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Caity Rides Again for the Cause!
In
April 2005 Caity Cunningham (former MPE student)
raised more than $2,400 for the Family Fun Ride sponsored by the Dream House
for Medically Fragile Children, Inc. Thanks to the support of our community Caity was the # 1 individual fund raiser for the charity
event and will ride again on May 7th in hopes of raising more than $3,000 to
donate this year! This is an amazing
challenge for a 12 year girl who received a heart transplant at the age of 10
months. Caity
will be at the MPE Carnival from 12:00PM to 5:00PM accepting donations
on behalf of Dream House and hopes that you will support her in reaching her
goal! Dream House for Medically
Fragile Children, Inc. is an Atlanta based non-profit organization whose
mission is to improve the quality of life of medically fragile foster
children and their caregivers. More
information can be found at
www.dreamhouseforkids.org.
Caleb McCracken attended Mountain Park from Kindergarten through
5th Grade. Currently a sixth grader at Crabapple
Middle School, Caleb is
currently playing the lead role of Tom in "Tom Sawyer" at Kudzu
Playhouse in Roswell.
Any current Mountain
Park student is
invited to attend the shows,
running each
Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m.
through the end of May. Tickets are normally $8,
but any
current Mountain
Park student may attend
at a discount of $2 per student.
Call 770-594-1020 for reservations.
Sixty-three Fulton
County
students have been named semifinalists in the 51st annual National Merit
Scholarship Program. These scholastically-talented high school seniors now
continue in the competition for 8,200 Merit Scholarship awards.
The students were identified
through exceptionally high scores on the PSAT/National Merit Scholarship
Qualifying Test, which they took as juniors last school year. As
semifinalists, the students now must fulfill several requirements in order to
advance to the finalist round. They must have a record of high academic
performance, be endorsed and recommended by their school principal, and earn
SAT scores that confirm their earlier qualifying test performance.
A detailed scholarship
application, which includes the student’s self-descriptive essay and
information about his or her participation and leadership in school and
community activities, also must be submitted.
Finalists will be announced in
February, with the winners to be announced in the spring.
MPE
alumni include:
Joseph M. Binney
John D. Cogdell
Sarah M. Guest
MPE Alumni perform in “Oliver!”
Crabapple Middle
School’s
performance of Oliver was May 13-14, 2005 at 7:00
pm at Roswell
High School. Congratulations
to former MPE students who will be in this
production including Sumner Green, Drew Carlos, Kalea
Cauthen. Anisha Naidu,
Mary Pannier, Ashton Crain, Michelle Lanier, Phillip Miller, Kay
Rogers, Jenna
Coleman, Hayley Mecher,
Lindsay Olson, Ren Robinson, Chris Miller,
Christian
Conroy, Shannon Dooley and Vincent Guagliardo.
Delilah Southard
Dawson (Missy Southard) has a solo mural exhibit at The Art Place
- Mountain View
on Sandy
Plains from
February 17 to March 18. The mural is 36 feet by 8 feet and honors
"February is Children's Book Month". It includes over 30
classic and recent characters from children's books. There will be a
reception this Thursday from 7-9pm
at which the librarians from the Mountain View Library will be
reading some of the books used in the mural and offering other book-centered
activities.
The Art Place
- Mountain View
is located at 3330
Sandy Plains Road in Marietta. Their number is
(770) 509-2700. School groups are welcome and can arrange story time
and gallery time.
William “C.J.” Anene (Roswell
North Elementary) came in fourth place in the county spelling bee. He
is a fifth grader. CJ was a student at MPE through fourth grade.
Zach Whitt won the CMS National Geographic Bee; Taylor French
and Josh Caudill have made the All-State Chorus
and will perform in Savannah.
Jaime Walker Blanton, is an MPE alumni class of 1991. She
is also a 1998 graduate of Roswell High
School. She graduated from Texas Christian University
in 2002 with a degree in Journalism. She was on the staff of the Skiff, the
daily newspaper at TCU, receiving many writing awards, and also was a
reporter for a weekly newspaper in Parker County, Texas.
After she graduated from TCU, she was employed by the Dept. of Transportation
as a Public Information officer and recently completed a stint with the
Dallas/Fort Worth Business News as a columnist on medical issues. She
currently is a freelance writer and writes for the TCU Alumni Magazine. She
lives in Arlington, Texas and is married to John Blanton from Louisville, Ky.
Their daughter, Jenna Kay, was born on Sept. 17, 2004
Amy Anderson Clark (MPE Class of 1986) and Greg Clark (MPE Class of
1984) have returned from Nepal and the Peace Corps where they taught English
to students ages 6-14.
Congratulations MPE Alumni!
The weekend before Thanksgiving, some students represented Crabapple Middle
at the Solo and Ensemble at River Trail Middle School. All students who
participated received an evaluation rating that was tied in to the music they
were playing. We would like to recognize and congratulate each and every as
they are ALL Mountain Park Alumni.
The goal is to receive a I (Superior) or an II (Excellent).
Superior: Brittany Giles and Colleen Cundiff
(duet); Garrett Egan (solo); Andrea Tompros (solo)
Excellent: Sophie Archer, Claire Bridgeman
and Devon Moore (trio); Sarah Grucza (solo);
Christina Dooley and Jennifer Blyth (duet); Brittany Giles (solo)
Announcing MPE Alumni “Reflections” Winners!
Congratulations to all CMS students who participated in the National PTA
Reflections competition. The following MPE Alumni pieces were selected by the
judges to advance to the North Fulton Council level of competition.
Photography: 2nd place – 6th Grade - Alicia Muzzy
Visual Arts: 1st and 2nd Place – 7th Grade - Anne Shaw
Literature: 1st Place – 6th Grade – Ibraheem
Katoot
1st Place 7th Grade – Zach Whitt, 2nd Place – 7th Grade – Kyron
Pierce
Musical Composition: 2nd Place – 8th Grade – Bret Stonecipher
The students winning “Best in Show” (work is judged best overall in each
category) are Anne Shaw in Visual Arts and Ibraheem
Katoot in Literature.
One of our alumni, Maggie Watts, is in an off-Broadway musical, UNDER
THE BRIDGE, written by Kathie Lee Gifford, in New York.
Under the Bridge
Zipper Theatre, 336 West 37th Street ( 8th/ 9th Avenues) 212/239-6200 Tues
through Sat @ 7:00PM, Sat @ 2:00PM, Sun @ 1:00Pm & 6:00PM $55.00 Under
The Bridge - Musical Based on the Newbery Medal-winning book of the same name
this musical for all ages is written by Kathie Lee Gifford and award winning
composer David Pomeranz. Cast : Ed Dixon, Florence
Lacey, Jacquelyn Piro, Dan Cooney, Alexa Ehrlich, Thursday Farrar, Samantha Grossman, Tamra Hayden, Greg Stone, Maggie Watts, Andrew What it's
about: Set in 1953 Paris, it tells the story of a lifelong hobo, Armand, and
the adventures he shares with a homeless family he find living under
"his bridge." From 12/01/04 to 2/20/05; opening 1/06/05. Tuesday -
Friday @ 7pm, Saturday @ 2pm & 7pm, Sunday @ 1pm & 6pm. Running Time:
2 hours, including one 15 minute intermission. $55.00
We
love to hear about the successes of our Mustangs. If you have any Alumni
News, please submit it to MPE Webmaster.
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