East High School

5011 Mayhew Avenue

Sioux City, IA 51106

(712)274-4000 phone

(712)274-4670 fax

Spring 2016

EHS Website: http://www.siouxcityschools.org/east-high-school

From the Principal ~

I would like to thank the parents/guardians for their support during this

school year. I also appreciate all the staff members who have gone above

and beyond this year helping our students be successful. Our counselors

did an outstanding job with scheduling this year, and with college and

career planning, also.

We passed out schedules for the 2016-2017 school year May 11, 2016. This will give

students time to make course corrections with their counselors. Physical Education is

required every semester unless the student has a full schedule or a medical or religious

exemption. Exemptions must be renewed every year with the counselor. Please look over

your student’s classes for next year to make sure the courses are correct. Students will

NOT be allowed to change their schedules next year unless we made a mistake during the

scheduling process. Please keep in mind that students increase chances for success in their

secondary education when they take more challenging classes in high school.

The last day for seniors will be Thursday, May 19th, with the seniors semester tests on May

17th, 18th and 19th. Seniors will check in laptops at the end of their last semester test. The

senior honors assembly will be held on Wednesday, May 18th at 5:00 p.m. in the EHS

auditorium. Commencement rehearsal is at the Tyson Events Center from 10:30 a.m. to

noon on Monday, May 23th, and is MANDATORY for seniors participating in

commencement. Senior Commencement begins at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 24th at the

Tyson Events Center. All school fees and fines for seniors will need to be taken care

of before commencement. Please see Mrs. Ulven (Bookkeeper) in the main office, if you

have questions about fines and fees.

The Sioux City Community Schools will be conducting online registration for the 2016-

2017 school year in hopes of speeding up the registration process for parents and students.

All forms will need to be filled out online before students will be able to get their

computers. Students will be able to check out their computers on August 10th and 11th,

take school pictures with Life Touch, and have access to internet for registration. There

will be staff available during these two days to help with online registration.

This year’s graduating class of 347 has 269 students who earned over 1407 college credits

while in high school. They were offered $3,737,992.00 in scholarships. We have 258

seniors who plan to continue their education. The seniors have five classmates enlisted in

the military. We thank them for serving our country. We would also like to thank the

seniors for their leadership this year and wish them the best of luck as they go forth to

make a difference in the world. Thank you, seniors, for making East High School a

GREAT place to be!

Inside this issue:

Honor Society Inductees 2

Top of the Class 3

JROTC & Vocal Honors 4

Speech Honors 5

Debate Honors 6

State Sport Honors 7

Basketball Honors 8

MVP Leadership 9

#Future Ready &

Upcoming Important

Dates 10

State Track 11

Summer Food Service 12

Nurse’s Corner 13

SCCSD Let’s Talk 13

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Congratulations to the following

students inducted into the

Spanish National

Honor Society! They held their ceremony on April 13th in

the East High Media Center.

The 2016 initiates are:

Jenna Angerman

Beau Bosley

Kelsey Cabney

Demi Camarigg

Rachael Clark

Paige Denker

Lucas Drent

Emmalee Fisher

Abigail Gevik

Nutnaly Hemmarath

Emily Hoesing

Abby Koch

Zachary Krisl

Garrett Kroger

Elizabeth Mattoon

Kathryn McCarthy

Sophia Parsons

Michael Stibbs

Hunter Trudeau

Hunter Vondrak

Hazel Zink

Alexandria Anderson

Beau Bosley

Marah Burkhart

Emily Croston

Brenndan Gorski

Annie Hacker

Jahni Heimsoth

Taylor Henry

Rachel Kitrell

Abby Koch

Jayden Kooyman

Whitney Lange

Samantha McCulley

Congratulations to the following students inducted

into the

2016-2017 East High Chapter

of the

National Honor Society!

They held their ceremony on May 5th in the

East High Media Center.

