Monday, November 16, 2009

Monday, November 16, 2009

Club Announcements:

Speech and Debate competed at the Turkey Meet this weekend. This tournament is the largest in the state, with 700 competitors and 30 different schools from Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska. Toby Jacob and Cameron Merrick are the tournament champions in Cross Examination Debate, Paige Kinsley and Scott Egleston are the tournament champions in Improv Pairs, Toby Jacob is the tournament champion for cross examination speaker awards, Grant Jossi placed 7th in Original Oratory, Tres Pittman and Daniel Thomas placed 5th in Cross Examination Debate, Reine (pronounced wren) Ibala placed 5th in Lincoln Douglas Debate, Abby Benkert placed 3rd in Lincoln Douglas Debate, Morgan Gold placed 14th in Drama, Vidya Ravilochan placed 12th in Drama, Lilli Hokama placed 4th in drama, Cassie Reid placed 9th in Poetry, Melissa Timmermeyer placed 5th in Poetry, Daniel Thomas placed 6th in Cross Examination speaker awards, Abby Benkert placed 5th in Lincoln Douglas speaker awards, Reine Ibala placed 2nd in Lincoln Douglas speaker awards, and the Littleton High School Speech and Debate Team placed 2nd in the overall team sweepstakes. Congratulations!!!


Sports Announcements:

Get started on your holiday gift shopping!
Come to the Novemberfest – All Sports Fundraiser!
Saturday, November 21
Romano’s catered dinner 5:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Silent Auction 5:30 to 9:00 p.m.
Live Auction 9:15 p.m.
There is no charge to get into the Auction.
Dinner is $9.00 per person or $32 for a four-pack.
Come on out and support our student-athletes!


Academic Announcements:

Students interested in cosmetology school can visit with representatives from the Empire Beauty School on Tuesday, in the Counseling Office at 10 am. If you would like more information please see Mrs. Allen in Post Grad.

Swim Test Waiver Reminder: IF you have already signed up to take the swim test waiver on Wed., Nov. 18—you MUST bring your photo ID and be at the pool, dressed and READY to swim at 8:00 on Wed., Nov. 18. Space is limited and does require you to sign up in the counseling office.

Spring 2010 Student Schedules will be available for students to view on Infinite Campus beginning Nov. 24. If you need to make any adjustments, you must print a copy of your schedule and plan to attend during an OFF HOUR in the Counseling Office on your Class scheduled day between 8:00 am to 2:00 pm: Seniors, Dec. 1-4; Juniors Dec. 7, Sophomores, Dec. 8 and Freshmen Dec. 9.


Special Events:

Welcome to the first day of International Week! Here is the brief schedule of today's events:

1st Block in the Forum: the film Children of Heaven from Iran will be shown

2nd Block in the Forum: Social Studies Teacher James Gordon will present on school building projects in Kenya and the summer 2010 Kenya Service and Study Trip for students

3rd Block in the Forum: Guest speakers Andrea and Mike Rudolph will give a presentation on Antarctica

4th Block in the Forum: Alex Wood (11th Grade LHS IB Student) will give a presentation on her perspectives on Eastern Europe and the Roma People through her experience with the Bold Leaders program

Please disregard the Film Festival white bookmarks which were passed out last week. A new schedule is due out today.