WHEATON WARRENVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL
TIGER EYE
January 2015
TIGER PRIDE
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Congratulations to the football team’s Daily
Herald 7th place ranking at the end of the
season.
Congratulations to the Tiger Speech Team!
1st Place—South Elgin Stormin’ Classic
1st Place—Ike’s Early Bird Novice Invitational
Chicago Tribune All-State football
first team and All-DuPage
Valley: Tommy Vitale
And to the following 1st Place Varsity finishes:
IHSAFCA 7A All-State: Tommy
Vitale and Keishawn
Watson
Ryan Kirby, Special Occasion Speaking
Daily Herald DuPage All-Area Football
Team: Jake Kyllonen, Tommy Vitale
and Keishawn Watson
DuPage All-Area Honorable Mentions:
Beau Jablonsky and Anthony
Melton
Elsa Barron, Extemporaneous Speaking
Beth Koehler, Humorous Interpretation
Greg Nussbaum, Dramatic Interpretation,
Oratorical Declamation
James Zurawski, Informative Speaking
Jon Murphy, Special Occasion Speaking
Sara Josyln, Prose Reading
Angela Yang, Informative Speaking
The Wheaton Warrenville South
High School community is
mourning the death of a beloved
cross country coach and
science teacher, Tom Todd.
Read about Coach Todd in the
Daily Herald ->
Damon Leach, Impromptu Speaking
http://www.dailyherald.com/
article/20141212/news/141219347/
All meetings are at the WWS
High School Library @ 7:00 pm
Upcoming Tiger PAWS
Meeting
Jan 14, Wednesday
Photo: Patti Eganhouse
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Our cover story, Tiger Pride features noteworthy WWS students and their achievements. Please send us your good news! Email your information to [email protected].
FROM OUR PRINCIPAL
DAVE CLAYPOOL
Annually during the holiday season, Wheaton
Warrenville South rises to the occasion, raising
money, collecting items for pantries, and
volunteering time with others. This year was no exception.
More than $10,000 was raised for local charities, countless
clothing items were given to those less fortunate (including
several South students), and hundreds of cumulative hours
were spent by Tiger students and staff, aiding people in many
ways.
One such act of volunteerism took place on Christmas Eve,
when current and former students, who took part in the J.
Kyle Braid Leadership Program, visited Marklund Children’s
Home to help unwrap gifts (See photo below).
New Date TBD!
Polar Run
NEW Date
TBD!
WWS High
School
3rd ANNUAL TIGER DAY OF
CARING....
look at all of the great things
250 of our WWS athletes did
around our community on
Sunday, Dec. 21!!!
WAY TO GO TIGERS!!!!!!!
Girls basketball – Spent time
with residents at Arden Courts
in Glen Ellyn
Wrestling – Played bingo with
residents at the Du Page
Convalescent Center
This act of kindness was remarkable for many reasons, not
the least of which is that students, including those who
graduated from South three years ago, felt inspired to set
aside holiday time with family to assist others.
Nothing generates greater pride than knowing Tigers act in
such wonderful ways. Here’s wishing all of Tiger Nation a
healthy and joyous 2015.
Girls gymnastics – Provided
daycare for Sunday church
service at Blanchard Alliance
Church in Wheaton
Boys basketball – Provided
daycare for Sunday church
service at Blanchard Alliance
Church in Warrenville
Boys swimming – Assisted in
food transportation at
Immanuel Food Pantry in
Warrenville
Dave Claypool
Principal
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COUNSELING CENTER
Explore TCD
Technology Center of DuPage (TCD), the high school’s center for advanced career and technical
education, offers solid preparation for fields such as culinary arts, cosmetology, engineering, auto
body, and early childhood education and care to name just a few. Available to juniors and seniors,
TCD provides 24 career electives and 24 pathways to college/career success. For a firsthand
exploration of TCD, a field trip was available to current sophomores and juniors on December 10,
2014. To be eligible for the 2014-2015 school year, students must have attended the field trip
on December 10th as well as the open house on January 21, 2015 at TCD. Additional
information about TCD and the open house can be found on the TCD website, www.tcdupage.org.
