Daily Announcements
March 26th, 2015
Athletics
Soccer
Thursday March 26th, @ 7:00pm - Mens Varsity Eagles play LBJ @ Nelson Field
Friday March 27th, @ 7:00pm- Lady Varsity Eagles play Bastrop @ GHS Stadium
Congrats to the Men & Ladies Soccer Teams who both have Play-off games starting this week! Come out and support GHS Eagle Soccer!!!
Class of 2015
Herff Jones will be on campus on Tuesday April 7th, to deliver graduation announcements. They will be set up in the GHS cafeteria during all lunches.
Tickets for the senior prom are now on sale at Eagle Mart! The cost is now $40, and if you wait to buy your Prom Ticket on April 11, it will cost $50.00!!!
Class of 2016
There will be a Class of 2016 (junior class) parent meeting to discuss prom and project graduation on Tuesday, March 31 at 6:30pm in the GHS Library.
Clubs and Organizations
Weekly/Monthly Events for Clubs & Organizations
Club/Org / Sponsor / Location / Day / TimeArt / Nickels / Room 501 / Every Wednesday / 3:45pm
Auto Tech / Wall / Auto Tech bldg. / 1st Tuesday of each month / 8:00am
Book Club / Collman / Room 175 / 3:50pm
BPA / Gardea / Room 201 / Every Tuesday / 8:00am
Catherine’s Corner / Ross / Room 872 / Every Tuesday / 8:15am
Diamond Darlings / Kennedy / Room 512 / 8:00am
Drama / Regan / Little Theater / Mon. – Thurs. / 4-6pm
Disc Golf / Brown, M / Room 508 / 1st & 3rd Fridays each month / 8:00am
Engineering / McMillin / Room 843 / Wednesday – every other week / 4-5pm
FCA / Farst / Annex Gym / Every other Monday / 6:45pm
FCCLA / Gilly / Annex lab kitchen / 3:45
FFA / Boff / Room 212 / 2nd Tuesday of each month / 8:00am
GSA / Parkhurst / Nurse’s Office / Every Wednesday / 4-5pm
Gridiron Girls / Scott / Room 312 / Every Wednesday / 8:15am
HOSA / Mallard / Room 218/213 / Every Friday / 8:00am
Interact / Carr / Room 507 / 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of each month / 8:10am
International Spanish Club / Luna / Room 861 / April 10th / 8:05am
Lacrosse - Boys / Conrad, S / Annex Fields & EVHS / Thurs @ Annex
Mon. & Tues. @EVHS / 4-6pm
6:30-8:30pm
Lacrosse - Girls / Conrad, S / Annex Field / Monday, Tuesday & Thursday / 4:15-6:15pm
The Locker / Villanueva / Room 162 / Every Wednesday / 3:45pm
Mu Alpha Theta / Hise, C / Room 500 / 3:50pm
NHS / Michalek / Lecture Hall / 8:10 or 4:00
No Place for Hate / Hesson, S / Room 221 / 8:00am
NJROTC / Gusman / NJROTC Conf. Room / Every Friday / 8:00am
Robotics Club / Maspero / Room 148 / Every Wednesday / 4:00 – 5:00pm
Serteens / Powell / Room 152 / Wednesday
Thursday / 4-5pm
8:15am
Skills USA / Dickinson / Room 208A / Last week of each month / 8:10am
Soccer Sweethearts/Studs / Lucroy / Room 153
The Cause Club / Travis / Library / Every Thursday / 8:00am
Young Conservatives / Austin / Room 184 / 1st Tuesday of each month / 8:00am
Eagle Happenings
The first public performance of this year’s One Act Play, and only for this week, will be this Wednesday March 25th in the PAC at 6:30 pm. We will compete this Saturday at 3pm at Dripping Springs High School. Please take one of these opportunities to come support the students. They have spent many hours to put this together. This Wednesday’s performance is free, but we will be taking donations for the Alzheimer’s Society. There will be an admission charge for Saturday’s contest. Thank you for all your support.
Girls State
Congratulations to JoAn Collins and Abigail Hays for being selected to attend Girls State.
Jack Frost Citizen of the Month
The Jack Frost Citizen of the Month Committee is proud to announce the March winners,Anna Zimmerman and Nathan Wyman. Anna and Nathan will be recognized at the March school board meeting March 23rd and will have a breakfast in their honor in April.
Way to represent some of the best of GHS!
Project Graduation
Project Graduation will be meeting on Tuesday, March 31st, at 6:30 in the GHS Lecture Hall. We need parents to get involved with the planning, volunteering the night of project graduation and ask that each Senior family make a donation of at least $25.00. We need Senior parents to get involved to make GHS Project Graduation 2015 a success!
If you have any questions or would like more information about Project Graduation please send an email to
Donations can be made on our website www.ghsprojectgrad.com or by mail PO Box 1794 Georgetown, TX 78627.
PTSA
GHS PTSA Brick Pavers are now on sale! Order NOW before it's too late.
Space is limited this year, so send in your order early before we are sold out; this could be your last opportunity to purchase. Order a brick in honor or memory of a loved one, brag about yourself, purchase agift for a graduating senior, show your support for your favorite teacher or just mark your place in GHS history.
