Home for three Newtown students this summer will be at the prestigious dance programs of the American Ballet Theater, Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet and Joffrey Ballet. Abi Mallin auditioned for and was accepted to Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet in California. It was a difficult choice for Christina Zuccareelo, after being accepted to American Ballet Theater in New York and California, Milwaukee Ballet and to Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, but she will be spending her summer in California at American Ballet Theater. The Joffrey Ballet program in New York City will be home to Heather McKeown, for the summer. The Performing Arts Center of Connecticut in Trumbull congratulates these three students in addition to their fellow dancers who will be attending acclaimed summer dance programs, many on scholarship.

 Stacy Shpunt was named to the Dean’s List at Ithaca (N.Y.) College’s Roy H. Park School of Communications for the fall 2008 term. To qualify for this academic honor, students must attain a minimum grade point average of 3.7 and complete a minimum of 15 credit hours, of which at least 12 are graded. A grade of D or F or an incomplete in a course automatically disqualifies a student from the dean’s list, regardless of the overall grade point average attained that semester.

Brian J. Tenney of Sandy Hook, a junior at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, has been placed on the Dean’s Honor List for outstanding academic achievement in the fall 2008 semester. Students with a quality point average of 3.6 or higher on a 4.0 scale for a semester’s work are placed on the Dean’s Honor List.

Tara Elizabeth Gaston, a junior at Gettysburg College, has been placed on the Dean’s Commendation List for outstanding academic achievement in the fall 2008 semester. Students with a quality point average of 3.33 or higher for a semester’s work are placed on the Dean’s Commendation List.

Nicholas Maurer was named to the fall 2008 semester’s Dean’s List at St Bonaventure University, in St Bonaventure, NY.