NORTH HUNTERDON HIGH SCHOOL
Annandale, NJ
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January 2019 E-Newsletter
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Upcoming Events
The following is a list of important upcoming events:
- January 2, 2019: Return to School, 7:45am
- January 4: Last day to register for winter intramurals in Aspen
- January 8: Music Association meeting, 7pm in choir room
- January 8: PTSA meeting, 7pm in room 120
- January 9: Math League, 2:25pm in cafeterias
- January 10: Aspen opens for 2019-2020 Course Selections
- January 10: Math SAT Prep, 3-5pm in room 207
- January 14: Booster Club meeting, 7pm in faculty dining room
- January 15: 8th Grade Parent Orientation Night, 6:30pm in theater
- January 17: Principal's Parent Advisory Committee meeting, 9:00am in district office lower level
- January 17: Last day of first semester, half day for students, 11:55am dismissal
- January 17: Math SAT Prep, 3-5pm in room 207
- January 18: 3rd Marking Period/Second Semester Begins
- January 18: Winter Coaches Breakfast from Booster Club
- January 21: School Closed, Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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- January 22: 2019-2020 Course Selections Close in Aspen
- January 24: Math SAT Prep, 3-5pm in room 207
- January 25: Course Verification Forms due to Guidance Office
- January 25: Night of the Arts, 7:00pm in theater
- January 28: STEM Night for 8th graders, 6:30pm
- January 28: Lions Cheer Organization meeting, 7pm in faculty dining room
- January 30: Community Service Fair, 9:15am-1:45pm outside cafeterias in mall
- January 31: Math SAT Prep, 3-5pm in room 207
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December Students of the Month
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Amanda Chisholm
Class of 2019
Senior Amanda Chisholm is happy she was able to enjoy this time in her life with the awesome people she gets to call her friends, who have provided her most favorite memories at North. From meeting up in the band room before school to hanging out after class. Amanda is a member of French National Honor Society, Science National Honor Society, and Math National Honor Society. She is on the executive board of the Amnesty International Club, where they work to improve human rights locally and globally. Her favorite part about Amnesty is being able to work closely with Mrs. Voegele and the other amazing members of the club. Amanda’s favorite classes at North have been Chemistry and Psychology. She absolutely loves Chemistry and the labs the class did. They were some of the coolest things she has ever done. She is very proud of all the work she did in that class and still has her lab book that details all of the experiments. Amanda also found a love for Psychology when she took the class as an elective this year. Figuring out not just how the brain works, but how it affects people’s behavior is endlessly interesting. Outside of school, Amanda has a part-time job at the Red Mill Museum Village. When she is at home, she takes care of her cats and dog. Additionally, she enjoys crafting with her aunts, Escape the Room adventures, and learning about cultures all around the world. Next year, Amanda would like to attend college at either Northeastern University or Cornell University and major in Chemistry and Environmental Science.
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Ella Fasciano
Class of 2019
Ella Fasciano has been on the Executive Board of Amnesty International for the past three years. Ella loves the fact the club focuses on helping people locally and around the world. She is a member of many Honor Societies at North and has been involved in Marching Band for the past four years. She loves Model UN and Youth & Government, where she was able to go to the national version of the conference and learn many perspectives from all over the country. Ella has many favorite classes at North. AP Lang and AP Lit, where she was inspired by Ms. Carr and Ms. Fedorko to grow her authentic writing. Mrs. Voegele’s AP US History helped her develop her passion for history and stories and AP Gov where every day the class thought deeply and laughed a lot. AP Psych, where Mr. Kieffer told the best stories. AP Human Geo with Mr. Maginnis helped her write while making everyone laugh with his stories. Ella’s favorite memories from North include exploring Disney with the Marching Band freshman year, having frozen hot chocolate and debating during Model UN, going to the United Nations, singing in choir, and helping the world in Amnesty International. Ella has been in Girl Scouts for 10 years and just finished her Gold Award where she interviewed elders around the community for their life story and turned those into primary sources to deepen students understanding of history. Ella is excited for college in the fall so she can keep learning all she can. She hopes to attend Swarthmore, Tufts, Dartmouth, Georgetown, or American University, where she plans to major in Peace and Justice Studies and some sort of Journalism or Political Science major.
