Travel club takes another trip

Mr. Wells and his wife left today with a group of EHS students and chaperones for a trip to Spain, Italy, and France.  Also attending the trip is former teacher and coach - Don Samford.

Coach K competes at state

Congratulations to Coach Kellen Ehrenhardt for placing at the State Special Olympics meet as part of the 4x400 relay who placed 2nd overall.  Also pictured are teachers Jerry Prina, Aaron Dohner, and Brett Charlton.  Also there to support Kellen was Brett Charlton jr. and Dylan Troyer.

Boys track finishes season by earning medals in three events at state meet

Congratulations to the following EHS students who medaled at the state meet in Charleston:

The 4 X 400 relay of Phil Schmidgall (So.), Austin McKee (Jr.), Brett Charlton (Fr.), and Alex Hunt (Jr.) placed 5th with a time of 3:24.85

The 4 X 100 consisting of Carter Vance (Jr.), Austin McKee (Jr.), Phil Schmidgall (So.), and Alex Hunt (Jr.) ran a 44.09 to place ninth
 
and Alex Hunt also placed ninth in the 400 with a time of 51.05

Girls Track finishes 8th at state meet as Coach Samford calls it a career

Eureka's Jacey Hartman hands the baton to teammate Kalla Gold in the Class 1A 4X100-meter relay during the 2012 IHSA Girls Track and Field State and Field Meet at Charleston.

Many thanks to Coach Don Samford, who offically retired after the 2012 track season.  His career was highlighted by sixteen sectional championships, numerous state champion individuals and relay teams, and five state trophies.

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