Scholarship Information
Scholarship information, both national and local, is available on Naviance, under the “Scholarships”
link. Updated throughout the school year, this list of various scholarships includes criteria, due
dates, and website links to applications. For the best opportunity to earn awards, students are
encouraged to review local scholarships. A list of nearly 20 local scholarships can be downloaded
by clicking on the “Local Scholarship Information and Guidelines” link found in the alphabetized list.
These local scholarship applications are due in the Counseling Office NO LATER than 11:00 am on
Thursday, February 19, 2014. Additionally, for those students looking to access other
national scholarship opportunities, students are advised to set-up an account with
www.scholarships.com and/or www.fastweb.com. These sites ask questions that pertain to the
student and then they attempt to match various scholarship criteria with the background information
provided. There is NO cost to either of these additional sites. See Mr. Pawlak with any questions.
ONLINE SUMMER SCHOOL COURSES
Districts 200, 203, and 204 have
joined together to offer online summer
school courses.
Courses are taught by a teacher from
District 200, 203, or 204. Courses
are delivered virtually, and students
do not have to report to their local
school building. Students may work
on the course from their own
preferred location. Students
communicate with the instructor and
peers through discussion board,
email, instant chats, phone calls, or
virtual office hours. For more information and the registration link, please visit the eLo website:
www.eloconsortium.org.
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TIGER SPOTLIGHT—TIGER SOCCER
CAROL MOLINO CONTRIBUTOR
The Wheaton Warrenville South soccer program has had some great successes over the past
couple of years and it's not just about soccer for this group. This Fall, the boys team was the
recipient of the prestigious Myro Rys Sportsmanship
Award. The award represents all that coach Guy
Callipari wants for the culture of his program including
fair play and respect for the opposition and the
officials of the game. Callipari states that "the award
is a tribute to our soccer family and our
community." Having also received the Myro Rys
award in 1998, WWS is only the 4th school to have
won the award twice since 1977.
Tiger Soccer's recent list of awards also includes the girls program earning their 300th win in May of
2013. Callipari was just the 12th coach in Illinois history to reach this milestone and the team has
never had a losing record during Callipari's career. Callipari is now closing in on being one of
four Illinois coaches to win 300 games in both boys and girls soccer.
Coach Callipari has coached our boys and girls soccer teams 24 and 20
years respectively. To add to his list of accomplishments, he was
inducted into the IHSSCA Hall of Fame in June of 2012. He was only the
47th inductee (and third Tiger) in the state since the hall of fame's
inception in 1988. Callipari likes the idea of representing the city of
Wheaton, school, administration and mostly the players in this way. He
was a scholarship player himself at Eastern Illinois and played
professionally in London and Belgium. Callipari also played three stints
with the Canadian National Team. We are also very fortunate to have
an extremely experienced and talented group of assistant and JV
coaches including Kevin Donahue, Aaron Press, Gary Luckey, Kelly Ball,
Elissa Schwass, Eric Stajduhar, and Josh Bacheller.
During the girls' last season, they were awarded with the PepsiCo
Showdown Lynn and Scott Magneson Community Service Award for the
service work during the Tiger Day of Caring. The girls brought home
a $1,000 check to WWS. Coach Callipari comments that this is yet
another way in which "the Tiger Soccer program continues to be a great vehicle for teaching life
lessons and developing outstanding citizens in our community." The team also spreads their good
sportsmanship to others by awarding a Pin of Dedication to an opposing player after each
game. The player is one who has demonstrated the will to win while maintaining their character and
integrity in the process. This is a symbolic gesture of the respect the Tigers have for the opposing
program and its players regardless of the outcome.
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TIGER SPOTLIGHT—TIGER SOCCER (CONTINUED)
CAROL MOLINO CONTRIBUTOR
The girls program also has an impressive list of Division I athletes, sending
players off in recent years to compete at schools such as Miami of Ohio,
University of Wisconsin, Spring Hill College, and Purdue. The list also
includes senior AJ Jakuszewski, who will play at UIC beginning Fall of 2015.
