odern Dance BFA and Communication BA, was named to University of Utah’s Spring 2020 Dean’s List. To qualify for the Dean’s List, students must earn a GPA of 3.5 or higher in at least 12 graded credit hours during any one term. Have a Mountain Folk story? Email it to Melissa Diaz Hernandez at…
Zachary Lattin, of Idyllwild, received Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering, cum laude, from the LeTourneau University in Longview, Texas. LeTourneau University held Spring 2019 commencement services recently for omore than 400 graduates who received bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Cum laude graduates maintained a GPA between 3.40 and 3.59 …
The four-year, full-tuition scholarship honoring Chinese-American singer-songwriter Wang Leehom ’99 will be presented to Zhengxi Zhang this fall. Aspiring music producer Zhengxi is the 2019 recipient of the Wang Leehom Scholarship to Berklee College of Music this fall. The annual scholarship, which was announced in 2017, was created for a talented and deserving musician from…
Bill Whitman of Idyllwild finished 15th out of 39 in his age group 55-59 males in the spring draft legal race of the International Triathalon Union’s Duathlon World Championships in Pontevedra, Spain, on Saturday, April 27. His time was 01:09:15. He finished 232nd out of 628 overall. Then on Saturday, May 4, he finished third…
Peter Davison of Idyllwild won another silver medal for New Age with the Global Music Awards for his CD “Blooming Memories of Springs.” His CD “Iris — Bringer of Dreams” won silver June 5, 2018, for the same award. “Idy is a wonderful place to compose music and make CDs,” he said.
Pine Cove resident and Idyllwild Town Crier Correspondent Debra A. Varnado has been awarded an all-expenses-paid 2019 California Fellowship from the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism. Each year, the center trains competitively selected professional journalists to participate in workshops, seminars and field trips, and to receive a stipend to defray costs associated with an…
The Music Center named 110 of Southern California’s most talented high school students as semifinalists in The Music Center’s 31st-annual Spotlight (Spotlight) program, a free nationally-acclaimed scholarship and arts training program for teens. An important part of The Music Center’s fundamental support for arts education, Spotlight is more than a competition. The program provides Southern…
Wheaton College student Micah Hitchcock of Idyllwild was named to the Dean’s List for the fall semester. To earn Dean’s List honors at Wheaton, an undergraduate student must carry 12 or more credit hours and achieve a 3.5 gpa or higher on the 4.0 scale. Wheaton College (Wheaton, Illinois) is a coeducational Christian liberal arts…
Audrey Carver of Idyllwild has joined more than 1,500 undergraduate students from around the world as they begin their academic careers at Tufts University, located in Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts. In all, only 14.6 percent of a record-breaking 21,501 applicants were admitted to the university, the second-lowest acceptance rate in university history. “We often talk about creating…
