HONORS, AWARDS and ACHIEVEMENTS

March, 2006

Congratulations to Lewistown Area High School student Ben Matthews, who placed 3rd chair, Bass II at the PMEA Regional Chorus Competition. This placement advances Ben to All-State Choir. To advance to All-State Choir, a student must place in the top four chairs of his respective section. The festival for this year is Wednesday, March 29-April 1, 2006. The concert (including All-State Choir, Wind Ensemble, Band and Orchestra) will be held beginning at 11:30 AM at North Penn High School, with the All-State Choir performing first at 11:30 followed by the Wind Ensemble. The All-State Band and Orchestra perform beginning at 4:30 in a second concert. The conductor for the All-State Choir, Dr. Jeffrey Kern, is from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

Students participating in this years All-State Festival will audition for next years All-Eastern Choir, which will be held in Connecticut. This is not easy with a brand new folder, and less than ten days to learn the music. Since next year is an All-Eastern year, and Ben will be a senior, he will fill out an application for the All-Eastern Choir which is being hosted in Connecticut. Students must have already gone to All-State Choir, and they also factor in the All-State audition as well as rankings from other festivals.

Six I.V. wrestlers are heading to Hershey!

• Nic Bedelyon, 103  - Regional and District Champ
• Chad Frankhouser, 119 - placed 3rd at the regionals
• Adam Will,  125 - placed 3rd at the regionals
• Jeremiah Will, 145 - placed 2nd at the regionals
• Nam Shartzer, 215 - placed 2nd at the regionals
• Nate Knepp, 275 - placed 3rd at the regionals

HPAE Marble Champs

As part of their reading program, the 5th grades read a story called "The Marble Champ" which is about a twelve-year-old girl who longs to win a sports competition is spite of her numerous awards for scholastic endeavors. She discovers that any goal is possible through dedicated training and perseverance. After reading how this girl became a "Marble Champ," the 5th grade had a marble playing competition

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IVMS Students Selected for February True Warrior Award

The 'True Warrior' Award is a student recognition program that began in the year 2005-2006. In this program, students are nominated once a month to be a True Warrior. The following students have been selected for February: Matt Specht, Calvin Shank, Gordon Hawkins, Lauren Henry, Ethan Torquato, Ayla Hockenberry, Sarah Curtman, Shelly Woodring, Matt Shoop, Breann Reitz, Dalton Long, Donald Sellers. (Select the text link below for pictures from the IVMS web area.)

Congratulations students!!

This past week at Regional Band, Andrea Cutter qualified for the 2006 PA All-State Band.  The All-State Band Festival coincides with the PMEA All-State Conference which this year is being held in Valley Forge, PA.  The dates of the Conference/Festival are Wed, March 29 through Sat, April 1.  The All-State Band concert will be held at North Penn High School on Saturday, April 1, 2006.  The concert starts at 4:30pm and tickets will be available at the door. 

Andrea is the first LAHS, as well as Mifflin County School District student, to qualify for the PA All-State Band since two LAHS students were in the PA All-State Band in 2002.

Congratulations to the following Pennsylvania Future Problem Solving team members who will be moving on to the Pennsylvania Future Problem Solving State Affiliate Bowl April 21-22.

Pictures and more information!!

• Ben Fowler (IVMS) (6)
• Selina - Roman White (HPAE)(5)
• Suruchi Sheth (IVMS)(6)
• Nihar Suthar (IVMS)(6)

• Jared Lynch (SMMS)(5)
• Morgan Peachey (IVMS (6)
• Allison Rhodes (HPAE) (5)
• Maggie Staronka (HPAE) (4)

• John Cottrill (IVMS) (8)
• Drew Picketts (IVMS) (8)
• Samantha Snook (SMMS)(7)
• Nate Swineford (IVHS)(9)
• Ziyu Ye (IVMS)(8)(Alternate)

• Lenna Suthar (IVHS) (11)
• Suchir Sheth (IVHS)(11)
• Samantha Wheeler (LAHS) (10)
• Lauren Yoder (IVMS)(11)

• Lauren Valdivia (LMS) (8)
• Max Wilson (LMS) (8)
• Megha Pai (IVHS) (9)
• Jiten Suthar (IVHS) (9)

Pictures and info from the IVMS web

LAHS Wrestlers Advance to Regionals

During the weekend of February 24-26 at the District 6 AAA Wrestling tournament, 9 wrestlers from the LAHS wrestling team won the honor to compete in the following weekend's regional championships, the Northwest Regional Tournament. Nine competitors are a record number of wrestlers for Lewistown to have qualified for regionals. Regionals will be held at Altoona High School. The top three wrestlers in each weight class qualify for the PIAA state wrestling tournament held at the Giant Center in Hershey. The nine wrestlers competing are as follows:

More info from the LAHS web

Brooke Riden is a second year flute student from Brown Elementary.

Music Dept. Student of the Month >>

Congratulations to all the LAHS participants to regional TSA competition on Saturday, February 25, 2006 at Park Forrest Middle School. Twenty-four members competed with 6 securing first place ribbons, 3 with second place and 3 acquiring third place. All place winners qualified for TSA State competition to be held April 19-20, 2006 at Seven Springs.  According to Advisor Mark Conner, more students could still qualify for State competition depending upon the final outcome of all teams that participated.

More info and pictures available from LAHS web

Erin Zeiders (Soprano 1) and Lucas Waddell (Tenor II) are the two veterans to PMEA festivals that returned again this year and have advanced again to Regionals.  Both of them have previously attended District and Regional festivals, Erin last year as a sophomore and Lucas, for the past two years.

Danielle Barnosky (Soprano II), Courtney Hill (Alto II), Justin Araway (Tenor I), Zeke Coffey (Bass I) and Kyle Orndorf (Bass II) have all advanced to Regional Choir as well after having attended their first PMEA District Chorus festival.

Seated: Courtney Hill (Alto II), Danielle Barnosky (Soprano II), Kyle Orndorf (Bass II)

Standing: Erin Zeiders (Soprano 1), Lucas Waddell (Tenor II), Justin Araway (Tenor I), Zeke Coffey (Bass I)

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Congratulations to Alexis Mauery, who placed first chair Euphonium at the recent District 4 Band auditions.  She will be participating in the upcoming (March 1-4, 2006) Region III band festival at Philipsburg-Osceola HS, and will be auditioning for possible placement in the All-State Band.

For more information about the band, visit the IVHS band website.

The District Choral Festival was held at State College Area High School, February 1 through February 4, 2006. While at District Chorus, students audition to attend the PMEA Region III Festival, which will be March 15-18, 2006 at Richland High School in Johnstown.

Students from Lewistown Area High School who qualified for the regional festival are: Brittaney Rearick-Alto 2, Matt Loewen-Tenor 2, Ben Matthews-Bass 2, and Noah Ludington-Bass 2. More from LAHS web  >>

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