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HOMECOMING - "ONCE UPEN A TIME"
It was a memorable, jam-packed Homecoming Week for our Panther Family! The week was full of dances from our incredible performance groups and pep squad. We even had our first PVPHS Teacher/Staff Lip Sync Contest!
Friday was the big finale! Over 140 PVPHS Clubs and organizations participated in the annual Homecoming Carnival. Delicious food was sold and fun games and activities were available.
Our Zoo came out in full support of our team for the football game. During halftime our senior girls on Homecoming Court were presented.
Our Homecoming Dance was spectacular! Co-ed Choreo performed an outstanding dance and our senior boys on Homecoming Court were introduced with a fun dance routine.
ASB under the guidance of Activities Director Season Pollock, worked tirelessly for many weeks to make sure that this year's homecoming was perfect. The creativity and attention to detail in transforming our school into fables, fairy tales, Neverland, and Wonderland was remarkable.
Thank you to our amazing Activities Director Season Pollock, for yet another memorable Homecoming. We are so fortunate to have someone who puts so much effort into making sure that every event at Peninsula High is the "BEST EVER." An Activities Director is key to the culture and climate of any school campus. They work behind the scenes to create the magic...... thank you Season for all you do.
Senior Homecoming Court
Tola Akinwumi
Sarah Aoyagi
Lindsey Britt
Sommer DeRudder
Keymia Ghodrati
Lily Judge
Morgan Rivera
Elise Sommerstein
Senior Princesses: Lauren Yen and Denise Yokohama
Homecoming Queen: Lauren Alimento
Joey Black
Peter Cao
Louis Dewitt-Hoeger
John Galdones
Max LaForest
Take Matsuda
Greg Osborne
Trevor Williams
Senior Prince: Eric Nguyen
Homecoming King: Keon Ghodrati
Junior Homecoming Court
Claire Easton
Alisa Hathaway
Madeline Kim
Alyssa Yeh
Junior Princess: Isabella Navarro
Ishaan Jagger
Brian Kong
Eugene Pak
Junior Princes: Arun Gattu and Jeremy Yap
Sophomore Homecoming Court
Amira Belhedi
Rana Ghassemy
Renee Lee
KK Schmidt
Sophomore Princess: Natalie Wong
Jay Huh
Justin Kim
Jared Matsuda
Eric Soh
Josh Zeitlin
Sophomore Prince: Akin Akinwumi
Freshmen Homecoming Court
Rosalie Burich
Sydney Choi
Anna Privett
Suzanne Saukkola
Freshmen Princess: Mara Mahoney
Justin An
Luke Frasso
Caleb Hall
Evan Kim
Troy Simpkins
Freshmen Prince: Trevor Hughes
 SKECHERS WALK UPDATE - THERE IS STILL TIME TO SIGN-UP
Thank you Panther Community for all your support of the Skechers Walk. On Tuesday we will have the drawing for my parking spot, Prom,and Formal tickets, and on Friday we will announce the winners of Concierge Service. All names on the Skeckers website under Peninsula High will be included in the drawing. Please check the list to make sure you are on that list. If you are not, please bring your sign-up confirmation to Tommye Jones in the Main Office and we will make sure you are included. To check for your name or to sign up, please use this link
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FORMAL, PROM, and PARKING
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THE HABIT Gift Card Winners
Congratulations to Isabelle Mallwitz, Ethan Colin, Sue Breitenstein, Daniel Louie, Eudora Lee, Noah Sheen, Collin Miller, Kelly Van Boxtel, Matthew Akiyama, and Mayuko Nagata |
 HALLOWEEN INFORMATION
To those who may be wearing costumes to school on October 31, please be sensitive to the fact that Peninsula High School is a culturally diverse community. Let's have fun, but let's be respectful.
· No masks may be worn; faces may not be covered.
· No weapons of any kind, or toys that resemble weapons.
· No costumes with wheels (skates, skateboards, etc.).
· No projectiles (silly string, water guns, balloons filled with anything).
· No drugs or alcohol references or overtones.
· No costumes that may be offensive to any race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, or socio-economic status.
· Boys must wear shirts.
· Undergarments may not be visible.
· Clothes must be of appropriate length.
· No bathing suits may be worn.
· Shoes are required.
No clown costumes or masks this year!
Students who do not abide by the Halloween Dress Code will be subject to immediate disciplinary action.
The Halloween Contest Costume will take place at lunch, on October 31.
P TSA MEETING ON OCTOBER 25
10/25 PVPHS PTSA Meeting (a very special one)
"Let's Start and Continue the Conversation"
Whether or not you were at the New York Times bestselling author Julie Lythcott-Haims' speaker event on September 6th, you will have another opportunity to participate in a panel discussion on her book "How to Raise an Adult". 
