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Del
Greco Named Player of the Year
Baldwin
High School senior John Del Greco was
selected as Player of the Year and
All Section for Men's Soccer. He was
also selected for Men's All State Soccer
team.
Posted
12/2/03
TOB
2003 Scholarship Winner
Baldwin
High School senior Nick Andes is the
recipient of the 2003 Tournament of
Bands Group IV scholarship. Each year,
Tournament of Bands selects one winner
in each group. Each director is permitted
to nominate one student. One contestant
from each band is then entered into
a drawing. This is the first time a
Baldwin student has been selected for
this award. Nick is the Drum Major
for the Baldwin Highlander Marching
Band.
Posted
12/2/03
BHS
Forensic Results Erie Allstate Invitational
At the McDowell Mercyhurst
Lake Erie Allstate Invitational, Baldwin’s
Public Forum Debaters dominated. The team of Julia
Duncan and Patrick Devlin took first; Mike Ducker
and T. Ryan placed second, Sarah Fazio and Maura
Nowalk were third, and Kate Stasik and Kate Yasko
were fifth. With help from Congressional debaters,
Tricia Kasper and Mallory Squier, our debaters
were able to capture second place in the Tournament
Debate Sweepstakes.
Bob Ryan
placed second in Oratorical Declamation. Points
added by Interper Kate Kubincanek and Extemper
Justin Lotz helped Baldwin take third place in
the overall Tournament Sweepstakes.
Congratulations
to Maura Nowalk who has earned NFL’s Degree
of Special Distinction and to T. Ryan, Justin Lotz,
and Patrick Devlin who have earned the Honor Degree.
Posted
12/2/03
State
Certified EMT
Baldwin
High School senior Bob Siegwarth spent
his summer attending the EMT program
through CCAC at Jefferson Hospital.
In November, Bob passed his State Boards
and is now a State Certified Emergency
Medical Technician.
Posted
12/2/03
QUAD
EAST ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM 2003
IST
TEAM OFFENSE
IST
TEAM DEFENSE
RYAN BUZZELLI-C
LUKE OSTERMEYER-OL
NICK LAUGELLI-OG
ZAC WILD-LB
BEN IANNACCHIONE-OT
FRED BACCO-RB
2ND
TEAM OFFENSE
2ND
TEAM DEFENSE
JULIAN PINKSTON-WR
SEAN McDONOUGH-LB
RYAN LARKIN-PK
FRANK BERTA-DL
H.M.
OFFENSE
H.M.
DEFENSE
A.J. LITTLE-WR
CHRIS BOVA-LB
JASON PINKSTON-TE
Posted
12/9/03 Updated 12/12/03
6th
grade Calcu-Solve
Harrison
Middle School sixth grade student Matt
Schmidlin placed fourth in the individual
competition out of 265 students at
the Sixth Grade Math Calcu-Solve Bowl
held at Duquesne University. Matt Schmidlin,
Donald Huang, Kai Chen and Mike DeLyser
tied for third place in team competition.
Posted
12/9/03
Hoby
Representative
Sophomore
Danielle Williamson was selected as
the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership
(HOBY) representative from Baldwin
High School. HOBY is a non-profit organization
that recognizes and develops leadership
potential commencing with high school
sophomores and encouraging and preparing
the next generation of civic and corporate
leadership for America’s future.
Sanja Cvitkusic was selected as the
alternate representative.
Posted
12/9/03
Steel
Center Extra Effort Award
Baldwin
High School junior Jessica Shaner received
the Steel Center Area Vocational Technical
School Extra Effort Award in baking.
Each quarter, Steel Center instructors
select students who demonstrate outstanding
work ethic, attendance and dependability.
Posted
12/9/03
Western
PA Leadership Representative
Baldwin
High School sophomore Sanja Cvitkusic
was selected as the high school representative
to attend the Western Pennsylvania
Leadership Conference. The alternate
representative is Danielle Williamson.
The conference will be held May 21-23
at California University of Pennsylvania.
