Second Quarter Honor Roll Announced:
GRADE 9 - HIGH HONORS - ALL A'S
Eleni Anderson, Natalie Anderson, Chelsea DePalmer, Jesse Dritz, Isaac Jaegerman, Ellen Jewett, John Toohey.
GRADE 9 - HONORS - ALL A's and ALL B's
Wanokonzi Alognon, Hunter Andreasen, Mary Badger, David Bliss, Anthony Bowden, Dylan Bruce, Elizabeth Bull, Paley Burlin, Hannah Chambers, Julia Conley, Heather Cron, Benjamin Day, William DeFanti, Maxine Eisenberg, Valerie Floyd, Samantha Gilmour,
Katryna Gilson, Mary Gorham, William Hamilton, Megan Hart, Kristin Hebert, Fahad
Hilowle, Akari Ishii, Danielle Ivey, Joseph Jacques, Ellen Jewett, Erika Joyce,
Djuna Kendall, Kyle LeBorgne, Evan Lewis, Miles Linsmith, Morgan Mctigue, Abby Menard, Geneva Morley, Geneva Morley, Theresa Partlow, Timothy Phadungthin, James Portas, Nathaniel Porter, Barry Quinn, Jesse Robertson, Hannah Smith, Alexandra Thompson, Rachel Waterhouse.
GRADE 10 - HIGH HONORS - ALL A'S
Emma DaPonte, Theodore Darvin, William Dykes, Mikhaila Fogel, Oliver Hagelin, Casey Hart, Melania Jankowski, Marc Korobkin, Timothy Marr, Jeffrey Peisner, Theodore Phadungthin, Ana Ungiadze.
GRADE 10 - HONORS - ALL A's and ALL B's
Serena Adlerstein, Sidney Baxter, Christian Bowe, Grace Brandmaier, Simon Carroll, Oryem Charles, Feliks Cobanovic, Krista Cooper, Patrick Cormier, Samantha Croston, Victoria Cummings, Kalli Daggett, Abigail Daggett, Kathleen Dalbec, Effie Drew, Bronson Guimond, Hussein Hassan, Mackinleigh Isherwood, Brian Kane, Caleb Kenney, Lydia-Rose Kesich, Jari Lanzalotta, Katie Lowe, Benjamin Martin, Fazalhaq Nabi, Jennifer Nguyen, Maura O’Conor, Danya Pham, Alberto Quintero-Ordinola, Dillon Reno, Stephanie Rogers, Nicholas Rovnak, Leonard Schwartz, Abbigail Scrutchfield, Sumit Sharma, Carl Szanton, Odile Umwamikazi, Jordan Voisine, Katherine Webber, Mariah Weisman.
GRADE 11 - HIGH HONORS - ALL A'S
Zahid Abid, Marianne Anderson, Carlos Ayala, Scott Briggs, Corey Carmichael, Alexander Donatelle, Vesna Glisic, Jason Knight, Rose Pham, Veroth Sen, Timothy Weber, Emma Wilson.
GRADE 11 - HONORS - ALL A'S and ALL B'S
Danielle Berry, Kristen Byrnes, Samuel Campbell, Andrew Capelluti, Oan Carlson, Henry Cole, Courtney Connolly, Daloris Covington, Patrick Curran, Michael Fagone, Leanne Fasulo, Melanie Floyd, Connor Flynn, Adam Gould, Nolan Hellen, Ilhan Hilowle, Cole Hutchison, Liza Iselborn, Michee Jean, Cosima Konig, Ian Kuniholm, Lauren MacDougal, Elizabeth McAdam, Jillian McTiernan, Meron Mekonen, Molly Monaghan, Mary Moran, Max Morris, William Murdock, Sophia Nappi, Gordon Parker, Rachel Regier, Danielle Runyambo, Yuri Shepard-Kegl, Joshua Staples, Megan Thompson, Theordore Volger, Holly Whitney.
GRADE 12 - HIGH HONORS - ALL A'S
Sidney Dritz, Brian Furey, Mark Kinner, Casey Monaghan, Audrey Seiz, Patrick Welch.
