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The Varsity Boys Track Team won the SWSC Red Division Boys Track Championship on Thursday, May 8th at Bradley-Bourbonnais High School. Individual conference champions include: David Mann (300m IH), Eric Oliver (400m dash), Anthony Dixon (shot and discus) and Maurice Jackson (high jump and triple jump). H-F also won the 4 x 100m and 4 x 200m relays (Jeffery Kilgore, Kolby Robertson, Kelvin Owens and Loran Hewlett) and the 4 x 400m relay (Eric Oliver, Maurice Jackson, Alex King and David Mann). H-F will compete at the IHSA Class AA Sectional Championship on Friday, May 16th, at Lockport High School starting at 4:00 pm with the field events.
2003 H-F Alum Emily Olsen spoke to students in Brian McCarthy's
class about her fire pilot training in the naval academy in Pensacola,
Florida. Olsen graduated from the navel academy in 2007. Homewood-Flossmoor High School announced the school’s high honors and A/B honors students for the third quarter of the 2007-2008 school year on Friday, May 2nd. To be eligible for high honors, students must be enrolled in at least five classes and achieve straight A’s. Students who are enrolled in at least five classes and receive at least two A’s and no grade lower than a B are eligible for A/B honors. Click here for names and honors. Five H-F DECA members competed at the International DECA Competition which took place from April 25th – April 30th in Atlanta, Georgia. After placing 1st at the State competition, the DECA Quiz Bowl Team, comprised of Mike Adelman, Dan Applebaum, Pat Riordan and Alec Schwartz, finished in the Elite Eight out of 55 teams across the globe. The Elite Eight Quiz Bowl finish was the best ever in the history of Illinois DECA. Also competing was Elise Smith, who finished 3rd in State and was a Top Twenty Finalist (of 250 competitors) in Marketing Management in this International competition.
Over 100 students in 5th and 6th grade from District 153 & 161 attended
this year's 2nd Annual Snowflurry event that took place recently
at H-F High School. Students participated in many events all day,
including a speech by nationally known story teller Tim Tingle. H-F's Inspirational Voices have won 1st Place and $1,000 in a Power Jumpin' Jubilee Choir "Sing Off' Contest, sponsored by RW Communications, last weekend. Congratulations on this great accomplishment.
Five H-F High School Art students were invited to represent H-F's Art
department in the Second Congressional District Art Exhibition, An
Artistic Discovery, on Saturday, April 26th at Prairie State
College. This year all five students were recognized by Congressman
Jesse Jackson Jr. with either a placing award or an award of
distinction. The following students were recognized: Rachel Mayer, Award
of Distinction for her colored pencil drawing; Mackenzie Szymanski,
Award of Distinction for her photograph; Carolyn Hartmann, 3rd Place for
her self-portrait; Ginta Sutkus, 2nd Place for her colored pencil
drawing; and Jeremy Wright, 1st Place for his colored pencil
self-portrait. In addition, Wright’s piece of artwork will be
professional framed and hung in our nation's capital for an entire year.
Wright and two guests will take an all expense paid trip to Washington,
D.C. for a special recognition ceremony in June, 2008.
Homewood-Flossmoor High School’s Journalism Sectional winners competed
against 67 schools
Homewood-Flossmoor High School held a breakfast for the school’s “Students of the Quarter for “3rd” Quarter” and their parents on Friday, April 25th, in the Teaching and Learning Center. Students of the Quarter for “3rd” Quarter include: Jessie Buckley, Art; Kianna Woods, Business Education; Samuel Hogancamp, Cooperative Education; Karen Cronin, English; Molly Berger, Family & Consumer Science; Christen Johnson and Ashleigh Laxton, Guidance; Kevin Logan, Industrial Technology; Sabrena Lopez, Math; Sophia Schloen, Music; Ladiedra Rugen and Max Nordstrom, P.E.; Lemario Wilkins, Reading; Mike Marszowski, Science; Dante Brown, Seminar in Teaching & Learning; Cornelius Lawson, Social Science; Ashlee Smith, World Language; and Riley Hoff-Larocca, Superintendent’s Office.
H-F's Journalism & Yearbook classes joined 12 other schools to compete in this year's IHSA Sectionals on Saturday, April 19th. We are proud to announce our students took 2nd Place at this competition, and there are seven student advancing to State Finals next Saturday. The following students will advance: Raj Tyagi, Elise Brown, Francis Hathcock, Joel Dobben, Marsha Sanchez, Zach Cohn, and Emily Siner.
The 2008 Prom Fashion Show kicked off after school on Thursday,
April 17th, in the Auditorium. H-F students modeled some of the latest
Prom fashions from both the Black Tie Formal Wear and David's Bridal.
