November 1999 News Archive
Friday, November 19, 1999
District Students Ace MC4
Students from the Santa Barbara Elementary and High School Districts had a strong showing at the October 30, 1999 MC4 Math Contest held at Lompoc High School. This annual contest, sponsored by the Mathematics Council-Central California Coast, is in its 29th year. The competition, open to all schools in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, is geared to students in grades 5-12.
This year, 183 students participated. Schools are allowed to enter a team consisting of two students from each grade level. Each student takes an individual test. Students who receive first-, second- or third-place recognition are awarded a wood plaque. The individual scores are added together to determine a team score. Teams are recognized with a Certificate of Achievement.
Students from the Santa Barbara Elementary and High School Districts were recognized in the top three places in almost every grade level in both the individual and the team competitions:
Team Competition
Grades 5/6:
- First Place, Peabody Charter team members Sean Barnwell, Ryan Feeney, Emilio Maglione-Fulco, Tristan Roberts.
Grades 7/8:
- First Place (tie with a team from Laguna Middle School), Goleta Valley Junior High team members Michael Chung, Claire Monroy, Steven Polchinski, Joshua Schwartz.
- Second Place, La Colina Junior High team members Peter Devore, Eric Lauritsen, Thomas Myers, Katie Simon.
- Third Place (tie with a team from Paulding Middle School), Santa Barbara Junior High team members Siobhan Doherty, Morganne Suding, J.B. Vasquez, Zev Weiss.
Grades 9/10:
- First Place, Santa Barbara High School team members Brendan Barnwell, Matt James, Sarah Lansing, Joey Romeo.
- Second Place, Dos Pueblos High School team members Julia Forgie, Erin Gaines, Ilana Goldfam, Huei-Chyun Luh.
Grades 11/12:
- First Place, Dos Pueblos team members Aurora Burd, Michelle Lee, Andy Lin, Jacob Nicoll-Stoltzfus.
- Third Place, San Marcos High team members Jason Finney, Andrew Hudson, Ben Hurst, Amber Norling.
Individual Competition
Grade 5:
- First Place (tie with a student from Cold Spring Elementary), Emilio Maglione-Fulco, Peabody Charter.
Grade 6:
- First Place tie, Ben Bastomski, Washington and Ryan Feeney, Peabody Charter.
- Second Place (three-way tie with students from Ocean View and Teach Elementary), Sean Barnwell, Peabody Charter.
Grade 7:
- Second Place (five-way tie with students from Los Osos Middle, Judkins Middle, Laguna Middle), Claire Monroy, Goleta Valley Junior High; Zev Weiss, Santa Barbara Junior High.
Grade 8:
- First Place, Steven Polchinski, Goleta Valley Junior High.
- Second Place, Michael Chung, Goleta Valley Junior High.
- Third Place (four-way tie with students from Laguna Middle), Peter Devore and Katie Simon, La Colina Junior High.
Grade 12:
- First Place, Ryan Blum, Santa Barbara High.
- Third Place, Jacob Nicoll-Stoltzfus, Dos Pueblos High.
Advanced Placement Exam Results
The College Board, located in New York City, recently identified 83 Santa Barbara High School District students who earned 1999 Advanced Placement Scholar Awards. The awards are based on exceptional academic performance in rigorous Advanced Placement examinations.
Last spring, approximately 685,981 students from throughout the United States took the 1999 Advanced Placement (AP) examinations. The exams are graded on a five-point scale. A score of 3 or higher indicates a mastery of subject. The Advanced Placement levels of recognition (and the number of District students receiving said level of recognition in 1999) are as follows:
- AP National Scholar (one student), granted to students who receive grades of 4 or higher on eight or more AP exams;
- AP Scholar with Distinction (14 students), granted to students who receive grades of 3 or higher on five or more AP exams;
- AP Scholar with Honors (14 students), granted to students who receive grades of 3 or higher on four or more AP exams;
- AP Scholar (54 students), granted to students who receive grades of 3 or higher on three or more AP exams.
The Advanced Placement Scholar Award winners, listed below, are recognized with a certificate. Also, the achievement is listed on transcripts that are sent to colleges.
DOS PUEBLOS HIGH SCHOOL
- AP National Scholar: Amy Lamboley.