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December Athletes of the Month
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Elena DiMarcello
Class of 2019
Senior Elena DiMarcello has been a top three runner for all four years of her Cross-Country career. She has helped lead a team that has won four straight Sectional titles, four straight Conference Championships, four straight Hunterdon/Warren/Sussex Championships, back to back Group IV State Championships, back to back New Jersey Meet of Champions winners, and back to back to back, Nike Northeast Regional Champs. Elena’s consistent effort has helped shape one of the best 1-2-3 combinations of any team in the history of New Jersey. She is a 2017 state runner up in the mile at the New Jersey State Championships in Track and Field. Most recently, she was a key runner that led the team to the Nike National Championship in Portland, Oregon. Elena thinks it is really cool to be a part of such an amazing team. All her teammates are very close and have a lot of fun together. They all support each other through all of their challenging meets throughout the season. Elena has been running since third grade. She started running track in the Hunterdon Lions Track Club and then cross country at her middle school. Elena is very excited that she has verbally committed to run Track and Field and Cross Country at Penn State. Her parents both went to Penn State, so she got to visit a lot as a kid and has always loved it there.
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John Hershfeld
Class of 2019
Swimmer John Hershfeld has been swimming competitively for five years. John recently moved to New Jersey this year from Raleigh, North Carolina where he swam with the New Wave Swim Team. Now he swims at the Somerset Valley YMCA in Bridgewater, NJ. John’s strengths include freestyle, butterfly, breaststroke, and the individual medley. His best events would be the 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, 100 butterfly, 200 individual medley, and the 500 freestyle. So far this season, John has set best times in the 100 freestyle (48.79 seconds), 100 butterfly (55.04 seconds), and 100 breaststroke (1 minute and 1.53 seconds). Next year, John hopes to attend Villanova University. Although he would be able to walk-on to their Varsity Swim Team, he would prefer to focus more on his academics at Villanova and join the club team. The commitment to the varsity team would be too much. John plans to major in Accounting, Finance, or Business while at Villanova.
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December Department Students
of the Month
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English
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Ryan Wilbur '22 and Rachel Visicaro '22
Fine Arts
: Meredith Harmon '19 and Adam Coe '19
Mathematics
: Shrijani Chakroborty '21 and Renee Soika '20
Music
: Jack Murry '19 and Lexie Miller '20
PE/Health:
Angelina Dyson '20 and Sean Salatiello '19
Practical Arts
: Thomas Zappetti '19 and Jason Curley '20
Science
: Pedro Gondim '20 and Casey Alworth '22
Social Studies
: Ryker Chauhan '22 and Ava Triano '22
World Language
:
Magdalyn Hoffman '21 and Mallory Wert '22
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December Good Citizens of the Month
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English
: Michael Fioto '22 and Nicolena Crisologo '22
Fine Arts
: Kayci Fox '21 and Will Gunter '20
Mathematics
: Gianna Sicola '20 and David Reese '20
Music
: Andrew Tota '19 and Ella Fasciano '19
PE/Health
: Ava Perrotti '22 and Andrew Rusnak '19
Practical Arts
: Will Kastrud '19 and Amy Carosi '19
Science
: Kira Lospinoso '22 and Abigail Fiorentino '19
Social Studies
: Mia Vitiello '22 and Jesse Panek '22
World Language
: Joanna Zhang '20 and Katrina Walchuk '21
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Top December Tweets from Dr. Greg Cottrell @nhprincipal
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Congratulations to Coach Sean Walsh!! This afternoon he was presented with the NJSIAA “Award with Honor” for his dedication, service and success in the sport of Cross Country over the last 10 years! He was only one of two CC coaches in the state to receive this award today! Well deserved!!
