pioneer central schools

• National Honor Society Induction

• FFA National Convention & Other News

• New Graduation Requirements

• Marching Band Salutes Seniors

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PIONEER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, YORKSHIRE, NY

Winter 2015

Tis the Season for Weather-Related Closings & Cancellations

By Dr. Sharon Huff, Superintendent

The winter season is upon us! Many factors are taken into account in assessing whether to open or close school. Weather conditions can vary across the four counties of our district including parts of Wyoming, Cattaraugus, Allegany and Erie County.

These conditions are monitored on an on-going basis through a multi-agency ap-proach involving consultation with the Offices of Emergency Services, county Sheriff’s Of-fices, superintendents of our county and town roads and highways, school transportation providers and the National Weather Service.

The decision to open or close is based on a number of factors such as:

� Short-range and long-range weather forecasts from the National Weather Service

� Updates from the Offices of Emergency Services

� Travel advisories from the Sher-iff’s Offices

� Updates on road conditions across our four counties in consultation with County and Town Superintendents

� Guidelines for cold weather safe-ty from the New York Statewide School Health Services Center

� Local factors including building conditions and staffing

� Ability of busses to operate in extreme cold and across the diverse terrain of our district

� Wind chill factors Student safety is our primary goal. In-

formation as to the decision to delay, dismiss

early or close can be accessed through a variety of sources including:

� Pioneer webpage: http://www.pioneerschools.org

� Text or voice message via Pio-neer’s automated phone system

� TV and radio stations: WIVB-TV Channel 4 , WGRZ-TV Channel 2, WKBW-TV Channel 7; WBEN 930AM, WSPQ 1330AM, WTSS 102.5FM, WYRK 106.5FM, WECK 1230AM, WBLK 93.7FM, WBUF 92.9FM WJYE 96.1FM, WPIG 95.7FM,WHDL 1450AM & WKSE 98.5FM

Every effort is made to make a timely de-cision. Please be sure that your child’s school has updated emergency contact information. You are also encouraged to have a plan in place should students be dismissed early.

Ultimately, it is your responsibility to make the final decision regarding school attendance. If schools are open, but you feel as a parent that the weather is too severe, you

can elect to keep your child home. In that instance, it is essential the parent contact the school to alert them of their child’s absence and make arrangements for any missed work.

Together we can keep our students safe. Please feel free to contact me at (716) 492-9304 if you have any questions, concerns or suggestions.

Have an enjoyable winter season!

The Pioneer School District did not get blasted with snow quite as much as those a bit further north, but things did look a bit different when winter made its first major appearance in mid November. Three snow days resulted (see Dr. Huff’s column above).

A Taste of Winter . . .

PCS DISTRICT NEWSLETTER • WINTER 2015 • PAGE 2

Pioneer on Right Path with New NYSED Graduation RequirementsBy Michael Irizarry. Director of Curriculum

At the October 2014 meeting of the New York State Board of Regents, action was taken that is designed to better prepare students for college and career through a variety of pathways to graduation. Currently, students are required to pass five Regents exams in order to graduate: one English, one Math, one Science, and both the U.S. History and the Global Studies/Geography exams.

Under the new regulations, students will have a “4+1” option for meeting graduation requirements that will include an English, a math, a science, and a social students Re-gents exam as well as a fifth assessment that would align to a Humanities, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), Biliteracy (LOTE/Languages Other Than English), CTE (Career and Technical Edu-cation), or Arts pathway. This new “4+1” option applies to students graduating in June 2015 or later.

These multiple pathways are designed to preserve the rigor of the current graduation requirements while also providing flexibil-ity and choice that addresses the changing demands of education and society. Students will now be able to focus their studies on Humanities by successfully completing an additional social studies Regents exam (U.S. History or Global History and Geography) or

other New York State Education Department (NYSED) approved alternative.

The STEM pathway can be achieved by completing an additional Regents exam in mathematics, science, or a NYSED-approved alternative. Although there are no Regents exams offered in the other pathways, students can complete an approved assessment in a Language Other Than English (LOTE), career and technical education, or the arts in order to meet graduation requirements. Finally, a CTE assessment that meets the requirements for science could be substituted for the required science Regents exam.

