Duneland Elementary Book Bowl
Recently students from Bailly, Brummitt, Jackson, Liberty and Yost Elementary competed in a Duneland Schools District Book Bowl. Each of the five elementary schools hosted an individual Book Bowl where students answered questions about certain books that they read from the Young Hoosier Books list. The winning team from each school then competed in the District Book Bowl held at Chesterton Middle School. The winning team was from Jackson Elementary. Student participants from each of the schools are, front row, left to right, Liberty students (runner-up) Jadyn Pendleton, Emma Comfort, Lindsay Goad, Kylie Campbell; Yost students Shea Ogle, Zoe Trakas, Kai Marten, Hayden Kremke, and Carlee Bachman. Back row, Bailly Varya Rahoizha, Kassidy Miller, Ira Kashyap, Aubrey Capehart, and Olivia Callaway; Jackson winning students Caleb Benchoff, Brock Redman, Brennan Olson, Adrian Dooley; and Brummitt students, Jacob Spence, Erika Smock, Joshua Spence, Sophia Zebell, and Emily Fleischhacker.
CHS Symphonic Band receives near perfect scores at ISSMA District Competition
The Symphonic Band earned a Gold ‘Superior’, rating, as well as the highly coveted ‘With Distinction’ Award for their excellent point total.
“I was very happy with the kid’s performance this weekend,” said Michael Scheiber, director. “Their excellent work on stage as well as their focus in the sight-reading room made this one of the most successful years I can remember for our Symphonic Band.”
At these events, each group is expected to prepare and perform three music selections, with one of these works being chosen from a required list of appropriately challenging music as determined by ISSMA. After completing their stage performance of these three works, the CHS ensemble was moved to another room where they were given 10 minutes to verbally (no playing of instruments) prepare a piece they viewed for the very first time. Once their 10 minute preparation time ended, the band was required to play the piece straight through without stopping. After event, the director of the group receives a recorded and written commentary, along with a numeric score representing the group’s sight-reading proficiency. This sight-reading score is then added to scores received from the three adjudicators of the band’s stage performance to determine the group’s final performance rating.
The last 2016 performance for the members of the CHS Symphonic Band will be as part of the combined CHS Commencement Band. The group will join the members of the CHS Wind Ensemble in a performance celebrating the successes of the class of 2016 as they graduate from CHS on Thursday, June 2.
Members of the CHS Symphonic Band include: Victoria Adams, Keyon Allen, Uilleam Armstrong, Hailey Ayala, Abby Billings, Trey Bonnema, Kristopher Bodie, Brian Bolin, Kelsey Bolton, Ethan Botts, Karissa Carter, Isabelle Chandler, Alyssa Cole, Mercedes Cooper, Nicholas Dericco, Eleanor Didonna, Tristan Dooley, Danielle Else, Annabelle Engel, Jacob Espinoza, Andrew Figg, Toby Franklin, Kaila Gallina, Hanna Garriott, David Gerth, Anthony Hampton, James Hawley, Hailey Hickey, Rachel Hoffmann, Rebekah Hoffmann, Donald Holt, Samuel Houghteling, Samantha Johnson, Hollie Jones, Nathaniel Kravitz, Haydn Malackowski, Zane Mauke, Teagan McCall, Shaye McCarthy, Clare McNicholas, Logan Miller, Madeline Moss, Madison Muszynski, Nathan Napier, Eli Ontiveros, Anna Parkinson, Briana Rose, Ricardo Rosenau, Joe Sabol, Kylie Sabol, Sydney Sarver, Delaney Schavey, Danny Schmiegel, Christopher Sexton, Collin St. Mary, Payton Stobbe, Hunter Torres, Jacob Weitzel, Nicholas Wells, Harley Wines, Branden Wong, Mikaela Yoder.
