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Dateline: GCISD - Friday, October 19, 2001 6:16 PM

student substance abuse prevention targets safe homes

GCISD's Safe Homes program helps parents take an active and visible role in the the prevention of substance abuse in the children. Organized by the district's Substance Abuse Prevention Committee, the Safe Homes program's key element is a directory which lists all parents who pledge to actively supervise gatherings or parties in their homes. The pledge also includes the promise to not allow gatherings or parties in their home unless they  are present and to not allow guests under legal age to use alcohol, tobacco or illegal drugs in their home or on their property. The directory will be mailed to each household in the district.

GCISD's Red Ribbon Week, October 22–28, will feature a variety of activities created to reenforce an anti-drug and alcohol message to students throughout the district.

• POSTER CONTEST in age categories, with first, second and third place winners displayed at the GCISD Administration building. Campus winners will receive a Red Ribbon t-shirt and district winners will attend the Tarrant County Red Ribbon breakfast at Texas Christian University on October 25th.

• SLOGAN CONTEST in which students are asked to create a slogan in ten words or less to discourage the use of alcohol. Sponsored by Tarrant County Challenge, Inc.

• DECORATE SCHOOL RED. All campuses are asked to decorate their schools red and judging will be Monday, Oct. 22, 2 p.m.

• THEME DAY is a fun day for students as well as staff. Campuses are encouraged to create their own themes for each day or select from the suggestions from years past, which include

• Sock out Drugs – Crazy Sock Day

• Give Drugs the Boot – Cowboy Day

• Lights Out on Drugs - Pajama Day

• Drugs out of Sight – Camouflage

• Put a cap on Drugs – Hat day

• Cross out Drugs – Mix Match day

• Say Goodbye to Drugs – (Aloha) Hawaiian Day

• Say Yes to sports, No to Drugs – Sports Day

• Too Cool for Drugs – Sunglasses, etc.

• Keep Drugs out of the Future – Career Dress Day

• Bugs instead of Drugs – Pass out gummy worms

• Decoration Day

For more information, please contact Robin Davis, student advocate services counselor, at 817/358-4783 or email her at robin.davis@gcisd.net.

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Colleyville heritage high school students recognized for achievements on ap exames

Seventy students at Colleyville Heritage High School have been named AP Scholars by the College Board in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the college-level AP Exams. Only about 13 percent of the more than 840,000 students in 13,680 schools who took AP Exams in May 2001 performed at a sufficiently high level to merit such recognition.

Students take AP Exams in May after completing challenging college-level courses at their high schools.  The College Board recognizes several levels of achievement based on the number of year-long courses and exams (or their equivalent semester-long courses and exams):  One CHHS student, Carol Lu, qualified for the National AP Scholar Award by earning an average grade of at least 4 on all AP Exams taken, and grades or 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams.

Thirteen students qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams. These students are:  Colleen Boerman, Michael Crain, Sanjay Dastoor, Kristen Fagen, Austin Henley, James Hulsey, Julie Kvasic, Carol Lu, Matthew Middleton, Sarah Smith, Mary Svenstrup, Vivian Wang, and Jennifer Welchel.

Twelve students qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams. These students are: Holly Brown, Ryan Duke, Matt Fay, Matthew Gibson, James Gill, Haider Khan, Brenna McWilliams, Jessica Moore, Leah Nedderman, Swathi Reddy, Matthew Shanks and Everett Teach.

Forty-five students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP Examinations with grades of 3 or higher. The AP Scholars are:  Jonathan Badger, Kristen Bays, Oscar Benitez, Ashley Bradbury, John Callahan, Kelly Cline, Courtney Cromer, Michael DeLeo, Rishi Dhir, Shelli Dunigan, Marcus Dunn, Amanda Ecklund, Colin Evett, Damian Gomez, Christina Gray, Christopher Hakemack, Laura Howard, Megan Johnson, Jason Jung, Chase Kissling, Jessica Knox, Christopher Lozano, Megan Marshall, Danielle Mathieu-Reeves, Andrew Maxwell, Proshal Nemati, Candice Nikkel, James Nobis, Jason Pond, Jason Ray, Julia Rey, Raeley Rinderknecht, Lauren Schutte, Stacy Scroggins, Ginger Smith, Stephanie Smith, Steven Smith, Kiran Talluri, Viral Tarpara, Jennifer Trojcak, Eric Wagner, Taylor Wallace, Benjamin Weidman, Joshua Weinberg, and Lauren Wollin. 