GRADE 12 - HONORS - ALL A'S and ALL B'S
Ali Addan, Janessa Axelsen, Caitlin Bernard, Edward Bogdanovich, Chris Brandmaier, Nathan Buck, Greer Chapman, Hannah Ciechomski, Laura Cowie, Kaitlyn Defilipp, Jessica Falcone, Anna Flanaghan, Shirley Flanders, Brianna Gleason, Leyna Gomez, Kala Granger, Breannah Harmon, Charlie Ho, Nathaniel Jewett, Dylan Kenney, Bouradee Kim, Robb Kirchner, Emily Lane, Andrea Lavoie, Jessica Martin, Sarah Martin, Eion McCarron, Lauren Messer, Christina Moore, Jean Muhumuza, Sarah Newsome, Trinh Nguyen, Andrew Nolan, Okot Otto, My Le Pham, Igor Radosavljevic, Jelena Radosavljevic, Campbell Rico, Amorosa Romano, Zachary Scrutchfield, Kayla Segal, Jason Smith, Margaret Swann, Jules Szanton, Hongchuan Wang, Brian Watson, Patrick Welch, Yanfen Wu, Jackie Zhao.
Graduation Date Announced: PHS Graduation, Class of 2009 is Thursday, June 4th at 10:30.
PPS is Now Streaming SC Meetings, Sports Events: TV3, the educational access television station managed by the Portland Public Schools, now is streaming programs live on the
school district's Web site. The station also has some programs that can be viewed on demand.
Portland residents who do not have cable service can see Portland School Committee meetings, school concerts, sports games and other school events on the Web site. Staff and family members who live
outside of Portland also will benefit. The live streaming can be found at http://blogs. portlandschools. org/tv3/live/ . Archived programs are available at http://blogs. portlandschools. org/tv3/vod/ .
PHS Senior Brian Furey Named as Presidential Scholar Candidate
Brian Furey, Portland High School's 2009 valedictorian and senior class president, has been selected as a candidate for the United States Presidential Scholars Program. He is one of about 40 students in Maine being considered for the program. Presidential
Scholars are chosen on the basis of academic or artistic achievement, personal characteristics, leadership and service activities.
Furey is captain of Portland High's baseball and soccer teams and a National Merit Semifinalist. For the past two years, he has been the top scorer on the school's math team. He was elected president of his class all four years at Portland High.
A total of about 3,000 candidates nationwide have been named as candidates for the Presidential Scholars Program. The White House Commission on Presidential Scholars will select a maximum of 141
students in April to participate in the program. Scholars receive an expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C. to meet with government officials, educators, artists, scientists and other accomplished people, and they are honored at a ceremony sponsored by the White House.
PHS ELL (English Language Learners)
PHS has traditionally had a large ELL population (also known as ESL, or English as a Second Language.) There are now 367 language minority PHS students (40% of the total population.) 248 ELL students are currently at a level required by the state to take the mandated ACCESS test. ELL students arrive with varying degrees of literacy. Some have been in school in their country of origin, or in another country enroute to the United States. Many have had limited or no access to schooling. Their placement in the ELL program at Portland High depends on their English ability exhibited in an entry placement exam. The students are then tested twice yearly to ensure they continue to learn at the appropriate level. Recently, Portland High has created the Intensive Literacy Academy for Newcomers and Beginners who arrive with minimal or no native or English literacy.
The early PHS ESL students in the '80's hailed mostly from Cambodia and Vietnam; today PHS enrolls 105 Asian/Pacific Islanders; 257 African/African Americans; 45 Hispanics, with approximately 600 Caucasians.
Many languages can be heard in PHS' halls, cafeteria and classrooms; the largest language groups are Acholi, Amharic, Arabic, ASL, Cantonese, Dinka, Farsi, French, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Lingala, Luo, Mandarin, Persian, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Thai, Tigrinian, Urdu, and Vietnamese. Students are often versant in more localized, native languages as well.
A Look Back: Portland High in the 30's
[Note: Peter Gribbin, PHS' eminence grise, historian and former teacher, has graciously provided this brief history.]
The Great Depression of the 1930's had its' effects upon PHS, as it did upon the country as a whole. Most noticeable was the school population. Economic hard times, this time with record-breaking unemployment, once again kept children in the schools. By 1933 enrollment was over the 2,000 mark, and it remained there until the early 1940's.
It is interesting to contrast the 1930's with the enrollment figures of a century earlier. In the 1830's, the situation was the reverse. The prosperity of the 1830's had resulted in a slump in attendance to the point where only 54 students were at final exams in the summer of 1833. The 1833 annual report attributed this to "arising from their being taken from school.... to serve as apprentices to mechanics and merchants, and in consequence of the increased activity of business."
