Inside Bay Village Schools - Community Edition
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Dr. McGlamery is PTA District 12 Educator of the Year
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Ann Mowery wins PD's Crystal Apple award
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Storybook character visits Westerly Elementary
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BMS students talk with fourth-graders about bullies
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BHS athletes win scholarships to play for colleges and universities
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Student art awards galore!
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Don't miss 42nd Street
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Ballroom Blitz
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BHS students honored for work ethic
Bay High's Holli Boeckman and Kent Killian have the kind of work habits that employers value.
Bay High seniors Holli Boeckman and Kent Killian were honored recently by the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce with its 3rd Annual Work Ethic Award. The students are part of the West Shore Career and Technical District (managed by Lakewood Schools) where the award was created to recognize students developing good work ethics by demonstrating personal accountability, being punctual, working productively with others, balancing time and workload management. These skills are highly sought after by employers in all career fields.
Holli Boeckman is completing West Shore's early childhood/senior citizen program and plans to work in the preschool and daycare field.
Kent Killian has studied electronic technology in the program. He would like to work with electronics or cars.
The awards were presented at the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce luncheon on February 20 at Winterhurst.
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Normandy's Dr. Jim McGlamery is
PTA District 12 Educator of the Year
Dr. Jim McGlamery's dedication to his students, to parents and to the community were all cited in Normandy Elementary PTA's successful nomination of the principal for Ohio PTA District 12 Educator of the Year. Here is just some of their high praise:
"Dr. McGlamery is always providing help and direction for all parent's and children's problems, big and small. . . . [He] not only thinks about how [his students] spend their time in school, but provides many opportunities for after school hours. His amazing ability to make every student and their family feel welcome and valued makes him unique."
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Dr. Jim McGlamery, principal
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Bay High's Ann Mowery
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Bay High physics teacher receives Plain Dealer's Crystal Apple Award
Be sure to check yesterday's Sunday Plain Dealer (Section F, page 7) to read about our own Ann Mowery's selection as a Crystal Apple Award winner. Ann, who teaches physics at Bay High, was nominated by one of her students. Michael Kuper cited her dedication to her subject matter and to her students, as well as the mutual respect with her students and the love they have for her.
The award will be presented to Ann at a dinner hosted by the Plain Dealer in May, but representatives visited her classroom recently during her fourth block AP Physics class for a presentation joined in by her students, Mr. and Mrs. Kuper, school administrators and some of Ann's colleagues.
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Famous story book rabbit, Edward Tulane, visits Westerly Elementary
Third-graders at Westerly Elementary School in Bay Village became part of a favorite story when the main character of a book they were reading visited their school.
The character, in the form of a three-foot tall china rabbit named Edward Tulane, will stop by the school during his extraordinary journey around the world. Westerly Elementary will host Edward Tulane throughout the week as students participate in many book-related activities. The book’s publisher, Candlewick Press, created the china replica to visit schools, libraries and bookstores. The week’s festivities culminated on Friday, February 27, at 1:30 p.m., with a farewell ceremony involving all nine third grade classrooms at Westerly.
The tale, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, by Kate DeComillo, illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline, begins when a rather self-absorbed, china rabbit named Edward Tulane, well cared for and adored by a girl named Abilene, is lost. His journey takes him from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the top of a garbage heap to the fireside of a hoboe’s camp, and from the bedside of an ailing child to the streets of Memphis. The lesson is that the heart of the most breakable kind can learn to love, to lose, and to love again.
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Edward Tulane visited his fans at Westerly Elementary School. Third grade teacher Alison Volkmann arranged the visit.
Westerly teachers acted out character roles from the book during an assembly presentation (below).
Third grade teacher Alison Volkmann arranged the visit. Kate DiCamillo is the author of many other books, all published by Candlewick Press.
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How to deal with bullies
The Bay Middle School ABC Club (anti-bully club) presented a skit to Westerly Elementary School fourth-graders demonstrating how to deal with bullying.