Of this year’s award recipients at CHHS, seventeen are sophomores or juniors: Kelly Cline, Courtney Cromer, Michael DeLeo, Rishi Dhir, Marcus Dunn, Matthew Gibson, Christina Gray, Laura Howard, Jessica Knox, Megan Marshall, Danielle Mathieu-Reeves, Proshad Nemati, Jason Pond, Jason Ray, Swathi Reddy, Ginger Smith, and Benjamin Weidman. These students have at least one more year in which to do college-level work and possibly earn another AP Scholar Award.

Harry Potter fans, however, won’t want to miss this year's haunted house.  Designed, built and staffed by ITS members, the spooktacular event will feature eleven different Harry Potter areas, including Professor Snape’s Potions classroom, Diagon Alley, the Forbidden Forest and a living Chess Set! Visitors will be encouraged to take a chance to find the correct flying key, see the birth of Norbert and to try and get past the Troll in the bathroom.

Admission is $5 and each person will receive a bag of Bertie Bott’s Beans as well as a realistic lightning shaped “scar” applied to their forehead.  Additional hours of operation will be Monday, Oct. 29 through Wednesday, Oct. 31, 6 - 9 p.m. Visitors should park in the student parking lot on the East side of the school and follow the torches to the Black Box Theatre entrance.

Students making the All-Region Men's Choir are: Ben Isham, Chris McCall, Ben Nye

With 33 bands participating, the Panther Band placed second overall in preliminary competition and advanced to finals at the Birdville ISD Invitational Marching contest the weekend of Oct. 13. The CHHS Drumline was named outstanding drumline, out-beating the six-time world champion Marcus High School Drumline. In Finals performance, the CHHS band had an outstanding performance and finished third overall behind The Colony and Fossil Ridge.

Grapevine High School boy's cross country team earned a 6th place spot in the GOLD division, competing against the best in the state on Oct. 6th at the McNeil Invitational (site of UIL state cross country meet).

In doing so, the team defeated the 4th, 6th, 8th and 9th rated 5A teams and the 2nd, 3rd and 4th ranked 4A teams in the state.

Additionally, the GHS team was only 6 points behind the #1 4A team! The Mustangs were led by Rob Morrow (12), Shea Salinas (10), Brad Maciulewicz (12), Kevin Lopez (10) and Chris Gormley (12) with Dustin Cherry (9) and Matt Johnston (12).

The Mustang JV Boys team competed as a varsity 4A team and was third in that division. The 4A team included Michael Jennings (10), Josh Scheel (9), Travis Cook (11), Andrew Wall (9), Will Carter (10) Craig Logan (12), David Popelka (11) and Dustin Wernicke (9) 

Grapevine's girl's cross country team also ran very well with 5 of the 7 girls running their personal best times. Leading the girls was Laura Harlett (11), Mollye Stanford (12), Janet Alvarez (10), Kary Wagner (9), Lia Solomon (12), Stacey Lutz (10), Maryann Overby (11) and Catherine Meadows (11).

The members and staff of the Mustang Band would like to extend an invitation to the public to attend this event. Their goal is to make a "First Division" rating and advance to the UIL Area Marching Band Contest on Oct. 27th.

The Colleyville Elementary School Chess Club will meet from 3-4 p.m. in the cafeteria on November 6th, 13th and 28th.

On Thursday, Oct. 25, first grade students at Colleyville Elementary School will be celebrating the 50th day of school. They will be dressed in the attire of the fifties and will be involved in activities that have to do with 50.

Grapevine Middle School students will be presenting "Living History" to their fellow students on Oct. 23 and 24 in the Lecture Hall at Grapevine Middle School. Seventh grade students in Anthony Brown's Social Studies class will be writing and providing costumes for skits based on pictorial slides of Texas History. Mr. Brown said the students are excited about setting up their living slides of history, and he hopes they will enjoy this fun method of learning more in their research of the picture they choose from their textbook.

On the same day, students at Grapevine Middle will learn more about famous Hispanics in History. Kee Dizzine's Spanish classes will choose a person of Hispanic heritage and prepare a life sized poster board of them with a face cut out. The students will write the text of a message based on their research, and using the poster board, depict the person's historical role and their impact on Texas History.

Both Mr. Brown and Mrs. Dizzine's classes will do their presentation to fellow students during their Social Studies class periods.

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