Schuster, Samantha Shepard, Hanni Witzig, Soo Yun Yang

    The following area students were named to the spring semester 2008 dean’s list at Viterbo University in La Crosse:

  • ONALASKA: Maria Alhach, Shawn Anderson, Cindy Beuthin, Bernard Black, Katy Cole, Mathew Cripps, Christopher Gerold, Kathryn Gorman, Ryan Grace, Jessica Greenhow, Daniel Heintz, Leah Heram, Brianna Herber, Jill Jensen, Ren Jungck, Suanne Kraft, Angela Krueger, Colleen Kudo, Mark Kunes, Albert Locy, Karen Marquard, Amy McClintock, Alexander Metzler, Robert Papke, Georgia Ann Schmocker, James Schroeder, Susan Sorrentino, Dafeny Stanislow, Tyler Stapleton, Jessica Sunday, Maribel Wehrenbe, Vanessa Weisbrod

  • HOLMEN: Paula Bentzen, Katie Burgess, Caitlin Dettman, Carolyn Dickson, Alayna Erlandson, Keith Frye, Danielle Grilley, Elizabeth Gross, Kari Hanson, Lynelle Hinkley, Crystal Keller, Steven Lee, Cheryl Mackay, Jared Mashak, Katie McCormcik, Ryan Meyer, Jessica Montgomery, Dena Navoichick, Kristina Smaby, Krysta Sunne

    Matthew Cantlon of Holmen graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point with a BS in managerial accounting and business administration.

    Jacob Grotelueschen of Holmen graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point with a BFA in art-graphic design.

    The President’s Education Award has given to the following Holmen Middle School students who have shown a strong commitment to academic excellence and have built a solid foundation for a lifetime of accomplishment as evidenced by achieving high honor roll status all three years at HMS as well as scoring advanced in reading or math on the WKCE tests: Jennah Bahr, Nicholas Behringer, James Bennett, Elizabeth Bergum, Pamela Betthauser, Cole Bjornstad, Kelsey Bock, Joseph Branhagen, Ellen Clark, Olivia Cooper, Louis Corcoran, Austin Dahl, Benjamin Davis, Derek Dinsmoor, Marina Dvorak, Alexandra Garbers, Christina Griffin, Haley Hesselberg, Alexis Hummel, Corona Kenowski, Grace Kube, Bennett Laxton, Anna Linzmeyer, Jordan Malone, Clair Mitzelfeldt, Erik Ohlrogge, Kelley Okoren, Dylan Paulson, Isaac Prichett, Lexi Renk, Eryn Ruoff, Dalton Terpstra, David Trautmann, Ann Vang, Lynsey Yehle

    Christopher Newton of Holmen earned a doctor of philosophy degree from Ball State in Muncie, Ind.

     

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