Recent Southwest Achievements:
Some Southwest Accomplishments
1st Quarter:
Cast members hard at work preparing for the curtain to rise on “Cheaper by the Dozen.” Front row, left to right: Brooke Ecklar (Jackie), Brianna Kercheval (Ernestine), Sarah McIntyre (Martha), Jennifer Spencer (Lillian), Tina Wu (Miss Brill). Middle row, left to right: Andrew Farringer (Joe Scales), Alex Mains (Frank), Joshua Mains (Dan). Back row, left to right: Mackenzie Potzick (Mrs. Fitzgerald), Amanda Pack (Dr. Burton), Cassidy Gill (Mrs. Gilbreth), Brooke Cordray (Anne), Adam Davisson (Mr. Gilbreth), Lee Davis (Fred).
*Crosby Business Partner PCS Purified Phosphates donated
$15,000 to revamp and upgrade our math and science lab.
*Harrison
High's Libby Graham is making a difference by selling
muffins!
As of now she has raised $442.00 toward building a well
for a school in the Sudan.
Read more.
*WVE received a grant from the Ohio Arts Council to
bring in an artist for a two week residency.
*Johnny Vidal District
Runner-Up in Boys Golf
*Bryan Carr League Coach of the Year Girls Golf
*Harrison High Football League Champs
*8th Grade Football Undefeated
*7th Grade Volleyball League and Tournament Champs, 17-1
Record
*At
Miamitown the typical reading goal for a first quarter
5th grader is 15 AR reading points. Student Mary Kleier
got 90 points with 100% comprehension!
*Southwest students and teachers (McIntyre, Peters,
Carroll) raised over $500 for the Cincinnati Children's
Hospital Walk
*Girls Volleyball raised over $2500 with their "Volley for the
Cure" benefit.
*Harrison
Elementary received the School of Promise award.
*Crosby
Elementary State Physical Fitness Champs for the 13th
Time!
*Harrison Junior School Cross Country League Champs.
*10 Harrison High School students attended Red Ribbon
Youth Summit at Paul Brown Stadium
*Awesome Homecoming Festivities and Parade
*Mr. Baird's Cincinnati History Class sponsored a car
bash during homecoming to raise funds for field trip
transportation.
*Miamitown Elementary received a Learning Links
grant to get Nook Color e-readers into classrooms.
*Miamitown
now has an after school chess club as well as juggling
club and volleyball club.
*Crosby Science Teachers, Margie Brown and
Carrie Hursh attended the Teachers, Industry, and
Environment conference in Columbus sponsored by the Ohio
Chemistry and Technology Council.
*Harrison Elementary has been approved to have 2 Girls
on the Run teams in the Spring!
*WHHHS won 1st place at Ohio Northern University’s Model
United Nations competition. The winning delegation was
France, represented by Tyler Hamant, Ashley Loechel, and
Elizabeth Stone.
*Fifty-one 8th graders, who are going on the spring
Washington, D.C. trip, raised $3,365.75 during a
Bags-4-Bucks fundraiser.
*Harrison High School Boys CC 2nd place in FAVC. and
Girls CC 3rd place in FAVC.
*The Harrison High School Ecology Club collected money
for the Compassion International Water of Life Program.
We will be donating $ for 2 families in Africa to
receive lifetime water filters.
*Whitewater Valley Elementary started their first "Girls
on the Run" team made up of twelve 5th grade girls.
*Special Olympics Team formed at Harrison Junior School.
*Whitewater
Valley won one of the daily prizes in the Hamilton
County Sumdog Math contest
worth over $100.
Congratulations to the Harrison
Wildcat Football Team under Head Coach Kent McCullough
for finishing 7-3 and capturing the FAVC Buckeye League
Championship.
National Make a Difference Day Project "A Night In" October 22nd
Congratulations to Johnny Vidal, who became the first
ever Harrison High School Golfer to qualify for the Boys
Ohio State Golf Tournament. He was District Runner-Up. CONGRATULATIONS JOHNNY!
Congratulations to the Class of 2011
2011 Harrison High School Academic Signing
Senior Signing and Academic Awards Night, over 1 Million in
scholarship money!
FAVC West Champions
In a complete TEAM effort, the girls win their 1st
league title since 1998. Emily Adams is named the FAVC
Runner of the Year after winning the 200m and 400m
dashes (new school record) and placing 2nd in the 100m
dash. Alecia Littleton is named the FAVC Field Event
Athlete of the Year with a win in the discus and a 2nd
place finish in the shot put. Fantastic job girls!!
Watch the Honor Flight Check Presentation Video.
Congratulations to Mr. Steve Brickner and the Construction Challenge group from Harrison High School. They placed 2nd in the NATION and the Las Vegas National event March 24th. Awesome!
Members include Kate
Eichhorn, Jacob Neyer, Adam Maucher, Aaron McCord,
Nathan Schulte, Logan McClain, Caleb Spence.
Want to see what Mr. B was up to during the challenge??
Harrison High School DECA 2011 Press Release, 8 Students qualify for Nationals!