Pioneer is already well situated to help students meet graduation requirements through the multiple pathways with extensive course offerings in a wide variety of curricula areas. Students interested in pursuing a CTE pathway are able to choose from nearly 20 different full-year and half-year courses in the Agriculture and Technology departments, including Advanced Veterinary Science, Basic and Advanced Welding, Food Science, Horse Management, Audio Electronics, Construc-tion Systems, and Material Processing. CTE program options are also available through BOCES.

Students looking to complete the STEM pathway can opt to participate in Project Lead the Way, a nationally recognized engineering program. Just this year the math department

has also added two new electives -- Manufac-turing Math and Exploring Computer Science -- in order to broaden options for students. Manufacturing Math is designed to reinforce students’ math skills and allow them to apply these skills in the solution of practical man-ufacturing problems. Exploring Computer Science focuses on the conceptual ideas of computing and helping students identify the best languages and tools for the task at hand.

Pioneer Central School District continues to be ahead of the curve in offering our stu-dents opportunities above and beyond what is required in order to best prepare them for college and career.

Pioneer Part of Grant to Improve AssessmentsCattaraugus Allegany BOCES has been

awarded $374,324 through a “Teaching is the Core” grant from the New York State Education Department, funded through New York’s federal Race to the Top resources. Pioneer is among 13 districts to be served through the grant.

The primary purpose of this grant is to improve the quality of all educational as-sessments, while also reducing the number of assessments that do not contribute to teaching and learning. In addition, this grant can help districts identify and/or develop high-quality assessments already in use for instructional or other curricular purposes.

Senior Play “12 Angry Jurors” Set for Dec. 11 & 12

This year’s Senior Play will be held December 11 and 12 at 7 p.m. in the George C. Crawford Auditorium of the High School. The production will be 12 Angry Jurors, based on the Emmy award-winning television movie “Twelve Angry Men” by Reginald Rose.

This will be the second ‘black-box style’ performance (some audience members sit on stage while actors perform) at Pioneer High School. This year’s senior performers are: Sa-mantha Duttry, Leo Finley, Sabrina Granger, Elayna Kinney, Shannon Miller, Tyra Morgan, and Natalie Sobczak.

Tickets are $5 and can be purchased pre-sale or at the door. Please join us for a chance to see what really happens in a jury room!


SCHOOL WILL BE CLOSED December 22 through January 2 for Holiday Recess

The Pioneer Middle School chapter of the National Junior Honor Society inducted 37 new members at a ceremony conducted on Nov. 13.

In order to be inducted into the NJHS, students must have teacher recommendations and an average of at least a 92 in the four core subjects during their 7th grade year. If taking one accelerated course, students need to maintain a 91 average, and a 90 average if taking two accelerated courses.

The NJHS seeks to recognize students who exemplify outstanding leadership, schol-arship, character, and service. The advisors are teachers Brenda McKenzie and Rebecca Day.

Middle School Principal Melissa Prorok welcomed parents, family members, and friends. She also shared words of wisdom and praise with the inductees, and presented them with their awards along with assistant principal William Weidner.

Inductees Samantha Salzler, Dominique Atwater, Jenna Kessler, Madison Bainbridge, Allison Miley, Helena Blackwell, and Skyler Ferington-Morgan sang the National Anthem.

37 Join National Junior Honor SocietyNJHS INDUCTEES and advisors shown left to right are: front row - Mrs. Day, Julia Brzezicki, Alexandria Buncy, Dominique Atwater, Madison Bainbridge, Kelsey Matuszak, Sydney Wiseman, Nicholas Schiener, Riley Johnston, Caleb Lumpkins, Trinity Szpara, Allison Miley, and Helena Blackwell; middle row - Sierra Cass, Morgan Brouse, Ella Kehl, Keegan Kempf, Blake Morris, Andrea Kaiser, Jami Smith, Cheyanne Reynolds, Samantha Salzler, Grace Reisdorf, Ian Laird, Justin Drennan, Jeffrey Schalberg, and Ms. Prorok; back row - Ms. McKenzie, Scott Heldwein, Morgan Sherlock, Skyler Ferington-Morgan, Gabriel Higgins, Maxwell Hughes, Taylor Burch, Mr. Weidner, Casandra Thompson, Samuel Hyman, Samantha Kirsch, Jenna Kessler, Bella Addesa, and Karch Forward.

