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October PTO Meeting Report – High School

Posted on 29. Oct, 2009 by admin in Uncategorized

Upcoming Events

October 29, Club Pictures

November 11, Conferences

November 17, Principal’s Coffee

November 19 and 20, Fall Play (moved because of teams in playoffs)

November 23, Athletic Awards Night (moved because of playoffs and play)

School News

The High School report was presented by Pat Haynish.

•    Cum Laude Induction for the Class of 2010 started Wednesday, October 14, where the top 10% of the senior class were inducted.  The Cum Laude Society is a fellowship of scholars whose purpose is to recognize students who demonstrate academic excellence in a college preparatory curriculum. The definition and criteria that constitutes an academic honor award determining how students are selected is left to the discretion of each individual chapter. Considerations for the criteria include the philosophy and policies governing our school. As provided and outlined in the Cum Laude Constitution, a chapter may elect up to 20 percent of the senior class who demonstrate academic excellence. Each Chapter may elect student members not more than 20% of the graduating class who have academic excellence in the college preparatory curriculum, choosing: The whole number toward the end of the senior year, or Up to 10% of the number at the end of the junior year or early in the senior year, and the remainder near the end of the Senior Year.
•    Leadership Awards- Selected as the outstanding sophomore leader and the recipient of the Hugh Obrien Ambassador Award is sophomore Ted Cogan. Previous recipients were Jimmy Boldt and Matthew Weinert-Stein. Selected as the outstanding junior class leaders and applying for the Look Up to Cleveland Award are Sam Schiferl, Kathryn Mahoney and Thomas Donley. Last year’s recipient was Matt Owen. Selected as outstanding junior leader’s and the recipient of the Leadership Geauga Award are Dan Driscoll and Brooke Kratche. Last year’s recipient s were Kaitlyn Wolfe and Bobby Winkleman,
•    Pumpkin Roll – have received a few phone calls regarding the annual pumpkin roll that takes place in Chagrin.  As a proactive measure I have e-mailed a letter to all junior and senior parents about this event.  Information has also been posted on our website informing parents that this is not a school sanctioned event.
•    Community Service Fair – A very well-organized effort came to fruition yesterday.  We had 20 community service organizations participate.  Our students visited areas of interest and signed up for future events. We have placed contact information on our website under Community Service.  We are currently having problems with this tab.
•    Club pictures that were scheduled for October 14 have been moved to October 29.
•    Fall Play – dates have been changed to November 19 and 20, because of football playoffs.
•    Athletic Awards Night – moved to November 23, because of playoffs and rescheduling fall play. We had a good fall, athletically. Our volleyball team finished third in the league. Our Cross Country Girls finished second in the league. Ladies soccer tied for first. We are CVC champions in football, men’s soccer, golf and tennis. On Fri the 23rd, we will clap out our tennis girls to the state tennis tournament.
•    College Symposium/Shadowing/Philanthropic Day – On October 20, we had a multitude of events taking place at the high school.  The freshmen participated in a Freshman Shadowing Experience.  Students will be completing a 250 word journal entry in Naviance as a reflection of this experience.  Karen Lewis and John Rydquist organized the Career/College Symposium for sophomores and juniors.  This day-long event included guest speakers from the business sector and colleges pertaining to careers and education.  The seniors, as part of Senior Philanthropy day, either raked leaves for community residences or helped stuff envelopes for Meals on Wheels campaign.  Many residents were pleased to find their leaves raked for them and one even took a picture of these hard working seniors.

PTO News

The High School PTO report was presented by Loretta Schwalm.

•    Thank you to Karen O’Hearn who coordinated and set up the snacks and drinks for the High School Open House and to all the volunteers who baked for the event.

•    Thank you to Julie Andrews, Amy Groneman, and Carolyn Vandendriessche who served with me as hostesses for the College Symposium and Career Day which was held at the High School on Tuesday, October 20th.

•    October 6th was the Community Service Fair at the High School.  It was discussed during our meeting with Kert Boedicker that PTO may be able to help with this event in the future, possibly by contributing baked goods or candy.

•    The next PTO event is November Conferences when we provide dinner for the teachers and staff.