New Absentee and Dismissal Form
This is now a new official High School form students must use for absences and early dismissals. Printed copies are available in the front office, and parents may print a copy from the main page of the High School website which is www.franklinregional.k12.pa.us/highschool or click the link below to display and print the absent and early dismissal form.
· No other passes will be accepted after November 17th, 2008.
· Questions or concerns should be directed to Robert Duffy.
www.franklinregional.k12.pa.us/highschool/stuff/absenceform.pdf
All Seniors Must Return Forms on Thurs Nov 20th…
Jostens will be here on Thursday, November 20, during all 3 lunch periods to collect your orders for graduation announcements, accessories and cap and gown. Even if you are not ordering announcements or accessories, you must still return your order form in that day with your cap and gown information. Make sure you bring your order forms in that day!!!
Senior sweat order forms will be available before Thanksgiving break. This is NOT associated with Jostens, who is selling caps and gowns!
Financial Aid Information Night @ 6:30 pm on Wed Nov 19th
The Counseling Center is hosting a 'Financial Aid Night' sponsored by PHEAA on November 19th at 6:30 PM. The session will take place in the high school auditorium. All are welcome to join.
The Franklin Regional Thespians will present:
A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare Friday, November 14, 7:30 pm; Saturday, November 15, 7:30 pm; and Sunday, November 16, 2:00 pm Location: Franklin Regional High School Auditorium Tickets may be purchased at the box office before each performance.
MOS Boys Basketball League Signups on Fri Nov 14th
Basketball signups for the Murrysville Church league at MOS on Friday November 14, 2008 9:00 P.M. at the MOS gym. Any questions they can contact Ron O'Toole at ronotoole@windstream.net or call 724-325-3461.
Winter Sports begins Nov 17th
Just a reminder to winter sport athletes, all athletes must have a completed blue PIAA physical form and/or a green Section 5 recertification on file with the nurse by this Thursday Nov.13th in order to be eligible to participate. Remember, each sport season requires a form. If you have any questions regarding your elegibility, please see the nurse.
The young Writers and Poets Club will be meeting on Wednesday, November 19 in room 226. Anyone interested in creative writing and the literary magazine is encouraged to attend. swhite@franklinregional.k12.pa.us
Students to Perform with Westmoreland Sympony Orchestra
Carrie Law Joel Sloss Emily Williamson Selected for the Westmoreland County All –Star Choir. Public performance with the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra Saturday, December 20, 8pm Palace Theater Greensburg.
Tellebration! 2008
I just want to extend an invitation to everyone for Tellabration! 2008. This free event will be taking place Friday November 21 at 7:00 pm. Tellabration! is held at Newlonsburg Presbyterian Church just down the road from the High School. This is not a church sponsored event, the church is gracious enough to let us use their spacious facility.
Tellabration! is a world wide storytelling event. It is intended for adult audiences or children over the age of 12. Our local storytelling guild, StoryWorks, is in our ninth year of Tellabration! and is sponsored by the National Storytelling Network.
WE are pleased to have nationally recognized folk singer and storyteller Greg Zaborowski as our guest. Out theme this year is Tales of Western Pennsylvania. Tellabration! Lasts about 2 hours with an intermission and free refreshments. Please join us! Mike Dibert {mdibert@franklinregional.k12.pa.us}
Gilbert Soler Memorial Scholarship
The Pittsburgh Golden Triangle Chapter of ASM International is presenting its annual Gilbert Soler Memorial Scholarship to a senior who will be studying engineering in college and who best personifies dedication to excellence, has high academic acheievements, is involved in school activities, and demonstrates future promise. If interested, please stop by the Counseling Center for an application. Deadline is 1-19-09.
Merit Co-op Scholarships Available
The National Commission for Cooperative Education will award 200 merit co-op scholarships valued at $6,000 each. For additional information about this year's schoalrship program and to complete an application on-line, please visit www.co-op.edu. Deadline is 2-15-09
Free academic opportunity for high school juniors:
The Telluride Association seeks out young people with the desire and the ability to contribute to society, and helps them develop intellectually and as community members. For more information, please visit www.tellurideassociation.org. If interested in being a nominated student, please visit the Counseling Center. Deadline is 11-26-08
The National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine has announced programs for 2008 - 2009. If interested, please stop by the Counseling Center for more information. Deadline is 10//08.
