May 7th, 2008 is the National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
The purpose of the National Day is to focus the attention of teens on the importance of avoiding teen pregnancy and other serious consequences of sex.
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April 14, 2008
Students & Staff
The Drama Club will be presenting their spring show, "John Lennon and Me" beginning with a special student preview, this Thursday at 7:00 p.m. Tickets for the student preview are only $5.00. Friday and Saturday performances will begin at 8:00 p.m., and a matinee performance will begin at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets will be $8.00 and will be sold at the door. Reserved seating is available for staff and family members of the cast and crew. Please see Mrs. Prokurat if you are interested.
Seniors
Have you been involved in school-sponsored clubs? Have you volunteered your time to the Royal Oak community? If you have, you may be eligible to receive a Royal Oak High School Achievement Letter. Deadline to turn in your verification forms is Monday, April 21st. See Mrs. Cutler in room 215 for details or extra forms.
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Marian High School will be sponsoring a college night on March 10th, 6:30pm to 8:00pm. Call 248-644-1750 for more information. Address is 7225 Lahser Road, Bloomfield Hills between 14 Mile and Maple Roads.
The Metro Detroit National College Fair is held Thursday, April 17th from 9:00am to 11:30am and again in the evening from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. at the Burton Manor, 27777 Schoolcraft Road, Livonia, 48150.
Submitted by Mary Brown, Counselor
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PTA Founder’s Day News - Congratulations to these award recipients:
- Council Member of the Year: Mark Weatherwax
- Distinguished Service Awards: Candy Ather-Putman, Mary Dixon, Jeff Knaggs, & Clyde Esbri
- Michigan PTA Honorary Life Award: Madeleine Taylor, Carol Hansen, Kelly Geyer
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March 19th
Topic: Changing Lives, Creating Futures
Come and educate yourself on teen substance abuse - looking for signs in teens, how to help
Presenter: Pathway Family Center
April 23rd
Topic: Girls will be Girls
Communicating with Girls and
their Brain’s Growth and Development
Presenters:Anne Davies and Tracy Niyo
Safe.Strong.Strong.Clinic
May 14th
Topic: Summer Time
Teens and the summer months - what to think about and be aware of
Dr. Laura Rodriquez-Kitkowski
Keller Clinic
All Parent Coffee Hours will be held at the Royal Oak Board of Education Office 7:00 to 8:45 p.m.
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ROSD Instrumental Music Department Celebrates 60th All City Music Festival
The Royal Oak Schools Instrumental Music Department will host its 60th series of All City Concerts March 6th and 18th. This festival series will include all instrumentalists' in grades 5-12.
The concert series will feature one concert for band and one concert for orchestra. Every band and orchestra from each school will perform. This year will debut the ensembles from the new Royal Oak Middle School.
60th Annual All City Band Festival
March 6, 2008
7:00 p.m.
Royal Oak High School Gym
60th Annual All City Orchestra Festival
March 18, 2008
7:00 p.m.
Royal Oak High School Gym
"To help us celebrate our 60th anniversary, retired instrumental music teachers have been invited and will be honored for their contributions to our schools," said Janet Von Eberstein, Instrumental and Vocal Music Coordinator for the District.
"When the community of Royal Oak had many more children and schools, there were four All City Programs, two for orchestra and two for band. While Royal Oak has undergone several changes in its community and schools, the All City Concert Series has remained constant." said Von Eberstein.
Admission to the Royal Oak Schools All City Festival Series is free and the public is welcome to attend.
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Royal Oak High School Editor Jillian Rodriguez Receives National Journalism Award
ROYAL OAK, MI. - Royal Oak High School Acorn Editor in Chief Jillian Rodriguez has received the Al Neuharth Free Spirit Award, a distinction awarded to top student journalists throughout the United States. The Free Spirit Award is given to 102 high school seniors across the country (a male and female from each state and the District of Columbia), who are interested in pursuing a career in journalism and who demonstrate qualities of "free spirit". "Free spirits dream, dare and do. A free spirit can also be a risk-taker, a visionary, an innovative leader, an entrepreneur, or a courageous achiever who accomplishes great things beyond his or her normal circumstances," according to Neuharth.
In addition to her work as editor of Acorn, Jillian also writes the Daily Tribune column "Student Voices" on behalf of the Save Our Youth Task Force.