Posted
12/9/03
Soccer
Men's All Section
Ryan
Larkin
John
DelGreco
Brad
Schiffhauer
Baldwin High School
varsity senior soccer players Ryan Larkin, John
DelGreco, and Sean Hindman were selected as All
Section for Men's Soccer. Brad Schiffhauer was
honorable mention.
Posted
12/9/03
HMS
- Students of the Week for December
Each week at Harrison,
students that display a particular character trait
are selected as Students of the Week. In December,
Gracious students will be selected. Each student
selected receives a certificate, their name posted
in the library, and a Kit Kat candy bar delivered
to their homebase. A letter of recognition and
congratulations from the principal, Mr. Lutz, is
sent to the student's parents. Students may be
Students of the Week only once each school year.
Week
of December 8 GRACIOUS Students of the Week
Matt
Cecala
Shawna Foyle
Mike Cardello
Marissa
Homer
Sara Dieter
Zoran Babic
Chelse
Gazzam
Shane Howard
Ashley Flick
Matt
Zimmick
Casey Manning
Breanne Mason
Casey
Buchanan
Week
of December 15 GRACIOUS Students of the Week
Alexa
Pust
Becky Mason
Haley Antkiewicz
Lisa
Purdy
Richard Gonzalez
Ashley Fareri
Drew
Sapp
Zlaten Omeragic
Bakhan Salih
Amanda
Pearsol
Xiaoyan Li
Week
of December 22 GRACIOUS Students of the Week
Sabina
Lemo
Jason Carney
George Crompton
Chelsea
Knetzer
Traci Walkowiak
Rachel Miller
Adam
Phoebe
Cort Faust
Bryan Cannon
Emile
DePoe
Posted
12/12/03 Updated 12/19/03
Forensic
News
Congratulations
to Mike Ducker and T. Ryan who were
voted the Superior Speakers in their
respective Houses at the Pittsburgh
District NFL Student Congress held
at Baldwin on December 13 and who were
selected as nominees to qualifiy for
the National Student Congress to be
held in in Salt Lake City in June.
Bob Ryan was voted Outstanding
Speaker, Veronica Noceti, Superior
Speaker, and Kate Stasik, Merit
Speaker in their Houses. Congratulations
also to Sarah Fazio who earned
National
Forensic League’s Degree of Distinction,
to Mike Ducker who earned the Honor Degree,
and to Margaret Lucidore and Amanda Stockhausen
who earned NFL membership last week.
Posted
12/19/03
North
Catholic Invitational Forensic Tournament
Two
Baldwin Public Forum Debate teams were
selected as Outstanding Debaters at
the North Catholic Invitational Tournament
on December 20 . The teams of Julia
Duncan and Mike Ducker and Patrick
Devlin and T. Ryan were among the twenty
teams competing for the honors.
The coach from Lakeview High School (Mercer) also
presented Mrs. Corinne Grubb with the Winona Hartley
Angel award as the outstanding forensic volunteer
in recognition of the many hours she has given to
the team.
Posted
12/30/03
PMEA
District I Chorus
Baldwin
High School junior Megan Curley, senior
Laura Van Wert and junior Connor Nowalk
have been selected to perform for the
Pennsylvania Music Educators Association
District I Chorus Festival. The concert
will take place at 7:30 p.m. on January
30 at North Allegheny High School.
Posted
1/12/04
HMS
- Students of the Week for January
Each week at Harrison,
students that display a particular character trait
are selected as Students of the Week. In January,
Tolerant students will be selected. Each student
selected receives a certificate, their name posted
in the library, and a Kit Kat candy bar delivered
to their homebase. A letter of recognition and congratulations
from the principal, Mr. Lutz, is sent to the student's
parents. Students may be Students of the Week only
once each school year.
Ray
Toomey broke a 36 year Baldwin High
School record in the 100 yard butterfly
Ray also broke a 28 year pool record
at Montour in the 100 yard butterfly
and qualified for the PIAA state finals.
Posted
1/14/04
BHS
Varsity Swim Team Update- January 8th
The Baldwin
Varsity Swim Team won their meet with Trinity
High School on January 8. The women’s
team won with a score of 101 to 75, and the
men’s team won with a score of 94 to
74.
