Engaged: Nicole Linstrum, Peter Melnik

Ted and Bernadette Linstrum of Seneca Road, Danbury, announce the engagement of their daughter, Nicole Linstrum, to Peter W. Melnik, son of Mark Melnik and Tami Beraud, of Wake Forest, N.C.

The future bride

graduated from Danbury High School and from

Simmons College in

Boston with a master's of education in elementary education.

She is a first-grade teacher at Thompson Elementary School in Arlington, Mass.

The future bridegroom graduated from Wakefield High School in Wake

Forest, N.C., and from

Boston University with

a bachelor's of science i

n manufacturing engineering. He is an operations

engineer at Luminus

Devices in Billerica,

Mass.

A July wedding is planned.