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HOUGH HOWLER
PTSA NEWSLETTER
~The William Amos Hough High School Staff and PTSA would like to wish all students, families, staff and Husky supporters "Happy Holidays." Have a safe and enjoyable winter break.
See you on January 5th!~
Laura Rosenbach and Hough Staff
Hough PTSA
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Volume 5 Edition 21
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December 17, 2014
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Important Dates &
Link Hough Calendars to your Smartphone
Hough High PTSA has created Google Calendars that parents, teachers and students can print out in calendar view or sync with their smartphone calendar. Information to link the Hough High calendar to your smartphone:
*Hough High School Calendar Calendar ID: houghhighptsa@gmail.com Ical address: click here
*Hough Athletics - all sports calendars click here; For instructions on how to sync calendars with your iOS device (iPad, iPhone, and IPod Touch) click here
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Last Chance for 2014 Tax Deducible Donation
Submitted by PTSA VP Fundraising, Amy & PTSA VP Membership, Jackie Noble
With 2014 coming to an end, some of you may need to make charitable contributions. Please keep the Hough PTSA in mind for your tax deductible donations! This is the last week of school left before the holiday break, so please click on the link below, print the form and send your donation to the school in an envelope marked "PTSA" before Friday. Or mail form/donation to Hough High School PTSA 12420 Bailey Road, Cornelius, NC 28031
PTSA Membership / Husky Fund / Technology Drive / Harris Teeter Link Form
Thank you to the following Husky Fund Donors as of December 17, 2014
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Holiday Spirit Week
Sponsored by Student Leadership
Get Ready Hough!! This week is our Holiday Spirit Week!
Prizes will be awards to students and staff!!
Winter Spirit Week themes for the rest of the week
Wednesday, December 17th - Ugly Holiday Sweaters
Thursday, December 18th - Ghost of Holidays Past (decade day)
Friday, December 19th - Family Photo (dress like a family holiday card)
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Student Leadership Request for
Donations of Candy Canes
Please bring candy canes by Thursday
Submitted by Bella Shea
Student Leadership would like to pass out candy canes to the student body after school on the day we are released for winter break (Friday, December 19th.) The week before school is a holiday themed spirit week. We believe that the candy canes will be a great way to end the week! Please bring candy canes to the front office by Thursday, December 18th and mark for Student Leadership. Thank you for your support.
Click here to sign up to donate candy canes
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Spirit Store Holiday Shopping
Submitted by Bridgette Ashbrook
The Spirit Store will be offering some holiday deals, so stop in today to purchase some presents for your favorite Husky or Husky supporter.
We are also open during lunches (10:30 am - 12:30 pm) on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and Friday mornings 6:30 am - 7:15 pm.
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Board Games Needed for Husky Time
Submitted by Laura Rosenbach
Are you cleaning out your closets to get ready for holiday presents? Husky students would appreciate board games for use during Husky Time. Please bring the game (with all the pieces!) to the front office before or after the break and mark it for Husky Time. Thank you for your donations!
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Yearbook Holiday Sale
Submitted by Marcille Nance
Give your students their high school memories for the holidays! Yearbooks will be on sale until December 19th for $75 (tax included). This is the last chance to get your yearbook at the lowest price! Go to the Hough website and purchase your yearbook for this special price through our Online Payment System beginning Wednesday, December 3. For personalized yearbooks and accessories please order online 24/7 at www.jostens.com. If you have questions, please contact Ms. Nance or email us at houghyearbook@gmail.com.
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Mock ACT & PSAT Scores Available on Triumph
Submitted by Amy Baker
All 11th and 9th grade students who took the Mock ACT and Mock PSAT on October 6th and October 15th are now available on Triumph Learning. Students can access their scores by clicking on the appropriate study guide in Triumph. Students will be able to see a detail report of how well they did for each section of the test, review specific skills, take practice quizzes and use study guides to learn more about the test.
Please click here for more detailed instructions.
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Yearlong Midterms: January 7-12
4 x 4 Finals: January 13-16
Submitted by Amy Baker
Please note the following dates:
Yearlong Midterms will be given January 7-12.
