NEWBERG HIGH SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

Newberg High School Newsletter          
         May 22, 2015

This week in Newberg Nation!

Military Appreciation Night…

This past Wednesday evening was an emotionally charged one as many NHS seniors and Newberg community veterans and soldiers were honored at Newberg Nation’s 1st Annual Military Appreciation Night!

Featuring the Navy Rock Band, the evening was filled with great music, pride and honor as our seniors that have enlisted in the United States Armed Forces were recognized for their future service while many active duty and veteran military personnel were also in attendance and honored.

Newberg School Board member Jim Chogyoji and Catalyst High School teacher Greg Aldred were both in attendance as former veterans themselves, it was great to have the opportunity to honor them as well!

NHS would like to extend our deepest gratitude this Memorial Day Weekend to all of our service members, veterans and their families for all they have done in support of our nation.

Graduation

Newberg Nation is excited for the class of 2015 and their upcoming commencement exercise! With the event to be held at Loran Douglass Field we would like ensure that all family and friends know that the ceremony will begin at 7pm on Friday June 5.

We would also like to share that our elderly and disabled patrons attending graduation can also contact Mrs. Rebecca Piros in the event they need to reserve special seating for the event. Mrs. Piros can be reached at 503-554-4400.

Sr. Events & Information

For more information on when the senior events such as the senior breakfast, graduation rehearsal and baccalaureate are occurring please visit the NHS website http://www.newberg.k12.or.us/nhs/seniors
 

Finals Schedule

The faculty at NHS has worked hard to develop a finals schedule that will place added emphasis on students finishing the year strong academically while also providing students with time to get help and support from staff. Please note the following dates and times for our finals this June.

Tuesday June 9

7:40 - 8:40            Study Period (Students Report To Advisory)
8:45 - 10:15         2nd Period Final
10:15 - 10:30       Break
10:35 - 12:05       3rd Period Final
12:05 - 12:50       Lunch
12:55 - 2:25         4th Period Final
2:25 - 2:33            Make Up Time

Wednesday June 10

8:40 - 9:40            Study Period (Students Report To Advisory)
9:40 - 10:10         Locker Clean Out/Break
10:15 - 11:45       5th Period Final
11:45 - 12:30       Lunch
12:35 - 2:05         1st Period Final
2:05 - 2:34            Make Up Time

Thursday June 11 (Last Day of School)

7:40 - 8:10            Study Period (Students Report To Advisory)
8:15 - 9:45            6th Period Final
9:45 - 10:00         Break
10:05 - 11:35       7th Period Final
11:35 - 12:20       Lunch
12:25 - 1:55         8th Period Final
1:55 - 2:33            Make Up Time

…Tiger Athletics…

RFC

Good luck tomorrow to Newberg Nation’s newest sports team, NHS Rugby Football Club (RFC), as they head to Lents Park in Portland to compete in the state rugby playoffs at 1pm tomorrow!

Around the Diamond

Good news from the mound! Both softball and baseball won their respective play in games on Tuesday and will play in the first round of the OSAA State playoffs Monday at 4pm. With our softballers traveling to Grants Pass and our baseballers playing at the University of Portland, it will be a competitive Memorial Day for our athletes around the diamond!

Tiger Track

Kudos to our trackies for a great performance at the Three Rivers League Track and Field Championships this past week finishing 2nd and 3rd respectively. Newberg’s many state qualifiers are in Eugene today (Friday, May 22, 2015) and tomorrow vying for the OSAA State Championship at Hayward Field. Congratulations are also in order for Three Rivers League Track Coach of the Year, Coach Brandon Ramey! What a Flying Tiger!

All-Sports Dessert Scheduled

Please mark  your calendars for Tuesday,  May 26, as the all sports dessert will be held at GFU’s Klages Dining Hall beginning at 630pm. No need to RSVP, just be there!

Register now for Fall sports!  Football, Soccer, Water Polo, Volleyball, Cross Country.  Click on the link below for electronic registration or print forms from the NHS Athletic webpage.  You can also pick up forms in the athletic office.  Contact Ronni Cook at cookr@newberg.k12.or.us for more information. 

https://newbergsports.rankonesport.com/AthleticPortal/OnlineForms/Form.aspx?Type=3

Newberg High School Summer School is excited to be offering summer school for students needing credit recovery for previously failed courses.  