Brooke Rule, president of the Pioneer High School chapter of the National Honor Society, spoke about the expectations and honor of NJHS membership. The evening closed with a reception in the foyer.

‘Girls On The Run’ Back For Second Year

Girls On The Run (GOTR) is a unique program for girls in grades 3-5. The program teaches life skills through dynamic, conver-sation-based lessons and running games. The girls met after school this fall with coaches Brandy Morris, Sharon Parker and Rosemary Cavaretta.

The program culminates with the girls being physically and emotionally prepared to complete a 5K running event. This year, the girls participated in a 5K race held on Sunday, November 9, at Delaware Park in Buffalo.

In preparation, the girls and their “buddy” runner participated in a practice run at Del-evan Elementary (see photo at right). Family, friends and teachers came to cheer them on.

The overall goal of the program is to instill confidence through accomplishment while establishing a lifetime appreciation of health and fitness. To learn more about GOTR visit: http://www.gotrbuffalo.org/


SCHOOL WILL BE CLOSED January 19 for Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday

PBIS Student of The MonthIan Smith, ninth grader at Pioneer High

School, was recently named PBIS (Postitive Behaviors, Interventions, and Supports) Student of the Month for October. He was cited by counselor Tracy Meyers for exhib-iting two PBIS traits -- trustworthiness and perseverance.

Mrs. Meyers said, “Ian worked consis-tently and independently during after-school group. This was a great improvement. This is the habit that will create academic success.”

Ian (shown getting his prizes from As-sistant H.S. Principal Mark Przybysz) is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Smith of Delevan.

The Pioneer Marching Panthers recently held their annual banquet to mark the end of their season. Included in the event was a salute to members who are graduating in 2015. Front row: Elayna Kinney and Samantha Duttry. Back row: Megan Price, Nicole Hauser, Chris Chauncey, Kacie Brown, Austin Morgan, and Sabrina Granger.

BOCES Welding Students Design and Build Fork LiftAT RIGHT - The metal structure shown at left in photo was delivered to Cattaraugus-Allegany BOCES’ Career and Technical Education Center at Ellicottville’s Welding class to be repaired. After examining the project, it was decided that a new one would be built with an improved design and greater durability. The resulting finished project, shown at right in photo, is a fork lift that attaches to the three-point hydraulic hitch of a tractor, and will be used for lifting and moving large chunks of trees. Senior welding students who manufactured the project are shown left to right: Clayton Huff (Cattaraugus-Little Valley), Alex Lefever (Pioneer), Project Team Leader Chris Szymanski (Franklinville) and Jake Cycon (Pioneer).

Marching Band Salutes Seniors


Pioneer Students Compete at FFA National Convention

LOUISVILLE, KY - Twenty members from the Pioneer FFA Chapter attended the 87th Annual National FFA Convention, held in Louisville, Kentucky, on October 28 through November 1. Pioneer FFA repre-sented New York state in four different career development events: Agricultural Issues, Farm Business Management, Parliamentary Procedure, and Prepared Public Speaking.

Team members in the Agricultural Issues event consisted of Allison Herrick, Kara Heitzman, Jessica Hobin, Tricia Hulton, Lau-ren Pleace, and Jacob Schloss. They earned a bronze emblem for their efforts in presenting the pros and cons of neonicotinoids and their effects on honeybees.

The Farm Business Management team consisting of Abraham Ashley, Shelby Gil-ley, Thomas Holmes, and Jaylin Neamon, received a silver placing for their efforts in analyzing a farm business. Abraham Ashley received an individual gold medal, placing in the top twenty of approximately 150 par-ticipants.

Stacie Bliss represented New York in Prepared Public Speaking. Stacie wrote, memorized, and presented a speech on Small Farms, and then answered questions about the speech to a panel of judges. Stacie received a bronze placing at the national competition.

