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• Fifth consecutive time on Newsweek's list of Best High Schools in America — the only Midlands school to make all the lists!
   
• Check our summer information page.
   
• Important tips from Mr. Sumter:
  • When interviewing for a job, your first appearance is very important. Some employers will not hire you if you have visible tattoos or nontraditional piercings. Truth of the matter is that not all customers like body art, and the customer comes first. If you choose to get piercings or tattoos in visible areas, you run the risk of not getting the job you really want. Have a safe summer.
  • Attention Students: Guidelines are now set for students who would like to get Work-Based Learning credit this summer. Applications are due by June 18. Information: msumter@richland2.org
     
• Watch The State's graduation highlights.
   
• Have a wonderful summer! Take a look at summer programs, summer school, summer assignments, (required) summer reading (pdf), and our Credit Recovery Program (pdf)!
   
• Yay! Palmetto Baptist has named RNE its 2009 Palmetto Health Teen Talk School of the Year! We were selected from the 38 schools that participated in this year’s program. Congratulations to all the students who participated in this year's Teen Talk–you made this award possible.
   
• Find out about the 2010 Australia Exchange
   
• For the 2009–2010 school year, District Two is requiring all students to provide proof of residence at enrollment and yearly thereafter. Current District Two students must provide one proof-of-residence. Deadline for submitting proof of residence: asap. New enrollees and district families who move to another in-district residence must submit three new proofs of residence. Students must submit their proof of residence to receive their 2009–2010 schedule. Details: www.richland2.org/content.aspx?id=12460. Information:  Judy Gray, jgray@richland2.org or ext. 2827
   
• Get this week's news here (updates daily)!
• Down our 2009 Annual Report (pdf)
• RNE in the news
   
• Donate to the Terry A. McCoy Leadership Scholarship (www.richland2.org/content.aspx?id=16338)

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• See where our Class of 2008 is

It's all good . . .

• Quintera Plair is an Exemplary Winner in the 2009 Teen Expressions Contest.
   

• Congratulations to our Senior Cosmetology Class— all passed their licensing exam!
   

• Horizon Senior Connie Ding won the William R. Ballou Community Service Award and PCA Senior Allison Minsk won the Robert F. Purnell Art Scholarship. Both awards are administered by the RNE Education Foundation.
   

• Connie Ding (Furman) and William Dye (Georgia Tech) each won college-sponsored Merit Scholarships.
   

• An article in the June 2009 Dance Teacher Magazine features RNE's Palmetto Center for Arts Dance Program and its chair, Dr. Anne Richardson. The article, "Rising to the Occasion," explores how public school dance programs are dealing with the funding issues. It includes PCA Dance's "Wall of Stars" fund-raiser, which enables parents can purchases a star with their child's name on it to be featured on the entry wall into the dance studio. In addition, PCA Dance has an enthusiastic parent board, with nonprofit status, that meets monthly and helps with raising money by selling season memberships and advertisements for the playbills.
   

• Marissa Glover won Best Essay at The Richland County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority's 2009 Scholarship Awards Program for her essay about her best teacher, Jose Carrion, and how he has been an inspiration to her. Other winners were London Knight, Alexis Counts, and Dedric Smith.
   

• Derek Frost is this year's winner of the Rob Lenoir Scholarship. The $350 scholarship is in memory of RNE alumnus Rob Lenoir who was killed on September 11, 2001, at the World Trade Center.
   

• Julia Jacobs won a 2009 National Merit Scholarship.
   

• Tre'vell Anderson won the first Terry McCoy Leadership Scholarship.
   

• The Governor's School of Arts and Humanities accepted Lena Jake for its dance program.
   

• Horizon Senior Connie Ding won the Hollingsworth Scholarship at Furman University, enabling her to participate in a study-away experience and an off-campus internship program. The total value of the scholarship exceeds $100,000 over four years.
   

• Horizon Senior Hannah Bise won a Certificate of Merit from The Columbia Scholastic Press Association, a national student press organization sponsored by Columbia University. Bise's entered her layout for “Mr. and Miss RNE,” published in The Cavalier, in the category "News page design: tabloid format color" for the association's 2008–2009 Gold Circle Awards.
   

• Horizon Senior Samantha Disharoon won Presbyterian College’s Quattlebaum Scholarship (a full scholarship) and Fuqua Music Scholarship.
   

• Palmetto Center for the Arts Visual Arts Senior Zeb Virkus won a 2009–2010 Congress-Bundestag Scholarship, enabling him to study in Germany for a full year.
   

• A poem by PCA Literary Arts Junior Sara Simpson, "Sic Semper Tyrannus," won second place in the Carl Sandburg Lincoln Poetry Contest for 9th–12th graders. There were hundreds of submissions.
   

• To celebrate National Poetry Month, The State invited student poets to submit a poem for publication in the Neighbors section. Of the 656 poems submitted, four poems by PCA Literary Arts poets were selected for inclusion: William Dye (Senior) "Six Ways of Looking at a Fallen Tree Trunk"; Ben Catoe (Senior) "art"; Ashley Cohen-Burnell (Senior) "My South"; and Geoffrey Corvi (Freshman) "When Sorrow Comes to You".
   

• Sophomore Meganne Kelly, a PCA Strings Sophomore and member of The Northeast Current, and PCA Orchestra Director Jose Carrion were featured in the EVS Currents newsletter.
   

• PCA Theatre Freshman Jordan Jones has been accepted to the Governor's School Summer Program for theatre
   

• Freshman Walter "A. C." Reed played in the Harbour Town Cup, a pro-am tournament, on a team with his Jim Clyburn (his grandfather), John Clyburn, Cliff Kresge, and Alex Kirpoff. His coach/caddy at the tournament was Bobby Collar, RNE's head golf coach and a special ed teacher.
   

• Elaine Sudduth is the April recipient of Richland Two's Culture of Excellence award. Since retiring from the Math Department in 1999, Ms. Sudduth has returned to help wherever she is needed. She is recognized for her tireless service and dedication to Richland Northeast.
   

• iLink teacher Charles Vaughan won first place for poster presentation during Graduate Student Day at USC. He focused on how Web 2.0 technology (podcasts, wikis, and Weblogs) affect collaboration among tenth graders in a Global Studies class. His co-researchers were the students in his third-period iLink Honors Global Studies II class.
   

• A poem by Barbara Thomson, who heads the PCA Literary Arts program, won second place in The South Carolina Poetry Initiative's 2009 Single Poem Contest. There were 600 submissions overall.