For information on this or any CHS music event, please contact the CHS Music Dept. at 983-3730 ext. 7172
CHS Prom Royalty Candidates
An outstanding group of candidates have been chosen as the 2016 CHS Prom royalty contestants. Three seniors were nominated for king and queen and three juniors for prince and princess.
The three students nominated for queen are seniors Kat Merritt, Vanesa Quiroga and Samantha Warren; and for princess are juniors Samantha Campaniello, Lennon Metz and Haley Notzen.
Merritt, the daughter of Kim and Jerry Merritt, is active in cheerleading, Natural Helpers and Helping Hands.
Quiroga, daughter of Jesus and Elsie Quiroga, is the vice president of Student Government, and is an active member of the Interact Club, National Honor Society and Helping Hands. She enjoys helping others and volunteering in the community.
Warren, daughter of Valerie and Bill Warren, is active in track and field and art.
Campaniello, daughter of Jessie and Mike Campaniello, is active in football, soccer and track.
Metz, daughter of Laurie and Parry Metz, enjoys playing soccer for CHS and Three Lions United.
Notzen, daughter of John and Rachel Notzen, is active in volleyball.
The three students nominated for king are Danny Cutter, Marc Dolph and Jake Weber; and prince are juniors Christian Geenen, Erik Ralph and Kyle Walton.
Cutter, son of Randi Olson, enjoys many activities including volunteering. He is active in wrestling.
Dolph, son of Tricia and Tim Dolph, is active in spike ball club.
Weber, son of Nick and Trish Weber, enjoys basketball, volleyball and fishing in his spare time.
Geenen, son of Jerry and Julie Geenen, enjoys sports and boating.
Ralph, son Ron and Kristen Ralph, is active in baseball and basketball.
Walton, son of Kurt and Jacqueline Walton, is active in football and track.
The CHS junior/senior prom, “Black Tie Affair,” will be hosted at Duneland Falls Banquet Hall, 1100 IN-149 in Burns Harbor on Saturday, April 30. Doors will open at 6 p.m. with check-in from 6-7 p.m. Doors close promptly at 7 p.m. with dinner from 7-8 p.m. Dancing is from 8-11 p.m.
The Grand March will take place at Chesterton Middle School, 651 W. Morgan Ave., on Saturday, April 30 promptly at 5 p.m. in the Goldsborough Gym and will continue until approximately 5:45 p.m. All students attending the Grand March must park along Morgan Ave. between 8th and 5th Street. It will be closed to all other (non-resident) traffic during this time. Students must enter through CMS Auditorium Entrance #2, and head toward the Gym. Parents must enter CMS through Entrance #19, and may park at the Duneland Resale Shop or in any available parking space, except for Morgan Avenue, which is reserved for student traffic only. The doors to CMS will open at approximately 4:00 p.m. Admission is free for all students and spectators. Students, please enter CMS in the same order you parked your vehicle along Morgan Ave, starting with the vehicles furthest east toward 5th Street. This will ensure a smooth departure for the Duneland Falls Banquet Hall in Burns Harbor.
CHS Prom Royalty Candidates: Chesterton High School candidates for junior/senior prom royalty are princess candidates, front, left to right, Samantha Campaniello, Lennon Metz, Haley Notzen, and queen candidates Kat Merritt, Vanesa Quiroga and Samantha Warren. Back row, prince candidates Christian Geenen, and Kyle Walton, and king candidates Danny Cutter, Marc Dolph and Jake Weber. Absent from photo is prince candidate Erik Ralph.
A Bavarian Evening
German exchange students visiting Michigan City and Chesterton High Schools hosted a Bavarian night for their American host families recently featuring Bavarian food, dance and fun. TOP photo, German students Anna Schönbach and Kilian Irlinger demonstrating one of the traditional Bavarian dances for the host families. The German students are wearing traditional celebration dress, known as a Dirndl (female dress) and Lederhose (male leather pants). BOTTOM photo, left to right, Leonie Maar, David Linss, Delaney Wright (CHS), and Daniel Nothnagel circle the room during one of the traditional Bavarian dances. After having taught the dances to our students, the Germans brought Delaney and others forward to dance with them.
