Dan Patchin PAA GLEANER Correspondent By Dan Patchin Locker Room Remodeled as Senior Project Mark Dearing and Trevor Wart, Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) seniors, designed, raised money for and remodeled the PAA locker room as their senior project. Dearing and Wart said that they wanted to do something for their school that would benefi... Read more Test Results at Portland Adventist Academy Portland Adventist Academy has the honor and distinction of having a student qualify as a possible National Merit Scholarship finalist. This student who wishes to remain anonymous scored in the 99th percentile on the Preparatory Scholastic Aptitud... Read more Committee Provides Funds for Major PAA Projects Portland Adventist Academy’s Committee of 100 met recently for their fourth annual meeting and brunch. At that time, they were able to distribute more than $26,000 to various projects requested by PAA staff members.The Committee of 100 was an idea... Read more T-shirts Share Gospel While many schools have difficulty regulating objectionable and offensive slogans and mottos on T-shirts worn by their students, Portland Adventist Academy wishes that more of their students would emulate the slogans worn by student Jon Schaffer—s... Read more PAA Hosts Head Start Christmas Party Most of the students at Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) spent the first day of Christmas vacation as they have for the last several years—by sharing God’s love and blessings with 106 children from the Knott Head Start Center, located near the aca... Read more PAA Receives WWII Newspaper Collection Linda Usher, a recent Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) board member, donated a newspaper collection to Marc Patchin, PAA history, global studies and German teacher, for student use. The collection is comprised of front pages and headlines publishe... Read more PAA Students Test Stream Health The Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) biology class spent a recent afternoon ankle deep in Johnson Creek, a small tributary of the Willamette River, to learn how scientists gauge the pollution level of a watershed.The trip was led by Terry Verlo, P... Read more PAA Violinist Puts Sabbath Above Career Ellen Cockerham, a Portland Adventist Academy senior, has been selected as the concertmistress of the Portland Youth Philharmonic (PYP) for the 2003-04 season. She was chosen for this prestigious honor through a blind audition by Mei-Ann Chen, orc... Read more PAA's Rock Climbers Tackle Central Oregon Eighteen students and four sponsors spent a week this summer defying gravity while suspended on the face of the well-known Smith Rocks in central Oregon. Organized by Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) chaplain Les Zollbrecht, the trip included dail... Read more Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 3
Locker Room Remodeled as Senior Project Mark Dearing and Trevor Wart, Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) seniors, designed, raised money for and remodeled the PAA locker room as their senior project. Dearing and Wart said that they wanted to do something for their school that would benefi... Read more
Test Results at Portland Adventist Academy Portland Adventist Academy has the honor and distinction of having a student qualify as a possible National Merit Scholarship finalist. This student who wishes to remain anonymous scored in the 99th percentile on the Preparatory Scholastic Aptitud... Read more
Committee Provides Funds for Major PAA Projects Portland Adventist Academy’s Committee of 100 met recently for their fourth annual meeting and brunch. At that time, they were able to distribute more than $26,000 to various projects requested by PAA staff members.The Committee of 100 was an idea... Read more
T-shirts Share Gospel While many schools have difficulty regulating objectionable and offensive slogans and mottos on T-shirts worn by their students, Portland Adventist Academy wishes that more of their students would emulate the slogans worn by student Jon Schaffer—s... Read more
PAA Hosts Head Start Christmas Party Most of the students at Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) spent the first day of Christmas vacation as they have for the last several years—by sharing God’s love and blessings with 106 children from the Knott Head Start Center, located near the aca... Read more
PAA Receives WWII Newspaper Collection Linda Usher, a recent Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) board member, donated a newspaper collection to Marc Patchin, PAA history, global studies and German teacher, for student use. The collection is comprised of front pages and headlines publishe... Read more
PAA Students Test Stream Health The Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) biology class spent a recent afternoon ankle deep in Johnson Creek, a small tributary of the Willamette River, to learn how scientists gauge the pollution level of a watershed.The trip was led by Terry Verlo, P... Read more
PAA Violinist Puts Sabbath Above Career Ellen Cockerham, a Portland Adventist Academy senior, has been selected as the concertmistress of the Portland Youth Philharmonic (PYP) for the 2003-04 season. She was chosen for this prestigious honor through a blind audition by Mei-Ann Chen, orc... Read more
PAA's Rock Climbers Tackle Central Oregon Eighteen students and four sponsors spent a week this summer defying gravity while suspended on the face of the well-known Smith Rocks in central Oregon. Organized by Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) chaplain Les Zollbrecht, the trip included dail... Read more