This program began in 1999 and is funded by the Freedom Forum to honor Al Neuharth, the founder of USA TODAY and the Freedom Forum. Jillian will attend a conference in Washington D.C. March 16 -20, where she will meet the other recipients and attend informative sessions with prominent media professionals. "This is an excellent opportunity for Jillian, and is certainly a positive reflection on our publications program and our school," said Ann Maudlin, Royal Oak High School Language Arts Teacher and Acorn Newsmagazine Adviser.
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103,150 Scholarships Awarded to Royal Oak Middle and High School Fine Arts Students
The Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp presented $103,150 scholarship awards to 209 Royal Oak High School and Middle School students. High school scholarships totaling $13,390 were awarded to 31 students and scholarships of $89,760 were given to 178 middle school students.
Scholarship auditions were conducted over three days in December by William Tennant, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp Representative. Band, orchestra, vocal music, art and drama students participated. Art students shared a small portfolio of their work, drama students performed an interpretive reading, and instrumental musicians played a short selection of their choice.
"This is a significant sum of money that our students have been awarded," said Janet Von Eberstein, Royal Oak Middle School District Music Coordinator. "We are indeed proud of their hard work and dedication and the strength of the fine arts programs in our District."
Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp is a summer school of the arts located on a 1,300 acre campus in Michigan's Manistee National Forest. The summer camp annually serves more than 5,000 gifted elementary, junior high, and high school students with diverse programs in music, art, dance, and drama while offering more than 175 performances during its Summer Arts Festival. Since its inception in 1966, Blue Lake has provided cultural enrichment to over 300,000 gifted students and countless concert-goers. http://www.bluelake.org/
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Royal Oak Model UN Earns Top Honors at UMMUN 2008
The Royal Oak High School's Model United Nations Team (ROMUN) earned high honors at the University of Michigan Model UN conference in Ann Arbor, including a first place "Best School" award, the highest award at the conference.
The team's Sudan delegation was the top award winner, with a Best Delegate award going to sophomore KL for her solid four days of debate in the World Health Organization. Sudan's MA (senior) and GE (junior) each earned awards in the Disarmament and Economic committees.
In special committees, all three of Royal Oak's senior delegates earned awards. Representing Canada, AH earned a Best Delegate award; she helped bring about Mid-East peace in a historical debate on the 1967 Arab-Israel war. AG, representing the United Kingdom, earned Honorable Mention in the Security Council debating Somalia stability and biochemical terrorism in China. NC represented Denmark and earned Verbal Commendation for his historical restructuring of the United Nations in 1945.
In addition, senior ZH, representing Iran, earned Honorable Mention alongside Adams for his debate on Darfur and Iraqi disarmament. Senior CP earned Verbal Commendation for his work as Argentina in the same committee.
The team debated difficult topics, from E's external debt relief programs to L's debate on helping children with HIV. Other topics included human rights abuses by multi-national corporations, religious intolerance (for which junior CK and sophomore MS authored resolutions), and North Korea development (where junior GR authored several resolutions).
So many awards across so many committees helped the team earn the Best School award, the top award at the conference.
"But it just wasn't these award winners who did it," said Alec Snyder, one of team's advisors. The team award is shared by the students whose work impressed the UMMUN staff at every level, from the writing of position papers before the conference to caucus and speech skills and policy-building.
The students returned from the four day conference on Sunday and then continued studying for their mid-term exams this week. The ROMUN competition team is an extra-curricular for the students; they debate and research on their own time, including-for this conference-the December holiday.
"The group is driven," said Steve Chisnell, one of the team's advisors. "They don't want just to win an argument: they want to solve the problem."
In all the team took 26 delegates to the conference representing six different nations. Nearly 500 students from 20 schools in the Midwest competed at the UMMUN conference.
The Royal Oak Model UN team numbers nearly 50 students this year from the new high school campus. The team is preparing for an upcoming conference at Michigan State University in March and an advocacy trip to China this summer.
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Royal Oak Foundation for Public Education Announces Grant Recipients
Jeff Knaggs, President of the Royal Oak Foundation for Public Education, announced eight grants totaling $8,676, which were recently awarded to Royal Oak Neighborhood School teachers.