The student body of more than 2000 during the Great Depression has remained the high point of attendance in PHS history. Although there were larger graduating classes in the mid-60's, at that time PHS was a 3-year school, and the total enrollment never reached 2,000. Naturally, the school's budget felt the severe pinch of that great economic crisis of the 1930's. Mr. Lowe's annual report in 1933 noted that there had been a cutting of textbooks and supplies, but stressed that the comprehensive program of studies remained intact. He also reported that school activities continued without any serious interruption. The huge, Depression-swelled student body led to incredibly large numbers being involved in extracurricular activities. For example, in 1934, there were 200 boys trying out for football, 80 candidates for the cheering squad, 73 hopefuls for the debate team, and 200 members in the girls' chorus.
Another development of the 1930's was the adoption of the Bulldog as the PHS mascot. The first appearance of a bulldog in a PHS publication was in the 1933 "High Lights." By the end of the thirties, the PHS teams were referred to as "The Bulldogs."
Unfortunately, the Depression had its damaging effects as well. The "Racquet", which had been published for over forty years, was unable to survive the hard times of the 1930's.
PHS Students Win AP Distinctions
21 PHS students have earned AP Scholar Awards in recognition of their exceptional achievement on AP exams. Gavin Bauer, Crystal Cron, Aaron Peisner and Nathaniel Walden qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams.
Eric Andreasen, Kayla Artinyan, David Bruenjes, Liza Darvin, Stephanie Dowling, Nathan Katsiaficas, Echo Presgraves and Anthony Toppi qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams.
Brian Furey, Christina Lugo, Micah Malenfant, Connor McNeill, Darko Mitrovic, Mitchell Murdock, Kristin Rogers, Jules Szanton and Kadija Tahlil qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP Exams with grades of 3 or higher.
Statewide AP Online Offerings
Online AP courses are available to all Maine high school students in all academic areas. Please refer to the Maine Distance Learning Project, at : www.mainedistancelearningproject.org .Contact Anne Perloff for further details, at anne.perloff@maine.edu, (207) 561-3584, for further detail.
PHS GOING GREEN
Save Paper: Are you getting all communications from PHS by electronic means, rather than paper stuffed (or lost) in a backpack?
Half Price Metro Tickets are available to all Portland High Students
-- "Students Doing Balancing Acts as Colleges Drop Cafeteria Trays," Boston Globe, 8/27/08. Going green by eliminating cafeteria trays.
-- See excellent article on use of "heat pumps" to save energy, "With Energy in Focus, Heat Pumps Win Fans," NYT, Aug. 13, 2008; see also, "Challenging A College to ReDesign A Building," NYT, Aug.17, 2008.
-- See article on trend toward "bringing back" trolley systems in cities around the country, "Downtowns Across U.S. See Streetcars in their Future," NYT, Aug. 14, 2008
-- See "Green With Envy", Boston Globe, Aug. 8, 2008, summarizing the eco-friendly and cutting-edge legislation passed in California
-- "Clicking at Last on 'Don't Print'", NYT, April 6, 2008 - summary of efforts to save paper, recycle and conserve in the business community.
Attention Parents! -- Buy Class of '09 Note Cards: Due to the success of last year's similar effort, the PHS Parent Connection group is now offering "CLASS of 2009" note cards (with envelopes) for sale this year. We used last year's proceeds to purchase the Blue & White outdoor lights that strung on the cast iron fence on the Cumberland Ave. side of PHS, during the 8th Grade Open House -- and expect that those lights can be used for any upcoming PHS events for "curb appeal"! Above is a photo of the (flat-one-sided) cards that proved popular as Graduation Party Invitations and Thank you notes. A Set of 8 Note Cards (w/envelopes) can be purchased for $4.95, by emailing Alison Andreasen at andreas@maine.rr.com.
NEW PHS WEBSITE -- CREATED BY PARENT TAD MACY AND TEACHER ERICA LEE -- IS UP AND GOING!
