Everyone is looking forward to warm weather as the baseball, softball and tennis teams start their practices. Our High School Show Choir placed third in the State Vocal Jazz Festival held recently in Ellsworth. Zacharia Harvey received an Outstanding Musician Award. We have just had the junior high musical, Honk, Jr., which was a huge success – so many talented junior high students. The National Honor Society induction and recognition of Senior High Principal’s Honor Award students will be held on Tuesday, April 10, at 7:00 in the auditorium. The junior high honor awards assembly will be held on Thursday, April 26, at 9:45 a.m. in the auditorium. School pictures will be taken on Wednesday, April 25. Information will be going home to parents by the students.
We are offering a new program at our school. It is called Educational Talent Search with Barb London as advisor. It is open to qualifying students in grades 7-11. It is a federally funded program that offers free services to students who have the desire and potential to go to college. These students may be facing some barriers in achieving that dream. A few of the services include study and personal skills, career and college exploration, financial planning and financial aid and fun activities, just to name a few. Get your application in the Guidance Office at school.
Student Council news
The junior and senior high student councils continue to run their weekly Change for Change program. Students donate loose change to the buckets on Fridays to help support a worthy organization or family experiencing difficulties or illness. We would love to see local businesses join us in this benevolent project. Together we can make help make positive changes to the lives of members of our community.
Guidance Department News
Seniors should be working on scholarships that have been passed out over the past couple of months; many of them are due in the very near future. The Houlton-Hodgdon Dollars for Scholars solicitation is well underway. Due to the influx of citizens doing away with landlines, it has become more and more difficult to contact citizens through the phone-a-thon. This year we are asking the public to please consider donating to the Houlton-Hodgdon Dollars for Scholars. To do so, please mail all donations to Houlton High School, Guidance Department, 7 Bird St, Houlton, ME 04730.
The Meduxnekeag canoe race will take place on May 5. Please contact Todd Willard for more information at towillard@msln.net. All proceeds will benefit the Dollars for Scholars program as well.All juniors in the state of Maine are required to take the SAT (Scholastic Assessment Test), Saturday, May 5. Parents and guardians will be receiving more information on this in the very near future.
Textile Arts Class News
Mrs. Richardson’s junior high classes have just finished their sewing unit and their projects are being displayed around the school. The seventh graders have made pillowcases and are hanging in the junior high hallway. The eighth graders have made patchwork pillows, which are displayed by the main office. Feel free to stop by and take a look.
Social Studies Class News
On Friday, March 30, Houlton High School social studies teacher Tim Tweedie took six Model State Legislature students to the SMCC campus in South Portland to hear President Obama speak. The students, who each personally paid $44 for the tickets, had the opportunity to hear the President’s 40-minute address, as well as keynotes by Rep. Chellie Pingree and former Maine Senator, George Mitchell. Tweedie said he wanted to take students to listen to the President so they could complete the gamut of the political spectrum, as these same students have also had opportunities to meet Governor Paul LePage and Senator Susan Collins this school year. “This year, these kids have had a unique opportunity to meet some pretty impressive elected officials. They’ve had the chance to listen to politicians from both sides of the aisle, which is ideal, because I like to see them develop their own points of view on how the system works. I am very proud of them.”
Yearbook News
The yearbook class is pleased to announce that delivery of the 2012 North Star is on schedule. Please be sure balances are paid so that seniors may pick up their books at Project Graduation. Books for underclassmen will be available in the high school office on Friday, June 8.
Art class news
HHS art students will have their art featured in the “Seed of Creativity” art show at the Blue Moon Gallery in Visions from April 13 to May 26. Please stop by to see all the fantastic work. There will be a reception held for the students on April 13 from 5-7 p.m. and refreshments will be served. Please come out and support the HHS art students. Student work is returning from the Essence of the North art show that has been on display the month of March at Aroostook Center Mall in Presque Isle.
