April 19, 2016


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Free Fajita Fest & Volunteer Celebration 
Celebrate a great year with other Rhino families

It's time to celebrate the entire CVHS family (and WOW do we have a reason to celebrate, as you'll read below)! Please join us at the April general meeting THIS THURSDAY, April 21 at 6:30 p.m.  he program will include PTO elections, volunteer appreciation, exciting PTO plans for the coming year and a special presentation on the school budget from Mr. Moss.   
 
Please sign up so we know how much food to buy.  We will buy food for the number signed up.  
 
Sign up here.  For further information contact Sarah Bittner at volunteers@cvhspto.org.  

 
Carnegie makes the Top 10 (again) 

U.S. News and World Report, in their annual rankings of the nation's best high schools, has named  Carnegie as the 10th best school in the country for the second year running.

The U.S. News & World Report rankings are designed to identify great high schools that serve all students - no matter their socioeconomic status, and graduation rates were also included as a factor in the rankings for the first time.

Carnegie also was named No. 4 on USNWR's Best Magnet School list, was the third highest-ranked school in Texas, and the best in Houston. HISD placed four schools in the Top 100, the only Houston area school district to do so. Our friends at DeBakey High School for the Health Professions also scored well, finishing at 29th on the overall list, while Eastwood Academy was 50th and Challenge Early College 78th.

Congratulations to the entire Rhino community, but most especially our students, as well as the faculty, staff and Mr. Moss for making Carnegie into what it is, the best high school in Houston!



 
B-I-N-G-O

Bingo Night will be at everyone's favorite Cafegymnatorium at the school on Saturday, April 30, from 5:30-8 p.m. We'll have plenty of great prizes and surprises. Dinner will be available from some of Houston's favorite food trucks.

All Carnegie students, family members and friends are invited to participate. Grab some friends and bring them to a great night in support of the best school in town!

If you'd like to volunteer for a short shift at Bingo Night, please sign up HERE.

RSVP would be greatly appreciated for food and drink sales planning. Send RSVP "yes" and number of attendees to fundraising chair Mark Levine at mlevine@wkpz.com.
 
Come out to support UIL Theatre
CVHS advances to Regionals 

CVHS Theatre has advanced to Regionals in the UIL One Act Play competition.  Please come out and support our Rhinos as they present their fantastic work on the play "Holy Day."

The Regional Competition will be held at San Jacinto College Central, 8060 Spencer Hwy. in Pasadena (map here) this Saturday, April 23, starting at 12:30 p.m.  

The order of program is as follows:
Katy High School: "Radium Girls"
Carver: "To Be Young, Gifted and Black"
Carnegie Vanguard: "Holy Day" (arrive by 2 to be seated!)
Friendswood: "Grapes of Wrath"
Dobie: "Asohi"
Deer Park: "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"
 
Rhinos helping others

Thank you to all of our famlies who donated travel size toiletries and hotel shampoos after Winter break! Ms. Schmidt was able to drop off these items at the Women's Shelter and Catholic Charities, and they were very appreciative. 

Ms. Schmidt will continue to collect these items on an on-going basis, so please keep her in mind as you accumulate hotel toiletries on your travels!
PTO Corporate Giving Campaign

The PTO is establishing a committee to develop and implement a strategy for Carnegie's future through a corporate giving campaign. 

We invite anyone interested in participating to contact Mark Levine, PTO VP of Fundraising, at mlevine@wkpz.com

Friends and Family Campaign Donors

THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS DONORS

We'd like to take a moment to thank so many members of our community for their support of our Friends and Family Campaign.    This years campaign is raising money for a covered outdoor pavilion in the CVHS courtyard.  This will be a beautiful and functional addition to our existing amphitheater, and will allow us to use the space in more ways.

This effort is spearheaded by CVHS parents Kevin McCarthy and Brent Nyquist, and we are grateful to them for the generous donation of their time and talents.

Our Friends and Family Campaign goal for the 2015-2016 school year is $40,000.    Together we have raised nearly $27,000 to date.   Please consider a tax-deductible donation to the CVHS PTO.


THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS DONORS

Carnegie Champions
Kevin McCarthy
Brent and Sarah Nyquist
Madhavi and Darshan Anandu
Laurel Agris and Steve Cole
Yu Yuan Chen and Hong Ngo
The Jiang Family
Ramon Moss
The Redding Family
Jeffrey and Elizabeth Spike
John and Denise Stoneburner
The York Family
 
Principal's Circle
Joan and Deepak Khosla
Maneesha Sharma and Manoj Devashish
Jim and Lou Ann Taylor

Courtyard Cadre
The Bailey Family
The Clavijo Family
Laura Dew and Paul Revilla
The Hussein Family
Kilby Hoskins and Paolo Passaro
Patrick and Katie Hwu
Caroline and David Quenemoen
Joyce and Steve Sandweiss
Lundin and Teresa Schneider
The Singh Family
Craig Vollmers and Katherine Timmins-Vollmers
 
Balcony Bunch
Sarah and Eric Bittner
The Ciura Family
Kansara and Rupal Dushyant
The Greenberg Family
Hilda and Brian Hendrix
Rohit Kawathekar and Gouri Kulkami
Andrew and Maria Keene
The Leeds Family
Allison and Mark Levine
The Ma Family
Goroh and Jo Ann Numata
The Odegard Family
The Bruce Smith Family
Joan and Drake Terrell
The Tetzlaff Family
Maria and Theodore Yang

Green Roof Gang
Erin and Martin Brau
John and Anne Cheek
Thu Hang Dao-Jeanjean
Lynne and Roger Goddard
Robert and Julie Goodfriend
Theresa Gregory and Martin Hajovsky
The Hilder Family
Yoginder and Anshu Kak
Lawler-Kelly Family
Dianne and Jack Lawter
The Maislin Family
Allison McLean
Susana Monteverde and William Grimsinger
Colleen Morris and Douglas Coleman
The Parris Family
The Patterson Family
Heather and Ari Purcell
The Registe Family
The Rice Family
Kirk and Bay Rummel
The Savage Family
The Sezin Family
Beth Ann Volz
Catherine and Patrick Waites
Cathy and Ronnie Winter
Jun Yun and Yaquin Bao
Upcoming Events
 
April 19
Early Dismissal, 1:30 p.m.
 
April 21
Fajita Fiesta and Volunteer Celebration 6:30 p.m.

April 23 
Senior Prom

April 30
B I N G O Fundraiser, 5:30-8 p.m.

May 2-13 
On-campus AP testing