Courtesy photo Cassie Shinall, daughter of Steven and Kathy Shinall, was recently crowned Speake High School’s homecoming queen.

Education In Brief

Clark honored

Chelsea Clark of Decatur has been inducted into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi at Mississippi State University. Membership is by invitation only and is based on the top 7.5 percent of second-semester juniors and top 10 percent of seniors and graduate students at MSU.

Her parents are Doug and Tammy Clark, and she is a 2005 graduate of West Morgan High School.

UNA PRCA winners

University of North Alabama public relations students participated in the Public Relations Council of Alabama conference Sept. 16-18 in Mobile. Winners were: Marquita Diggs of Hillsboro, second place newsletters and second place promotional brochure; Christine Azzarello of Athens, honorable mention newsletters.

Osteopathic medicine

Nina Yokochi of Salem, W.Va., is attending the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, Lewisburg, W.Va.

She is a graduate of Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va., where she received her bachelor’s degree in chemistry. She also received the WVU Achievement Scholarship and the WVU Valedictorian Scholarship and was a member of Gamma Beta Phi Honor Society.

Her parents are Laura Yokochi of Salem and Haruki Yokochi of Decatur.

Radon poster winner

Adayzah Watkins is the winner of the 2007 Morgan County Radon Poster contest. She is fifth-grader at Austinville Elementary School. Her poster will go on to state competition. Her poster detailed the effects of radon and death rates from radon exposure.

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