Dragon Connection - Thursday 02/10/16

Good morning,DynamicDragon Scholars.

Pleasestand for the moment of silence.(pause for 5 seconds)

Teachers, please verify that all students are in dress Code and check that students have on their ID’s. If they are NOT wearing their ID’s please send them to the nearest AP Office.

And now for the Pledges:

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, One Nation under God, Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for ALL.

And now the Texas Flag.

Honor the Texas Flag. I pledge Allegiance to Thee, Texas, One State under God, One and Indivisible.

Please be seated.

Today is Thursday, February 11 2016

It is also National Make a Friend Day (so meet someone new) and National Inventor’s Day… In 1847, Thomas Edison, made the light bulb, phonograph, and many other things was BORN.

It is also HEART HEALTHY MONTH!

Continue to Wear RED Every TUESDAYto honor those who suffer and who have died from heart disease.

Happy 300th birthday, Nacogdoches

(** Get excited and say…..)! Happy 111th Birthday, Nacogdoches ISD

Mr. Chris Hancock recounts the beginning of the Lady Dragon Soccer Team.

Probably the most recent girl’s sport added to NHS’s athletic’s program is girls’ soccer. According to Chris Hancock, the Father of a member on the first team,

I started working as a dad/coach in the Nacogdoches Youth Soccer Association in the early 90’s. My daughter, Jenny, was one of 2-3 girls who played on mostly boys teams. In 1995, there were enough 10 year-old girls playing that we started a couple of all girls teams and began to play in tournaments around East Texas. About the same time, the parents of some older girls, including Dr. Lyle and Pam Thorstenson, joined with my wife, Cindy, and me and others to start encouraging the NISD to start a girls soccer program at the high school. We met several times with more than one athletic director until the district agreed to start a program in the late 90’s. To this day, I’m convinced the district didn’t believe they would have to suffer us long because the numbers of girls wanting to play would be too low. That was not the case. Sharon Finley was the first NHS Girls Soccer Coach and coached through 1999.

Coincidental with the start of the high school program, a former SFA women’s soccer player, GariNolder, came aboard to coach our NYSA girls team and the girls began going to more and more tournaments and having success. The team travelled to tournaments in Panama Beach, FL and to Disney World to help bring attention to girls soccer. Some of the girls eventually joined club teams in the area and beyond. Jenny played for the Solar Soccer Club in Plano, Texas and competed in and won the 2001 U-16 Girls Division of the WAGS Tournament, the premier girls tournament held annually in Maryland. For the most part, however, the NYSA team stayed together until the girls graduated from high school in 2003. In 2000, when most of the girls from the NYSA team entered high school, Coach Finley stepped down and Coach Nolder was hired as coach at the high school. During that first season under Coach Nolder, 9 freshmen started or played major roles on the high school team. In the district opener, the Lady Dragons hosted a perennial playoff team in the Longview Lady Lobos, a team that had never lost to a Lady Dragon team. On that cold January night, the Lady Dragons scored two late goals to win the match and send a message to the rest of the district. That Lady Dragon team went to the playoffs, a first for the program, and the NHS girls soccer team would become a regular participant in post season play under Coach Nolder (her name became Gari Dial when she married early in her long tenure at NHS.)

Thanks to the persistence of these girls and their parents, girls soccer is yet another successful athletic opportunity for NHS girls to join.

Do you need a VALENTINE GIFT? There is a basket displayed in the 300 hallway by Mrs. Dicks Classroom, which includes: Gift cards to chick fil a, newks, bath and body works, sonic, nails 2000, Candy, a Candle, AND much MORE!

Tickets are $5; contact any HOSA member or Mrs Smith in Room 312 to get your tickets. The drawing will be held on Friday, Feb 12th

** Remember Valentine’s Day is this Sunday – get your mama somethin’.

Seniors – Listen Up…..

1)The Scholarship Notebook and scholarship applications are now housed in the GO Center. See Ms. Giddens for scholarship applications. Deadlines for many are approaching quickly!

2)Turn in ALL of your scholarship offer letters to Mrs.Theiss or Ms. Allbeeto be recognized at the Scholarship Assembly on Tuesday, May 24.

3)the Nacogdoches ATPE Scholarship & theSFA Smith-Hutson Scholarship application is due Feb 26

4)If you need your meningitis booster shot for college please come see Nurse Stewart TODAY!

YEARBOOKS are ONSALE NOW! Go to TREERING.COM to order. They are ONLY $37 softbound or $43 hardbound AND YOU get to design your OWN TWO PAGES! See the bulletin boards and StuCo NHS Facebook page for the Passcode! Cool kids buy yearbooks!

Apply for The Texas School Safety Center 2016 Youth Preparedness Camp, June 12 – 16, 2016 at Texas State University in San Marcos, TXby April 29, 2016. Visit the TxSSC Youth Preparedness webpage.

NHS Alumni Scholarship Applications are due March 3rd.

Sophomore & Junior girls, check out the SUMMER 2016 programs at Barnard College in New York City. Go to Barnard, as one of the top ten colleges for dance in the U.S., offers classes with the Alvin Ailey Dance School and more.

SOC membership is now open! To join, go by room 223, get an info sheet, & pay $10 dues by February 22nd.

Get involved on campus… Thursday CLUB meetings are:

A Lunch-Cosmetology-314, Coffee Shop-205, FCCLA-316, FCA-610

B Lunch-National Math Honor Society-203, UIL Biology-209, UIL Chemistry-212, UIL Physics-219, Automotive club-412

If you are interested in Military Service, see Mrs. Giddens to sign up for the ASVAB test. Anybody can take it!

And now for our Braggin’ Dragon…

Swim Team:

Congratulations to the swim team for placing 2nd at Regionals!

Congrats to Jesse Stovall for winning the 50 free and qualifying for state.

Also Congratulations to the Boys 200 Medley Relay - Luke Stanley, Gunnar Smith, Davis Pierce, and Dean LaMont for also qualifying for state!

Men’s Soccer:

NHS Men's soccer won both of their games against Lindale. JV won 3-0. Varsity won 3-1. Led by keeper Manuel Castellanos and good games from Juan Acosta, Juan Tapia and Andres Cruz. NHS now has a record of 3-1 in district. Please come and support as NHS Men’s soccer play John Tyler on Friday at 7 pm.

Passcode is 1014247040372524.