Thanks to endless hours of work by many -- but especially PHS Parent Tad Macy and PHS Faculty Erika Winship-Lee -- the new PHS website is now "live and online," at www.phsbulldogs.org. Bookmark this as one of your "Favorites", and look for increasingly good and thor
PHS MATH TEAM SCORES
The Portland High School Math Team captured its ninth consecutive title for large schools in the Pi-Cone South Math League. The team finished second to Cheverus High School among the 27 schools in the league. Portland High finished in sixth place in the state for the season. The team will compete on April 7 at the State Math Meet in Bangor and on May 1 at the New England Math Meet.
Portland High student Brian Furey earned 231 points to finish third in the league and seventh in the state. Nathaniel Jewett is the fifth place senior in the league and finished 19th in the state. Hongchuan Wang is the league's seventh place senior and 27th in the state. Timothy Weber is the Pi-Cone second place junior and 29th in the state. Furey, Jewett, Wang and Weber will compete on the Maine All Star Team at the American Regional Math League Meet at Pennsylvania State University on May 30. Other Bulldog high scorers in the league included Yanfen Wu, 11th place senior; Mark Kinner, 13th place senior, and Ellen Jewett, third place freshman.
PHS Debaters Succeed at Feb. 28 Final Debate: Three Portland High debaters had outstanding success in the final debate. Simon Thompson, Abby Hudson, and Erica Joyce combined to win 4 rounds in a double elimination event!
Simon Thompson advanced to Round 5, which means that he was among the top 8 winning debaters in the state, while Abby Hudson advanced to Round 3. Their wins were even more impressive, considering that all three categories of Lincoln Douglas Debate ( novice, junior varsity and varsity) were collapsed into one pool and our students were all novices!
Portland Public Schools Music Booster Group: If you are interested in music and the arts, and if you are interested in getting periodic emails with information and updates about PPS music events and information, email Joe Farrel, King MS music teacher (and District Music Coordinator), at farrej@portlandschools.org.
Host a French or Chinese Student This Summer: Lisa Bowe is looking for host families for a group of French and Chinese students who will be traveling to Portland Program, http://www.efhomestay.org/ She is looking for any PHS families who would be interested in hosting. This is a good opportunity for teens to meet teens from another culture with out going there. The Chinese students will be here from July 14th - Aug 2nd and the French students will be here from July 9th until August 14th. Since it's an educational program they will be in school all day Monday through Friday and in New York for one weekend. So... they will not be around a lot but there will be 2 weekends and nights that they are not booked.
There are a lot of kids coming and she wants to make sure we find them good/safe homes. INTERESTED? Contact Lisa at: lgbowe@gmail.com
Portland Hosts Health Screening and Referral Fair for Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities, May 30, noon to 6 pm: In May, Portland will hold its fourth annual Multicultural Exercise for Health and Love, which will celebrate the health and well being of Portland's vibrant ethnic communities with multicultural food, dance and festivities. All attendees will be encouraged to take advantage of the culturally sensitive diabetes and heart health screenings, risk assessments and counseling. Admission is free. The event is organized by the Minority Health Program of Portland's Public Health Division in partnership with Mercy Hospital in response to the health needs of the racial/ethnic communities in the Greater Portland area. Screenings will be conducted by the Maine Heart Center, and interpreters for more than eight different languages will be available. With more than 750 community members attending, notable local area health providers will be on-hand to provide assessment services, answer questions and distribute health information on specific health issues facing these communities. A post-event referral and improved access to primary care service providers are part of the package. All Portland area multicultural communities are encouraged to come, enjoy, dance, learn and screen yourself For more infocontact Dr. Bankole, A. K at 207-874-8773, or via email bak@portlandmaine. gov. ,
See Article on filling out the Financial Aid "FAFSA" Form: free sources of help are available.
Motivational Speaker Wayne Soares to Speak to PHS Athletes & Parents on March 31 at 7 pm in Ford Auditorium. Practices will be somewhat modified on that day, and this will be mandatory for all spring athletes and coaches to attend. Soares speaks about good decision making, integrity, self pride, etc.