BMS guidance counselor, Mary Urbanski, began the club last year when then fifth-graders, J. W. Parker and Tim Garner, suggested it after learning from her anti-bully curriculum. The boys called it the ABC Club, and it caught on and has continued into this year with students meeting once a week during lunch.
Their skit assigned roles to the players, from bully and supporter, to victim and defender, and a number of roles in between. It encouraged the younger students to think about the roles they might be playing in a bullying situation, how they might give bullies power, and how they might take the power away. Telling an adult is an important part of the process when the situation can't easily be handled by students.
The middle school students were confident and articulate, and assured fourth-graders that they were going to love middle school next year.
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Westerly Elementary guidance counselor, Sue Andregg, listens to fourth-grade ideas about how to handle a bully.
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A Bay High graduate and senior at Bowling Green State University, Holly Sammon is completing her degree in Early Childhood Education with a focus in Special Education. Holly’s five years of experience working with children in classrooms and daycare settings has helped her develop this educational book for young children.
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Dr. Seuss/Read Across America Week
Normandy Elementary celebrated Dr. Seuss/Read Across America weeks with lots of fun activities (including silly hats, inside out shirts and shoeless reading) and two very special visitors.
Jim Dirk graduated from Bay High in 1979. His career as an artist took him to New York and Chicago. Now living back in Bay Village, Dirk has illustrated books that include the Clifford, Rugrats, and Strawberry Shortcake series, as well as Dr. Seuss and many others.
Holly Sammon, a 2004 Bay High graduate, is a published children's book author and read students her Amazing Animals alphabet book, which combines letter recognition and alliteration. Children can use the colorful illustrations to help them learn the alphabet, as well as associating each letter with an animal that begins with that letter.
Normandy library assistant, Linda Noble, coordinated the week-long event.
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Bryan Boss will play football for Valparaiso University
Bryan Boss with his coach, Mike Peregord (left) and his parents, Kathleen and Geoffrey Boss.
Bryan Boss signed his letter of intent on Wednesday, May 11, to join Valparaiso's Crusader Football Program this fall. Boss intends to major in civil engineering.
In addition to playing football for Bay High all four of his years at Bay High, Boss also served as the Rocket's team captain. Boss also played basketball his freshman and sophomore years, and he ran track during his junior and senior years. Boss was named All Conference Honorable Mention for West Shore conference. He also received the Bay High offensive team player of the year and the special teams player of the year awards.
Boss also participated in the Bay High Science club, attended a special summer Honors program at Baldwin-Wallace College, worked at the Best Buy and Pac Sun stores and volunteered at the Bay Village Recreation Center.
"I know it will be hard to have both a commitment to the team and maintain the 3.0 average required by Valparaiso," said Boss. "But the university offers lots of support to athletes so they can give proper attention to their studies."
Friends and family wished him well at a signing party at Bay High School.
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Two Bay High students to play soccer at universities
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Aaron Adkins (left) and Kyle Hyland (right) have signed letters of intent to accept athletic scholarship offers to play soccer at universities next year.
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Aaron Adkins will play soccer for Cleveland State University where he plans to major in Engineering. In addition to playing soccer for Bay High since he was a freshman, Adkins ran track for the school and served in the school’s peer mediation program. He also worked for the Bay Village Recreation Department throughout his high school years.
“This is great news for me,” said Adkins. “I’ve been playing soccer ever since I was old enough to walk.”
Adkins was voted MVP of the West Shore Conference two consecutive seasons. He has played both forward and marking back, and he has had a goal or an assist in all but two games during the current season. In addition, Adkins led his team in goals the past three seasons. He was a First Team All Ohio Member in 2007 and has been a leader both on and off the field. He has been All Ohio Academic Team and NSCAA Team Academic for four years. Bay High’s record over the past four years, with Aaron as a starter, 75-10-5, and has included the state finals in 2005, the Final Four in 2006, and the Regional Finals in 2007, as well as West Shore Conference champions in 2006, 2007 and 2008.
