40
Coweta
County
students
have
been
nominated
to the
2007
Governor’s
Honors
program.
Nominated
in a
variety
of
academic
areas,
the
students
have
held
formal
interviews
to
attend
the
prestigious
summer
academic
program
at the
end of
January
through
the
beginning
of
February.
Governor’s
Honors –
held
each
summer
at
Valdosta
State
University
- is a
highly
competitive
six-week
summer
instructional
program
designed
to
provide
intellectually
gifted
and
artistically
talented
high
school
students
challenging
and
enriching
educational
opportunities
not
usually
available
during
the
regular
school
year.
Nominees
and
their
parents
were
honored
at a
breakfast
at the
Central
Educational
Center
on
Thursday,
January
18.
This
year’s
Coweta
County
Governor’s
Honors
Program
nominees
are:
Central
Educational
Center:
Josh
Cash
(Health
Care),
Seth
Coltrain
(Technology),
Trey
Messer
(Design).
Newnan
High
School:
Heather
Hanson
(Fine
Arts),
Galen
Honea
(Fine
Arts),
Gabriel
Triggs
(Fine
Arts),
Braden
Chancell
(Social
Studies),
Abigail
Clements
(Fine
Arts),
Andrew
Bellisle
(Fine
Arts),
Copeland
Tucker
(Social
Studies),
Robert
Wilkin
(Math),
Alex
Storey
(Science),
Matthew
Craddock
(Science),
Sarah
Beth
Moseley
(Fine
Arts),
Scears
Lee
(Fine
Arts).
Northgate
High
School:
Rachael
Bucci
(Math),
Christopher
Kirkland
(Math),
Ashley
Clickner
(Spanish),
Erin
Blake
(Social
Studies),
Cody
Bower
(Vocal),
Rachel
Snow
(Vocal),
Cassandra
Scott
(Theatre),
Libba
Beaucham
(Music),
Bethany
Nickelson
(Music),
Chelsea
Smith
(Dance),
Ashley
Betsill
(Dance).
East
Coweta
High
School:
Kamna
Bohra
(Math),
Caroline
Stephens
(Social
Studies),
Jessica
Reffitt
(Science),
Brittany
Pittman
(Comm.
Arts),
Matthew
Strickert
(Spanish),
Brandon
Bringuel
(Math),
Peter
Boudreau
(Music),
Kendall
Harris
(Visual
Arts),
Katie
Barker
(Theatre),
Shasta
Olgesbee
(Visual
Arts),
Mike
Rovinsky
(Visual
Arts),
Karen
Vaughan
(Theatre),
Jeanette
Kazmierczak
(German),
Valerie
Harrish
(Dance).
At the
January
breakfast,
Coweta
County
School
System
Superintendent
Blake
Bass
honored
the
nominees,
saying
that
they all
were
among
the most
talented
and
highest-achieving
students
in
Coweta
County.
Bass
also
recognized
Newnan
Crossing
Elementary
School
media
specialist
Dale
Lyles,
who has
long
participated
in the
Governor’s
Honors
program
and
serves
as the
program’s
assistant
program
director.
Lyles
was also
a
governor’s
Honors
student
himself,
in the
summer
of 1970,
when he
attended
Newnan
High
School.
Lyles
noted
that the
program
is
highly
competitive,
with
only 700
students
statewide
selected
from
among
2,500
nominees.
“We
can’t
take
everyone
who
deserves
to go.”
Lyles
and
other
former
Coweta
County
Governor’s
Honors
students
spoke to
this
year’s
nominees.
East
Coweta
High
School
student
Eric
Arnold -
who
attended
last
summer,
specializing
in
science
– told
the
nominees
that he
wished
he could
go to
Valdosta
with
them.
“You’ll
have a
lot of
people
tell you
that
this
will be
a
life-changing
experience,”
said
Arnold.
“They’re
right.”
The 700
students
chosen
to
attend
Governor’s
Honors
are
“top-notch,
high-caliber
students.”
Ginny
McGuire,
who
attended
Governor’s
Honors
from
Newnan
High
School
to study
Spanish
in the
summer
of 1972,
old the
students
that the
experience
will be
well
worth
the
effort.
Becky
Freeburg
attended
Governor’s
Honors
in drama
in the
summer
of 1973
drama,
said
that her
experience
was
wonderful.
“But the
honor…
to be
recognized
by your
teachers
is the
best
thing
about
it.”
Rising
juniors
and
seniors
are
nominated
by their
teachers
to
Governor’s
Honors,
and must
pass
interviews
to
attend
the
selective
six-week
academic
program.
The
program
is
designed
to allow
students
in-depth
studies
in major
and
minor
subjects
of
interest,
and
provide
each
participant
with
opportunities
to
acquire
the
skills,
knowledge
and
attitudes
to
become
independent,
lifelong
learners.
Students
are
nominated
in a
specific
instructional
area in
which
their
abilities,
aptitudes,
and
interests
lie.
The 2007
Governor's
Honors
Program
will be
in
session
this
summer
at
Valdosta
State
University.
Rising
juniors
and
seniors
in
Georgia's
public
and
private
high
schools
may be
nominated
by their
teachers.
The
program
is
designed
to
provide
intellectually
gifted
and
artistically
talented
high
school
students
challenging
and
enriching
educational
opportunities
not
usually
available
during
the
regular
school
year.
Activities
are
designed
to
provide
each
participant
with
opportunities
to
acquire
the
skills,
knowledge
and
attitudes
to
become
independent,
life-long
learners.
Each
school
system
is
assigned
a
nomination
quota
based on
the
average
daily
attendance
of its
10th and
11th
grade
students.
Nominees
are
informed
of final
acceptance
decisions
by early
April.
ECHS:
East
Coweta
High
School’s
2007
Governor’s
Honors
nominees
are,
left to
right,
front
row,
Kamna
Bohra,
Jeanette
Kazmierczak,
Jessica
Reffitt,
Kendall
Harris,
Brittany
Pittman,
Karen
Vaughan;
back
row,
Peter
Boudreau,
Caroline
Stephens,
Katie
Barker,
Mike
Rovinsky,
Matthew
Strickert,
Brandon
Bringuel.
Not
pictured
are
nominees
Shasta
Oglesbee
and
Valerie
Harrish.
NGHS:
Northgate
High
School’s
2007
Governor’s
Honors
nominees
are left
to
right,
front
row,
Erin
Blake,
Raechel
Bucci,
Libba
Beaucham,
Bethany
Nickelson,
Rachel
Snow,
Ashley
Betsill;
back
row,
Cody
Bowers,
Chris
Kirkland,
Ashley
Clickner,
Cassandra
Scott
and
Chelsea
Smith.
NHS:
Newnan
High
School’s
2007
Governor’s
Honors
nominees
are,
left to
right,
front
row,
Andrew
Bellisle,
Heather
Hanson,
Robert
Wilkin,
Sarah
Beth
Moseley,
Matthew
Craddock;
back
row,
Galen
Honea,
Gabriel
Triggs,
Copeland
Tucker,
Braden
Chancellor,
Scears
Lee. Not
pictured
are
nominees
Abagail
Clements
and Alex
Storey
CEC: The
Central
Educational
Center’s
2007
Governor’s
Honors
nominees
are,
left to
right,
Josh
Cash,
Seth
Coltrain,
and Trey
Messer.
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