General Information

• Credit recovery courses are available starting June 22 thru July 23rd and supported by a highly qualified teacher.
• Summer School is being offered in core and elective courses in English 9-12, Social Sciences, Science, Math, Spanish and Health.

 Eligibility and Course Selection

• Students must currently be enrolled in the Newberg School District.
• All summer school participants are required to consult with his/her school counselor prior to enrolling for Newberg High School Summer School.  Counselors will guide students in selecting the appropriate course.

Time

Days in session:  Monday thru Thursday the weeks of June 22ndthru July 23rd

• Session I:  8-11:30am (section A)  Instructed Format/Online computer format
• Session II: 12:30-4pm (section B)—Online computer format ONLY (based on enrollment)

 Cost

• Cost of summer school $150 per session (up to 2 semester courses) May 11th-June 12th
• Each additional course after first two $50 
• Registration after June 12th $175. No registration after June 19, 2015.
• Register early to secure student session. 

Got Mandarin?

Newberg Nation is excited to have the opportunity to offer Mandarin as a second language option for NHS students next year. This language has been identified by the U.S. State Department as a “critical language” of our future. To sign up for Mandarin please see your counselor as soon as possible as seats are limited! Sign up today!

Tiger Music

Congratulations to Mr. Tanner and our Flying Tiger band on their excellent performance this past weekend at the OSAA State Band Championships!

FFA Banquet

Our Future Farmers of America will be holding their annual banquet this next Thursday, May 28, in the Commons at Newberg High. With a fun filled auction, great food, and awards being handed out to all stakeholders the FFA Banquet is always an entertaining event! The silent auction opens at 5pm with the awards ceremony to follow at 7pm.

NHS Greenhouse plant sale 2015
Fridays & Saturdays in May; 9 am to 5 pm

NEW Terra Nova Varieties * 12” Hanging Baskets * Bonsai * Vegetables * Annuals * Herbs * Patio Pots * Perennials * Sedums * Native Trees & Shrubs

Grown by NHS students at our greenhouse
For prices, availability and more about our program visit:

www.newberg.k12.or.us/nhs/nhs-greenhouse

Registration and Freshmen Orientation:

SAVE the DATES!!!

Wednesday, September 2: Freshmen (class of 2019) will register in the morning (they will stay for Frosh Orientation that afternoon)

Wednesday, September 2: Seniors (class of 2016) will register in the afternoon

Thursday, September 3: Juniors (class of 2017) will register in the morning

Thursday, September 3: Sophomores (class of 2018) will register in the afternoon

Got A Story? An Accomplishment?

An Award? Scholarship? Internship? Joining the U.S. Military?

As we talked about in last weeks newsletter we want to know, we want to celebrate, and we want to honor all things Newberg Nation! This message was delivered to all NHS students at last weeks assembly by Activities Director Mark Brown, Assistant Principal Janay Cookson and Principal Mark Risen.

Again, we want stories, we need to celebrate your and our accomplishments, and we are proud of everyone in Newberg Nation! Please feel free to send your stories to brownm@newberg.k12.or.us and rennet@newberg.k12.or.us. Go Tigers!

  OFFICAL 2015 OREGON DUCK ROSE BOWL HELMET
NEWBERG HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2015 GRAD NIGHT PARTY RAFFLE FUNDRAISER

Please help Support Newberg High School class of 2015 by purchasing a raffle ticket for $20.00. All proceeds go to the end of the year Drug and Alcohol free Grad Night Party. Drawing will be held at Cooperstown Friday May 29th.

If you have questions or wish to purchase tickets, please contact Barry Albo:

503-720-6016
b.albo.nyfl@comcast.net

Or you may purchase your tickets at the High School main office- please ask for Tabitha Renne

Traditionally our Junior Class parents help with the registration process at Graduation.  Below is a link to sign up to help on June 5th from 6:30-10pm.  It is also time to get organized JUNIOR CLASS as the firework fundraiser kicks off your year of fundraising/planning efforts.  You can email nhsgradnight15@gmail.com and we'll help you get connected.  Our current committee will also help you get started.

http://www1.mysignup.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?datafile=nhs_grad_night_2015

It is NOT TOO LATE to register for Grad Night.  Please pick up the forms in the NHS Main Office and get registered!!  We want everyone to attend!
Scholarships are available, contact nhsgradnight15@gmail.com for more information. 