4 x 4 finals will be given January 13-16. Since EOCs/NC Finals are given during this time, students cannot be dismissed early. Please do not plan on student being dismissed prior to 12:30 pm.
More information regarding exams will be given after the break.
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Proctors Needed For EOCs and NC Final Exams
January 13-16
Submitted by Amy Baker and Lisa Estrada
As the end of the second quarter nears, we once again are prevailing upon the good will of our parent and community volunteers to assist with proctoring the EOC and final exams for our students. Whether it is for one or more days, any commitment on your part toward helping us monitor the tests would be greatly appreciated. Unlike previous years, proctor volunteers will not be required to do on-site training prior to their volunteering in the classroom. You will however need to be registered as an approved CMS volunteer to participate. If you would be willing to cheerfully give of your time, please visit the Sign-up Genius link below.
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b054aafab23a02-proctors1
You will receive a follow-up email from Amy Baker or Lisa Estrada with your required proctor reading materials for the big day. We thank you in advance for all your support!
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Bailey's Glen Gala
Auction Donations Requested
Submitted by Dean of Students Jessica Savage
We have exciting news about Hough's partnership with residents in the Bailey's Glen community. A Silent and Live Auction Gala is planned for January 22, 2015. You can help support the Partnership's goals by assisting with securing goods, services or financial donations for the auction. 
The Bailey's Glen-Hough High School Partnership has two primary functions. Bailey's Glen residents provide financial and volunteer assistance to enhance the educational process for students and offer mini-grants for teachers. In return, Hough students and staff provide educational and entertainment activities for Bailey's Glen residents.
If you have contacts with businesses in the Hough area or have items or services to donate, please contact Jessica Savage via email at jessica.savage@cms.k12.nc.us or by phone at 980-344-0514. Together we can make a difference.
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PSAT/PLAN Night
Auditorium
Thursday, January 22 at 6 pm
Please join us in the auditorium to understand and gain insight from your student's scores (still pending) from the PSAT that the 10th and 11th graders took in October and the PLAN that the 10th graders took in October in order to prepare for future tests and college admissions.
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Counselors Corner
Juniors - Sign up for meeting in Student Services
Submitted by Jeanette Hummel and Daina Woullard
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ATTENTION JUNIORS!!!
We began Junior Meetings on Monday, December 8. Current Juniors can stop by Student Services to sign up for a time to meet with their School Counselor. Junior meetings are mandatory and an opportunity to discuss future courses and planning for the senior year.
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***Join the 2014-15 Hough HS Scholarship Remind 101 group for scholarship updates sent straight to your phone!!(standard text messaging rates may apply) To join, send a text to (336) 383-1191 with the message @houghs Or visit: https://remind.com/join/houghs
****Please visit the Student Services website often to keep up with the latest information on the above topics, scholarships and other news and opportunities.****
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| **Seniors--Don't Delay--Join the PTSA Today for Scholarship Competition Eligibility!**
Submitted by Stacey Anderson and Wendi Amos
The Hough PTSA will award a total of $5,000 in college scholarships to eligible seniors based upon demonstrated community involvement and leadership. Students must be paid Hough PTSA members by Feb. 18th to compete. Please turn in PTSA membership forms along with $6 annual dues to a secretary in the front office for placement directly in the PTSA mailbox.
Click here for PTSA membership form
Additional scholarship eligibility requirements and competition applications will be available in the coming months. Scholarships may be used at either a two or four year college of the recipient's choosing. Scholarship applications will be due to Lisa Estrada in Student Services by Thursday, April 2nd at 2:15 p.m. Local community leaders and scholarship committee members will select winners for recognition at the end-of-year Awards Night.
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Attention all families with businesses:
Help our staff and students go beyond great by donating to Hough PTSA as a corporate sponsor. We have many levels to choose from. Here is a link to our corporate sponsor form for your consideration.
