Here is information on a free dental service for families with limited financial resources. It is offered through Doctors with a Heart Program.
27
Jan
Free Dental Service
Spring Sport Organizational meetings will be held on Monday, January 30, during Period 5, for Baseball, Softball, Girls Soccer, Girls and Boys Lacrosse, Boys Tennis, Girls and Boys Track, and Jr. High Volleyball for Freshman Girls. Team members, Managers and Trainers will meet.
Actual locations for each group will be announced prior to the meeting.
27
Jan
History in the Wood Lab
Rick Bosse fabricated a one-of-a-kind oak bench in Mr. Lee’s Wood Working Level One class.
This unique oak bench is custom made from white and red oak that was reclaimed from a private residence barn near the civil war battlefield in Gettysburg. The barn had stood for over 200 years and was standing during the time of the civil war battle at Gettysburg. Rick took it upon himself to help dis-mantel the barn, transport the wood, design, problem solve, custom fabricate and preserve a piece of history in a new form. Even the square head nails that were used to assemble the top of the bench are the original hand forged nails that were used to assemble the barn.
In the form of furniture, Rick now has a reclaimed piece of time period history that saw the civil war battle at Gettysburg and can be preserved for many more years.
If only the bench could talk.
26
Jan
Key Club Update
The South Western Key Club had a very busy fall semester of community and school service this year. The 114 members of the club logged 3,148 hours of service and have raised closed to $6,000 for local and national charitable organizations (through Powder Puff Football, selling roses, pecans, and coupon booklets for the Bon Ton Community Days sale).
The school year kicked off with a flurry of service activities including providing helpers for the local fireman’s carnivals, a red cross golf tournament, the Hanover Exchange Club’s 9/11 Healing Field, the Hanover Y’s Heart Walk, Guthrie Memorial Library’s Centennial Celebration, the Knights of Columbus stand at the Apple Harvest Festival, The YMCA’s Fall Fest, a local Diversity Summit, carrying sponsor banners in the Hanover Halloween Parade for the Jaycees, West Manheim Fall Fest, and a Vera Bradley Fundraiser for the local library. Throughout September and October, members of the Key Club could be seen taking tickets at the gate for all home football games.
In November, the club was busy around the halls of South Western High School getting ready for a variety of service projects. They started November with a successful blood drive for the Central PA Blood Bank, collecting 102 units of blood from 139 donors. The next day, they hosted over 630 spectators and 100 players at the 2011 Powder Puff Football Games, raising over $3,800 for the Ronald McDonald House of Hershey. The following week, Key Clubbers were seen along Grandview Road picking up trash for their first Adopt-a-Highway cleanup of the year and the next Saturday, another group of Key Clubbers were on the Hanover Square cleaning up leaves and debris in preparation for holiday decorations. A big focus in November was preparing to celebrate American Education Week by providing the faculty and staff with gifts and a Harry Potter Themed breakfast with entertainment by magician Marc Charisse, editor of The Evening Sun. Almost twenty members of the Key Club started their Thanksgiving break by volunteering at the Hanover Red Cross’s Hope for the Holidays Program, helping to package and deliver bags of groceries to almost 200 families during the holiday week.
December saw the Key Club engaging in many seasonal service projects, including helping the local Marine Corps League with Toys for Tots, Operation Claus at Hanover Honda, Breakfast with Santa at the Hanover Hispanic Center, wrapping gifts with the UCP of Central PA at the North Hanover Mall, helping with elementary school Shoppers Rooms, ushering for the school’s play “A Carol for Tiny Tim”, providing gifts for Student Council’s giving tree, and providing helpers for FBLA’s Holiday Babysitting event. In the beginning of December, 8 club members traveled to Gettysburg National Cemetery to assemble and place over 5,000 wreaths on the graves of soldiers with the National Wreath Project. At their December meeting, club members wrote holiday cards for our troops through the Red Cross’s Holiday Hero’s program. Finally, almost 40 members of the club helped over two days with the Red Cross’s Hope for the Holiday’s Christmas event. This event also included sorting the thousands of cans collected by the 2011 Feed-A-Friend Marathon- quite a task!
Members who are involved with peer tutoring, assisting teachers, babysitting at PTA and PTO meetings, and helping out wherever needed around the school also did many hours of service.
The club is looking forward to an equally busy spring of service to our “Home, School, and Community” and would like to thank the community, including the Hanover Kiwanis Club, our sponsor, for all of their support during the fall semester.
26
Jan
Record Breaker!
Chris Beaghan, a senior at South Western High School, scored a 266.75 in a meet against Carlisle High School on Thursday, January 12, 2012 to break the school’s six dive record.
The previous men’s six dive record of 240.85 was accomplished during the 2002-2003 school year by Jeff Salgado. The score of 266.75 is the highest six dive score in the history of South Western High School and is fourth on the all-time YAIAA six dive list.
Beaghan is a two-time York County Diving Champion, a two-time PIAA District 3 medalist and PIAA State Diving competitor.
Way to go, Chris! Go Mustangs!
Last evening the Hanover Rotary Club hosted their annual Hanover Area All-Sports Banquet and Reception at South Western High School. Representing South Western as candidates for the Hanover Area Outstanding Scholar Athlete were Erin and Shannon Laird as female representatives, and Eric Moul and Rafe Sanders as male representatives.
Congratulations to all four student-athletes and a special congratulations to Eric who was selected from all area male candidates to receive this year’s award
Congratulations Mustangs!
A special congratulations goes out to Mike Felton on his selection to the Pennsylvania “Big 33″ Football Team.
Mike will represent South Western in the 55th annual Big 33 which pits the best 33 players from Pennsylvania against the best 33 from Ohio.
The game is the oldest high school all star game with national significance.
06
Jan
Award Winning Phoenix
The 2009-2010 issue of Phoenix, the Art and Literary Magazine of South Western High School, has received First Place with Special Merit along with 5 other High Schools across the United States with enrollment from 1001 – 1700 .
The award comes from the Scholastic Yearbook and Magazine Awards for 2011 judged by the American Scholastic Press Association.
Great Job Mustangs!
We are currently accepting all South Western HS student artwork and writing for The 2011-2012 Phoenix (must have been completed from August 2011- present).
Please drop off your art or email your writing submissions to Ms. Julie Morrette @ South Western HS/ julie_morrette@southwesternsd.org.
The South Western School District will have a vacancy on the board of directors within the next few months and we are looking for an individual to join the team who is interested in helping to make a difference in the lives of the students at South Western.
If you are dedicated to the quality education of students and interested in continuing the forward movement of our school district, please contact our Superintendent, Dr. Barbara Rupp, by email or telephone. Her email address is barb_rupp@swsd.k12.pa.us and her phone number is 717-632-2548 ext 20010.
The South Western School District, Dr. Rupp, and Mr. Graves were recognized by the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) organization at the School Board Meeting last evening.
Nomination for the award was initiated by Mr. Tyler Sieg who serves in the Navy Reserves and who is being deployed to South America for several months. Employers who work with service men and women are recognized by ESGR for making accommodations in the work environment while our soldiers perform their duty near and far. Retired Colonel Aston and Tyler presented the awards on behalf of ESGR.
We wish Tyler safe travels and a safe return to South Western High School where he teaches Electronics, Pre-Engineering, and Power Technology in the Tech. Ed. Department. We are very proud of him and his service to our country.
