Liesl Vistaunet Gleaner copy editor Former Portland Adventist Academy communications director and marketing manager By Liesl Vistaunet PAA Students Offer Hope To Katrina Survivors Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) brought hope to a struggling community during spring vacation. Gale Crosby, school principal, his wife Sharon, who organized the trip, and Linda Neel, band and choir teacher, took 19 students to Bay Saint Louis, Mi... Read more PAA Genesis Study Results Earlier in the school year, Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) took part in The Cognitive Genesis Academic Study (CoGat) of Seventh-day Adventist Schools across the nation. The PAA freshman and juniors participated in the CoGat test while the sophom... Read more PAA Constituency Meeting Results in a Study for Rebuilding School on Current Land The Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) constituents met on Feb. 25 to make some exciting decisions about the future of PAA.By 2009, TriMet’s Max light rail system will be in full operation just 100 feet away from the front of the school property. Th... Read more PAA Heroes The Committee of 100 When Terrance and Dawn Baltazar started the breakfast and lunch program at Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) this year, the kitchen was in some need of help.When Bob Johnson, chair of the PAA mathematics department, agreed to oversee the PA system ... Read more PAA Teen Studies Abroad At just 16, Trevor Haynes, a Portland Adventist Academy junior, got on a plane to leave his home, his school, and all that is comfortable. He spent the next four plus months in Costa Rica, grappling with Spanish, tasting unusual food, and collecti... Read more Anatomy and Physiology Class Tours a Cadaver Anatomy and Physiology students at Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) got an up-close glimpse of God’s design of the human body on an educational trip to the anatomy laboratory at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). Mark Goodman, a second-y... Read more Portland Adventist String Orchestra It’s the sound of the cello, the violin and the viola joining their unique tones and melodies to form sweet harmonies at Portland Adventist Academy (PAA). The school is proud to announce the “Portland Adventist String Orchestra.”Under the directio... Read more Cars for Kids It was a cool but sunny autumn afternoon when Dan Patchin, Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) development director, and Brian Gosney, vice principal of finance, made their way to Darrell Myers Auto Sales in Boring, Ore.Earlier that year, a donor cam... Read more Pastor Prayer Breakfast At Portland Adventist Academy It’s the goal of every Adventist school to work closely with their constituent churches. But if you ask most pastors and school staff they’ll tell you the job is harder than it sounds.Les Zollbrecht, Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) chaplain, saw ... Read more PAA Welcomes New Staff Members Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) is proud of their newest staff and faculty members for the 2006–07 school year.Greg Phillips brings his wife Sandi and his two daughters Keeley and McKenna from Michigan where he has been a seminary student. Greg t... Read more Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 14 Next page ››
PAA Students Offer Hope To Katrina Survivors Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) brought hope to a struggling community during spring vacation. Gale Crosby, school principal, his wife Sharon, who organized the trip, and Linda Neel, band and choir teacher, took 19 students to Bay Saint Louis, Mi... Read more
PAA Genesis Study Results Earlier in the school year, Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) took part in The Cognitive Genesis Academic Study (CoGat) of Seventh-day Adventist Schools across the nation. The PAA freshman and juniors participated in the CoGat test while the sophom... Read more
PAA Constituency Meeting Results in a Study for Rebuilding School on Current Land The Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) constituents met on Feb. 25 to make some exciting decisions about the future of PAA.By 2009, TriMet’s Max light rail system will be in full operation just 100 feet away from the front of the school property. Th... Read more
PAA Heroes The Committee of 100 When Terrance and Dawn Baltazar started the breakfast and lunch program at Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) this year, the kitchen was in some need of help.When Bob Johnson, chair of the PAA mathematics department, agreed to oversee the PA system ... Read more
PAA Teen Studies Abroad At just 16, Trevor Haynes, a Portland Adventist Academy junior, got on a plane to leave his home, his school, and all that is comfortable. He spent the next four plus months in Costa Rica, grappling with Spanish, tasting unusual food, and collecti... Read more
Anatomy and Physiology Class Tours a Cadaver Anatomy and Physiology students at Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) got an up-close glimpse of God’s design of the human body on an educational trip to the anatomy laboratory at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). Mark Goodman, a second-y... Read more
Portland Adventist String Orchestra It’s the sound of the cello, the violin and the viola joining their unique tones and melodies to form sweet harmonies at Portland Adventist Academy (PAA). The school is proud to announce the “Portland Adventist String Orchestra.”Under the directio... Read more
Cars for Kids It was a cool but sunny autumn afternoon when Dan Patchin, Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) development director, and Brian Gosney, vice principal of finance, made their way to Darrell Myers Auto Sales in Boring, Ore.Earlier that year, a donor cam... Read more
Pastor Prayer Breakfast At Portland Adventist Academy It’s the goal of every Adventist school to work closely with their constituent churches. But if you ask most pastors and school staff they’ll tell you the job is harder than it sounds.Les Zollbrecht, Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) chaplain, saw ... Read more
PAA Welcomes New Staff Members Portland Adventist Academy (PAA) is proud of their newest staff and faculty members for the 2006–07 school year.Greg Phillips brings his wife Sandi and his two daughters Keeley and McKenna from Michigan where he has been a seminary student. Greg t... Read more
