Congratulations to the class of 2012

Graduation was held May 20 for the class of 2012.  The above seniors were recognized as this years top ten: Nathaniel Craig, Emily Cuffe, Rachel Fehr, Abram Frank, Kyle Hinrichsen, Quint Noe, Bradley Zehr, Thompson Zhuang, and Kurt Cottrell.

Work begins on new bleacher project

Spring 2012 Activities at EHS

Principal's Leadership Award

Congrats to Kyle Hinrichsen for winning this year’s Principal’s Leadership award at Honors night.

Top Ten Donators for Hope Week

Left to right: Jesse Garcia, Megan Hinthorne, Jonathan Siebert, Ashley Schrock, Kurt Cottrell, Tiffany Hinrichsen, Steffani Wiegand, Sami Feucht, Janelle Brace, Stephanie Brown 



EHS Prom 2012

Brad Zehr wins SAR award

Making the Cut on the EHS Ag Mechanics Team

Last Thursday, April 19th, Seth Schumacher, Jacob Leman, Grant Peters, Sarah Kupferschmid, and Logan Dietrich headed over to ICC to compete in this year’s FFA Ag Mechanics competition. This year’s competition involved a section for each of the following: Electricity, Carpentry, Welding, Surveying, and small engines. Jacob placed 1st in small engines, Sarah placed 1st in carpentry, Seth placed first in Electricity, Logan placed second in welding and the team got first overall . Along with the Ag Mech. Competition there was also a Horticulture contest. Our team consisted of Kyle Zimmerman, Eli Cottrell, and Harrison Frank. Out of 32 schools the team got first place at the competition.


Mechanics and horticulture take up a large portion of the Agriculture industry. The FFA promotes mechanics by teaching it in classes and through CDE’s. We also have a horticulture class that helps kids learn about landscape, types of flower, how to arrange flowers, and much more. Both teams did a great job at their competition. The Ag Mechanics team will move on to the state competition on Friday, April 27th at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.

Left to right: Mr. Gardner, Jake Leman, Seth Schumacher, Sarah Kupferschmid, Logan Dietrich, Grant Peters.



Spring Clean Up and Landscaping Around EHS

The Agriculture classes have been working hard to get the school looking good for the spring.

Curt, Nate , and Matt mulching.

John and Noah raking.

Kelli and Lane weeding.

Pond cleanup.

EHS draws the curtain on "Annie"

Pictured above is the full cast and crew of this year’s musical, Annie, that was co-directed by Mrs. Feriante and Ms. Lowe. Pictured above: Back Row: Alison Waller, Aleisa Tabacchi, Rachel Fehr, Miranda Stahl and Marlo Glass; 3rd Row: Andrew Fehr, Katie Olson, Makayla Fowler, Trisha Pierson and Mackenzie Fuller; 2nd Row: Joriann Brandon, Lauren Laughary, Olivia Robinson, Courtney Moudy, Zach Harper, Jonah Martz, Michael Johnson, Ms. Lowe, Marykate Fowler and Emily Cuffe; 1st Row: Taylor Anderson, Faith Ford, Meghan Morrow, Constance Moushon (Miss Hannigan), Justin Hymer (Rooster), Amber Baer (Miss Hannigan), Jenni Phillips (Lily), Mrs. Feriante and Ross Hettinger (President Roosevelt). Floor: Bridgette Davey, Kaitlyn McClean, Austin McKee (Daddy Warbucks), Kelly McCabe (Annie) and Kelsey Henry (Grace Farrell). Not pictured: Eric Lind, Cameron McSweeney, Rose Zimmerman, Matt Rohde and Assistant to the Directors, Bryant Kempf.

Pictured above are the senior members of the musical: Emily Cuffe, Courtney Moudy, Rachel Fehr, Kelsey Henry, Amber Baer, Mackenzie Fuller and Marykate Fowler.