CHS German Exchange students
Chesterton High School German students hosted exchange students from a partner school in Pffafenhofen, Germany that participates in the German American Partnership Program (GAPP). This group photo was taken as the German students were leaving CHS on April 7 after a three-week visit. Students attended school with their host students in CHS and Michigan City HS and were able to tour the area. Front row, left to right, Justus Weber, Kyra Glonner, Christina Schranner, Erin Grimes, Verena Grabmaier, Ashley Heilmann, Delaney Wright, Carla Wünsche, Simona Kraus, Leonie Maar, Laura Sachse and Anna Schönbach. Row 2, David Linss, Aimée Mester, Anna Eisenmann, Andie Kovach, Julia Wahl, Katrina Balon and Kilian Irlinger. Back row, Jonas Zandt, Daniel Nothnagel, Christian Schwarz, Logan Bell, Martin Lichtenstern and Philipp Patzelt.
Students participate in Valpo Univ. Theaterfest
The Chesterton High School German 4 and 5 classes competed on April 14 in the 13th annual Valparaiso University Theaterfest. The Theaterfest is designed to bring together Northwest Indiana high school German students for a day of friendship, fun, and competition. It is a wonderful opportunity for students to take their language learning out into the community and share it with others, while also realizing that what they are learning within the walls of CHS could grow into a college degree, university exchange opportunity, or future employment.
The CHS German 5 class won the competition this year for the fifth consecutive year with their performance of the German children's book, "About the Mole, Who Wanted to Know, Who Did Something on His Head"! While two theater pieces were presented wonderfully by the German 4 students, only one of them was awarded a trophy of second place for the piece entitled, "Five Little Ladybugs".
Chesterton High School German teacher Herr Cary Knauff was extremely proud of all of the students who performed and shined like stars on the stage at Valpo University.
Liberty Intermediate Spelling Bee winners
Liberty Intermediate School (LIS) fifth grade spelling bee winners are, left to right, Ali Stringham (second place), Liberty Winnell (winner) and Abbie Seguin (third). Winnell will represent LIS at the Porter County Spelling Bee on Thursday, May 5 at Ben Franklin Middle School in Valparaiso.
Duneland School students participate in Tri-County Jr/Sr HS Art Exhibition
Chesterton High School seniors Hayley Corzan, Serena Estrada, Collin Gibbons, Katarina Gregurich, Abby Hurst, Kara Knight, Kaitlin Kuypers, Alyssa Pisowicz and Chad Schuster; juniors Abby Ambruso, Brittany Milzarek, Jeslyn Hohenberger, Elaina Nichols, Madison Stickels and Emma Tumbas; sophomores Eric Amling, Josh Coslet, Maddy Haskell, Abbi Koski, Lorann Lombardini, Clarissa Samahon, Lydia Scott, River Starnes, Hannah Thompson, Kayla VanNostran and Timber Whittemore; and freshman Jakob Bryner, Trinity Cibak, and Lindsay Kaurich. CHS teachers are Terese Maletta, Patrick Miller, Allison Nix, Kirsten Renehan, Adam Schultz and Jill Smoker.
Chesterton Middle School seventh grade students: Logan Riley, Ally Christian, Kaitlyn Corzan, Mikell Gregory, Grace Hannah, Kelly Lahaie, Emma Sieman and Alaina South; and eighth graders, Sydney Bala, Mireya Barrientes, Jaelynne Corral, Julia Dujmovich, Brook Gifford, Kyle McEuen, Lukas Needham, Isabella Torres and Eve Senderhauf. CMS teachers are Jason Gast and Taylor Tice.
The opening and awards ceremony will be on Sunday, May, 1 from 1-3 p.m. at the Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, IN.