The Parliamentary Procedure team -- consisting of Taylor Guizzotti, Sara Hag-gerty, Kelsey O’Hare, Derek Pingrey, Lauren Vacinek, and Lexi Vacinek -- received a bronze emblem in the parliamentary proce-dure event. Team members were asked to complete a written exam, demonstrate knowl-edge of Roberts Rules of Order, and conduct a mock meeting utilizing knowledge gained about parliamentary procedure.

The chapter was also recognized with the National Chapter award, highlighting different yearly events in the areas of student development, chapter development, and com-munity development.

When the members were not compet-ing, they attended a large career show with hundreds of booths representing colleges and agribusinesses. Students were able to talk with representatives to learn more about agricultural courses of study and career op-portunities. FFA members learned that there is bright future for careers in agriculture!

Congratulations to all the PCS FFA members for a successful National FFA Convention!

Local Community Claims Two National Degree Recipients

LOUISVILLE, KY – Xavier Almeter and Bradley Fontaine (shown at lower right), members of the Pioneer FFA Chapter, in York-shire, NY, recently received the American FFA Degree. Earning the degree means these two Pioneer students are part of a select group of individuals to be recognized for years of academic and professional excellence. The honor was presented on November 1, 2014 at the 87th National FFA Convention, held in Louisville, Kentucky.

The American FFA Degree recognizes demonstrated leadership ability and outstand-ing achievements in agricultural business, production, processing or service programs. To be eligible, members must have earned and productively invested $7,500 through a supervised agricultural experience (SAE) program in which they start, own, or hold a professional position in an existing agriculture enterprise. Recipients must also make it their mission to demonstrate outstanding leadership abilities and community involvement.

Each recipient received a gold American FFA Degree key and special certificate. Less than half of one percent of the total national membership attains this high honor. The degree recognition was sponsored by ADM Crop Risk Services, Case IH, DuPont Pio-neer, Elanco, Farm Credit, Syngenta, and the National FFA Foundation.

Both young men graduated from Pioneer in 2013. Xavier is currently a sophomore at SUNY Cobleskill studying Agricultural

Mechanics, and Bradley, also a sophomore, is studying Agricultural Mechanics at SUNY Morrisville. Congratulations to both students on all their successes in FFA.

American FFA Degree Recipients Bradley Fontaine (left) and Xavier Almeter (right).


Storm Delays FFA Food Delivery

Pioneer FFA has had to move its fund-raiser citrus/cheese delivery date from December 8 to December 15,

due to milk loss from the storm. Those who purchased items from FFA may pick up their orders starting Monday, December 15.

Delevan December PBIS Theme: Generosity

For the months of November and Decem-ber, Delevan Elementary has been celebrating the character trait of Generosity by holding our annual collection for the Delevan food pantry. We ask the pantry director which foods are most needed and then theme each week around these needs. A shopping cart will be placed in the foyer to collect the donations of shelf-stable food items. The cart gets filled and emptied multiple times during the month, and our students observe and participate in a real life demonstration of generosity in action. Some students will also help to plan and advertise our food drive and to sort, pack and deliver the food to the pantry.

If you would like information on our local food pantries please call the Family Resource Room at 716-492-9478. All nonperishable food items are greatly appreciated. Thank you for supporting both the pantry’s mission to assist neighbors in need and our message to students that generous hearts and small acts can add up to a big difference.

By filling a jar full of examples of kindness, responsibility, and preparedness, students in Mrs. Sarah Parker’s third grade class at Delevan earned a pajama party.

PBIS Stars

Each fall, the classes at Delevan Elementary design and build a scarecrow as a team-building activity. Students look forward to the event and displaying their masterpieces in front of the school for the community to see.

Delevan Has Something to Crow About

Second Grade ELA NewsDelevan Elementary second grade students have been working hard on how to retell a story. This language arts skill is made easy with this five word flip chart (shown above), “Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then.” Using these five words, the students can identify the characters, their motivation, the problem, the solution, and how the story ends.

