Youth

Tatiana Rathke, a junior from Shelbyville, has been selected as one of six upperclassmen to blog about her experience at Bellarmine University. Rathke, a visual communication major, is spending the year abroad in Amsterdam, so she's blogging about her time there.

Shelby County students are part of Centre College's largest-ever first-year class and largest overall enrollment. Academically, more than half were in the top 10 percent of their high school classes, and their average ACT score is nearly 29. Both represent the strongest new-student profile of any Kentucky college or university.

Those from Shelby County are:

John Ruble of Bagdad is the son of Wes and Ann Ruble of Bagdad and is a graduate of Shelby County High School.

Children in Jennifer Gilbert’s class at Clear Creek Elementary used their hands as big ears while singing their class song about being hound dogs....because they are always sniffing out ways to learn. The lyrics were to the tune of Elvis Presley’s “You Ain’t Nothin’ But a Hound Dog.” The rock-n-roll singer would have been proud how the children sang but more so because of their literacy and thinking lesson on “metacognition.” Enjoying the music were Principal Karen Downs and Superintendent James Neihof.

Michelle Lace’s sixth-grade science class assembled three different volcanoes and watched them erupt earlier this week in science. Students Hunter Lumbatis (left) and Annie Clifton stand back as one erupts in red.