Join us at our next PTSA meeting on Tuesday, October 25th at 8:45 am (social) and 9:00 am (meeting) in the PVPHS Library for a panel discussion/audience participation of Julie Lythcott-Haims' philosophies/viewpoints on raising adults. We will play a 14-minute clip from her recent TED talk on PBS, follow by robust discussions by the panel and the audience. It will be a unique PTSA meeting format and experience!
Please join us and "Let's Start and Continue the Conversation!"
 ONE YEAR LATER - THE ROAR IS RESTORED
This week marks the one year anniversary of the most difficult decision I have had to make as the Principal of Peninsula High. I am sure you remember that dark day when I announced that Peninsula High Football would end their season, forfeiting the last three games. I am grateful for the community support, the new coaches who believed in Panther Football, and most importantly the players who have given their all to RESTORE THE ROAR! The Class of 2020 is key to this restoration because they had a choice of where they would play football and they took a chance on Panther Football.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up!
Vince Lombardi.
Peninsula High School Football has demonstrated what it takes to rebuild a program with our strong freshmen football team. It takes leadership, a vision, hard work, perseverance, and gratitude. New Head Coach Dave Young and Freshman Coach Larry Joe Campbell brought a new staff with a commitment and drive to develop the football program.
Incoming freshmen started weight training in April. They spent the summer conditioning, and by August a dedicated core group of students numbered 34 - the largest freshmen team in years. Freshmen believed in the new coaching staff vision, and both experienced and new players risked an uncertain playing future at a school that had cancelled the previous season.
The team has dedicated hours to practice; 6 days a week, 2-3 hours a day. Outside of the practices, the team has enjoyed the camaraderie of weekly team dinners, Saturday morning film sessions and breakfast, and the opportunity to volunteer with the Challenger League. Parents are equally enthusiastic about driving the players to away Varsity games, providing meals, and volunteering for the snack shack and chains. It is a Panther Community effort.
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority!
Vince Lombardi
Now 7-1, these Panthers have consistently outscored their opponents in the first six games. Running back and outside linebacker Sammy Monroy has racked up seven touchdowns and 61 tackles. Quarterback Jack Hayworth has thrown for ten touchdowns. Defensive end Luke Seymour has 7 ½ sacks this season. Aidan Lieb leads the receivers with seven touchdowns. With 70 tackles, Sebastian Huizar leads the defensive line. And running back Henry Thomas has rushed for over 1,000 yards so far this season. Part of the running back's success has been from a solid line consisting of Jacob Kang, Trevor Hughes, Trevor Hughes, Trevor Brunn, Daniel Meyerhoff, Nathan Campbell, Asher Ruiz and Nima Afshar.
Recently, as Henry was recognized for running over 1,000 yards, Coach Campbell asked different players to standup who had supported Henry. As the lineman, receivers, running backs, tight ends all stood, coach made the point that each individual's success is a team effort and each player is valuable to the effort.
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work!
Vince Lombardi.
Take one play at a time, one game at a time, one season at a time
 PENINSULA HIGH ZOO FEATURED ON HOOPHALL
 MUSIC BOOSTER SUPPORTS OUR TROOPS
Music Boosters is partnering with "Packages for Patriots." Most of our men and women overseas have not had a piece of candy in months, and would love to have a taste of that American Halloween tradition!
By donating just half of your Halloween candy (which would probably be tossed out anyway) or pick up and extra bag at the store, you can bring a whole ton of happiness to our homesick troops!
Donation bins
will be located in the Choir Room S33 and the Band Room adjacent to the Kelly Johnson Field House
If you would like to help box up the candy for our troops and earn community service hours, please contact Christine Baumberger at [email protected] for details.
 MUSIC UPDATE
Mr. Steiner and Ms. Jacqueline Lewis-Wang, from RIS, will host a String Orchestra Invitational Concert in the Kelly Johnson Fieldhouse on Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 3:30pm.
Orchestra students from both schools will have the opportunity to practice and then preform 4 musical arrangements together.
The Marching Band and Color Guard will travel to Inglewood for the Morningside football game on Friday, October 28.
Both Jazz Bands, Intermediate and Advance, will perform at the Fall Jazz Concert, Wednesday, November 2, 2016, held in the
PAC at 7:00pm.
Varsity Voices will travel to the Biola Invitational Festival at Biola University in La Mirada on Friday, November 4, 2016.
The Marching Band and Color Guard will perform at Bristol Farms on Silver Spur Road, Saturday, November 5, 2016.
PVPHS MUN TAKES HOME A BEST DELEGATION AWARD!
On October 15th and 16th, Peninsula High MUN traveled to Edison High School to face the toughest competition yet at their first advanced conference of the year! Over 1500 delegates were competing from top high schools from Southern California.