Mr. Nienaber's Classes Off the Charts in the Mayor's Fund Food Drive!
Crosby Elementary is sending troops care packages!
Public Input on Budget
Reductions
survey
Harrison High School honors U.S. Veteran Raymond "Buddy" Hine. Don't know who Buddy Hine is?? Want to see the ceremony? Check here for more!
Thanks to Whitewater Valley Elementary and Remke/Biggs for holding a luncheon for over 80 area veterans. More photos are in the rotating photo array to the left.
Only in Southwest do the teachers drive tractors!
Congratulations to the Boys Golf Team. They are FAVC League Co-Champions at 13-1. The Wildcat team members include Johnny Vidal, Kyle Macke. Charles Krabbe, AJ Borts, Tyler McCowan and Joe Hursong. Coach Trevor Ward was named FAVC Coach of the Year.
At the Model United Nations Competition at Ohio Northern University, Harrison High School took home the trophy this year, placing first out of 47 teams and winning the Superior Delegation award. The winning team of Elizabeth Stone, Ashley Loechel and Kurgan Horn represented the delegation of Morocco.
Southwest’s First Teacher Leadership Class - Teachers from across the district took part in four sessions of leadership training in the summer and after school. The class was taught by Superintendent Chris Brown, Asst. Superintendent Meg Graham and Junior School Principal John Hamstra. This class will be offered again next summer for all staff in the district, with Leadership II offered for those graduates of this first class.
Summer Beginning Band Camp Images
Southwest would like to congratulate our
Teachers of the Year, Classified Employees of the Year and
Friends of Education from each building. Thanks to all
these folks who represent a great staff and awesome
community:
Crosby -
Maria Beatty, Pat Scheer and Missy Rechel
Hooven - Gene Williams, Leigh Ann Carr and Susan
O'Connor Miamitown - Joe Ludwig, Jim Loos and
Dolores Upchurch
Harrison Elementary - Nancy
Herzog, Amy Kinnett and Amy Baglien
Whitewater Valley - Sarah Ard, Linda Lawler and
Chris VanLuit
Junior School - Deb Jones, Marsha Baker and Ron
McAdams
High School - Greg Zuleger, Jenny Pierce and Wendy
Leppert
May 27th
Harrison High School
Academic Signing Ceremony Images and
Senior Slideshow.
Showcase Southwest 2010 Images!
Thanks for your participation and for showing everyone how
great Southwest really is!
Mr. Brickner's Harrison High School Ohio Energy Project students were selected as Senior Level School of the Year in Ohio and invited to Washington D.C.!
Mr. Baird's Cincinnati History Class visits downtown!
See the photos!
Attention all former Harrison High School
Athletes who played sports in college! Find out how to
be HONORED in our weight room by clicking
here!
May 27th
Harrison High School
Academic Signing Ceremony Images and
Senior Slideshow.
We congratulate
National Merit Scholar Finalists
Sara Swartout and Ben Wilder
High School Band Trip to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Mr. Robinson's rock band aka "Billy Hank and the Cat House Crooners", at the OMEA convention, proving that rock music is just as important as the rest. There they received a standing ovation and many positive responses to a rock band being a credited class in high school.
Ohio Music Education Association
State Conference Performance / Clinic
January 29, 2010
Duke Energy Convention Center, Cincinnati
Congratulations
to the following track and field athletes who have advanced
to the Regional Track Meet in Dayton (District place in
parentheses): Zach Lonneman (Shot Put - Champion), Ed
Lehrter (Pole Vault - 3rd), Brandon Fisher (Long Jump -
3rd), Annie Robben (Pole Vault - Champion, 300m Hurdles -
2nd), Emily Adams (400m Dash - 2nd), Brittany Hall (400m
Dash - 4th), 1600m Relay (Sammy Cliffe, Annie Robben, Emily
Adams, Brittany Hall - Champion in a thrilling finish!)
Harrison
High Senior Annie Robben has broken
6 school records during her career in Track and
Field! Annie's vault sets a new school and
district record.
Annie Robben won the regional championship in the pole vault with a vault of 11' 0".
Southwest Local and
We congratulate
National Merit Scholar Finalists
Sara Swartout and Ben Wilder
Jake
Rivera and Mickayla Kowalski, second graders at Hooven
Elementary, report the weather daily on Hooven’s
Facebook page. Tuesday they will be on the radio! At
8:30 am, they will be reporting the weather on The Eagle
99.3 FM. They get to be on the air for about an hour to
an hour and a half with Bubba Bo. Tune in and give them
a listen.
"Mr. Schiering escorts the leading scorer of the DonkeyBall Team."
Donkey Basketball After-Prom Fundraiser March 8th @ 7:00 pm in the Activity Center Gym Tickets are $6.00 presale available at all school building offices/$8.00 at the door. Looks to be a cross-corn rivalry vs. Ross this year!
Want to see Mr. Meibers take a pie in the
face? Mr. Tracy take a freezing plunge? Go to
The Harrison Junior
School cheerleaders
competed on Sunday
at the regional
cheer competition in
Mason. They are now
headed to the state
competition in
January. They took
1st place for Junior
High Non-Mount
division.
