Fitchburg teen wins Young Artist prize.COLUMN: Neighbors Cynthia Schilling, 15, of Fitchburg recently won a Sylvia Gafvert Stubblebine Scholarship Prize of $500 in the Music Worcester Young Artist Competition. The prize was awarded through the Greater Worcester Community Foundation. Cynthia, a Fitchburg High student, plays both piano and viola. She will perform a Mendelssohn piano concerto with the New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. Youth Chamber Ensemble, which will perform a series of concerts in Iceland in June. The following Fitchburg and Leominster students graduated recently from the University of New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). : Fitchburg: Ashley E. Basque and Alex Normandin. Leominster: Brianna L. Craite, Michael D. DiBenedetto, Andrea J. Donahue, Stephen J. Secino and Stephen A. Shaw. Fitchburg State College alumni who have contributed to their community and their profession were recently honored during the spring undergraduate commencement celebration. Dr. Barbara Heywood Tindle and Stanislaus "Stas" Szlosek Jr. were presented with alumni awards during the alumni breakfast held before commencement exercises. Dr. Tindle was posthumously post·hu·mous adj. 1. Occurring or continuing after one's death: a posthumous award. 2. Published after the writer's death: a posthumous book. 3. awarded the Alumni Achievement Award. She died on Jan. 13, 2008, after a battle with pancreatic carcinoma. Dr. Tindle served as the director of hematopathology from 1977 to 2002 and as the director of clinical pathology clinical pathology n. 1. The practice of pathology as it pertains to the care of patients. 2. The subspecialty in pathology concerned with the theoretical and technical aspects of laboratory technology that pertain to the from 1996 to 2004 at Fletcher Allen Health Care Fletcher Allen Health Care is a tertiary referral hospital for Vermont and northern New York State, a Level I Trauma Center, and a teaching hospital in alliance with the University of Vermont College of Medicine. in Vermont. Mr. Szlosek, an auto body and collision repair instructor at Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School Vocational Technical School (Russian: профессиона́льно-техни́ческое , was presented with the Alumni Miller Award. He is described by colleagues as a teacher "who has made a lasting contribution to the hundreds of students he has trained." Many of his students have come to own an automotive business themselves, accrediting Mr. Szlosek as their inspiration. ART: PHOTO PHOTOG pho·tog n. Informal A person who takes photographs, especially as a profession; a photographer. : SUBMITTED PHOTO CUTLINE: Cynthia Schilling of Fitchburg won a Sylvia Gafvert Stubblebine Scholarship Prize in Music Worcester's Young Artist Competition. |
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