People June 12

Claudia J. Golden of Bellevue has been named to the dean’s list at Beloit College for spring term. She is a junior. Students on the dean’s list must have maintained at least a 3.4 cumulative grade point average for the semester.

Julia Marks of Bellevue will spend time this summer volunteering with Amigos de las Américas (AMIGOS) on public health, education and environment projects in the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Paraguay.

Volunteers will live with host families and work in small teams on community development projects such as facilitating health and environmental education for children, constructing latrines and fuel-efficient stoves and providing technology training. Volunteers will also lead youth education projects to promote healthy social development, improve leadership skills and foster creative expression of young people in their host communities.

Cadet Reggie Woronowicz, daughter of Mary Ellen Mullen and Bo Woronowicz, and sister of Roberta Woronowicz of Bellevue, has been named to the dean’s list and earned the Distinguished Cadet Award for the Spring Semester – January through May at the U.S. Military Academy.

To achieve the Dean’s List, a cadet must maintain a 3.0 average in all courses. Distinguished Cadets must demonstrate academic excellence by maintaining a cumulative average of 3.67 or higher.

Woronowicz graduated from Seattle Preparatory School in 2007 and will be commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army upon graduation at West Point.

Stefanie Bigornia, a student at the Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, has been nominated to represent the state of Washington in the 2009 Congressional Student Leadership Conference (CSLC) on Theatre Arts, sponsored by LeadAmerica.

The CSLC is a college-accredited invitational leadership program for academically talented and promising young leaders from across the USA and internationally.

Stefanie will be on a 10-day leadership program at Fordham University’s Rosehill Campus in New York from June 15-June 24. Aside from participating in interactive leadership development workshops, she will also be taking part in workshops on playwriting, improvisation, production and design.

Linsey M. Warren, a 2005 graduate of Newport High School, graduated from University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, on May 17. Warren majored in international political economy, with a minor in French. She is the daughter of Bruce and Laura Warren of Bellevue.

Warren was a member of the Seattle Mountaineers and Tacoma Mountain Rescue. On campus she acted as a resident assistant. While at Puget Sound, she studied for a semester abroad in England in 2008.