AJ is a 4th year varsity player along with teammates Tori Adomshick, Rachel
Conrady and Nikki Molino. AJ has played club soccer since the age of 7
and has known she has wanted to play D1 soccer since age 10. AJ
committed to play soccer at UIC the summer after her sophomore year,
where she will study Pharmacy. AJ is a very versatile player as she plays
defensive positions for her club team and offensive during her high school
season. As for her position at UIC, AJ states that she thinks "they will need
her somewhere on the defensive or holding mid, but I'm really ready and
willing to play whatever position they need me to play." AJ believes the
biggest difference between high school and club play is that with high school, you are bringing the
many club styles of play all together in one season as well as 4 different age levels. She also states
that Callipari is a unique coach in that he is "willing to switch up the formation we are playing in
order to meet the needs of the game.........and allow us the best opportunity to win." AJ says that off
the field, Callipari "goes out of his way to make sure there are many team bonding moments" of
which there is a lengthy list! One of AJ's best memories from Tiger Soccer is "scoring the winning
goal against one of our big rivals, Wheaton North, and
securing our claim on the Wheaton cup!"
The Tiger Soccer program's many awards and impressive
record is proof that their philosophy of hard work both on and
off the field is working. One of Coach Callipari’s yearly quotes
sums up the program’s many successes……”If you want to go
fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together.” Come
cheer on the Tigers this season as the girls play in their
home opener against Batavia, Saturday, March 21 at 11:00
AM!
Winter Souvenir Activity
Programs are available at the
concessions and at tickets sales
of the home games/events...all
athletes are in it!
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Wheaton Warrenville South High School and
Wheaton North High School is having a post
prom fundraiser Saturday February 7th at
Wheaton Warrenville South High School. It's
going to be a large spring craft show from
10am to 3pm. Only 3 dollars to get in. Please
plan to attend. Interested vendors should
contact Greg Crutchett at
[email protected].
[email protected]
Check out the
Tiger Wear Website
for great deals!
The Tiger Eye is scheduled to be published monthly except for December. Please send your photos, articles,
promotions via email to [email protected]. The next deadline is Friday, December 26, but let us
know if you need some additional time. Here is a link to previous TigerEye's -> http://tigerpaws.org/tiger-eyenewsletters/
Month
PAWS Meeting
Deadline
Posted to Web Site
February
Wednesday, January 14
Friday, January 23
Wednesday, February 4
March
Wednesday, February 18*
Friday, February 27
Wednesday, March 11
April
Wednesday, March 18
Friday, March 27
Wednesday, April 8
May
Wednesday, April 22*
Friday, May 1
Wednesday, May 13
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BOARD ADOPTS VISION 2018
To continue to prepare for our children’s future, the Board of Education recently adopted Vision 2018, a
strategic planning document that outlines our the district’s goals and priorities for the next several years.
You are invited to visit the district’s website, www.cusd200.org, to see the direction we are headed. For the
current year, the Board has prioritized four main areas: professional development for staff; integration of
technology in the classroom; creation of a master facilities plan; and exploration of alternate sources of
revenue.
At the beginning of 2014, the District launched a six-month community engagement process, Engage 200, to
gain valuable feedback from the community and determine the community’s priorities for the future. “Two of the
most important roles of a school board are to connect with the community and clarify the community’s vision for
their schools,” says Barbara Intihar, President of the Board of Education. Vision 2018 is a tangible, valuable
result from the Engage 200 process.
In the coming weeks you will see new developments on the Vision 2018 section of the district’s website with
detailed work plans and a dashboard with metrics. Stay tuned!
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http://cod.edu/academics/field/studyabroad/scholarships.aspx
Field Studies/Study Abroad Office: BIC 3509, (630) 942-2356
Director: Professor Bärbel Thoens-Masghati
Phone: (630)942-3323 email: [email protected]
Webpage:
http://www.cod.edu/academics/field/studyabroad/germany/index.aspx
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2014-2015 Tiger PAWS Executive Board
Next Meeting
President, Bob Barista
Vice President, Jane Kindlon
Wednesday, January 14
WWS High School Library @ 7:00 p.m.
Secretary, Rick and Cindy Knoll
Treasurer, John and Lisa Polezoes
For a complete list of Tiger PAWS contacts,
lhttp://tigerpaws.org/tp_contacts/
VISIT WWW.TIGERPAWS.ORG AND WWW.WWSHS.ORG
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