- AP Scholar with Distinction: Matthew Baker, Kevin Gin, Luke Janes, Amy Lamboley, Katherine Marquart.
- AP Scholar with Honors: Anna Forgie.
- AP Scholar: Zachary Bruce, Ariel Curtin, Tyler Fredrickson, Jamie Freed, Noah Gaines, Laura Gelberg, James Hogg, Vanessa Jackson, Alena Kitson, Daniel Kliman, Tanya Koshy, Joshua Kovacs, Jennifer Marshall, Jason Olin, Jonathan Osgood, Ariel Shapiro, Brandon Sloane, Wen Wang, Thomas Wu.
SAN MARCOS HIGH SCHOOL
- AP Scholar with Distinction: David Devore, Carolyn Dusell, Miriam Inbar, David Major, Brian Raffetto, Peter Schroeter, Diana Schwyzer, Kenneth Vampola.
- AP Scholar with Honors: Paul Allyn, Benjamin Arnold, Mary Daniel, Seanna Gittler, Janessa Karawan, Emily Rouhas.
- AP Scholar: Kimberly Allyn, Aimee Avila, Thomas Burrow, Vanessa Caruso, Jordana Chavin, John Diskant, Danielle Drewisch, Timothy Gillette, Daniel Grace, Jerilyn Holcombe, Rustum Jacob, Sean Jordan, Erica King, Eleanor Koh, Shira Kupperman, Jacqueline Kuziej, Olivia Lee, Ashleigh Lemp, Jessica Lengsfelder, Lindsay Merrill, Tiffanie Powell, Colin Sterling, Ann VanBlaricum.
SANTA BARBARA HIGH SCHOOL
- AP Scholar with Distinction: Tobias Warner.
- AP Scholar with Honors: Andrew Fisher, Aaron Lewis, Ian Longstreet, Andrew Lyon, Katherine Pointer, Nema Press, Laura Sickafoose.
- AP Scholar: Ryan Blum, Alessandra Ferzoco, Samuel Hodges, Jevin Kusnitzow, Serena Lehman, Robert Marzio, Vincent Meras-Mata, Robert Owen, Achal Oza, Chad Stephen, Ross Stephens-Watters, Jonathan Wentzel.
San Marcos High’s Performing Arts Department Presents The Enchanted
San Marcos High School Theater Director, David Holmes has joined with French teachers Maureen Mullin and Christian DeClerck to offer a restored version of Jean Giraudoux’s classic, The Enchanted (originally titled Intermezzo).
Written in 1933 and translated in 1949, The Enchanted is a historical play that relies heavily on metaphor to illustrate the political condition of France in its relationship to Germany and the rest of the world in the late 20’s and early 30’s. This play urges the people of France to beware of foreign alliances and unite to strengthen the national from within. Prophetically, in this drama Giraudoux predicts the specter of rising Nazism in Germany.
According to Director David Holmes:
"The Enchanted is a story of a young girl, Isabel, obsessed with the beauty and poetic nature of death and the spirit world. Isabel wants to bring the spirit world back to earth in order to help mankind live a better more fulfilling life. Amidst this seemingly noble cause, Isabel fails to realize the danger she is putting herself and the world into. If she succeeds it will mean the end of the world as we know it. What the powers of government and science fail to do in stopping the spirit world from taking over the earth, a young supervisor of weights and measures accomplishes by revealing the poetry and romanticism that exists in the real world; even the world of a government official. Given the choice between sharing the riddle of death with a young handsome ghost and the riddle of life with a young handsome government official, Isabel must make that choice with the fate of the world in the balance."
The Enchanted will be performed on November 18, 19, 20 at 7:30 p.m. in the San Marcos High School Auditorium, located at 4750 Hollister Avenue. General admission is $8 (seniors and children under 12 = $6). For more information on this production, please call David Holmes at 967-4581 extension 255.
Santa Barbara High School Theater Season Opens with Christopher Durang’s Madcap Parody, A History of American Film
Santa Barbara High School Theater Director Otto Layman and the SBHS Theater Department open the 1999-2000 theater season with a bang when A History of American Film beings a five-performance run on November 12th at 7:00 p.m.