Kyle Hyland will play soccer for Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis and major in Sports Medicine. He has played soccer for the past four years for Bay High and also for the Premier Soccer Club. He has served as a volunteer in the Bay High Youth Philanthropic Foundation and Bay Village Relay for Life; and he has helped to raise funds for Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital and for a cure for cystic fibrosis through Bay High’s Lori Wilder Foundation. He has also worked since his junior year for MoJo’s Cafe in Bay Village.
“I’m very excited for this opportunity,” said Hyland, who has played soccer since age 5, including travel soccer with the Bay Village Soccer Club. “We looked at a number of schools and this one seemed to be the right fit.”
Despite being sidelined his junior year with two ankle breaks, Hyland has emerged as a team leader of the Bay High soccer team. He has played almost all the positions on the soccer field over the past 4 years and, as Captain this year, has changed his own position in an effort to bring some leadership and organization experience to the team’s younger players. Despite his changing positions, Hyland has been directly involved with at least a third of all the goals scored this year by the Bay High team. He has been All Ohio Academic Team and NSCAA Team Academic for four years. Hyland has made significant contributions to Bay High’s record of 75-10-5 over the past four years, and has participated in the state finals in 2005, the Final Four in 2006, and the Regional Finals in 2007, as well as West Shore Conference champions in 2006, 2007 and 2008.
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BHS students excel at Governors Youth Art Exhibit . . .
Ten Bay High students had their work selected for exhibit and judging in Columbus, Ohio as Ohio 39th Governor's Youth Art Exhibition finalists. Megan Griffiths, Chantelle Layton, Garth Phillips, Angela Mussarra, Kali Sobczak, Katrina Taber, and Samantha Zillman each had one work selected for the state final competition. Kerry Werblak had three works selected to head for Columbus, but had one worked named in the "Top 25" of the Greater Cleveland area. Thousands of works were submitted, and these finalists will compete with finalists from 14 other Ohio regions. The exhibition opens at the James A. Rhodes State Office Tower, across from the State Capitol, in April, and closes at the end of May. At the exhibition opening, students receive Awards of Excellence and scholarship awards.
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BMS artists honored at Bay Village Library juried art show
The following students were recognized at the recent Bay Village Library Juried 7th and 8th Grade Art Show:
Eighth grade - First Prize, Eva Rezek, textile collage; Special Recognition, Brandon Farnham, photography. Seventh grade - Second Prize, Thomas Shelton, painting; Special Recognition, Andrew Majercik, computer altered photo; Special Recognition, Emma Jarvi, watercolor.
THREE-DIMENSIONAL: Eighth grade - Best of 8th grade, Taylor Seton, ceramics; Special Recognition, Katie Allen, ceramics; Special Recognition, Stephanie Killian, cloisonné enamel. Seventh grade - Best of 7th grade, Edward Hughes, ceramics; Special Recognition, Veelie Fabinak, textiles; Special Recognition, Jacob Evans, mixed media.
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Order tickets for BHS production of 42nd Street
Colorful New York theater district during the Great Depression is backdrop for musical
Enjoy our phenomenal singers, dancers and musicians in this classic musical. Without a doubt, their stunning performances will entertain you on April 2nd-4th at 7 p.m. in the Bay High School auditorium.
Deadline for ticket orders is March 30th. [Ticket order form ...]
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Bay Village Schools offer high value for lower dollars
Spending per pupil and an important performance measure show that the Bay Village City School District measures up very well with its counterparts in Cuyahoga County.
[See comparisons]
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Bay Band Boosters presents
The 17th annual
Ballroom Blitz
Saturday, April 25, 6:30-10 p.m.
Bay Middle School
$30 adults, $20 seniors/students
$200 for table of 8
Travel back with us to a bygone era with dining and dancing to the Big Band sounds of the 1930s and '40s, featuring the Bay High and Bay Village Middle School Jazz Ensembles
More information and reservation form
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