Author LeAlan Jones took time throughout the day to speak and
sign autographs for students on Friday, April 11th. LeAlan's book called
"Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" has been read
by many H-F students. H-F's Girl's Varsity Soccer Team played the first ever girl's soccer game at Toyota Park in Bridgeview on Monday, April 14th. We defeated Marian Catholic by a score of 1-0. Chelsea Jones scored the first ever female goal in Toyota Park history, with a 30-yard strike in the second half.
In Tony Svozil's Engineering Physics class, students are
participating in building model trebuchets. The word "trebuchet" is from
medieval French, roughly meaning "to tumble" or "to fall over".
Trebuchets are basically "stone-throwers" or "catapults". As the
students built their models, they were able to study energy conversion,
as the trebuchet converted potential energy to kinetic energy. In
addition, they calculated machine efficiency and used computer
simulations to increase range and repeatedly hit a target. Knowledge
gained from this activity will be used to engineer a much larger
trebuchet, which will be built from scratch using PVC pipe and fittings.
Each year the Illinois Mr. Basketball
Florida A & M University, a historically
A big congratulations goes out to Coach
Over a hundred students and staff came together to listen to the H-F
Cultural Diversity Panel Discussion held on the morning of Tuesday,
April 1st, in the Auditorium. A panel of diverse H-F teachers including
Marino Trujillo, Emmanuel Allie, Veronica Zavala, Ameera Odeh, Leah
Sauvage, Sahar Kayyal, Jim Schmidt, and Hector Arias, and special guest
J.Q. Adams from WTTW, discussed various diversity topics and answered
the audience's questions.
Congratulations to Senior David Altman on his basketball signing
with St. Francis University on Tuesday, April 1st, in the
Superintendent's Office. Altman was accompanied by his parents, the St.
Francis basketball coach, H-F's basketball coach, and Athletic Director
Joe Skowronski.
Finalists from the 1st Annual Viking Idol were excited to compete
for 1st Place at the live Pete Francis Concert that was held on
Thursday, March 20th, in the H-F High School Auditorium. The band
Homemade Jam took the title, and had a chance to perform in front of a
live audience with Pete Francis. For the second year in a row, Pete
Francis of the group Dispatch, performed a benefit concert at H-F for
the Invisible Children Fun, which helps raise money to aid war-affected
children around the world.
H-F's CLOWN (Children Learning Other Ways Naturally) is a program
that has students dress up as clowns and present alcohol education to
others. This year, students presented alcohol education to Willow School
students on Tuesday, March 18th, in Homewood.
Homewood-Flossmoor High School’s Music Department is boasting over the
plaques they received at this year’s 10th Annual South Suburban Jazz
Festival on Saturday, March 15th, at South Suburban College in South
Holland. Over 24 Jazz Bands competed against each other to win titles at
this year’s event. Not only did both Jazz Ensemble I and II receive
plaques for Outstanding Performance, individual soloists were awarded as
well, including the following: John Carvalho, Aaron Washington, Andy
Seidel and Ben Woolsey.
H-F's
Reading Department Chair Nancy Spaniak (center) and
H-F High School’s Group Interpretation members took 2nd Place at this year’s IHSA State Drama and Group Interpretation Competition on March 15th and 16th, at the University of Illinois in Springfield. H-F’s Group Interpretation production of Passion Play, directed by Jill Bonavia-Galligani and Janine Stroemer with technical direction by Kevin Wall, placed 2nd out of 18 performances in State. Also, six H-F students were named to the All-State Group Interpretation Cast, which were the most students chosen from any other school at this year’s competition. In order to be named to an All-State Cast, four out of five judges must nominate the student for his or her outstanding individual performance. For names, please click here.
Out
of a pure act of kindness, H-F High School’s very-own Friends of
Rachel members treated 2nd -8th graders from Glenwood Home for
Boys and Girls to a “You’re A Star” event that took place at 10:00
am on Wednesday, March 12th, at Marcus Theatre in Chicago Heights.
During the “You’re A Star” event, Friends of Rachel members spent the
day with 2nd – 8th graders from Glenwood Home for Boys and Girls for a
day of fun and attention. They provided the girls and boys with star
treatment, starting with a red-carpet walk at the movie theatre where
they watched a movie, ate treats, and engaged in the various surprises
all morning.
The
First Annual Viking Idol Competition produced six finalists to advance
to the final rounds to be held at the Peter Francis Benefit Concert next
week at 6:30 pm on Thursday, March 20th at H-F High School. Over
20 performers and bands came out to show off their talents at this
unique after-school event. After hours of deliberation from the judges,
the finalists who will compete for the title are: Platy Beldon, Jasmine
Bishop & The Protégé, Whitney Deak, JT & Wally, Homemade Jam and Doody
Jones. Come out and support all these talented acts by buying your $10
ticket in the H-F Campus Bookstore.