A History of American Film is a musical parody, a madcap take-off on American films of the 1920s to the 1960s. No Hollywood genre (silent film tearjerker, slum idyll, gangster epic, courtroom melodrama, chain-gang social justice thriller, screwball comedy, war propaganda-canteen musical) or major movie (Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Dr. Strangelove, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Psycho, etc.) goes unscathed.
A History of American Film unites a group of local artists who previously brought The Threepenny Opera and The Little Shop of Horrors to Santa Barbara High School. Musical Director David Potter, Choreographer E. Bonnie Lewis, and Set/Light Designer Daniel Girard have joined SBHS Theater Director Otto Layman in creating a showcase for the production’s cast of 25 theater arts students.
Performance dates for A History of American Film are November 12, 13, 19, and 20 at 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, November 14 at 2:00 p.m. Admission is $8.00 for adults and $3.00 for students. Santa Barbara High School is located at 700 E. Anapamu Street.
Old-Fashioned Homecoming Parade Celebrates Santa Barbara High’s 125th Anniversary
(Note: The 10:45 a.m. parade start time and route noted here supersedes the start time and route listed in the press release of 10/14/99)
Santa Barbara High celebrates its 125th anniversary with an old-fashioned homecoming parade on Saturday, November 6th. At 10:45 a.m., an ROTC Color Guard unit will lead a contingent of Dons, representing the students of today and yesteryear.
Current day student groups in the homecoming parade will include the football team, cheerleaders, student government, MECHA, Black Student Union, Junior Statesman of America, and Students Organized Against Prejudice. Several members of the Alumni Association will ride in vintage cars. "Don Juan," a brightly painted, life size, green and gold fiberglass cow, will be an entrant in the 1999-2000 parade. "Don Juan" is a homage to the cow that stands on the rooftop of a restaurant on the corner of Milpas and Canon Perdido Streets, formerly home to a series of dairy operations. According to Principal J.R. Richards, "Don Juan" represents local folklore that goes back to the early 1940s. For years, prior to the homecoming game, the concrete cow that stood atop the Milpas address, was subject to dead-of-night paint jobs. Green and gold were often the colors of choice but, according to Richards, there were years when the cow was painted purple or some other striking color.
The Santa Barbara High School Marching Band and the Alumni Band will provide the cadence for this year’s parade. The parade will begin at the school’s main entrance at 700 E. Anapamu Street and travel west on Anapamu to State Street. The route will continue down State Street, turn east on Ortega to Olive Street, and return to the school by way of Canon Perdido Street.
National Merit Semifinalists and Commended Student
The 2000 National Merit Scholarship Program’s Semifinalists and Commended Students have been announced. Nationally, 16,000 Semifinalists and 34,000 Commended Students were selected from a field of almost 1.2 million students in more than 20,000 U.S. high schools who took the 1998 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
According to Public Information Director Elaine Detweiler of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, "Fewer than one percent of the nation’s high school seniors were designated Semifinalists on a state representational basis." The Semifinalists are seniors who will continue in the competition for some 7,600 Merit Scholarship awards. Only those students who advance to Finalist standing will be eligible for the awards. This year, the Merit Scholarship awards are expected to total more than $28 million. The awards will be announced in the spring.
Commended Students ranked among the top five percent of all students who took the 1998 qualifying test. Local Semifinalists and Commended Students are:
Dos Pueblos High School – Semifinalists:
- Amanda Braun
- Brian Farris
- James Hogg
- Benjamin Howard
- Daniel Kliman
- Jacob Nicoll-Stotzfus
- Sarah Solter
- Allie Umof
Commended Students: Ryan Ausankacrues, Jody Biergiel, Nicole Biergiel, Sara Dorman, Holly Green, Walter Hecht, Vanessa Jackson, Katherine Jochim, Michelle Kalisher, Joshua Kovacs, Michelle Lee, Whitney Micheel, Caroline Peyton, Kate Radon, Nicole Riggs, Rachel Schwartz, Joshua Wiener.
San Marcos High School – Semifinalists:
- Noah Barron
- Seanna Gittler
- Benjamin Hurst
- Jessica Lengsfelder
Commended Students: Paul Allyn, Andrew Hudson, Ashleigh Lemp, Nicholas Pazich.
Santa Barbara High School
Commended Students: Ryan Blum, Katharine Buford, Adriane Gamble, Samuel Hodges, Day Kornbluth.