people and places

June 25, 2008 02:40 pm

— • Stillwater Junior High School freshman Paige Christy was the Breaking Traditions Award Program second place award winner at the Oklahoma Technology Student Association State Conference in Oklahoma City. The award is sponsored by the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education and the Oklahoma CareerTech Foundation.
Christy, interested in pursuing a career in aerospace engineering, has been an active member of Stillwater’s TSA chapter for two years, serving as chapter treasurer and then as president.
Christy also placed second in the TSA state competitive events for Inventions and Innovation. She will represent Oklahoma TSA in this event at the 30th National TSA Conference in Orlando, Fla., June 28-July 2.

• Oklahoma State University graduate student Adelheid West has received a $2,500 Sustainable Agriculture Scholarship from Annie’s Homegrown.
West is pursuing a master’s degree in plant and soil science. She is involved in developing a phyto-remediation project that uses native trees intercropped with alfalfa to extract excess phosphorous from an old swine lagoon.
In her undergraduate studies, she received the Honors College degree in political science after completing a thesis examining the role of non-governmental organizations in the development of sustainable agriculture programs in rural Honduran communities.

• Janabeth Fleming Taylor, who graduated from Stillwater High School in 1970, has been named a CareerTech champion.
Her high school education included CareerTech’s business and office (now business and information technology education) and home economics (now family and consumer sciences education). She was also active in two CareerTech student organizations, Future Homemakers of America and Future Business Leaders of America, now called Family, Career and Community Leaders of America and Business Professionals of America.
She attended Oklahoma State University and earned a nursing degree at OSU-OKC. She was an obstetrics nurse at Integris Bass Baptist Health Center in Enid from 1980 to 1983 and taught practical nursing at Autry Technology Center in Enid from 1983 to 1993.
While teaching at ATC, she attended the University of Oklahoma law school and received a litigation paralegal certificate and also worked in a law office. In 1993, she moved to Marshall, Texas, and was an in-house paralegal for a law firm.
Taylor now owns her own company, Attorney’s Medical Services Inc. in Corpus Christi, Texas. She provides litigation support and consultation to attorneys across the country and in Canada and Puerto Rico.
In 2002, she received the Paralegal of the Year Award from the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. She has been published in various legal publications and is invited as a frequent speaker for legal educational programs

• Two Stillwater residents received scholarships and awards from Oklahoma Baptist University this spring.
Megan Hungerford was awarded the Telecommunication Alumni Scholarship from the Warren M. Angell College of Fine Arts.
Ellisa Weaver received the Outstanding Junior Nursing Student award from the school of nursing.

• Two Stillwater natives have earned academic honors at Oklahoma Christian University for the spring 2008 semester.
Junior Thea Strande was listed on the President’s Honor Roll.
Sophomore Jessica Hauf was listed on the honor roll.
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