Baldwin participated in the Taylor Allderdice
Eleventh Annual Swim Invitational held
on January 10. The women’s team received
third place over all, and the men’s
team placed second over all. Eleven varsity
swim teams participated in the invitational.
The Men’s Varsity Swim Team took
first place in eight out of eleven events.
Three meet records were broken by Baldwin
Varsity Men.
Joshua
Laskey set a new time for the Men’s
200 yard free style at 151.22. The
old record of 152.00 was set in 1994
by Baldwin graduate, Eric Anderson.
Adam
Eiben set a new meet record for the
Men’s 200 yard IM at 205.53.
The old record of 206.01 was set in
1991.
A
new record was set for the men’s
400 yard free style relay. The relay
consisted of Adam Eiben, Matt Felbinger,
Josh Laskey, and Raymond Toomey. The
new time was 324.62, beating the meet
record of 330.34 set in 2003 by the
Baldwin Varsity Men’s Swim Team.
During the Taylor Allderdice Invitational,
Matt Felbinger qualified for WPIALs in
the 100 yard free style.
Posted
1/14/04
HMS
Mathcounts
Harrison
Middle School students David Dgien
and Donald Huang placed 2nd in the
Mathcounts tournament. Twenty teams
from Moon, South Fayette, Peters Township
and Baldwin-Whitehall School Districts
participated in the tournament that
was held at Robert Morris University.
Posted
1/14/04
BHS
Forensic at N. Allegheny Invitational
Tournament
On January 10,
junior Sarah Fazio and senior Maura Nowalk
went 4-0, the only undefeated team in a field
of 20, to capture first place in Public Forum
Debate at the North Allegheny Invitational
Debate and Congress tournament. Senior Kate
Stasik and freshman Amanda Stockhausen were
recognized as Presiding Officers in their
respective Congresses. Stasik also earned
the National Forensic League’s Degree
of Special Distinction having earned more
than 500 competitive speech and debate points.
Sophomore Kate Kubincanek earned the Degree
of Excellence (150 points) and Amanda Stockhausen
earned the Degree of Honor (75).
Posted
1/14/04
2004
Early Graduates
Renee Amendola,
Dale Barker, Amanda Filippelli, Stephen Gumina,
Matthew Lutz, Alicia Maszle, Tiffany Meier,
Ana Milicevic, Joshua Pikutis, Melissa Ruffing,
Cori Stalker, Emily Stoker, and Kelly Verna
achieved the requirements necessary for early
graduation from Baldwin High School. The
graduates were recognized at a ceremony on
January 20 and will take part in the June
commencement with the entire Class of 2004.
Posted
1/25/04
National
Young Leaders Conference in Washington
Baldwin
High School senior Maura Nowalk was
selected to participate in the National
Young Leaders Conference in Washington,
D.C. NYCL is a unique leadership development
program for high school students who
have demonstrated leadership potential
and scholastic merit. The theme of
NYCL is The Leaders of Tomorrow Meeting
the Leaders of Today. Maura will interact
with key elected officials, political
appointees and newsmakers in an exploration
of the three branches of government,
the news media, and the international
community.
Posted
1/25/04
PMEA
District I Band /
Orchestra
Seniors
Dawn Cercone (French horn), Nick Andes
(alto sax), and Zach Bryte (bassoon)
and junior Nicole Shannon (French horn)
were selected to perform at the PMEA
District I Band Festival at Carlynton
High School on February 12 -14. At
this festival, the students will audition
for admission to the PMEA Region State
Festival to be held in March.
(l-r
Nick Andes,
Nicole
Shannon,
Dawn Cercone,
Zach Bryte)
Senior
Dawn Cercone (French horn) and juniors
Tom Chojnicki (cello), Nicole Hallinen
(violin) and Sarah Sukal (violin) represented
Baldwin High School at PMEA District
I Orchestra at Bethel Park High School.
These talented musicians were selected
from among hundreds of applicants and
auditioned at the event for admission
to the PMEA Region State Orchestra Festival
in March.
(Missing from
photo Dawn Cercon; l to r Sarah
Sukal, Tom Chojnicki, Nicole
Hallinen)
