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Published: August 11, 2007 12:49 pm
School briefs
Brownlee to attend leadership forum
Samantha Brownlee, a student from Krebs, has been accepted into the People World Leadership Forum. Brownlee will join a group of students in Washington, D.C., March 31-April 6 to earn high school credit while studying leadership and exploring some of the United States’ most prominate monuments and institutions.
From Capitol Hill to the Smithsonian Institution and from Colonial Williamsburg to the National Museum of American History, Brownlee will examine the characteristics of American leadership during times of national challenge and prosperity. Forum delegates will participate in group discussions and exercises to experience first-hand how successful leaders develop strategies, make decisions, build consensus, and foster change.
Brownlee was nominated and accepted for the honor based on outstanding scholastic merit, civic involvement and leadership potential.
The program is coordinated by People to People Student Leader Programs to fulfill the vision President Dwight D. Eisenhower had for fostering world citizenshp when he founded People to People during his presidency in 1956.
Cassell qualifies for recognition
Dakotah Cassell, a seventh grade student at Krebs Public School, recently qualified for Grand Recognition from the Duke University Talent Identification Program.
On May 16, Cassell traveled to Tulsa for a recognition ceremony on the state level, and on May 21 she attended the Grand Ceremony at Duke University in Durham, N.C.
Owens honored
Eastern Oklahoma State College Development Foundation Director Ann Owens was recently selected as one of The Journal Record’s 2007 “50 Making a Difference.”
The Journal Record’s Woman of the Year awards banquet will be held Sept. 20. The Oklahoma City newspaper has been recognizing Oklahoma female business and community leaders for 27 years.
The 50 honorees come from all career fields including educational and health care as well as entrepreneurs, politicians and civic volunteers.
Owens came to Eastern as Development Foundation Director in July from McAlester Regional Health Center Foundation, where she had been working since 2001.
She said she began her development foundation career with McAlester Regional Health Center.
She is a 1969 McAlester High School graduate, received her associate in science from Tulsa Junior College, Bachelor of Human Resources from Southern Nazarene University and her Master’s in Management from Southern Nazarene in 1999.
Smith lands SOSU job
McAlester resident Chris Smith has been named Southeastern Oklahoma State University’s admissions counselor/coordinator at Ardmore Higher Education Center.
Smith earned his bachelor’s degree with a double major in sociology and psychology, and completed his masters of business administration two years later. Both degrees were earned at SOSU.
Since graduation Smith has worked in international trade while living in Vietnam, with business tied in Australia, Egypt, Thailand and Singapore and Washington, D.C., working as an aid for Wes Watkins and Jim Inhofe. His last summer of college was spent southeast of Mexico City while studying the Spanish language.
His last employer was Northwest Arkansas Community College in Bentonville, Ark. While there he worked closely with Wal-Mart employees who had gone back to school.
Smith’s hometown is McAlester and he graduated from Hartshorne High School. His hobbies including hunting, fishing and spending time with his wife, Gina, who is from El Dorado, Ark. His parents are Tom Seth and Cindy Smith, of Durant, and Doug and Susan Rose, of McAlester.
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