Brick pavers are located outside the school in front of the GHS library, just left of the main entrance. Follow this link for order forms. http://www.gthsptsa.org/brick-pavers.html
Scholarship Information
Local Scholarship Deadlines:
Professional Women of Williamson County- postmark deadline Tuesday March 24, 2015
Georgetown Area Republican Women – deadline to turn in applications (Annex Office or College and Career Center Rm 118) Wednesday March 25, 2015
Fri March 27th - Chaparral Women’s Club, Frost Elementary Student Council, Georgetown Area Car Club, San Gabriel Women’s Club, Village Elementary Student Council, and McCoy Elementary Student Council.
Local Scholarship Information:
Seniors, local scholarship applications are now available in the Annex Office and the College and Career Center in Rm. 118. Applications are now available for download from the GHS website under the Scholarships quick link. Email completed applications to Ms. Charpentier at or return to the Annex Office. UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED ON THE APPLICATION, all applications are due no later than March 31, 2015.
Soaring Eagles
Colorguard
A huge congratulations goes out to the GHS Colorguard for their performance and placement at the TCGC East View Competition held on Saturday March 14th. They finished 2nd place in their division. It was an exciting day and performance. The group will next compete at the TCGC Hendrickson Competition held this coming Saturday March 28th. Our performance time is 10:24am, so come on out and support them. This is their last regular season contest before heading to Texas A&M University on April 10th for the Texas Colorguard Circuit State Championships!!!
Golf – Boys
The J.V. Golf Team competed very well in the Teravista Golf Tournament and placed 5th overall. Leading the team in scoring were Freshmen Davis Northcutt and Philip W. Price. Other members of the team were Andy Martin, Cooper Cash, and Owen Kinney
Powerlifting
Congratulation to girl power lifter Baylee Hill for placing in the top ten in the State by taking the 9th spot At the Girls State Powerlifting Championship last weekend in Corpus Christi. This season Baylee has had 3 gold medals, 1 silver, a 3rd place medal at the Girls Regional Championship and Qualified for the State Meet. Great Job Baylee!
Congratulations also to boy power lifters Ty Hill and Aaron Johnson for a winning season. Ty Hill finished the season with 2 gold medal 2 silvers, 1 3rd place medal and an invitation to the boys Regional Championship. Aaron finished the season with 4 gold medals and 1 silver and an invitation to the boys Regional Championship. Great job this season!
Tennis
Congrats to the following Freshman tennis players for bringing home some hardware yesterday at the Freshman Westwood HS tennis tournament.
Elise Flachs: 1st place Girls Singles A Draw Kayla Hart: Consolation Winner A Draw Krista Hall: Consolation Winner B Draw Josie Weirich and Olivia Jacome: 1st Place Girls Doubles A draw Ashton Merkord and Lauren Frias: 2nd Place Girls Doubles A Draw Skylar Epstein and Elsa Hillis: 2nd Place Girls Doubles B Draw Cassidy Creed and Lindsey Hall: consolation Winner Girls Singles B Draw Patrick Simon and Alex Watson: 2nd place Boys Doubles A Draw Corey O'Banon and Philip Lloyd: consolation Winners Boys Doubles A Draw Alex Williams and Daniel Lasen: consolation Winners Boys Doubles B Draw Drew Arnold: 2nd place Boys Singles B Draw Cole Isbell: Consolation Winner Boys Singles B Draw
STAAR Testing
STAAR Testing Announcement:
This is a reminder that we will be administering the ELA 1 and ELA 2 STAAR tests next week.
The ELA 1 test will be Monday March 30th
The ELA 2 test will be Wednesday April 1st
Student’s class numbers will be posted around College and Main near the cafeteria Thursday afternoon and Friday. Please check for your room location prior to Monday morning.
All testing will take place in the ANNEX. If you have classes in the Annex on B days, begin asking your teachers where you will be meeting Monday and Wednesday.
Some IMPORTANT THINGS TO NOTE:
Testers will be required to stay in the testing rooms until 1:30.
All testers will have C lunch.
You may bring clean snacks (ie. No Cheetos, Doritos etc.) and water.
You can bring something to read with the exception of textbooks and electronic devices.
Lunches for Non-Testers:
The remainder of the campus will attend lunches as follows:
Classes North of the Cafeteria will attend A lunch (Areas: CTE, Science, English, Athletics/PE)
Classes South of the Cafeteria will attend B lunch (Areas: Music, Math, Soc. Stu)
Student Council
Attention students wanting to run for Student Council office! Attention 10th and 11th graders wanting to run for next year’s Junior and Senior class office. There is a very important meeting in RM 520, Mr Barber’s room, this Thursday 3/26 at 8:10 or 4:00. Elections will be held on April 8th and 9th.
Student Trainers
Do you like sports? Are you interested in the healthcare field? If so, you may be interested in becoming a member of the student athletic trainer program at Georgetown High School next year. The student trainers work closely with each athletic team at GHS to provide medical coverage at games, practices, and in the training room. As a student trainer you will learn taping and bandaging techniques, emergency care, evaluation of injuries and illnesses, and many other topics in the healthcare field. Applications are now being accepted to become a student trainer for the 2015-2016 school year. You may contact Ms. Mo or Mr. H in the Fieldhouse training room any morning before 8am or immediately after school for more information. Please contact them prior to April 10, 2015.