Corporate Sponsor Form
The Hough PTSA needs almost $30,000 to meet our school's technology and academic support requests for this year plus continue to fund programs such as the PTSA Scholarships, Graduation Project Judging, the Homecoming Parade, the PowderPuff Football Game, teacher appreciation events, beautification efforts (picnic tables!) and many other activities that you can learn about here.
If you have any questions, please contact Corporate Sponsor Charperson Maxine Williams at MaxineWilliams5@gmail.com.
As a business owner, please consider supporting Hough PTSA. Donations to Hough PTSA are 100% tax deductible!
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Thank you to all who donated to the Cookie Walk
Submitted by Misty Davis
Thank you to everyone who donated items for the cookie walk on Monday. This wouldn't be possible without all of you and your kindness and generosity.
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 Re-link your VIC Card to Hough Organizations Today!
Re-link as we go into the holiday season!!!
Submitted by PTSA VP Fundraising, Amy Mory
Who does their grocery shopping at Harris Teeter? With all the Harris Teeter locations, we would think many of you shop there. However, not all of you have linked your Harris Teeter VIC card. We have approximately 1000 plus families at Hough and there are only 399 cards linked at this point and have earned over $697 so far. It is so easy to link your card....just tell the cashier when you are checking out that you would like your card linked to the Hough PTSA. They should have the number, but here it is just in case: 8376. Linking your card will not affect what you pay for your items nor will it charge you a fee. Harris Teeter simply donates a portions of sales to us through their Together In Education program. And if you have kids at other school (or in booster clubs at Hough), you can split the donations up to five ways, so please include the Hough PTSA #8376.
Thank you for your time and support of Hough High School!
Harris Teeter's Together In Education program is a fund raising program for schools in our community. When customers purchase select Harris Teeter Brand products using their VIC card, Harris Teeter contributes a percentage of those purchase dollars to the schools of their choice. In addition, a percentage of each prescription filled in a Harris Teeter pharmacy will be donated as well. Customers must have their VIC card linked to a TIE school in order to participate. We need your support! This is a painless way for us to raise needed funds.
You must re-link each year!
Please consider linking your Harris Teeter VIC Card to the following Hough organizations:
PTSA # 8376
Husky Athletic Club # 8348
Band # 8414
JROTC # 8368
Chorus # 2072
There are several ways to re-link your VIC card:
· click on this link Harris Teeter Together in Education
· Customer Service desk
· At the checkout counter
· Call 1-800-432-6111 (number located on the back of your VIC card)
You can link up to 5 organizations/schools (funds will be divided equally).
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Link your Target Red Card to Hough
*This program runs year-round so you do not need to re-link yearly*
Hough is linked to Target's Together in Education program! Enroll today and Target will donate a percentage of each REDcard purchase you make to our school!(Only one school can be selected.) Call 1-800-316-6142, visit Target.com/tcoe or an in-store kiosk to sign up and designate Hough as your school today! No need to re-link each year!
Click here to find out more about this program and to link your REDcard to Hough
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Earn while your children learn!
Substitute cafeteria workers needed
in North area schools
Submitted by Hough Cafeteria Manager Jennifer Maskulyak
Apply at
Jennifer's temps
1973 J.N. Pease Place - Suite 202
Charlotte, NC 28262
Hours: M-F: 8:00am - 5:00pm
P: 704-510-1556 / F: 704-510-2053
E: jobs@jennifertemps.com
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Hough Graduation Dates
Mid-year graduation will take place as follows:
Monday, February 2
4:30 pm
Bojangles' Coliseum
2700 East Independence Boulevard, Charlotte
End-of-year graduation will take place as follows:
Monday, June 15th
4:00 pm
Time Warner Cable Arena
333 E Trade Street, Charlotte
***Seniors and Senior Parents, please mark your applicable graduation date on your calendar. Please note that there will be a mandatory rehearsal before graduation. As soon as we are advised of that date and time, we will communicate it. Thank you.
