Young Palisadians Updated

PATRIC VERRONE, son of Maiya Williams Verrone and Patric M. Verrone, won the Daughters of the American Revolution essay contest. This is Patric’s second writing award this school year. A sixth grader at Corpus Christi School, he won second place for his age group in the Palisades library’s Summer Creative Writing contest, announced last October. Patric enjoys performing in theater productions, and most recently appeared in ‘Miss Nelson Is Missing’ at the Morgan-Wixson Theater in Santa Monica. He also plays trumpet, makes movies at home and plays with his pet mice. He is an older brother to fourth grader Marianne and first grader Teddy, both Corpus Christi students. Palisadian DIMITRI CHESNE, 11, starred as Dill in Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts on February 27 and 28. Chesne’s credits include ’42nd Street’ (Billy Lawlor) at Pierson Playhouse in Pacific Palisades, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ (Fyedka) at the Morgan-Wixson Theatre and ‘Dear Charlotte’ (Davies) at Crossroads Middle School Theatre, as well as several national and international commercials. He enjoys writing, directing and editing his own movies, playing electric guitar, singing, tap dancing, practicing karate, skateboarding and kickboxing. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ was the second production in Phantom Projects’ season, which includes three plays and a Young Artists Workshop. The nonprofit educational theater group presents a combination of classic texts from high school curricula and original message-based plays about issues of immediate relevance to young people. SETH T. MANDELKERN, son of Mark Mandelkern and Margot Metzner and a first-year student at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, was named to the dean’s list for his academic achievement during the fall 2006 semester. Students whose grade point averages are in the top 30 percent are named to the dean’s list. Seth is a graduate of Palisades Charter High School. MICAELA ROSENTHAL and JILLIAN RICHMOND were named to the dean’s list at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, for the fall 2006 semester. To qualify for the dean’s list, they had to receive grades equivalent to a 3.5 on a 4.0 scale for the semester. JESSICA C. ANTICO and BERIT E. AUERBACH-LYNN were named to the dean’s list at Boston University for the fall 2006 semester.