The 2016 initiates are:

Caitlin McEntaffer

Rebekah Meisner

Tayler Modlin

Lauren Page

Lydia Prior

Hanna Riley

Zachary Tenhulzen

Noel Tolvanen

Carissa Versteeg

Ethan Vick

Hannah Von Hagel

Hailey Vondrak

Hunter Vondrak

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Great job to all 17 students who make up the Class of 2016 Top 5%: Samantha Anderson, Brian Dang, Karyssa Duitsman, Caithlyn Gries, Jeremy Hill, Zachary Ingram, Rachel Jensen,

Madison Miller, Addison Poole, Hannah Rens, Gabrielle Roe, Shayna Skokan, Joy Stone, Teresa Sutton,

Ashton Thompson, Jami Turnquist, and Nitya Virippil.

Emily Miranda

Violin

Jestin Cam

Viola Hannah Von Hagel

Viola

CONGRATULATIONS TO EMILY MIRANDA & HANNAH VON HAGEL!

They were selected to perform with the

Iowa String Teachers Association Honor Orchestra

on April 30th in Waterloo, IA.

Congratulate these students on their honors!

Congratulations to

Zachary Ingram and Shayna Skokan

for being chosen as

Morningside Days King and Queen

for 2016!

Congratulations to Brian Dang and

Samantha Anderson on being

chosen as the

Morningside Days Attendants!

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HONOR CHOIRS

Five students selected for Dorian Honor Choir at Luther College: Emily Croston, Grace Hoefer, Peter Kochevar, Lydia Prior, David Suhr

Eight students selected for ISU Honor Choir: Ally Belcher, Austin Clayton, David Ehmcke, David Graham, Alex Holmberg, Hunter Milner, David Suhr, Whitney Wolf

CHAMBER CHOIR HONORS

First Runner-Up and Best Tenor Section at the Grand River Concert Choir Competition (La Crosse, WI). Selected to perform at

Morningside’s Choral Composition Competition Festival Concert.

SHOW CHOIRS HONORS

New Sound Grand Champions (JV division) at Sioux Falls Roosevelt, Vermillion, and Westwood.

Headliners Grand Champions at Sioux Falls Roosevelt and La Crosse Central; three Best Vocals Awards, four Best Band awards, five Best Solo awards, one each- Best Choreography, Best Opener, Best

Ballad, Best Crew.

Congratulations to The Headliners on being the “Most Decorated” Iowa Show Choir of 2016. This season, The Headliners received two Best Female Solo awards, three Best Male Solo awards,

awards for Best Ballad, Best Opener, Best Crew, Best Choreography, three for Best Vocals, and four for Best Band (the highest in Iowa).

With 16 total awards, that makes them the winningest show choir in Iowa this year.

Congratulations to our EHS JROTC students on their honors!!

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Waving Man

Ocean

Sam’s

Solo Mime

Heathers Dog Fight

Almost

Maine

One Act Play

Abby’s

Solo Mime

East High’s Speech Team took 70 students to the All-State Large Group Speech Festival in Ames, IA at Iowa State. Nine groups performed, and these lovely ladies received the Critic’s Choice banner and plaque for

their original Radio Broadcasting entitled KFIT: Body Positive. The judge was very impressed with their topic! This will be East High’s 8th banner,

which is equivalent to a state championship! The Radio Broadcasting banner is a first for EHS!

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Star Lab

NSDA National Qualifiers Olivia Tidwell placed 1st in Informative and gained a spot to Nationals in June. David Ehmcke took 2nd in POI and gained a spot to Nationals. He also took 2nd in Dramatic but as you can only go in ONE category he chose POI. Brittany Todd placed 4th overall in DI and is 1st alternate in Dramatic Interpretation. Katy

McCarthy and Olivia Tidwell did an awesome job in Public Forum.

According to NSDA “The National Debate & Speech Tournament has been held across the country

since 1931. Today, more than 3,300 high school students compete in a week-long competition to deter-

mine the most prestigious title in high school academics: National Champion.”

We are so excited to get this opportunity to go to Nationals. It will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah in June. Please congratulate these students for their hard work and time they have put into being National

Qualifiers.