One
hundred students took time to register to vote with the League Women
Voters on Thursday,
H-F
High School’s Art students were proud to learn that 26 pieces of
their artwork were accepted at this year’s 12th Annual Juried Area High
School Art Exhibition on Saturday, March 8th, at Prairie State College.
The “Voices of Vision” exhibition chooses only 48 pieces and H-F
was excited to hear they were a big part of those accepted. There were
over 150 submissions from students who attend high schools with in the
Prairie State College District. The following students’ pieces
were accepted to exhibit: Mackenzie Szymanski (Best of Show and Merit
Award), Robin Jackson (Best of Category: Commercial Art), Melissa Huang
(Best of Category: Drawing), Eric Lundquist (Merit Award), Jessie
Buckley (Merit Award), Francesca Farruggia, Zoe Lubeck, Ericka Adamonis,
Nikki Ratliff, Casey Thompson, Briana Shelby, Jessie Buckley, Bryne
Hadnott, Teresa Ciambrone, Amanda Moore, Ryan Shaules, Amelia Koons,
Melissa Rochelle, Jihan Bibb, Katie Woodward, Emma Day and Zachary
Lyttle. H-F High School’s DECA members competed in the 63rd Annual State Career Development Conference of the Illinois Association of DECA against 950 DECA members representing 60 different schools from all over the State from Thursday, March 6th through Saturday, March 8th in Decatur, Illinois. Not only did five of their members qualify for the National Competition, but the Chapter as a whole was recognized as a Superstar Chapter. Click here for more info. H-F High School’s Debate Team participated at this year’s 35th Annual Illinois Speech and Theatre Association’s JV/Novice State Tournament on Saturday, March 8th at Belleville East High School in Belleville, IL.The Novice division scored the best results in H-F history. Click here for names and rankings!
Homewood-Flossmoor
High School’s Scholastic Bowl Team competed and won Sectionals
with a 2-1 record on Tuesday, March 4th. The Scholastic Bowl team has
now reached the Final 8 Teams, and will compete at the State Tournament
on Friday, March 15th in Peoria. Good luck to Mike Marszowski, Chris
Izzo, James Shannon, Steve Sifner, Dan Sloan, Arun Dahiya, Raven Fisher
and Dave Drejas. H-F High School is proud to announce it is one of only 91 Illinois School Districts chosen as a recipient of SchoolSearch’s 15th Annual Illinois School District 2008 Bright Red Apple Award for Educational Excellence on Monday, March 10th. This makes us a recipient for 15 years straight! The Boys Varsity Basketball Team finished this year's season with a record of 27-2. This is one of the best records in H-F's history! A great season to all of the players.
Author
Earl Sewell spent the day at H-F and talked to students about his
successful career in writing on Wednesday, March 5, in Room E1. Students
had the opportunity to discuss his popular book, Keysha's Drama.
The follow up book to Keysha's Drama, If I Were Your Boyfriend,
is due to be released this Spring.
Former
Senator and Presidential Candidate Carol Moseley Braun, State Senator
Ethel Alexander Skyles, and State Senator Howard Brookins, Sr. visited
students on Tuesday, March 4th, in Carl Coates AP Government and
Politics class.
Homewood-Flossmoor
High School’s teachers donated their artwork for auction in the Art
Against AIDS event, hosted by the Junior Board of Heartland
Alliance, on Thursday, February 28th, at the River East Art Center in
Chicago. Art Against AIDS features live and silent fine art auctions
with artwork from all over the country. This event boasts more than 75
pieces in a variety of mediums. The proceeds from the event help
Heartland Alliance’s HIV/AIDS programs and services, including primary
care, referrals, assistance with transportation and lab costs, housing,
alternative therapies, HIV prevention education, and oral healthcare.
The following teachers participated in this special event: Melissa
Sauder, Jackie Wargo, Greg Petecki, Heidi Stachulak, Candi Helsel, Levi
McCulloch, Lorelei Jones and Jason Miller. These donators helped
contribute to the $100,000 raised that evening. The Scholastic Bowl team has won their IHSA Regional Competition on Tuesday, March 4th! H-F's team defeated Lockport and Joliet to advance to Sectionals which will be held this Saturday, March 8th, at Bradley-Bourbonnais. H-F is currently one of the top 32 teams in the State. Mike Marszowski, Chris Izzo, Dan Sloan, James Shannon, Steve Sifner and Arun Dahiya all lead the team to victory. |
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