Butler American Legion Auxiliary Unit 117 will sponsor the following two delegates at the ALA Girls State program at Shippensburg University:

Anchor Losch is a student at Butler High School and the daughter of Mary Jo Mustello and Ralph Losch.

She participates in JROTC, student council, Coast Guard Auxiliary and Youth and Government. After graduation, she hopes to attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, go on to medical school and join the U.S. Army as a medical corps officer.

Anna Haag is a student at Butler High School and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Haag.

She participates in the photography club, art club, Youth and Government and musicals. She hopes to study cultural anthropology and cinematography after graduation.

The weeklong event uses a simulated community to teach about the democratic process and how government works at the local, state and national levels. The delegates also will tour the state capital.

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PHILADELPHIA — Kathryn Claudy of Butler was named an Outstanding Senior by the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Grove City College.

The award is given to a senior accounting major at each of 80 participating Pennsylvania colleges and universities.

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The Butler County Fire Chiefs Association awarded two $2,000 scholarships at the annual Fire School Banquet held at the South Butler Fire Hall.

Paula Schmidt is a registered nurse employed as an emergency department nurse at Butler Memorial Hospital. She is a member of the South Butler Township Volunteer Fire Company where she serves as captain and consistently receives the “Most Calls Answered” award.

Schmidt is completing a master’s degree in nursing-family nurse practitioner at Carlow University.

Isaac Burton graduated from Slippery Rock High School. He was a member of the National Honor Society and the football and track and field teams. He is a member of the Harrisville Volunteer Fire Company.

Burton will study mechanical engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. He is the son of Kevin and Sarah Burton of Harrisville.

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INDIANA, Pa.— Warren Geither and Elizabeth Hartzel received the Merle Stilwell Scholarship for Mathematics from the Department of Mathematics at Indiana (Pa.) University.

Geither, of Butler, received the Sutton Scholarship and is a member of the IUP mock trial team. He also is president of his community residence hall council.

He is the son of Jim and Angie Geither and a 2014 graduate of Butler High School.

Hartzell of Butler is a member of club lacrosse and the multicultural student recruitment and retention team.

She is the daughter of Ronald and Brenda Hartzel and a 2014 graduate of Knoch High School.

The scholarship is for full-time students majoring in mathematics or mathematics education who demonstrate involvement in community service activities.

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MANCHESTER, N.H — Ryan Pfeifer, an athletic training major from Chicora, was inducted into Phi Epsilon Kappa, the national honor society for sport and exercise science, at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford.

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BRADFORD — The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford inducted Blair Patterson of Cabot into Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society.

Patterson is a public relations and writing major

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BRADFORD — The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford inducted Hunter Kline of Portersville into Beta Beta Beta, the national biological honor society.

Kline is a biology major.

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BRADFORD — The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford inducted Tyler Schnebel of Evans City into the Institute of Management Accountants Honor Society.

Schnebel is an accounting and business management major.

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Tyler Protivnak of Butler participated in the 2015 First-Year Engineering Conference at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering. He and his teammate were awarded first place for their poster presentation “The Application of Cadmium Telluride PV Cells on Flexible Polymer Substrates.”

He also was selected for the National Society of Leadership and Success, Sigma Alpha Pi, at the University of Pittsburgh.

Protivnak graduated from St. Joseph High School in Natrona Heights.

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JACKSON TWP — Eric Chatterjee and Callee McCosby, members of the Seneca Valley High School Class of 2015, received national recognition at the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards in New York.

Chatterjee won a national gold medal for his mixed media piece titled “Abstract Self-Portrait.”

McCosby won a national silver medal for her ceramics and glass piece entitled “Shoe.”

Works receiving gold medals were on display at Parsons, The New School for Design. A selection of work also was featured at Pratt Manhattan Gallery.

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INDIANA, Pa. — Nicholas DeLeone of Evans City was selected for the Sutton Scholars academic achievement scholarship program at Indiana (Pa.) University.

DeLeone is the son of Paul and Amy DeLeone and a 2015 graduate of Mars High School. He received scholastic art awards, scholastic writing awards and is a Gold Key and Silver Key scholastic art and writing award recipient.

He won first place in the sculpture category for the Associated Artists of Butler County event in 2015. He was a high honor roll student and a member of the National Honor Society. He participated in the all-school play and musical and was a volunteer youth leader at Grace Community Church.

He plans to study fine arts at IUP.

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Megan Domaradzki, a senior at Slippery Rock High School, received the Rotary Youth Leadership Award from the Portersville-Prospect Rotary.

She attended a five-day RYLA event at Westminster College where students discussed leadership, service and career opportunities and exchanged ideas about ethical and social issues.

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CRANBERRY TWP — Keystone State Music Theater chose Tessa DeJeet, Lance Hahn, and Mia Manuppelli as student apprentices for their professional summer season. The students worked backstage during “Always … Patsy Cline” and are ensemble members in “Pinkalicious, The Musical.”

Tessa is entering eighth grade at Seneca Valley Middle School.

Hahn is graduate of Seneca Valley High School. He plans to study music education at Baldwin Wallace University.

Mia is entering ninth grade at Mars High School.

The students also study dance disciplines, voice, song repertoire, acting, musical theater and improv at the Keystone State Music Theater Academy.

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Cordray Negley of Butler, Junior Miss Butler County, captured the title of Miss TU Regional Majorette at the Twirling Unlimited Regional Competition in York.

The competition included modeling, interview, solo and show routine. She placed first in all four categories. She also placed first in the regional strut category.

She is an eighth grader at Butler Intermediate High School and the daughter of John and Heston Negley of Butler.

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