Residents find success at University of Scranton

At the ceremony, 64 of the 872 members of the class of 2008 were honored and recognized for their academic excellence.

Blorstad was also named a winner of the Excellence in Exercise Social Award. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in exercise science with a minor in psychology. During her time at Scranton, she also was a member of Alpha Sigma Nu, Phi Epsilon Kappa, the physical therapy club and exercise science club.

A graduate of Elizabeth Seton High School in Bladensburg, Blorstad will stay at the University of Scranton to pursue a doctorate in physical therapy.

King won the Excellence in Theology and Religious Studies Award at Class Night. She majored in theology and English, for which she received her bachelor's degree. Her minor was coaching.

While at University of Scranton, she was a member of the honors program, Sigma Tau Delta and Esprit. She was also active at the school's writing center.

She will be pursuing her master's degree in education while working as a resident director at Salisbury University in Salisbury.

New University Park

Web site up and running

The town of University Park launched its new Web site on Friday. Mayor John Tabori said the new site will be more interactive for residents and easier to use and update for town staff.

The site will have the same address, www.upmd.org, but will include new features, one of which is blogs for Tabori and members of the University Park Town Council.

"A council member can go on, raise an issue and then get a response from the public," he said "It's totally interactive from our standpoint."

College Park resident named to St. Mary's dean's list for fifth time

For the fifth time, College Park native Julia Deck has been named to the dean's list at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

Deck, who just completed her junior year,†has been designated a Senior St. Mary's Scholar. The Senior St. Mary's Scholar is a designation given to students with a cumulative grade-point average of 3.5 or better, who have earned at least 32 semester-hours taken for a letter grade at St. Mary's College.

Deck is an English major with an interest in sports journalism. Deck has had her own music/talk radio show for four of the six semesters she has been at St. Mary's.

She is also a member of the school's newly formed softball team and performed in the St. Mary's' spring 2008 dance show.

During her upcoming senior year, Deck will also be a teaching assistant for a Jewish culture class.

Deck is scheduled to graduate in the spring of 2009 and hopes to pursue a job with the Baltimore Orioles.

Residents to put on Spanish performance

Adult residents of Adelphi and the surrounding areas will get a crash course in Spanish without the use of textbooks or exams in the coming week.

Carol Beigel, Mary Leonard, Connie Kelly, Glenn Jones, Miriam Jareck, Janet Paduhovich, Dee McChessey and Barbara Moore will participate in a performance called "Bizarre, Exaggerated, Personal Drama" as part of an intense Spanish course.

The course, taught by Spanish instructor Carol Nezzo, uses drama to teach students the language instead of traditional methods.

The adult students, who have a combination of beginner to advanced Spanish-speaking levels, are in class for four hours a day every day for one week.

"Adults become fluent fast when they take part in humorous drama," Nezzo said.

By the end of the course, students will be able to tell their own stories and write their own monologues in Spanish.

For more information or to participate in the class, call Nezzo at 301-864-5267 or e-mail tprsspanish@gmail.com. The course costs &#e6;150 per person and partial scholarships are available.

Hair salon donates cuts

Every time a haircut is purchased for a child 18 or younger at the Hair Cuttery, the company will give a free haircut to an underprivileged child as part of its Share a Haircut program through Aug. 15. Hair Cuttery, which has donated more than 380,000 such haircuts as part of the program since the inception, has locations at Laurel Lakes Centre on Baltimore Avenue and at Maryland City Plaza on Fort Meade Road.

NASA welcomes the public to view Its facilities

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center will open its doors to the general public will allow the public to see what NASA Goddard does, meet the people, see the spacecrafts, take tours, partake in lots of interactive activities for adults and children, meet scientists and engineers, enjoy food from vendors, music, and more.

LaunchFest is coming to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sept. 13. There will be free†admittance to†explore NASA science and technology with tours and hands-on activities.†Call 301-286-NEWS or visit http://www.nasa.gov/

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