EHS Welders

On Friday, March 23, the Ag Mechanics class sent 3 of our best welders to Midwest Technical Institute for a welding contest. The contest consisted of Stick & MIG Welding. There were over 10 schools and over 25 competitors at the contest. Logan Dietrich placed 1st place and Dylan Woolen placed 3rd place at the MTI Welding Contest. Logan received a $500 Check and a trophy and Dylan received a $100 check and a trophy. Congratulations to all three competitors for a job well done.



EHS Cheerleading coach honored

Congratulations to Krista Swanson for being selected the Illinois Cheerleading Coaches Association "Coach of the Year" in Illinois.  Coach Swanson has served as head and assistant cheer coach at EHS since 1999.

First Annual Edible Book Festival at EHS

The Edible Book Festival is an international event that normally takes place around April 1^st where library patrons at college and public libraries create literary themed food creations.  This year, Mrs. Kuebler’s 6^th hour Foods class at EHS initiated the first edible book festival at the high school.  Students and staff vote on their favorites and the top three vote getters win various prizes!

Please see the photostream on this page.

Eureka High School’s Walk-a-Thon

Eureka High School’s Walk-a-Thon is one of the events offered during Hope Week that attempts to raise money for the Dax Locke foundation. Students take time in the morning, afternoon, during a free hour or during P.E. to walk the track, raising money through sponsors for the number of laps or amount of time they walk or run. The Walk-a-Thon has been successful in the past, and was again offered this year on Wednesday, March 14th, contributing to Hope Week 2012, which was March 12th through the 16th.


The pictures of the walkers found in the accompanying Photostream were taken by Solvi Bakke, from Norway and one of our Foreign Exchange students.

Scholastic Bowl completes successful year

The Scholastic Bowl team coached by Deb Blunier and Brian Bill won the IHSA Regional title for the first time in seven years at Roanoke-Benson last week. Thompson Zhuang had an excellent night with 16 tossups, closely followed by Colin DeWald with 12.  Anna Boggs, Caleb Sylvester, and Belle Moushon added points as well. The team advanced to Sectionals, where they scored one win and two losses. The team finishes their season 31-17.  The team also placed second  this year at the Masonic Sectionals held at Eureka.

Students compete in Corn Belt Conference Art Show

Mr. Wells and over thirty EHS art students attended the 2012 Corn Belt Art Show at Bloomington Central Catholic High School on March 1st.  Award winners were selected in a variety of categories including photography, ceramics, painting, sculpture, and mixed media.  Anthony Myers was honored as one of the place winners in the painting category.  A list of all of the winners can be found at http://www.blmcchs.org/modules/cms/pages.phtml?pageid=155571&sessionid=cbabb76cdbbd3a63a8bb18a312650054

Coaches receive honor

Coach Jerry Prina and Coach Terry Aldridge have been named area Co-Coaches of the Year in Girls Basketball and Wrestling.   EHS would like to take this time to congratulate Coach Prina and Coach Aldridge on their teams making it to the Elite Eight in their respective sports ! 

Following the link to see the EHS wrestlers and Coach Aldridge who made the Chuck Murdoch all area wrestling team. http://www.cinewsnow.com/sports/Chuck-Murdoch-Wrestling-Team.html?vid=a

Students in Mr. Whisker's class trim new lockers

Over the past couple of months Mr. Whisker's Production Technology class has designed, built, and finished custom oak locker trim for thirty separate banks of lockers. The construction included measuring and planning for materials takeoff and cost, reveal and fastener locations, mitering, plate-joining, and preassembly, counter sinking, installation analysis, production and installation of flush fastener plugs, and final finish application. A big thank you to Mr. Whisker, Stormy Plunk, Brady Lawson, Josh Myers, Zach Little, Nathan Wood, Austin Mann, Camren Ryan, Brandon Hinthorn, Brandon Shreffler, Curtis Taylor, Daniel Johnson, Ben Pintar, Garrett Cadieu, and Drake Bowald for making EHS look so nice!

