Centre College News

Local high school students are spending their summer getting a taste of college life as they spend weeks living and learning on a university campus.

Allie Roberts, Zionsville, received a bachelor degree from Centre College during the College's 186th Commencement exercise on the campus.

Menlo-Atherton High School senior Rachel Brown had expected to be in Manhattan at this time next year as she finished up her freshman year at New York University, where she'd been accepted and had planned to major in English.

An apparent miscommunication left the Kentucky Football Coaches Association without a University of Louisville coach speaking at its summer clinic Thursday.

Kaitlin Boldt was excited to learn that she had been accepted into the Kentucky Governor's Scholars Program this summer.

Stephen Rolfe Powell is a self-proclaimed pyromaniac. The glass artist and Centre College professor started his career as a painter but later switched to glass, a medium that allowed him the spontaneity and physicality that he needed, he said.

Paige Coomer, a senior to be at Adair County High School, has been selected for the prestigious Governor's Scholars program.

When she was a teenager in the early 1970s, Gaylia Rooks recalled, she charted her entire vocational path.

Euan James Stuart MacDonald. For services to people with motor neurone disease in Scotland.

Maybe someday best-selling author Will Lavender will write a fiendishly clever mystery about a missing Kentucky lawmaker or a psychological thriller about a controversial bill in the state legislature with deadly consequences for its sponsors.

TAYLOR MILL -- Known collectively to many as 'the Hiller triplets,' Lauren, Nick and Andrea Hiller have shared all their milestones together, including a big one this month.

Thursday, June 11th. One of the small town summer joys of the past is being recreated this weekend in Danville, Kentucky.

Student graduates from BGSU Sally Evelyn Click of Zionsville, earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Bowling Green State University this spring.

British glass artist John Reyntiens recently showed models and samples of pieces that he is creating for the Myra Leigh Tobin Chapel in the University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital.

There are many reasons for visiting Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill: the austere elegance of the furnishings; the distinctive architecture; and yes, the food.

Crews have begun setting up for the Great American Brass Band Festival next month in Danville, and the Advocate-Messenger reports that officials are using modern technology to bring out the best sound from the old-fashioned instruments.

Crews have begun setting up for the Great American Brass Band Festival next month in Danville.

Newport Central Catholic juniors Brian Hogle and Nolan Johnson have been selected to represent the school in the Governor's Scholar program this summer.

The 24 members of The State Journal's 1999 All-Academic team have been hard at work these past 10 years, engaged in some pretty interesting careers ranging from news reporting, teaching and pharmacy to counter-terrorism work, ministry for women and full-time parenting.

Area news briefs for May 7 regarding Anna Eleanor Roosevelt to speak at Centre College, Pattie A. Clay Regional Medical Center, Pattie A. Clay Regional Medical Center to honor a Garrard County Janeffer French and the Danville Board of Education meeting.