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Congrats to the North Hunterdon WHAM (Warren Hunterdon Academic Meet) team on winning first place in the annual competition!!
#northrocks
#LionPride
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January is National Blood Donor Month. North Hunterdon High School continues to be one of the top donor schools in the tri-state area. Thank you to our students and community for their generous support in making our blood drives so successful. Blood donations save lives! Make one of your 2019 resolutions to give blood. Our next Blood Drive will be held on February 20th from 7:30am - 3:00pm in the main gym. Click
here for more information on donating blood from the Red Cross.
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Emergency School Closing - Winter Weather
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In the case of actual or predicted inclement weather, the decision to close school, delay an opening or dismiss early is made after the Superintendent confers with various area superintendents, county road officials, police departments and maintenance departments, in addition to several weather services. Any change to the normal schedule due to inclement weather will be communicated to parents and staff via the methods listed below.
- If school is cancelled:
- A decision will usually be made by 5:30 a.m.
- All afternoon and evening athletic events and activities will be cancelled, unless otherwise specified. Outside groups using the facility will also be cancelled. To check the rescheduling of athletic events, please visit the athletic department’s website or Twitter feed for the most up-to-date information
- If school is delayed:
- A decision will usually be made by 5:30 a.m.
- School will begin two hours later at 9:45 a.m.
- All bus routes will be delayed exactly 2 hours from their original pick-up times.
- The decision is based upon safe traveling conditions predicted for later in the morning.
- When school is delayed, there will not be an AM Polytech session. PM Polytech will be held as usual.
- If school is dismissed early:
- Students will usually be dismissed at 11:55 a.m., if weather conditions call for an early dismissal.
- The decision will be made by 10:45 a.m.
- PM Polytech will be cancelled
Please note: when schools are dismissed early, all afternoon, evening and athletic activities are cancelled.
The high school district uses an automated notification system called School Messenger to contact parents and staff members in the event of an emergency or if the school day schedule will be changed, such as a school closure due to snow. School Messenger contacts the phone numbers listed in our system for each student’s family and our staff members, sends an email to parents, and can also send a text message.
For more information on other resources to find out if school has been cancelled, delayed or will be dismissed early please click on the link below:
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Governor's Educator of the Year Program
2018-2019
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Congratulations to the North Hunterdon High School recipients of the 2018-2019 Governor's Educator of the Year Program. Mrs. Summer Morris (pictured above), has been a World Language teacher at North for 11 years.
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Mrs. Jessica Allora has served the District as a School Psychologist since 2006. We thank them both for their dedication and commitment to our students.
Congratulations Mrs. Morris and Mrs. Allora!
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NJ Agricultural Fair Ambassador
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Congratulations to senior Lianna Bonacorsi who was chosen as the 2019 New Jersey Agricultural Fair Ambassador.
In her role as ambassador, Lianna will be visiting the state's agricultural fairs to promote our state's farmers and agriculture.
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Congratulations Choral Singers
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CONGRATULATIONS to senior Rebecca Beswick (Soprano 1, treble) and freshman Kira Lospinoso (Alto 2, mixed) for being accepted into the NJ Region 2 Chorus. They will both be representing North Hunterdon High School in the NJ Region 2 Chorus this month! Well done, both of you!
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The Ski/Snowboard Club will be traveling to Blue Mountain after school on the following dates: January 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31, with make-up dates of February 7 and 14. On the mornings of the ski/snowboard club trips, members should drop off their equipment on the baseball side of the building, lower lot inside garage doors. Any questions, please contact advisor Phil Sorg at
psorg@nhvweb.net.
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North and Voorhees engineering students came together on Friday, December 14 in the culmination of design teams evaluating and testing truss bridges using static weights. With each school having five teams each, made up of two to four students, they loaded the bridges up in 2 ½ pound increments until the bridges collapsed. As early bridges failed at 80 pounds, the interest shifted as teams passed 100lbs, 200lbs, and then 300lbs. Only two bridges remained after the 400 mark.