EHS students attend Ag Lab training

Anna Boggs, Thompson Zhuang, and Austin McKee were involved in a research day at the Ag lab in Peoria.  They were there with a group of other high schools students who were also interested in scientific research. All of the groups, around 8 total with 4 in each group, went to 3 different labs were they learned to conduct different experiments. Some experiments included Protein and enzyme assays, working with the pheromones of a beetle, and creating bio-diesel from soybean oil.  Through this experience they also learned about some of the technology that is being used at the research lab.

Journalism Mini-News

Pep Band will play at IHSA state semifinals

Congratulations to the EHS Pep Band for being selected by the IHSA to perform at the Class 1A/2A Boys Basketball State Semi-Finals at the Peoria Civic Center on Friday, March 9.  In addition to the four semi-final games held on that day, the band will play for the official opening of this year’s March Madness Experience, playing behind the World’s Largest Basket.  This is the fourth time the EHS Pep Band has been selected by the IHSA to play for the state basketball tournaments; past performances include the 1998 Boys Class A Quarterfinals, the 2000 Girls Class A State Finals, and the 2002 Boys Class A State Finals.

Illinois Central College Speech Tournament

Eureka Speech Team members earning medals at the Illinois Central College Speech Tournament include Brad Zehr, Thompson Zhuang, Caleb Graber and Emily Cuffe.



Congratulations to the EHS Speech & Drama Team Members

Congratulations to the EHS Speech & Drama Team members who competed and placed at the extremely competitive and difficult IHSA Regional held at Normal West High School.  Advancing on to the Sectional at Olympia next week are Brad Zehr & Caleb Graber—3rd place Humorous Duet Acting and Brad Zehr—4th place Original Comedy.  Eureka had 7 events make it to finals out of the 13 entries.  Others earning medals but not advancing are Emily Cuffe—7th place Declamation, Constance Moushon—6th place Poetry, Mark Crenshaw—6th place Radio, Thompson Zhuang—6th place Original Oratory & 6th place Extemp.  In the photo are David Crowe, Mark Crenshaw, Caleb Graber, Brad Zehr, Thompson Zhuang, (bottom) Constance Moushon, Jamie Wiegand, and Emily Cuffe.  Not pictured are Courtney Moudy and Rachel Fehr.

Congrats to EHS Speech Team Members

Congratulations to Speech Team members Brad Zehr and Caleb Graber for making it into the finals of the IHSA Sectional Tournament and placing 6th in Humorous Duet Acting. Eureka High School was the only small school who had team members in the finals of the Sectionals. Brad Zehr finished 7th place in Original Comedy.


Also at the State Individual Events tournament this weekend at the Peoria Civic Center, the EHS Speech Team will be honored at a State Team Academic Award Winner. The team will appear on a special page in the State IE Speech Tournament Program.



Congrats EHS Jr. Varsity Speech Team Members

Congratulations to our 5 Junior Varsity Speech Team members who took on the challenge of competing at the 1st State Junior Varsity Speech Tournament hosted by Illinois State University on Saturday, January 28. A Gold Medal was earned by Constance Moushon in Radio Speaking; Silver Medals were earned by Constance Moushon in Poetry, and Jamie Wiegand in Prose. Bronze medals were earned by Ross Hettinger in Radio Speaking and Impromptu Speaking and Jennifer Phillips in Dramatic Interpretation and Humorous Interpretation.


Pictured are Zach Harper, Constance Moushon, Ross Hettinger, Jennifer Phillips and Jamie Wiegand.



Girls Basketball team wins regional

FFA hosts Greatest Outdoorsman Challenge & Wild Game Feed

FFA members enjoying the wildgame feed

Jaxon casting

Lane pulling boat



The Eureka FFA Parliamentary Procedure Team Placed Third of Six at the Section Five Contest



Parliamentary Procedure

By: Virginia Ely  (Eureka FFA Reporter)

Tap! Tap! Tap! This meeting will now come to order. Is there any new business to be presented at this time? The Eureka FFA Parliamentary Procedure team placed third of six at the Section Five contest Thursday January, 26. Congratulations to Ellynne Vance, Payton Fehr, Alan Zimmerman, Allie Miller, Jodi Blunier, and Virginia Ely.

