EHS competes in IHSA bass fishing sectional

Congratulations to the bass fishing team , who was lead by Forrest Punke to an 8th place finish out of 26 teams at the IHSA sectional at Evergreen Lake .

Speech and Drama Students Present Plays

The Eureka High School Speech II Class, instructed by Mrs. Diana Sluder, entertained the elementary students at Congerville, Goodfield, and Davenport Grade Schools with children's plays on April 22 & 23.
This year marks the 25th year that the Speech and Drama students have presented plays to District 140 students. Plays in the tour included "The Emperor's New Suit" and "Rumplestiltskin".
Students in the class are Alex Cooper, Alyssa Girardi, Jacob Hirstein, Derek Jennings, Wesley Johnson, Carson Mack, Erin Martin, Brianna Pierson, Molly Romersberger, Anne Schaidle, Taylor Schulz, Shelby Shaw, Lauren Van Houwe, and Emily Williams.
Watch for a Photostream to appear on this page in the next few days.

Hope Week Coin War Champs

Throughout Hope Week, the first hour classes participated in a Coin War against each other to raise money for St. Jude. The winning class was Mrs. Aaron's first hour Sophomore English Class, who collected an astonishing total of $722.80. Her class was dedicated to winning the Coin War in honor of their fellow first hour classmate, Logan Sauder.

Rhea Keller performance

Rhea Keller, a junior at EHS, recently performed with the Youth Symphony Orchestra in a collaboration with Peoria Ballet called Youthful Fusion to celebrate the artistic and musical talents of local area youth.  She’s been in rehearsals since September of last year for two shows, Nutcracker and Youthful Fusion.  She dances on average 17 hrs. per week, with rehearsals it adds approximately 9 more hours (totaling 24-26 hrs. per week of training and rehearsal time). EHS is proud to call you one of our own!

Matt Schaidle wins SAR scholarship

Eighteen Central Illinois high school students were recognized during the 11th annual scholarship awards banquet hosted by the Gen. Joseph Bartholomew Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. The Good Citizenship and Scholarship Banquet was Thursday at Bloomington Country Club.  The 2010 scholarship winner of $1,000 is Matthew Schaidle, Eureka High School, who will attend the U.S. Naval Academy, to study aerospace or nuclear engineering.  The program included a keynote speech by David Arnold, president of Eureka College, and presentation of pins and certificates to Good Citizenship award winners from high schools in McLean and Woodford counties.  Students were nominated by their teachers and administrators based on citizenship, character and scholarship. The SAR scholarship is from a trust fund established in 1999 by Arthur M. King through the Bartholomew chapter.

Logan is remembered by his classmates

EHS students painted their shoes yellow in honor of their classmate Logan Sauder on Wednesday.  Logan will always be remembered by the bright yellow and green shoes that he wore to school on a regular basis.

Logan Sauder visitation and funeral arrangements

Thursday night is the visitation in Roanoke from 3-7 pm at the funeral home.  Friday is the funeral service at Eureka Bible Church at 10:00 am.  CUSD #140 will be offering a bus service from the high school for students and teachers on Friday.  Everyone will board the bus after first hour and return to school directly after the service. Students will need to have their parents call in by the end of the school day on Thursday to let the attendance office know who will be gone either all day on Friday or miss just the couple of classes.  The funeral home has requested an approx. number of students and staff that will be attending so they can reserve space.  They would also like us to transport as many people as possible from the high school to reduce the amount of cars needing a place to park.  Please keep the Sauder family in your prayers!

Caty Eeten is Journal Star POY

Congratulations to Caitlynn Eeten for being selected the Player Of The Year in girls basketball by the Peoria Journal Star.

Matt Schaidle places at state wrestling

Congratulations to Matt Schaidle for placing 4th at the 2010 IHSA state wrestling tournament.  Matt is coached by Terry Aldridge and Doug Ferguson..

Eureka High School Graduation 2010

Eureka High School's 2010 Graduation will be held on Sunday, May 23, at 3:00 PM on McCollum Field at Eureka High School. In the event of rain the ceremonies will be held in the high school gymnasium.

EHS Prom 2010

Eureka High School's 2010 Prom will be held on Saturday, May 1, at the Waterhouse in Peoria, IL from 6:00 PM until 11:30 PM.

Mr. O'Hanlon organizes a Hunter Safety course

Thanks to Mr. O'Hanlon for helping organize a Hunter Safety course for EHS students at Secor Sportsman club.

Bass fishing team hosts tournament

The Eureka High School bass fishing team hosted a four team tournament on March 20th at Eureka lake.  Thanks to Scott Punke for organizing this event and Tad Whitten for donating prizes.  Teams from Roanoke-Benson, Washington, and Metamora competed against the five EHS two person teams.

March 15, 2010 FFA Banquet

Jessica Robinson, Elly Vance

March 15, 2010 FFA Banquet

Will Rokey, Molly Davis, Ross Wettstein

FFA wins livestock judging competition

Congratulations to the Eureka FFA Livestock Evaluation team for winning the Blackhawk East Invitational last Saturday. This Invitational is one of the most prestigious and longest running contests in the Midwest with over 40 teams and 167 individuals. The team placed first overall and they were also the high team in the Beef Division, 2nd in Questions division, 4th in Swine division and 4th in sheep/goats division. The team members included Will Rokey 13th overall, Paul Moens 24th overall , Brad Krumholz 9th overall, Dan Leman 12th overall, Josh Robinson, Allie Miller and Jessica Robinson also competed at the contest.

Pictured 2010 Eureka FFA Livestock Judging Team
L-R
Front Row –Gavin Arvin, Jessica Robinson, Allie Miller, Josh Robinson
Back Row- Sam Cottrell, Will Rokey, Paul Moens, Brad Krumholz, Dan Leman

WYSE places at sectional competition

On March 11th, 14 Eureka high school students competed in the WYSE-Academic Challenge Sectional Competition held at Bradley University. WYSE is an acronym for World-wide Youth in Science and Engineering. Each student takes two tests from the following seven subject areas: Math, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, English, Engineering Graphics, and Computer Fundamentals. The WYSE-Academic Challenge Team finished in third place behind U-High and Seneca High Schools. They defeated Central Catholic, St. Bede, and Tri-Valley High Schools. Receiving medallions were Jeremy Gerber with a second in both Biology and Computer Science, Matt Schaidle second in Computer Science, Derek Jennings second in Chemistry and Wes Johnson third in Math. Jeremy, Matt, and Derek all advance to the State competition which is held at the University of Illinois on April 20. Other WYSE participants were Tyler Facker, Devin Pigman, Matt Dillard, Caleb Wells, Sarah Gardner, Beth Wagner, Katie Boggs, Austen Knapp, Andrew Wuethrich, and Danielle Kuntz. The team is coached by Mr. Brian Bill.

Matt Schaidle gets recognized by the IHSA

Congratulations to Matt Schaidle for making the all-state academic team this year in the honorable mention category. Follow the link to see the entire list:

http://www.ihsa.org/announce/2009-10/2010-03-01.htm

EHS dance team competes at state

The EHS dance team will perform at 12:25 on Saturday in Champaign at Assembly hall. They are the last lyrical group to hit the floor in Division A out of eight teams that made state.