Congratulations to the following staff members who were honored at last night's Distinguished Alumni Dinner.  Each of our 2008 Distinguished Alumni chose someone who inspired them during their years as a student at Lake Park High School.

Melinda Neukuckatz - Beth Ahern (class of '80)
Joseph Cieply (retired) - Beth Ahern
Dr. Martin Quinn - Richard Kolomay (class of '76)
Andy Livingston - Jason Pankau (class of '88)
Bob Nihells - Jason Pankau

 

Congratulations to the following students who have earned Academic All Conference by maintaining a grade point average of 4.5 or above and being a sophomore, junior or senior on a varsity team this winter.

Boys Basketball:

Daniel Baylis, Matthew Drufke, Charles Johnson, Joseph Kosciw, Kyle Phelan, Patrick Powers, Patrick Proctor
  

Michael DeSario, Michael Graziano, John Guidotti, Michael Hannigan, Daniel Kowalski, Giuseppe Rovituso, Damen Toomey

Matthew Ahrens, Kyle Beard, Christopher Cimaglia, Timothy Frawley, Bryant Honsa, Ryan Jorgensen, Bryan  Medema

Marc Ostrowski

 

Brittany Dombek, Alessandra Faso, Meghan Finley, Courtney Gruendler, Nicole Hendry, Jessica Sibigtroth, Amanda Zorrilla

Samantha Arnold, Lynsey Ciezki, Sarah Drozdowski, Devin Johnston, Katie Mueller, Marissa Pasquini

Girls Gymnastics:

Kelsey Coleman, Melissa Horgan, Dana Matesi, Alison Sousa

Girls Bowling:

Andrea Pierri, Katharine Vormitta

Elizabeth Atchison, Jordan Fenner, Nicolette Ferraresi, Kori Kelly, Amy Knorowski, Christina Ola, Kylie Pascente

While Lake Park students and staff are off and out of the building during spring break, the hallways and classrooms of East Campus will transform into a training ground for the Roselle Police Department. Officers from the department will utilize the building for Rapid Response/Active Shooter Deployment Training. They will role play a variety of potentially dangerous scenarios using paint ball-type ammunition and practice encountering armed suspects in order to prepare for any possible similar real life incident. Last year, the Roselle Police Department used West Campus for the same purpose and have alternated with East Campus this year to assist officers in learning the layout of both locations.
 
School shooting incidents have caused a paradigm-shift in law enforcement training and tactics. Instead of being taught to wait for a SWAT team to arrive, officers receive training on how to take immediate action during incidents that clearly involve a suspect's use of deadly force. In Rapid Response Deployment Training, officers utilize team tactics for dealing with the variety of floor plan situations encountered in schools. Mostly, the training stresses that the first officer and back up officer teams move safely, assertively, and decisively to engage and neutralize the active threat.

Lake Park High School has worked closely with both the Roselle Police Department and Roselle Fire Department in developing safety plans for both campuses.  This prevention training is  key to saving lives in the event of any type of emergency.

 

Aunt Eller: Hannah Jones
Jud Fry: Dario Carrion & Paul Gray 
Ali Hakim: Jeff Barak

Tickets are $7 for adults; $5 for non-Lake Park students; and free to all seniors, children under 13, and Lake Park students/staff with their school ID.   Tickets can be ordered in advance by calling 630-295-5313 or emailing lptheatreboxoffice@lphs.org. Join us for this truly American classic.

The Abraham Lincoln High School Book Award List is out and Lake Park Freshman Karl Schulze was part of the selection committee this year.  Eight students selected from 27 applications sent from 12 schools around the state joined 21 librarians on March 1 to pare a list of 75 books down to 22 that comprise the list students read from for the 2008-2009 year.

"I really enjoyed participating in Abe," Karl said.  Karl was an alternate but as one reader could not come, Karl took her spot.  He had to read ten of the 75 titles on the list before attending the session but had only three months to do so.  Karl is also in Honors classes so to add this to his work load shows how much he wants to promote reading to others. 

The process starts two years prior with participating schools sending in nominations.  A nominations committee narrows that list to 75.  The November prior to the list coming out, each person on the reader committee receives a list of ten of the books from this list to read by the meeting three months later.  They are asked to score the books based on teen appeal, timeliness, quality, lasting value and other traits.  Those scores are used to help the committee as they look at the books but it does not mean a book will or won't make the list.  It takes a vote of three-fourths majority for a book to make it on to the list of 22 with the student readers automatically placing four titles with no adult vetoes. 

"This is very much a student driven list," said Carolyn Roys, Lake Park's East Campus librarian and member of the executive committee for the Abe Lincoln award.  "Karl was a valuable member of the team and one book we both love is one he fought to have on the list.  Karl is the first freshman to be selected to serve and Lake Park can be proud," said Mrs. Roys.

The 2008-09 Abraham Lincoln High School Book Award List includes :
After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings and Flew Away  --  Joyce Carol Oates
The Bonemender  --  Holly Bennett
*Catch  --  Will Leitch
*Crank  --  Ellen Hopkins
Dairy Queen  --  Catherine Murdock
The Girls  --  Lori Lansens 
Hawksong  --  Amelia Atwater Rhodes
I Am the Messenger  --  Markus Zusak
It's Kind of a Funny Story  --  Ned Vizzini
*Jennifer Government  --  Max Barry
The Lightning Thief  --  Rick Riordan
Looking for Alaska  --  John Green
A Northern Light  --  Jennifer Donnelly
Peeps  --  Scott Westerfeld

An alumni event is being planned for all former members of the Lake Park Boys Gymnastics program to celebrate the success of the boys gymnastics team from the past.  Members of the 1988 and 1998 State teams are particularly welcome.  The event will be held on Saturday, April 19 at 3:00 p.m. in the Lake Park High School East Campus gymnasium.

The boys gymnastics team will be honoring their 2008 seniors, as well as any former Lancer gymnasts in attendance, prior to their dual meet with Willowbrook.

All alumni are then invited to attend a reception following the meet at Gaynor's restaurant adjacent to East Campus on Medinah Road.  For more information, please contact Rick Orna at rornajr@sbcglobal.net or 630-529-2351 or Greg Anderson at ganderson@lphs.org.

 

Please note:  The Booster Club has changed their meeting date for April.  They will be meeting on Thursday, April 3 at 7:00 p.m. in the East Campus Community Room.