Twenty-three schools competed and Sioux City East took 1st Place Sweepstakes!! We brought home 6 state champions: Prose-David Ehmcke, Poetry-Lydia Prior, Dramatic Interpretation- Lydia Prior, Literary Program-David Ehmcke, Acting- Hannah Ehmcke, and

Expository- Austin Clayton. We had 21 entries into Finals which is a HUGE accomplishment! And in all categories we went to finals.

At the end of the day East High was awarded State Champions!

22 plaques, 6 State Champions, and First place Speech Team Sweepstakes!!!!!! We are so proud of all of the students who

competed! Please congratulate our 6 State Champions and our team for getting first place in sweepstakes!!!

Iowa Forensic League Individual Event Speech Sweepstakes Champions

6 State Champions in POI, Poetry, Prose, Expository, Acting, Dramatic Interpretation

4 National Qualifiers in POI, Informative and 2 Worlds Teams

(3 seniors Hannah Rens, David Ehmcke, David Graham) in Salt Lake City Utah

2nd Place Team Sweepstakes at Tournament

Quarterfinalists in Public Forum at Valley Mid-American Cup

Charter Chapter Status (Highest honor in the NSDA) David Ehmcke received Second Service Citation

David Ehmcke Senior of the Year nomination at IFL

4 Students gained bids to the National Individual Events Tournament of Champions in Denver

3 Students gained bids to the Tournament of Champions at the University of Kentucky

Brought home over 70 awards this year (medals, ribbons, trophies, plaques)

Congratulations to Braeden Loghry

Placed 1st in Division

Northwest Area Basketball Skills

Classification Competition at Dordt College

Team: Sioux City Knights

He advanced to the State Competition on

March 12th in Iowa City.

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Angel Morales: 3.6

Missouri River Academic All-Conference

Eric Steele

State Qualifier, District runner-up

Brady Stange Conference Champion State Qualifiers, District Champion

Manny Zertuche 70 match winner

26th place on EHS All-time win list (77 wins)

Jacob Wiley

Moved into 13th place on EHS All-time win list 100 match winner with 101 wins

Conference Champion

State Qualifiers = District Champion

Blake Gengler-Harris: 4.03

Jacob Wiley: 3.59

Congratulations to

Brenndan Gorski!

State Qualifier for the

following events:

200 Free Relay

400 Free Relay

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Congrats to Connor Murrell & Van Rees - named to @SCJ All-Metro team

http://ow.ly/ZCn6w #Tradition

Congrats Connor Murrell & Van Rees - named 1st team

All Missouri River Conference by coaches

Connor Murrell & Van Rees named to @IowaBCA All-Substate 1 Team

Connor Murrell & Van Rees join 35 other Black Raiders who earned

All-State honors for @Eastbasketball #Tradition

Special awards awarded by KMA Radio

Van Rees

Conner Murrell

Tyler Benson

Aiden Vanderloo

Jaylen Reese

Conner Murrell

1st Team

Van Rees

3rd Team

Keaton Lewis Individual Conference Runner-up

Ricky Newton 6th place finisher

Boys Team Finished 4th place overall

Girls Team - Finished 3rd place overall and led by Alyssa Baker.

(Right to Left) Makayla Heaton, Jacob Whitaker, Keaton Lewis, Alyssa Baker, Sara Larson, Bruce Harrison, Kaylee Macklem, Daysia Danner,

Trent Behr, Jaylen Taylor, Markee Gruis

Picture taken by Kathryn Hewitt (EHS Senior)

KCAU Quiz Bowl Tournament

Quiz Bowl Team: (Left to Right) Zach Krisl, Peter Kochevar, Hannah Rens, Robyn Smith, Nitya Virippil

EHS, NHS, and WHS MVP Leaders at the Empowering Student Leadership:

Mentors in Violence Prevention, Des Moines

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Signed Commitments

Congratulations to the following students, as they have signed with

the following colleges/universities for excelling in their respective

athletics and activities. #FutureReady

Ty Benson—Basketball

Morningside College Dom Flemister—Football

Morningside College

Ethan Fahrendholz –

Football

Morningside College

Haley Steele

Softball

Ellsworth

Community College

Jacob Wiley

Wrestling

Morningside

College

Samantha Anderson

Soccer

Morningside College

Upcoming Important Dates:

Semester Tests for Seniors: May 17, 18, & 19

Wednesday, May 18 – Senior Honors Assembly in the EHS Auditorium @ 5:00pm

Thursday, May 19 – Morningside Day’s Parade @ 6:30pm

Thursday, May 19 – Hotdogs for seniors during 1st lunch only in the South Parking Lot

Thursday, May 19 – Senior Parade @ 11:55am (seniors meet in commons by front door)

Monday, May 23 – Mandatory Commencement Practice @ Tyson Events Center

from 10:00am-12:00pm

Semester Tests for Juniors, Sophomores, & Freshmen - May 25, 26, & 27

Last Day of Classes: Friday, May 27th - 1:55pm Early Dismissal

Teacher Workday: Tuesday, May 31st Regular School Hours

Summer School Classes/ Drivers Ed Begin

Tuesday, May 24 – Commencement, Tyson Events Center @ 7:00pm

Remember ~

There is a NEW app to keep you updated on the

East High activity calendar. If you would like easy

access to the www.missouririverconf.org

website for building and activity schedule

information please download the rschooltoday app

on your mobile device.

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Boys

100 Meter Dash – Dom Flemister & Ross Godfrey

200 Meter Dash – Dom Flemister

1600 Meter Run – Jeremy Hill

Long Jump – Ross Godfrey

Shot Put – John Alexa & Ethan Fahrendholz

4x100 – Taylon Flemister – Dom Flemister – Phillip Moon – Ross Godfrey

4x200 – Taylon Flemister – Phillip Moon – Ross Godfrey – Dom Flemister

Girls

200 Meter Dash – Rylie Zyzda

400 Meter Dash – Sami McCulley

400 Meter Hurdles – Paige Hanson

800 Meter Run – Lauren Van Dyke

3000 Meter Run – Avery Lester

Discus – Sarah Sponder

High Jump – Taylor Copple

4x400 Girls

Sami McCulley – Taylor Copple – Rylie Zyzda – Lauren Van Dyke

4x800 Girls

Paige Hanson – Sami McCulley – Joslyn Hill – Lauren Van Dyke

Congratulations to the following students who

will be traveling to represent EHS at State!

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Summer Food Service

Program Information

The Sioux City Community School District is once again participating in the Summer Food Service Program. Meals are available for

all children ages 2-18 years without charge. Acceptance and participation requirements for the program and all activities are the

same for all regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability, and there will be no discrimination in the course of the

meal service. Most locations will start serving meals June 6 and run through July 29, Monday through Friday. All locations closed on

July 4. All Breakfast serving time is 7:30 -8:45 a.m. and lunch serving time is 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., unless otherwise noted.

East Middle School at 5401 Lorraine Ave. serving breakfast and lunch.

Hunt Elementary School at 615 20th St. serving lunch only.

Irving Elementary School at 901 Floyd Blvd. serving breakfast from 8-8:45 a.m. and lunch.

Leeds Elementary School at 3919 Jefferson St. serving breakfast from 8-8:45 a.m. and lunch from

11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.

Liberty Elementary School at 1623 Rebecca St. serving breakfast from 8-8:45 a.m. and lunch.

Loess Hills Elementary School at 1717 Casselman St. serving breakfast from 8-8:45 a.m. and lunch from 11:30 a.m. –

12:45 p.m.

Morningside Elementary School at 3601 Bushnell Ave. serving lunch only.

North Middle School at 2101 Outer Drive North serving breakfast and lunch.

Riverside Elementary School at 2303 Riverside Blvd. serving breakfast from 8-8:45 a.m. and lunch from 11:30 a.m. –

12:45 p.m.

Spalding Park Elementary School at 4101 Stone Ave. serving breakfast from 8-8:45 a.m. and lunch from 11:30 a.m. –

12:45 p.m.