Seniors: (L-R) Amy Carosi, Will Kastrud, Thomas Zappetti and junior, Jason Curley
from North finished the competition at an impressive 522 ½ lbs, setting the bar for future competitions.
The Tech. Ed. department hopes to invite other area schools to compete next year and extend the invitation to middle schools.
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Our indoor snack shack will be open for basketball games and wrestling matches throughout the winter season. Please check the the NHHS athletics website for team schedules. We will be offering drinks, candy, hot dogs, popcorn and nachos. Come out and support our teams!
Looking ahead, we will host our Winter Coaches Appreciation Breakfast on Friday, January 18th. Mark your calendar now because on February 21, 2019 we will be celebrating Dave “The Rave” Robbins' birthday at the Unified sports and boys varsity basketball games. Please come out and share a cupcake with Dave as we wish him a “Happy Birthday!”.
Thank you very much for your continued support of the NHHS Booster Club. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact us at
nhhsbc@gmail.com
. Our next meeting will be Monday, January 14, 2019 in the faculty dining room.
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Shop
Smile.Amazon.com
and
raise money for our PTSA,
it’s simple and easy through Amazon Smile. Click
here
for more information on how to get set up. Remember that the PTSA exists to raise money for every class. “We are working together for your student, all 4 years!”
Support your North Students!
Check out our
Spirit Wear Store
to purchase fabulous merchandise!
Catalyst Hybrid Scoreback session
@ North on January 8
th
. Test results will be reviewed from last month’s session.
Click here
for more info.
Staff Appreciation Breakfast
: February 7, 2019. Sign up to volunteer or donate food to show your gratitude for the many things they contribute to our students. Your help is greatly appreciated to help make this much anticipated event a success. Look for the sign up coming soon!
You're invited to take a Yoga break on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:15 - 7:15pm!
Open to Parents, Students & the Community. Mixed-Level Yoga class with instructor Lisa Perry are now held at the tranquil Valley Crest Farm. Classes are $5 per participant. Bring a mat/blanket and towel. Drop-ins welcome, or to reserve a spot email
Become a part of PTSA
and help our students and teachers have the best year ever!
Next Meeting is Tuesday, January 8th @ 7pm in Room 120
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All are welcome to attend! Agendas and meeting minutes are on our website. Have a question or comment? Please
email us
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Keep music in mind as 2019 begins!
The North Hunterdon Music Association is so grateful for the support of our members and volunteers and we are always looking for new ideas to keep the organization growing. Our membership dollars, along with fundraising efforts, help provide programs, services and scholarships which encourage and enrich all of our music students. Click
HERE
to visit our website and learn more about who we are and what we do.
We’d love to see you at our next NHMA meeting - Tuesday, January 8, 2019
We meet at 7 PM in the choir room (Rm 131).
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Buy Discounted NJ Devils President’s Weekend Game Tickets
Every year, the NHEF gets the chance to offer discounted Devils tickets to the North community. Proceeds from all tickets sold using our code will benefit the foundation. This year’s game is on February 17, 2019 at 6pm against the Buffalo Sabres at the Prudential Center. It’s the Sunday of President’s weekend, so no school on Monday! If our Education Foundation sells the most ticket, we will win a deluxe box for a future Devils game! NHEF won the box in the 2016-2017 hockey season and we then raffled it off at our spring fundraiser. Help us win the box this year! Please visit our website to purchase tickets.
https://nhhsfoundation.org
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Spring It On – Save the Date
The NHEF is busy planning our annual Spring Event. Please save the date, April 13th to come out and have some food and fun with the North Community. We will also be celebrating our 5
th
Anniversary as a Foundation supporting the North Community.
Parent Chats
The NHEF is planning to host our popular Parent Chats in February. These sessions will be held after Guidance nights. Parents experienced in the college process will be offering their observations on how they navigated the search and application with their children.
Follow us on twitter and Facebook for updates
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North Hunterdon High School
1445 State Route 31, Annandale, NJ 08801
(908) 713-4199
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