Congratulations to the Harrison High School
Cheerleaders; they placed first in this past weekend's
Cheer of America competition at Wright State University.
High School
"Empty Bowls"
project is Thursday,
Dec. 10th.
http://mrsams.wikispaces.com/High+School+Videos
Physics is Phun!!
Once again, the Harrison
High School
Physics is Phun
club entertains hundreds
of kids at the library.
Congrats to the
Harrison Girls
Volleyball Team.
They were
DISTRICT Champions
this season and
Regional
Semi-Finalists.
They ended the
season 22-4 this
season!
OUTSTANDING!
Congratulations to
Coach Amy Berwanger
and all the girls.
Congratulations to Ben Wilder and Sara Swartout, Harrison's latest National Merit semifinalists!
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Southwest Local School
District Students
Achieve National Merit
Status
Ben Wilder and Sara Swartout, both
seniors at William Henry Harrison High School, have been
named National Merit Semifinalists. This is an honor
that allows them to advance to National Merit Finalist
status and opens the door to scholarship offers.
Sara is the daughter of Jeff and Linda Swartout and Ben
is the son of Mark and Diane Wilder.
Senior Julie Warders has also achieved
“Commended Student” status of the National Merit
Scholarship Program. Julie is the daughter of Glenn and
Mary Warders.
About 230 Greater Cincinnati high school seniors are
among the 16,000 semifinalists in the 55th annual
National Merit Scholarship Program.
More than 1.5 million juniors in
22,000 high schools entered the 2010 National Merit
Scholarship Program by taking the 2008 Preliminary
SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).
Sara and Ben scored better than 99 percent of all the
Ohio students who took the PSAT test in their junior
year.
Nationally, the semifinalists represent less than 1
percent of high school seniors.
Awesome! Harrison High Senior Brittany Wilson-Farley
has earned First Place at the state track meet in
the shot put with a throw of 45' 5" .
She is a State Champion!
Congratulations to the track staff of
Scott Menze, Greg Zuleger, Nick Roth,
Jon Motsinger, Steve Kucera and
Jayme Light.
The first Super Summertime Send Off was a GREAT SUCCESS!
Over 70 Kindergarten and 1st grade students and their families from across the district attended the event held at Harrison Elementary on June 2.
Our teachers taught the families how to do reading and math activities/games at home during the summer and the families were given huge bags full of math and reading resources. Hotdogs, chips and drinks were provided also free of charge.
Thank you to all the elementary staff and administrators who came to help!
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The
Track & Field State
finals will take place
this Saturday June, 6 at
3:00 P.M at The Ohio
State University.
Harrison is very proud
of our two young ladies
that will represent the
Wildcats .
Brittany Wilson-Farley:
Shot Put
Annie Robben: Pole Vault
Best of luck Ladies!!!
The Harrison Wildcats Baseball Team has defeated Oak Hills 6-5 for the District Title! Congratulations Coach Sowders and the guys for this excellent win and title. Harrison will move on into the state regional tournament; keep it rolling!
Congrats to Mr.
Brickner's students on
being awarded 1st place
at the Ohio Energy
project Senior division
and earning National
Finalist recognition for
the National Energy
Education Development
Project.
Congratulations to the Harrison High School students that helped raise over $4000 and the Harrison Junior School students that raised over $2000 in the "Pasta for Pennies" program this Spring benefiting the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Recently Harrison Junior School Principal John Hamstra and 4 HJS students went to the Ronald McDonald House and donated almost 100 pounds of aluminum pop tabs.
It is with great pride that I have the honor of announcing three students that have earned the distinction of being ranked in the top 1% of all high school students in the nation. At the minimum, these three students will all be honored with National Merit Commended Student honors. These students will now wait until September to see if they are awarded National Merit Scholar honors. Congratulations to Sara Swartout and Ben Wilder, who both attended Whitewater Valley Elementary and also to Julie Warders, who attended St. Johns. We could not be more proud of you and we thank you and your parents for bringing such great honor to our district.
Bet you know what this is!
Congratulations to Harrison Head Baseball Coach Shawn Sowders for
his first official victory as Varsity Head Coach . He led the
Wildcats to a 12-3 win over highly ranked Elder! Great job Wildcats.
All that hard work does pay off!
Congratulations to Harrison High School Senior
Josh Bass whose ceramic artwork
"koi on a stick" won a Governor's Award of Distinction as
one of the top 25 pieces of high school art.
His artwork will be displayed with 275 other finalists at
The Governor's Youth Art Exhibition in Columbus.
There were over 12,000 entries
statewide!
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Our 4th Wrestling State Champ!
Congratulations to Andrew Tumlin, he is the Ohio Division I 189 lbs. State Champion Wrestler.
Miamitown's MathCounts Team
HJS MathCounts Team
Last weekend Amy Poettker, Cindy Benson and Bruce Markewicz, along with our great parent volunteer Ron McAdams, took a number of our students to the MathCounts competition at the University of Cincinnati. Looks like they made it a lot of fun!