ACLU Youth Activist Scholarship for Seniors
The ACLU announced their 2009 Youth Activist Scholarship in the amount of $12,500 to be issued at the start of the freshman year. If you have a strong interest in civil liberties, will be entering a college or university full time, and have a 3.0 GPA, you are encouraged to apply. If interested, please visit the Counseling Center for more information. Deadline is 12-5-08.
Attention WIRC team members!! We will have practice in the library immediately after school on Wednesday. Please see Mr. McDonnell beforehand if you cannot attend. Thanks!!.
Foodbank news…
Note from Darlene… I stopped by the trucks last weekend and, even though people were dropping off food and being very generous, we can do a lot more. It’s easy to forget to stop by and this weekend might snow/rain so don’t let the weather stop you.
Please mark your calendar. And, even if you don’t have time to shop, make out a check and just drive by and drop it off. You’ll meet some great FRHS parents sitting in their lawn chairs with big smiles ready to take those checks or bags of food – you don’t even have to get out of your car!!! Please, please make a special effort to help out… and here’s a repeat of the announcement I ran before.. this is the last weekend of the food drive.
Westmoreland Food Bank Needs Your Help and its very easy to help… just read below
“Due to the economic condition, the Westmoreland County Food Bank’s inventory is drastically low. At this time of year especially as the weather is getting colder, warm nourishing food is needed. Therefore, a food and cash/check drive will be held, at the Rite Aid and Shur Save parking lots in Murrysville, on Nov 8 and 15 from 10am until 4pm.
Westmoreland County Food Bank trucks will be set up to collect non-perishable food and cash/check donations which are all tax deductible. While you are grocery shopping for your family this week, please consider picking up a jar of peanut butter, can of tuna fish, dry pasta and sauce, Dinty Moore Stew, canned orange juice or some other substantial food items. Your donations will be helping your own neighbors.
If you would like to volunteer for a 2 hour block of time on those days (all ages welcome), please call the WCFB, Louise Wilhelm, at 724-468-8660 ext. 13.”
The FRHS E-News is an electronic newsletter distributed independently by the members of your PTO as a volunteer service to the community to keep you up-to-date and informed about what is happening at the senior high level. Occasionally, there are mistakes, but we make every attempt to verify and publish accurate information on a timely basis. If you have news you would like to have published, please send your information to me at FRHSnews@comcast.net. Please remember, it would be helpful to have a minimum of a week lead time to publish the information. To subscribe/unsubscribe to the newsletter, please send email to the same address.
Thank you, Darlene H. Skupien, FRHS E-News Editor
Great Contact Information…
High school main phone number: 724-327-5456
Front Office secretaries:
Ms. Valerie Susa (x 5004)
Ms Marcia Ochs (x 5005)
Ms. Donna Baker (x5003)
www.franklinregional.k12.pa.us/highschool (main site for the high school)
www.franklinregional.k12.pa.us/highschool/highschoolnewsletter.asp (school newsletter)
www.franklinregional.k12.pa.us/highschool/frhsbellschedule.asp (schedule grid at a glance)
www.franklinregional.k12.pa.us/highschool/ptolink.asp -- this is the PTO web page up and running. If you want to know who your PTO is, and what the PTO is planning, click on this link for the latest information!
The Sr. High Morning News Show can be viewed each evening at 5 p.m. on Channel 19 or at the following website: http://www.franklinregional.k12.pa.us/highschool/hsmorningannouncements.asp
The FRHS E-News is archived courtesy of Murrysville Online. Please take a minute to tour the website even if you don’t need to view any of the back issues of the E-News. The site is full of great information:
http://www.murrysvilleonline.com/FRHS-Enews-2008-2009/enews.htm
FRHS
E-NEWS