Hume-Fogg Weekly News – October 16, 2009
Each week during the school year, the Hume-Fogg PTO provides this on-line summary of upcoming happenings and news of interest to Hume-Fogg families. Information comes from H-F’s administration, teachers, parents, students, SGA and PTO committee chairs. If you have something you would like included in the Weekly News, please e-mail it to hfanews@evrits.com by 5:30 each Friday for inclusion in the coming week’s edition.
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Upcoming Events
- Oct. 16-23 – Fall Break, students do not report to school
- Oct. 24 – ACT Test Date, 8 a.m.
- Oct. 29, Freshman Night Out, 6:15 to 7:15 p.m. at Hume-Fogg
Upcoming College-Corner Visits to Hume-Fogg
- Oct. 26 & 27 - U of Memphis – 11:30 a.m.
- Oct. 28 -Holy Cross (MA), Nashville State (TN) and Pepperdine (CA) – 11:30 a.m.
- Oct. 29 - Grinnell (IA) & Hampshire (MA) – 11:30 a.m.
Take Pre-calculus Math Team practice test over Fall Break!
Students interested in being a part of the Pre-Calculus Math Team this year are encouraged to take the practice test over break. The test is available at this link: http://www.humefogghs.mnps.org/Page59048.aspx. The last page is the answer page so that you may check your work. For those unfamiliar with the Math Team, a few students from each subject area of mathematics go to area high schools for competitions. Students on the team leave school during 7th period only on competition days. Competitions involve taking tests similar to the practice test posted online, which are then graded on-site. Awards are given based on test results. If you are interested, contact Ms. Schaffer at kristyn.shaffer@mnps.org or visit her classroom.
Girls Basketball beginning – contact Coach Angela Hubbard if you’re interested
If you missed the meeting on Monday, Oct. 12 but are interested in joining the Lady Knights basketball team, contact Coach Angela Hubbard at angela.hubbard@mnps.org.
Plan to play baseball? Get on the team email list.
HFA Baseball *plans for fall conditioning, winter practices, and spring games are in process. If you are on the team (or planning to sign up) and are NOT receiving emails with preliminary plans/information/team roster, email Carie Lee Kennedy at carielee.kennedy@vanderbilt.edu to be added to the team roster and to receive the recent email messages.
Tea with Belle and Friends - Halloween event for siblings and friends – tickets only $10
On Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009, you can make your favorite child’s dream come true by bringing them to a tea with Belle and Friends at Hume-Fogg. The tea starts at 10 a.m., and there will be ample opportunities to meet Belle and other cast members from Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ as you and your child, sibling or friend:
- Enjoy cookies, fruit, punch, and of course, delicious tea from Mrs. Potts.
- Greet the characters—each child will get their own “autograph book” to gather signatures
- Once in a lifetime “Photo-op” – have your child’s picture taken with their favorite character(s) and decorate their own picture frame
- Receive a rose from the Prince
- Purchase paper dolls of Belle, Beast, and friends - a “must-have” for your little princess!
Tickets are only $10. For reservations, contact: daron.bruce@mnps.org or call 615-291-6300 ext. 808106. Purchase your RESERVED SEATING tickets for the show while you’re at the Tea.
Stray elevator keys?
If you have an elevator key you no longer need, please return it to the office!
T-shirts to “DYE” for!
The Spirit Shop has gone retro! Show your school spirit by picking up your “Peace-Out” Hume- Fogg tie-dye t-shirt just in time for summer! For just $13 you can grab our denim tie-dye unisex shirt or a fitted rainbow tie-dye girl’s shirt. As always, the Spirit Shop will be open between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. each Friday. Questions? Contact Leigh Singleton at leighmail@mindspring.com.
Reruns (even better the second time!)
Freshman and Freshman Parents invited to Freshman Night Out Thursday, Oct. 29
All Freshmen and their parents are encouraged to attend Freshman Night Out on Thursday, Oct. 29, from 6:15 - 7:15 p.m. at Hume Fogg. Students will discuss strategies for academic success with faculty members, and Principal Paul Fleming and 9th Grade counselor Bess Romberg parents will lead a separate workshop for parents.
