Students at Mascoma Valley Regional High School and Randolph Union High School are staging two starkly different plays about princesses this week.
The Mascoma Players, under the direction of David Wilson, will put their spin on the classic Broadway musical Once Upon a Mattress, adapted in 1959 from the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Princess and the Pea. Co-starring are Candace Dickerson as Princess Winnifred the Woebegone and Alex White as Prince Dauntless. Performances are scheduled for Friday and Saturday nights at 7 and Sunday afternoon at 2. Tickets cost $7 to $10.
In Randolph, sophomore Allison Johnston will play Diana, princess of Wales in The Diana Tapes, adapted from the interviews that tell-all author Andrew Morton conducted with the star-crossed royal icon in the mid-1990s. Freshman Ilya Andreyev portrays Morton, in a play that RUHS history professor Brian Rainville directs. Performances are scheduled for Thursday and Friday nights at 7:30 and on Saturday afternoon at 2. Admission is $6 to $9 at the door. Proceeds from ticket sales go toward the theater program’s annual trip to New York City in May.
The Enfield Department of Public Works is inviting aspiring engineers, architects and land-planners to apply for a paid internship helping with town road projects this summer.
The 12-week internship is open to college upperclassmen and to graduate students interested in infrastructure planning, asset management and collection of geospatial data. Much of the focus will be on developing a town-wide plan for roads. To learn more, visit enfield.nh.us.
The faculty at Lebanon High School recently named junior Roneet Arora as the school’s student of the month for March. The nomination announcement describes Arora as “a peer teacher, a friend, a model student, sensitive and so caring.”
More than 40 Upper Valley residents were recognized for their academic achievements during the fall 2018 semester at Plymouth State University.
The following, listed by hometown, earned places on the president’s list:
Enfield — Nicholas Doughty, Abigail Michaels, Sawyer Connolly.
Lebanon — Jillian Mitchell, Juniorlee Henry, Suntarin Henson.
White River Junction — Kaela Fisk.
Canaan — Emmaka Selby, Molly Timmins.
Plainfield — Samuel Clifton, Morgan Fisk, Benjamin Drye, Abigail Brann, Kaylee Rogers.
Orford — Sarah Parenti, Kayla Gould.
Cornish — Robert Jaarsma.
Woodstock — Grace McKeon.
Grantham — Emily Krueger.
Orange — John Daley.
Claremont — Mariah Davis, Katharine Parker, Ryan Shattuck, Josienne Lafreniere, Christian Stone.
Newport — Patrick Hennig, Allison Howe, Daniel Chasse.
Corinth — Alexis Rich.
Sunapee — Kylie Hershey.
Making the grade for the dean’s list were:
Enfield — Justine Martin.
Lebanon — Elana Midura.
Canaan — Pashents White.
Cornish — Laura Borchert.
Grantham — Samuel Buckman.
Orange — William Stone.
Claremont — Christine McElreavy.
Newport — Payton Wilson, Haley Morin.
Sunapee — Christa Hulton.
Charlestown — Connor Spaulding.
■Woodstock resident Emma McLiverty earned a spot on the dean’s list at Ithaca (N.Y.) College, for the fall semester. She is a senior majoring in media management and public relations.
■Champlain College in Burlington named the following Upper Valley residents to its dean’s list for the fall semester: Enfield’s Aidan Connolly; New London’s Charles Dalgleish; Grantham’s Ceilidh Kehoe; Randolph’s Aidan Patterson; and Springfield, Vt.’s Joshua Sherman.
David Corriveau can be reached at dcorriveau@vnews.com and at 603-727-3304. Send education news to schoolnotes@vnews.com.