All CMS High Schools 2014-15 Mid-Year Graduation Schedule
All CMS High Schools 2014-15 End-of-Year Graduation Schedule
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Hough Howler Submissions
Next Deadline: January 1 Noon
Deadlines for Articles This Year
The Hough Howler is the electronic newsletter compiled by the Hough PTSA that communicates the most current Hough High School News and and information. We encourage all Hough staff members, booster clubs and Hough student clubs to provide us information to publicize to the over 2300 Howler e-mail subscribers in the Hough community. Articles must be specific to Hough, Hough PTSA, Husky Athletic Club, other Hough clubs/organizations or CMS specific/principal approved.
Deadlines: During the school year, there are two deadlines a month for articles - the 1st and 15th of each month (except for April due to Spring Break) at NOON. During the summer months, the Howler has less frequent deadlines. Please pay attention to these deadlines as sometimes that date is on a weekend or during a holiday. If there is something urgent that needs to go out, the Howler will be distributed on a more frequent basis at the Editor's discretion. The Howler may be distributed within a few days past the deadline, so please submit your articles on time, or even better, early! Thank you for your cooperation.
Next Howler Deadline: January 1 Noon
Future Howler Deadlines for 2014-2015:
January 15, February 1, February 15,
March 1, March 15, April 15, May 1, May 15, June 1,
Summer Editions: July 1, August 1.
Requirements for submssions: Articles should be typed in Arial 11 font; if you want a picture included, please indicate placement within text and submit a separate jpg file. If you want to link to a document or flyer, please send fllyer or document as a pdf file. If you want it as an image in the article, please send as a jpg file. Editor reserves the right to edit articles.
Submit articles to Linda Petry, Hough PTSA President and Howler Editor at LPetry@mindspring.com.
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Hough Social Media
Check us out on Twitter!
Twitter Accounts that all Hough Students/Parents/Staff should follow
@CMS_WAHoughHS (Hough administration)
@HoughHighNews (Hough High News - student leadership)
@HoughAthletics (Hough HS Athletics)
@ClubHusky (Husky Athletics Club)
@HuskyAthleticClub (Husky Athletic Club)
@HoughGuidance (Student Services aka Guidance)
@CharMeckSchools (Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools)
Hough Departments
@HoughHSBand (Bands)
@HoughOrchestra (Orchestra)
@WAHoughSingers (Chorus)
@HoughMarketing (Marketing)
@HuskiesHough (Hough High JROTC)
@HoughTheatre (Hough Theatre)
Hough Clubs/Organizations
@houghDECA (DECA)
@HoughHighNHS (Hough High NHS - National Honor Society)
@HoughMath (Hough Mu Alpha Theta - National Math Honor Society)
@HoughHistory (Hough Rho Kappa - National History Honor Society)
@HHS_worldclub (Hough International Club)
@HoughHistory (Hough Rho Kappa - National History Honor Society)
@pinpointhough (Pinpoint-Hough - online student newspaper)
@houghjadvisory (Junior Advisory)
@SophAdvis (Sophomore Advisory)
@HoughYearbook (Hough Yearbook)
@HoughMarketing (Hough Marketing)
@HoughHeARTClub (Hough HeART Club)
Hough Athletic Teams
@Hough_Cheer (cheer)
@HoughSoccer (soccer)
@HoughFB (football)
@HoughRunners (cross country, indoor track & outdoor track)
@swimcoachtim (Waterdog - swimming)
@houghwrestling (wrestling)
@houghbaseball (baseball)
@HoughRugby (club rugby)
*We know that Hough sports teams and clubs have Twitter accounts. Please send an email to LPetry@mindspring.com so that we can keep a list of all Hough accounts and send out in future Howlers for easy reference.
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Hough Students, now is the time to learn the
William A. Hough High School Alma Mater
We hail thee Alma Mater
our voices let us raise.
 Alma Mater |
With Husky pride and honor
we sing now full of praise.
To remember lasting moments
our friendships never will fade.
Hough High, march on forever
victorious all our days.
Want to print a copy and share with your friends to help you sing?
Click here. Come on Hough, let's start a new tradition and show our school spirit after Hough sporting events. Please watch the video to learn the Alma Mater.
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