Pen MUN received a Best School Delegation Award given to the schools with the highest average score per delegate!
Award Winners include:
Lydia Cheng, Commendation Award
Ali Jaferi, Outstanding Delegate Award
Ashley Knebel, top Research Award
Student Advisors were: Ben Zuercher, Hannah Asadian, Julianna An, and Juliana Yonis.
Congratulations to all our delegates for an incredibly successful weekend.
Our delegates debated a wide range of key international issues in various UN committees. In the top Security Council committees, delegates debated resolving the terrorist campaigns of ISIS and Boko Haram in one committee and in the other, resolving the current crises in Yemen and Azerbaijan. The nuclear watchdog agency IAEA discussed North Korea and what to do with depleted Uranium from unused nuclear war heads. In the World Health Organization our delegates proposed resolutions to combat the Zika epidemic. In the Historical International Court of Justice, our delegate was a judge, questioning Swiss bankers about post-World War II connections to Germany.
Overall, this weekend was a resounding success for Pen MUN and shows that this year's delegation is ready to win many, many more awards
SPEECH AND DEBATE NEWS
At the Novice IE tournament at North High School on October 15, the following Speech
students placed:
In Duo Interpretation:
2nd place-Elise Zimmerman and Sophia Feller
3rd place-Adrian Tai and Allycia Fu
In Impromptu:
Bronze medal-Elizabeth Ho
1st place-Diana Kalantar
In Dramatic Interpretation:
3rd place-Diana Kalantar
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Last weekend at the Fullerton Invitational, the Peninsula Speech and Debaters brought home multiple awards across each category
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In Public Forum-
Sungyoung Lee and Mei Johnson went to semi-finals earning a spot for a reserved bid for the Tournament of Champions. Lauren Kong and Shivani Jain went to quarters.
In Parliamentary Debate- Lindy Liu and Janice Lee got to quarters in out rounds.
In the Southgate Speech Tournament -
Diana Calendar received 1st place in impromptu and 3rd place in dramatic interpretation.
Samantha Liu got 1st in Open Humorous Interpretation, and Jessica Brunnemeyer received 1st place in Varisty persuasive speaking at the Fullerton Invitational.
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 PLUS FORUM
Have you ever been personally selected to participate in a PLUS forum but weren't sure what to expect? It's fun, you get to know other Peninsula students, and you have the opportunity to make a positive impact on our campus by telling us what you want to see happen.
Permission slips for the October 25th forum are due Monday at the end of lunch to Mrs. Tootell in P123.
PARKING CONCERNS (ATTENTION PARENTS)
The manager of Pet Food Express across the street from Pen High called on Friday to discuss concerns about Pen Parents using their parking lot as a waiting zone to pick up their children. There have been incidents where people have almost been hit, customers complain that they cannot get in and out of the parking lot, and cars parked in the fire lane. Most disturbing is that parents have been belligerent, foul-mouthed, and uncooperative when asked to move. This is so disturbing, especially when Peninsula High has such high expectations for student behavior.
Last year, Chase Bank expressed the same concerns and I asked for parent cooperation. Parents cooperated for a few weeks and then, unfortunately, resumed using their parking lot for pick up and drop off. Chase is now constructing barricades, which will make the situation even worse for Pet Food Express.
So, this message serves as notice that Pen parents MUST NOT PARK IN THE CHASE or PET FOOD EXPRESS PARKING LOT for the purpose of picking up or dropping off their children. I will be talking with both managers tomorrow and my recommendation will be to call the Sheriff and give tickets. We have a process for drop-off that requires patience, but is safe. For pick-up, there are plenty of spots on Silver Spur during pick up times. After 1:45pm, most parking spots on campus that are vacant, are safe to park in. Parking permits and staff parking are reserved during school hours but open after hours. In the upper staff parking lot, many teachers end their day at 1:45pm, so you may park in open spots at 1:45pm.
Thank you for your cooperation in maintaining our Panther reputation of good citizenship and kindness. Please remember that our children are watching our actions and learn from us.
CHINESE AMERICAN PARENTS ASSOCIATION
On Tuesday, October 18, the Chinese Parents' Association sponsored an informational meeting for parents. Thank you to Graham Edwards and Terri Lewallen for your wonderful presentations.
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Chinese American Parents' Association
CO-ED CHOREO PERFORMS AT HOMECOMING DANCE
The incredibly talented Co-Ed Choreo dancers, under the direction of Ms. Heather Horn, performed at Friday Night's Homecoming Dance. They were the hit of the evening. Co-Ed Choreo will be sponsoring a Dance Camp on November 5, 2016. This camp should fill up quickly.
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