Royal Oak High School
Project - Interactive Student Website Expansion; Teacher Steve Chisnell - A grant was awarded to aid Mr. Chisnell’s efforts to help define and determine effective Internet enhancements to the classroom experience.
The Royal Oak Foundation for Public Education accepts and reviews applications for $1,500 mini-grants that fulfill its mission of enriching lives through educational opportunities for the Royal Oak Public School community. The next deadline is February 29, 2008. For guidelines and grant application details, see www.rofoundation.org
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ROHS 2007-08 Yearbooks are available for preorder in the yearbook room 141 during 6th hour or after school for $65.00 until November 30th.
Senior baby ads for the yearbook are due November 16th. Full page ad is $150, half page for $125, 1/4 page is $70 and a business card size is $35.00.
Regular advertisement orders will be taken through the end of the first semester, which is the middle of January. Full page ad is $250, half page for $150, 1/4 page is $90 and a business card size is $65.00.
Contact ROHS staff member Beverly Wine at wineb@royaloakschools.com for more information.
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RO PTA Council Blood Drive on Tuesday, November 20 from 7:00am to 7:00pm at the Berkley Donation site at Catalpa and Woodward. See more information including a sign up sheet.
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ROHS Drama Club Presents Beauty & the Beast
ROHS Drama Club presents Disney's 'Beauty and the Beast' on November 9th and 10th at 7:30pm and November 11th at 2:00pm. For ticket information contact Jennifer Ward at wardj@royaloakschools.com.
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2007-2008 National Reflections Arts Program “I Can Make a Difference By...” See more information at the National PTA site. Contact Janet Norling with any questions.
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Royal Oak Model United Nations is ROHS's international debate and advocacy team. We meet on Mondays in the Media Center at 2:30. We have three upcoming fundraisers: Mongolian BBQ Guest Grill, Barnes & Noble Voucher Day, and ROHS PTSA Arts & Crafts Fair. ROMUN will have famous faces in Royal Oak guest grilling at Mongolian BBQ from 6-8pm on October 30. All the tips of the night will go towards our 2008 international trip to China. On November 17, at the ROHS PTSA Arts & Crafts Fair, ROMUN will have a table full of goodies and trinkets, along with vouchers for our Barnes & Noble fundraiser. At Barnes & Noble we are doing a voucher fundraiser and gift wrapping while a String Quartet performs international music. Present your voucher at the time of purchase and we receive 20% of the profit. Vouchers will be passed out at ROHS and throughout the city before the fundraiser and also near Barnes & Noble on November 17. For questions regarding ROMUN or any of the above events, please email us at modelun@royaloakschools.com or visit our website: www.romun.org. We can't wait to see you!
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Stadium Opening Day photos.
Royal Oak High School PTSA is in motion - only $5 per member - join today!
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Use this link to see a PDF file regarding traffic patterns at ROHS: Traffic
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The school day runs as follows:
- Period 1 - 7:25am - 8:21am
- Period 2 - 8:26am - 9:36am (Announce 9:22-9:27 / Records 9:27-9:36)
- Period 3 - 9:41am - 10:37am
- Period 4 - 10:42am - 12:18pm
- A Lunch - lunch 10:42-11:17 / class 11:22-12:18
- B Lunch - class 10:42-11:10 / lunch 11:10-11:45 / class 11:50-12:18
- C Lunch - class 10:42-11:38 / lunch 11:43-12:18
- Period 5 - 12:23pm - 1:19pm
- Period 6 - 1:24pm - 2:22pm
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The campus is closed at lunch for the 2007-08 school for all freshmen and sophomores.
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- 2007-08 9th Grade Counselors: A-F Rosemary Tinetti (x297) / G-L Patrick Stemas (x219) / M-R Jim Bowker (x285) S-Z Bill Spurgeon (x213)
- 2007-08 10th Grade Counselors: A-L Mary Brown (x218) / M-Z Kathy Knapp (x214)
- 2007-08 11th Grade Counselors: A-E Rosemary Tinetti (x297) / F-K Patrick Stemas (x219) / L-Q Jim Bowker (x285) / R-Z Bill Spurgeon (x213)
- 2007-08 12th Grade Counselors: A-F Rosemary Tinetti (x297) / G-K Patrick Stemas (x219) / L-R Jim Bowker (x285) / S-Z Bill Spurgeon (x213)
- Social Workers: Anne Davies / Mary Sutton.
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