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Council Grove High School Newsletter 129 Hockaday/Council Grove, KS 66846 620/767-5149 www.usd417.net Kelly McDiffett, Principal November 1, 2010 From the Principal’s Desk suddenly pop up to make the romantic connections As much as we strive to maintain a persistent become very complicated. Who is El Phantismo and positive attitude in our leadership of CGHS, we must why has he come to this port city? The only way to recognize and honor the loss of an outstanding know for sure is to come to play and find out. educator and an integral part of the CGHS family, * * * * * * * Joe Glotzbach. El Phantismo was the play selected by Joe Mr. Glotzbach served on the CGHS staff Glotzbach, CGHS Drama Teacher, who passed for 25 years. He led the speech and drama away on October 19. In true stage performance department as the organization evolved into CG fashion, “the show must go on”, as the cast and Players and Company. During the past summer crew have dedicated this year’s performance to the Mr. Glotzbach was diagnosed with pancreatic memory of Mr. Glotzbach. cancer. He passed away on October 19. As you Ralph Mock, former USD 417 vocal music will read in the following article regarding the instructor and director of numerous musicals upcoming fall play, the cast and crew are during his tenure at CGHS, has volunteered to determined to dedicate this year’s performance of direct the play. the fall play to the memory of Mr. Glotzbach. The fall play will be performed once on Our thoughts and prayers go out to Joes wife Sunday, December 12 at 2:00 p.m. Please come Carol, his son Jeremy (CGHS ’01), and his support the CGHS fall play cast and crew as they daughter Megan (CGHS ’03). We will lead our pay tribute to Mr. Glotzbach by performing “El students and staff through this difficult time, but Phantismo”. “Joe G” will be sorely missed by all. * * * * * * * We congratulate our girls’ golf team for Play tickets are $6.00 per person. Contact placing 2nd in regional and finishing 6th at the 3A-1A the high school if you wish to make a reservation. State meet in Great Bend. As we complete our first trimester and move into the winter trimester, we look forward to scholars’ bowl meets, winter sports practices, and the fall play. Counselor’s Corner With the coming of colder weather, we Each year of high school brings about a typically see more illness as well. Be sure your different set of events. If you have questions about the student makes healthy decisions so that absences do following reminders, contact Sue Shoemaker, CGHS not become a detriment to his/her academic progress. Counselor. Go Braves! Freshmen: Those freshmen who are enrolled in Investigations in Technology during the first trimester have begun working on resumes. The Kansas Career Pipeline program is easily accessed by the students, and the student’s resume’ is stored on the Fall Play site for easy access. The resume’ will be a key --the show must go on-- component in qualifying for scholarships during the This year’s CGHS fall play is entitled, “El senior year of high school. Phantismo” by Tony Howell. The story is about Sophomores: The sophomore class pirates, the ladies they love, and story tellers who participated in the PLAN test during October. PLAN seem to help weave the story line. As with any good scores will be available after Thanksgiving. The pirate story, there are those people who do not want PLAN scores will provide excellent information to the pirates around and who do their best to rid the sophomores and their parents in developing a career city of them. There are twists in the story that plan. 2 Go Braves!

Juniors: Juniors who have completed SchoolReach, a web-based communication system, to the PSAT test will begin getting results back after make contact with parents. CGHS uses SchoolReach Thanksgiving Break. It is very important for on a daily basis to make courtesy phone calls to the college-bound juniors to sign up to take the ACT. homes of students who have been absent from school ACT packets are available online at www.act.org. without notification. It is an effective tool for making Seniors: By this time of the school mass phone calls for family reminders or when major year, seniors should have applied to the program and events are cancelled or postponed. school that they wish to attend for the 2011-12 Contact CGHS if any of the contact school year. If your senior has not done so, he/she information is different than what is currently on needs to see the CGHS counselor for information file. We want to make certain we can take advantage very soon. Seniors should be asking three people to of the technology available to us by having accurate write letters of recommendation for them so they contact information for every CGHS student. may prepare to apply for scholarships during the second trimester.

Changing of Activity Seasons The coming of November brings a transition in News From the AD’s Office high school activities. Our Scholars’ Bowl tryouts As the fall activity season draws to a close, have been completed and their season is underway. the Braves can reflect on many highlights throughout Wrestling, boys’ basketball, and girls’ the fall season. As our students, coaches, parents, basketball are the extracurricular athletics available at and community continue to strive for excellence, we CGHS during the Winter season. Winter sports are reminded that the process is truly about our practices will begin on Monday, November 15. All students learning life lessons on which they can athletes must have a physical form on file with the build successful futures. Success, whether on the Activities Director prior to participating in an athletic field, court, course, or in the classroom, is truly practice session. measured by the individual improvement of each participant. We hope participants were able to take something from their experiences this fall and use it Honor Roll Update to build and develop themselves into a stronger, Council Grove High School uses the 4.0-point more confident and brighter winter and spring GPA (grade point average) scale to determine the season. Congratulations to all of our participants and honor roll. A student must have a GPA of at least 3.2 coaches for a job well done this fall. - 3.69 to reach the Blue Honor Roll. To achieve the UPCOMING ACTIVITY DATES: Gold Honor Roll a student must have a GPA of 3.7 – November 15 Winter sports practices begin 3.99. The Principal’s Honor Roll remains the same November 19 Late Night in the Grove in rewarding students with all “A’s”. November 23 Blue-Gold WR Scrimmage We will be publishing the names of students who have earned honor roll recognition for the fall trimester on November 19.

SchoolReach Updates Needed As CGHS attempts to be less dependent on paper, we have increased our phone messages to our Thanksgiving Break students’ homes. Throughout the school year Council Grove High School and USD 417 may use November 24 - 28 Council Grove High School Newsletter 129 Hockaday/Council Grove, KS 66846 620/767-5149 www.usd417.net Kelly McDiffett, Principal November 1, 2010

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