SCOUTS
SCOUTS
Lowellville Eagle Scout
Benjamin Kalaman, 18, of Lowellville, son of George Kalaman, received his Eagle Scout Award recently at Old North Church, 7105 Herbert Road, Canfield. He is a member of Troop 25 at Canfield United Methodist Church, 27 S. Broad St., and his Scoutmaster is Kevin Prus Sr.
Benjamin joined the Scouts in February 1996 and is currently junior assistant Scoutmaster. He has been senior patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, quartermaster, troop guide and patrol leader. He has earned 26 merit badges and received the Arrow of Light and World Conservation awards. Among his special Scout activities were Wapashuwi Lodge 56 Order of the Arrow and Brotherhood membership. His Eagle Scout Project was cleaning and repairing the trails at Fair Park in Canfield.
Benjamin, who will graduate from Lowellville High School this year, is a member of its varsity baseball and football teams, and Envirothon.
Howland Eagle Scout
Joe Rosenblum, son of Donn and Barb Rosenblum of Howland, has received the Eagle Scout Award at his court of honor at the Elks Lodge in Howland. Joe is a member of the Greater Western Reserve Council, Boy Scouts of America, Arrowhead District, Troop 101. The troop is led by Scoutmaster James Potjunas.
Joe began his Scouting career with Cub Scout Pack 122, where he obtained his Bobcat Pin, Wolf, Bear and Webelo badges. A member of Troop 101 since 1996, he served as patrol leader, chaplain's aide, Order of the Arrow representative and troop guide.
He biked 184 miles along the C & amp;O Canal from Cumberland, Md., to Washington, D.C., with the troop in 2000. He also earned the 50-miler hiking award and the Paul Bunyan Woodsman Award.
For his Eagle project, he organized the construction and placement of Bluebird boxes at Howland Township Park for the Trumbull County Bluebird Society. He was elected to the Order of the Arrow, where he also served as chapter chief of the Wapashuwi Lodge.
He played drums for four years in the Howland High School marching band and played guitar and drums in the orchestra for the high school spring musicals. He serves as assistant Scoutmaster in Troop 101.
DOCTORS
University of Cincinnati
Jeffrey Alan Culp has earned the degree of doctor of medicine from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He is the son of Malvern J. and Janice K. Culp of Westwind Place, Austintown, and is married to the former Trisha A. Smith, also of Austintown.
Dr. Culp, a 1994 graduate of Austintown Fitch High School, attended Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, where he graduated in 1998 magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor of arts degree in biology.
He has begun a three-year residency in internal medicine at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. He will then pursue a three-year fellowship in cardiology.
HONORS
Creativity hall of fame
Charles H. Clark of Sebring was one of the first four creativity experts inducted into the Creative Problem Solving Institute's Hall of Fame at the leadership banquet last month at the Mark Adams Hotel, Buffalo, N.Y.
The CPSI is the major international conference sponsored by the Creative Education Foundation in Hadley, Mass., an authority on creativity, innovation and problem-solving. Typically, it attracts about 900 individuals from all 50 states and 30 countries.
Clark is an educational innovator, author of the book "Brainstorming," and past president of Yankee Ingenuity Programs. Recognized as a creative pioneer, he originated numerous methods to trigger creative thinking in churches, associations, government and business.
In 1985, the Odyssey of the Mind Organization gave him its annual Lipper Award for his contributions toward developing creativity. The following year, he was among the first to receive the Creative Education Foundation's Service and Commitment Award for more than three decades of volunteer service.
In 1990, the foundation bestowed its highest honor, its Distinguished Leader Award, for profound contributions to the creativity movement worldwide as a distinguished researcher, author and teacher.
A Harvard graduate who earned his master's degree in education from the University of Pennsylvania, he served as senior education and training consultant for the BF Goodrich Institute for Personnel Development at Kent State University; was president of Idea Laboratory, Pittsburgh; and was vice president of the Center for Independent Action.
Clark and his wife, Marilyn, live at Copeland Oaks Retirement Complex.
DOCTORS
Canfield graduate
John E. Paes of Westerville has received a degree of doctor of osteopathic medicine from Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. He will begin his residency in internal medcine in July at Doctor's Hospital in Columbus with plans to include a fellowship in nephrology or endocrinology.
While at Ohio University, Dr. Paes received a Student Enhancement Award Grant on intercellular gene studies relating to cystic fibrosis and a Research and Scholarly Advancement Fellowship. In addition, he was the president and founder of the Student Osteopathic Internal Medicine Association.
He received a master of forensic science degree in toxicology at George Washington University, Washington, D.C., in 1999, where he also worked at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Paes, a 1997 graduate of Wittenberg University, Springfield, earned a bachelor of arts degree in chemistry.
Dr. Paes is married to Hope Simonsen Paes, formerly of Ashburn, Va. He is the son of Martin and Dianne Paes of Canfield and a 1993 graduate of Canfield High School.
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