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PTSA Reflections Winners Advance to State Level Competitions 

Xinzhu Yang, "Beauty".

Each year, the Walton PTSA and its students participate in the Reflections contest sponsored by the National PTA. Reflections encourages students to display their creativity by submitting entries in six categories based on a universal theme. This year's theme was "The world would be a better place if..." Walton's contest was a huge success! Our students submitted over 350 entries to judges at the school level. Of those, 23 were selected to be forwarded to the East Cobb County Council of PTAs (ECCC PTA) to be judged with entries from other local high schools.

13 of those entries were selected by the ECCC PTA for recognition, with 11 of the entries forwarded to the Georgia PTA to be judged at the state level. Here are our winners at the ECCC PTA level:

Jenny Lin,  "Peace in Us"

  9^th Grade:

  Film/Video Production, 1^st  - Elizabeth Herrejon

  Music Composition, 2^nd  - Anushka Shivaram

  Visual Arts, 1^st  - Jenny Lin

  Visual Arts, Honorable Mention - Nitya Tak

  10^th Grade:

  Dance Choreography, 1^st - Caterina Rossie

  Literature, 2^nd  - Sindhu Kannappan

Zehra Rahman,  "Water the World"

11^th Grade:

Literature, 2^nd - Melanie Gelernter

Photography, Honorable Mention - Katherine Lynch

Visual Arts, 2^nd - Xinzhu Yang

12^th Grade:

Music Composition, 1^st - Stephanie Niu

Photography, 1^st  - Peyton Carroll

Visual Arts, 1^st  - Zehra Rahman

Visual Arts, 2^nd  - Carly Kaplan

Winners of the State competition will be announced in early February. Thank you to all the students who participated and the teachers who encouraged participation! And, a special thanks goes to Linda Heinrichs, WHS PTSA Reflections Chair for all the time, energy and enthusiasm she gave to this program!  Thank you for providing a forum to showcase all the wonderfully talented and creative students at Walton!

 

PTSA Volunteers Make a Difference at WHS!

 Six Committees Contribute $100,000 Value/Year

Front Office Volunteers Enjoy Treats!

WHS and the PTSA Board say "Thank You!" to the many PTSA Volunteers who serve at Walton each month!  Volunteers usually work 2 to 2.5 shifts twice per month in the front office, the phone desk, PPO, the Copy Room, the Media Center and during WEB. Chairs Lisa Frits and Natalie Collins oversee 102 front office volunteers who collectively serve 75 hours per week greeting guests, providing information, answering the phone and freeing up the WHS staff to concentrate on their tasks without interruptions. 

Attendance Office Volunteer Chair Cynthia Meyer, Media Center Volunteer Chair Carolyn Cadiou, WEB Volunteer Chair Martha Stevens, Guidance Volunteer Chair Suzanne Lynch and Copy Crew Chair Stacy Wolff agree that their volunteers play a vital role at WHS.  The PPO Volunteers sign students in and out of school for several hours each day.  Media Center, WEB, and Guidance Volunteers monitor students, greet parents and guests and do clerical work for the staff and administration. The Copy Crew acts as an in-house copy service for teachers, processing thousands of copies each week.  All total, these six committees contribute over 4800 volunteer hours each year with a dollar value exceeding $100,000! 

To all these Committee Chairs and volunteers, from the WHS administration, faculty, staff, students and parents, we say, "THANK YOU!"  WHS runs more efficiently, is more welcoming to the community and is a better learning environment for our students because you choose to make a difference and give your time and talents to our school!   

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