Newberg NationThoughts…

~Principal Risen

On this eve of Memorial Day Weekend I find myself reflecting on the many freedoms we have, many of we which we often don’t consciously think about or even realize at times as we lead our busy lives.

I find myself thinking about very specific freedoms such as the convenience of knowing we can safely drive ourselves, in our own automobile, anywhere in our nation at any time of our choosing, free from fear of any kind. I also think about our ability to form and express our own opinions, beliefs and ideals. The idea that we have the intellectual freedom (and responsibility) to think and choose for ourselves is a given in our country, while not so much in many others. Yet, we don’t consciously think of it that way most of the time.

Our pursuit of happiness is also a fundamental right bestowed upon us in our constitution. Yet, we are so secure in our daily happenings that we rarely stop and ponder how the current extent of these freedoms came about, or how they have been guaranteed for roughly 240 years. We most often just go upon our happy way, doing what we do as Americans, simply because we know subconsciously that we can!

And while these ideas are buried deep in our abstract mind they become much more concrete when we stop and wonder what life would be like in our country if we had to go through a military checkpoint to get to work today or if we weren’t sure our roads would be open (or drivable for that matter). What if we had to stop and think about if help would be there for us if our personal space was violated, whether at home, in public, within our country or while abroad? We don’t. We simply know and trust that someone will be there to protect us, and our rights, no matter where we find ourselves in the world!

When you stop and think about it this is truly an incredible amount of freedom for us to enjoy!

But there have been many challenges to these freedoms over the past two and a half centuries. It began with Americans feeling unjustly treated under “Taxation without representation” which eventually led to the Revolutionary War. The War of 1812 followed and ensured our enduring nation while the Civil War (1861-1865), our own internal conflict which redefined our nation’s definition of “freedom,” guaranteed that “freedom” would be more inclusively defined for all Americans.

We withstood the nationalistic and militaristic impulses of the nations of Europe one century ago at the sunset of World War I. Then a mere twenty years later, during World War II, we showed that fascism and communism were not going to infringe upon our democratic ideals. One only needs to recall the images at Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, D-Day or the gruesome, inhumane, racially incited treatment of so many people during the Holocaust to know that we not only protected our democracy from those ideologies, we also defeated the ugly realities of the heinous racism that had spread across Central Europe at that time.

In so doing we helped define that there is also a set of fundamental “human rights” that all citizens of the globe should have protected. Rights we have since defended on a global basis for all of humanity.

The Cold War found us contending with other ideologies such as totalitarianism, where resource controlled dictatorships began to emerge across the globe, the very nature of which contradicted the values we uphold in our American democracy. It was also during this time, and specifically the 1960’s, that we found our nation at an interesting self-conscious crossroad. It was a moment in time in which we redefined what “equality” meant in America while eventually taking yet another inclusive step forward in ensuring “freedom” and “equality” for more Americans.

The forging of modern American society was cast through this history. But forging our modern America was not free, it came at a great human cost as many Americans, and their families, have suffered the ultimate loss to ensure that we each have a sense of safety, security, happiness and personal liberty.

One need only look back to the events of September 11, 2001 and the modern history that has unfolded since to understand the toll that maintaining our personal sense of freedom takes. It was a moment that struck at the heart and psyche of all Americans as it reminded us that we are vulnerable, both at home and abroad. Yet, as we American do, we rose to the occasion once again and took to defending our citizen’s rights. To this end almost every one of us can utter the name of someone we have known or knew that has served our grateful nation since “9-11.”

I challenge all of us to take a moment this Memorial Day Weekend and remember the names and faces of those that have sacrificed on our behalf. I implore you to engage in our communities Memorial Day activities, to take a moment and give something of yourself in memory of those that have given to you, and in so doing consciously note the peace and tranquility afforded us so that we can enjoy a fun filled holiday with our friends and family!

On behalf of the staff and students here at Newberg High we would like to say “THANK YOU” to all of our community members that have served and sacrificed on our behalf! Happy Memorial Day!

Flying Tigers…