For PHS & CBHS students - Join the Sailing Team
If you missed the Feb. 2 meeting: Forms and payment are due on 2/10, and can be dropped off @ Mr Drummond's office. There is a $25 late fee unless you are new to HS Sailing (i.e. never been on a SailMaine HS roster) (Week of: 3/16 – 3/20 Dry land practice and Team Orientation. Details of these events will be announced on the list serve.Week of: 3/23 – 3/27 1st week of practice on the water
Practice schedule will be announced at first team meeting.FMI: Call PHS at 874-8257 or SailMaine:www.sailmaine.org
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PHS Boys Lacrosse Team
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Watch a Video of the PHS Eighth Grade Open House Held on Jan. 8: An excellent video of that event will be on TV3 at these times: Monday March 23 at 6 p.m., Wednesday March 25 at 6:30 p.m., and Thursday, March 26 at 5 p.m. It is also now on the TV3's "video on demand" web page at http://blogs.portlandschools.org/tv3/vod/ )
PHS Students Win Honors at Future Business Leaders State Conference: Congratulate the following students for representing Portland High School at the Future Business Leaders of America State Leadership Conference on March 9 and 10. They worked hard competing in business and technology competitions, and attended professional workshops:
Myle Pham - Accounting I and Accounting II
Sean Dowling - Business Ethics-1st Place, Global Business-2nd Place, Marketing
Max Dismore - Business Ethics-1st Place, Entrepeneurship-3rd Place, Management Decision Making-2nd Place
Max Morris - Business Ethics-1st Place, Global Business-2nd Place, Marketing-1st Place
Mary Moran - Business Law-2nd Place, Entrepeneurship-3rd Place, Economics
Lauren MacDougal - Entrepeneurship-3rd Place, Management Decision Making-2nd Place, Business Law
Courtney Rickett - Management Decision Making-2nd Place, Business Math
Nicholas Marcisso - Cyber Security-2nd Place, Help Desk-2nd Place, Technology Concepts
Henry Cole - Global Business-2nd Place, Economics, Banking
Reaksmey Tang - Job Interview, Personal Finance, Word Processing
Meron Mekonen, We Site Development-3rd Place, Personal Finance, Impromptu Speaking
Michee Jean and Meron Mekonen campaigned and were elected for State Offices for next year.
The Portland Public Schools Music Festival Orchestra Night will be held on April 7 at 7 pm, at PHS. The event will feature soloists and ensembles. Middle School Students will perform "Vida La Vida" from Coldplay, and "The Soldier's Hymn." The high school orchestra and middle school ensembles will perform together Beethoven's "Seventh Symphony," Andante Movement arranged for violin quartet. The high school orchestra will perform Schubert's "Rosamunde Overture."
Soloists will include Cole Fenton, Dom Sbrega, Jiyeon Kim, Ryan MacDonald, Gabe Doss and Sagel Prosser.
PHS Girls Ice Hockey Wins Sportsmanship Award: The PHS Girls Ice Hockey team was the recipient of the Western Maine 2009 good sportsmanship award. Congratulations to the kids, coaches and program as a whole.
PHS Boys Soccer Coach Rock Franzilli Named SMMA Soccer Coach of the Year: At a recent end of the year SMAA boys soccer meeting, Rock Frenzilli was named 2008 boys soccer coach of the year for our league.
Click here for PHS 2007-2008 Course Catalog
Click here for PHS Fall Sports Schedule
Listing of All PHS Clubs, Sports and Activities: See "Clubs" webpage (tabbed above.)
Need extra help with Reading, Writing, or Math? The Root Cellar and the Students from University of New England are here to provide you with extra help on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 5 pm to 6 pm at The Root Cellar, 94 Washington Ave. in Portland. (All Root Cellar programs are free and open to Portland residents living east of Franklin Street. For more info: 774-3197
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Teacher/Staff Blogs: Read any of the numerous teacher/staff blogs created/maintained by Portland Public Schools teachers and staff, at http://blogs.portlandschools.org/
Parents - Volunteer to supervise at the Peer Tutoring Center:
The Peer Tutoring center, overseen by Kyra Adkins, was created to help students with school work and uses volunteer students specially trained in the art of tutoring, to help other students with academic work on a regular, scheduled basis. They just need some visible presence of an adult during tutoring hours. There will be a teacher accessible in the room next door as well. Parents who wish to volunteer, please respond to adkink@portlandschools.org.
COLLEGE ADMISSIONS
Unigo.com: Parents, high school seniors - go to Unigo.com, where you can find real reviews and comments from current students at every college. This is an excellent site, and the information is a quantum leap ahead of the PR-laden material available through so many other existing sources.
SAT/ACT Dates for 2008-09
SAT
May 2....register by March 31...PHS (all 11th graders will be automatically registered by guidance as this is the required State test)
June 6...register by May 5....Deering
ACT
April 4....register by Feb 27