Sophomores, juniors and seniors may enter Bennington Young Writers contest – deadline for applications Nov. 1
Bennington College will awards prizes of $500 and $250 to students who win in the Bennington Young Writers Awards. Students must be in grades 10, 11 or 12, and may enter up to three pieces of poetry, a short story, a one-act play or a non-fiction essay. All entries must be sponsored by a teacher and postmarked by Nov. 1. For more information, go to www.bennington.edu <http://www.bennington.edu/> , or stop by room 208 and pick up an entry form from Ms. Handy.
Kenyon Review's Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers – enter Nov. 1-30
Attention sophomore and junior poets!! The Kenyon Review will publish the works of student writers in their prestigious literary magazine. The grand prize winner will earn a scholarship to attend the Kenyon Young Writers Workshop next summer in Gambier, Ohio. To enter, go to kenyonreview.org and click on the contest link from Nov. 1-30.
Exchange Students from Germany visited Hume-Fogg Sept. 29-Oct. 17
Four exchange students from Germany shadowed students at Hume-Fogg and MLK from through Oct. 16 through a direct exchange program coordinated by the Germany Ministry of Culture from the Gymnasiale Oberstufe in Taunusstein near Wiesbaden, Germany.
Sign-up for Trip to China (Summer 2010) still open
Hume-Fogg students may still join the trip to China; approximately 10 to 12 slots are open. Hume-Fogg students will be joining students from St. Edward’s for the trip to China, which begins on June 22. Students will travel for 12 days. The trip includes visits to Tien An Men Square, the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace in Beijing, a trip to the Great Wall, a cruise on the Yangtze River that winds through some of China’s most scenic country, and a trip to Shanghai, which includes the Bund, the Pearl Tower, an acrobatic show and the World Expo. Students will stay in 4 and 5 star hotels that offer Western accommodations. Our structured program includes sightseeing trips, excursions, walking tours and many exciting local activities. A full- time, specially selected tour guide will accompany us on all of our educational excursions and assist us in making the most of our free time and shopping opportunities.
Athletic Schedules
Hume-Fogg students make good impression on Henry David Thoreau Day
Ms. Smith distributed the following letter Mr. Fleming received after other Radnor Park visitors encountered Hume-Fogg students at the park during the Junior Honors English Henry David Thoreau Day activities:
Dear Mr. Fleming;
On this past Thursday I spent the morning at Radnor Lake introducing Tennessee birds to a visiting birder and bird photographer from Gothenburg, Sweden. It was his first visit to this part of the country and he was excited at the prospect of seeing many species that were new to him. Thus, we were dismayed when we arrived at the lake to find two Metro school buses in the parking lot, and both of us expressed our frustration at the prospect of having to put up with a bunch of noisy school kids while attempting to pursue the quiet business of spotting birds.
We could not have been more wrong. Those "noisy school kids" turned out to be two busloads of Hume-Fogg students who were there with their teachers to experience the out-of-doors as part of the their study of Henry David Thoreau. And they were as orderly, respectful, attractive, and intellectually engaged a group of teenagers as I have ever seen.
Not only were they not in the least disruptive of what we were trying to do, they were so quietly engaged in their work that we felt it was incumbent upon us to be very careful not to disturb them. I didn't learn exactly how their task had been defined for them, but they were all going about it with serious intent. Needless to say, I was impressed, and, as the host of a foreign visitor, very, very proud of those kids. My guest remarked that he had not seen any group of Swedish young people to compare with them.
I did have the opportunity to express my gratitude to a couple of the teachers (I had the distinct impression that they had very little to do; those young people didn't need chaperoning) and both of them were exuberant about the satisfaction and joy they found in teaching at Hume-Fogg.
Thank you for what you and your staff are doing there. If we just had more schools like Hume-Fogg and more students like those.... at any rate, my faith in our country's future got a boost.
Sincerely,
Lucius DuBose
Thanks for supporting Hume-Fogg
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