Published: July 13, 2008 12:37 am            

People and Places 07-13-08

• Airman Michelle McKeown graduated July 3 from Great Lakes Naval Station, Ill.

She is the daughter of Mike McKeown, Tryon, and Linda McKeown, Stillwater. She is the granddaughter of Bernard and Enid Heppler, Perry, and the late Ella and Donald McKeown.

McKeown graduated from Stillwater High School and attended NOC and OSU for four years before enlisting in the U.S. Navy.

She is attending 16 weeks of training in aviation support in Pensacola, Fla., before being stationed.



• Skyler Konicki was named to the College of Arts and Sciences’ Dean’s List for the spring semester at the University of Delaware in Newark.

She is majoring in English and secondary education. She is the daughter of Ken and Lori Konicki, Stillwater.



• Morrison High School graduate Zachary Sample has received University Scholarship from the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma in Chickasha.

He is the son of Jerry and Debra Sample.



• Fourteen Stillwater students attended the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain.

Stillwater students in residence at Quartz Mountain were Kyra Atekwana, Sarah DeYong and Wes Talley, chorus; Elizabeth Armstrong, creative writing; Katie Hagen and Eryn Sweeney-Denezas, drawing and painting; and Elizabeth White, Sheng Wu, Sonja Worthy, Sangeetha Komanburi, Nick Lindley, Nirupama Sarathy, Sean Yen and Sifan Zhang, orchestra.



• Jarod Wright, Stillwater, achieved honorable mention for the honor roll for the spring semester at McPherson College in McPherson, Kan.



• Lucianne Murphy has been named to the Dean’s List for the spring semester at Cottey College in Nevada, Mo.

She is the daughter of Terrence Murphy and Elesa Jacobson, both of Stillwater.



• Siri Scott, Stillwater, has been named to the Dean’s List in the school of liberal arts at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.



• Brianna Conrey Donaldson, daughter of J. Brian and Janet Conrey and granddaughter of Burton and Carmelita Bell, recently received a doctorate in cognitive psychology from Indiana University.

Donaldson, who graduated from Stillwater High School in 1998, and her husband, Bryan Donaldson, who received his doctorate in French linguistics, live in Bloomington, Ind.

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