After many early morning practices and even some after school practices the team traveled to Metamora High School where they were the first team to preform. They were taken into a room where they had to take a written test then taken to another room to conduct a mock meeting. Panels of four judges were overseeing the meeting and asked each member a series of five questions. Everyone did a fantastic job and freshman, Alan Zimmerman even ended up in the top ten of the contest. Congratulations!

There was also a Job Interview competition following the Parliamentary Procedure contest that Ellynne Vance competed in. She had to apply to a fake job with an application she was asked to fill out. Then she had to call the judges from a different room and ask for an interview. Then she had to go to a room and have a mock interview with two judges. To finish off the competition she had to fill out a sheet of questions. Ellynne finished first of ten contestants, Congratulations Ellynne and Eureka Parli-Pro Team.!

EHS to host an Art Camp

Wrestlers win Regional

Regional champions include Josh Schaidle, Darrell Quast, Drake Bowald, Ben Pintar, Brock Merritt, Chase Scherer, and Derek Hartter.  Also, advancing to sectional by placing in the top three are Brian Spurgeon, Matt Hill, Jeremy Beal, David Beal, Conner Ryan, and Bradley Brewer.  The team also qualified for team sectional.

Competitive Cheerleader Squad - IHSA Sectional Champs and place seventh at state competition



CEGEA Chili and Soup Supper

Since the 1980-1981 school year, CEGEA (Congerville, Eureka, Goodfield Education Association) has raised funds for scholarships awarded to Eureka High School seniors. CEGEA believes that higher education is to be valued and rewards those educational efforts. The number of scholarships has varied with the amount of money available and the number of qualified applicants during the year. The first recipients were Carolyn Martin, Randy Knapp, Laurie McDonald Ward, and Todd Zimmerman. Early moneymaking efforts included down pillow cleaning, but in recent history, the chili supper – originally held at a football game – has been the main source of income.


Each applicant submits an essay stating why they are deserving of this scholarship and completes an interview with a panel of teachers.

Chili and Soup Supper

Friday, February 17

4:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Eureka High School

The meal includes: Chili or Potato Soup or Hot Dog, Relishes, Crackers, Drink, Pie or Texas Cake. Carry out is available.

Cost: All Tickets are $6.00 for All You Can Eat Chili/Soup. Children under age 4 are free!

All proceeds go to the Community Scholarship Fund benefiting graduating seniors who wish to continue their education. Sponsored by the Congerville-Eureka-Goodfield Education Association (CEGEA)

Lexi Bauman Won the WMBD Extra Effort Award

Our very own Eureka High School girls basketball player Lexi Bauman won the television station WMBD extra effort award. Lexi won this award based on her athletic talent and more importantly, her involvement within the community, as well as her volunteer efforts. Here is a link to watch the video for yourself…

http://centralillinoisproud.com/fulltext?nxd_id=222032

EUREKA project completed

Thanks to Jose Hildrogo for completing his eagle scout project at EHS.  His project consisted of leveling the surface of the hillside at the football field, laying landscape timbers in the hill, and securing the EUREKA letters to the timbers.  We wish you the best of luck on finishing the requirements to become an Eagle Scout.

Eureka Girls Basketball Team Wins Christmas Tournament



The girls’ basketball team, led by Coach Jerry Prina, won the St. Bede Tournament over the holiday break by coming back to defeat the host team in the championship game.  Selected to the all-tournament team were Kalla Gold, Michaela Balducci, and Kayla Bryant.

Congratulations to Coach Aldridge on Recording his 300th Career Win.

Pictured with Coach Aldridge is his current and former wrestlers along with his mentor: Coach Ed Steinbeck.