West Middle School at 3301 W. 19th St. serving breakfast and lunch. s

Glendale Baptist Church at 1600 Glendale Blvd. serving lunch only.

Launch Pad Children’s Museum at 623 Pearl St. serving lunch only.

Midtown Family Center at 525 14th St. serving lunch from 11:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m. and a snack from 3 – 3:30 p.m. Ser-

vice will start on June 1 and go until August 19.

Morningside Lutheran Church at 700 Martha St. serving lunch only.

St. Luke Lutheran Church at 2039 S. St. Aubin St. serving lunch only.

Trimble United Methodist Church at 1424 27th St. serving lunch only.

Link for more Information:

http://www.siouxcityschools.org/blog/news/253059/

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Fax: (712) 274-4670

5011 Mayhew Avenue

Sioux City, IA 51106-4527

Every day is a great day

to be a Raider!

NONDISCRIMINATION STATEMENT:

The Sioux City Community School District is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. It is an unfair or discriminatory practice for any educational institution to discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, age (for employment), disability, socioeconomic status (for programs), marital status (for programs), or veteran status in its educational programs and its employment practices. Inquiries or grievances may be directed to Jen Gomez, Director of Student Services & Equity Education at 627 4th Street, Sioux City, IA 51101, (712) 279-6075, gomezj2@live.siouxcityschools.com.

Spanish

El Distrito Escolar de la Comunidad de Sioux City es una institución de empleo con oportunidad equitativa y acción afirmativa. Es una práctica injusta o discriminatoria de cualquier institución educativa de discriminar basado en raza, credo, color, sexo, orientación sexual, identidad de género, origen nacional, religión, edad (para empleo), discapacidad, condición socioeconómica (para programas), estado civil (para programas), o estatus de veterano en cualquier programa educacional o práctica de empleo. Las preguntas o quejas pueden ser dirigidas a Jen Gomez, Directora de Actividades Estudiantiles y Educación de Igualdad al 627 4th Street, Sioux City, IA 51101 (712) 279-6075, gomezj2@live.siouxcityschools.com

Vietnamese

Học Khu Trường Học Cộng Đồng Sioux City là một nơi có cơ hội bình đẳng/ hành động chắc chắn trong việc làm. Đó là không có sự công bằng hay có sự kỳ thị thực hành trong bất cứ các cơ sở giáo dục về phân biệt căn cứ theo chủng tộc, tín ngưỡng, màu da, phái tính, khuynh hướng phái tính, nhận định phái tính, nguồn gốc quốc gia, tôn giáo, tuổi tác (cho việc làm), khuyết tật, tình trạng kinh tế xã hội (cho những chương trình), tình trạng hôn nhân (cho những chương trình), hoặc tình trạng cựu chiến binh trong bất cứ những chương trình giáo dục hay thực hành trong việc làm . Ai muốn thắc mắc hoặc khiếu nại có thể tiếp xúc trực tiếp với bà Jen Gomez, Giám Đốc Dịch Vụ Học Sinh và Bình Đẳng (Director of Student Services & Equity Education) tại 627 4th Street, Sioux City, IA 51101, (712) 279-6075, gomezj2@live.siouxcityschools.com

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Senior Parents/Guardians—

Your graduating student will have his/her original immunization card given to him/her

at the graduation practice. Please look for this and put it in a place for

safekeeping so you will have the information for future school admission and job

placements.

If you believe your student has additional immunizations from the Siouxland District Health

Department or your physician’s office, you will want to add these to your child’s immunizations card.

Whether or not your child is going on to a college placement, it is most likely that your son or daughter’s

physician or health care provider would recommend immunization boosters. These may include Tetanus,

Pertussis, MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella), varicella and Meningitis. Remember to ask your child’s

physician for any updated immunizations your student might need.

Monday, August 22 Back to School Night

Elementary Schools from 4-6:00 p.m. Middle Schools from 5-7:00 p.m.

High Schools from 7-9:00 p.m. (EHS - New Students)