FFA Members Take Part in Annual Harvest FestPioneer FFA members participated in the

Third Annual Harvest Fest held at the Amer-ican Legion Hall in Warsaw on Wednesday, October 15. Approximately 200 attended the event. The annual fundraiser benefits the Wy-oming County Business Education Council and ARC of Livingston-Wyoming counties.

The event brings together farmers and individuals in the food industry to celebrate the local harvest and showcase the diversity of agriculture in the community. Several de-licious dishes, featuring locally grown prod-ucts, were available for participants to sample. In addition, local agricultural products and handcrafted items were available for sale.

The chapter designed a booth to promote Wyoming County agriculture, highlighting the dairy industry, vegetable production, and maple syrup. Chelsey Brown, Sara Haggerty, Kelsey O’Hare, and Eric Perry took charge of the booth for the FFA chapter (see photo at top left), talking with Harvest Fest attendees and serving cider and doughnuts. The activity

not only gave the chapter members a chance to promote Wyoming County agriculture and FFA, but it also provided an opportunity to learn more about what is being done in the county to promote agriculture and healthy eat-ing choices. It was an enjoyable evening for the FFA members, and provided an opportu-nity to put their leadership skills into practice.


Numeracy Night Held At Middle SchoolPioneer Middle School’s Second Annual

Numeracy Night was a wickedly awesome night! We had around 120 families attend the event and numerous PMS teachers on hand to help with activities and provide useful tips, tricks, and tools for families (see photos below). SUNY Fredonia senior pre-service teachers, along with their professors Dr. Keary Howard and Dr. Teodora Cox, traveled out our way to help put on the event, providing different stations for families to move through

while competing for a chance to win one-of-a-kind prizes! Each family also left with a bag full of goodies donated by Five Star Bank with help from the Navient Foundation!

Our basket raffle was also a spook-tacular hit thanks to our staff at the Middle School and our many sponsors: The Town of Yorkshire Highway Department, Gernatt’s, Subway, Valu, Pizzaz, Save a Lot, Wegmans, Pizza Hut, Shurfine, Hoffy’s, Twin Lakes, Zimmer Auto Parts and Shoe Store, and 1490 Motors.

Arcade Elementary Reading Challenge Kicks Off!

This winter, Arcade Elementary School students will be buried in books! We have designed a reading challenge that involves the students, staff and the community. The goal is for everyone to enjoy a winter of reading! We will be recording the number of books that we read. The challenge began on December 1 and it will end on March 1.

For the students:

Students turn in the number of books that they read each month to their teacher.

For the staff:Please email, tell, or drop a note to the

office letting us know how many books you have read each month.

For the community:We will be placing and filling book bins

in local businesses to allow a give and take. When you need a book, please take one and leave one. This give and take will keep us reading all winter without needing to purchase new books.

Also, don’t forget to use the library!

To record your number of books…

Please send a note to school with your student at the end of the month with the number of books that you read or email me directly [email protected] or call the office.

So…what’s the challenge?If we can get our entire school commu-

nity to come together…for the kids and read a total of 5,000 books from December first to March first…

We will all celebrate the end of the challenge with a secret guest author that will visit the school. All participants will be able to attend our reading celebration.

Events:To kick off the reading celebration we

had guest readers come to read to our school. It was a great day of reading. On December 18th we will be having a book swap. Each student and staff member will bring three gently used books to trade. Each month staff and students will have a reading challenge to keep the students interested. We will keep you posted on our progress!


By Alexandra Smith, Spanish Teacher

Did you know that the Pioneer High School library has French and Spanish language books? Or that the library has the entire Harry Potter series in English, French, and Spanish?

There is an entire section dedicated to these foreign language books, located at the end of the fiction shelves. The collection includes popular children’s books (like Dr. Seuss), chapter books (such as Charlotte’s Web), and even young adult selections (like Twilight).

The foreign language teachers encourage all current and former Spanish and French students to check out these new books and use their language skills outside of class. Mrs. Hogan is always open to suggestions if there are books you’d like to see in the foreign language collection. Stop by the library soon and check them out!

Pioneer High School Spanish students check out the new foreign language book section at the Library Media Center. Shown left to right are: front row - Kayla Staufenberger, left, Sabina Mogavero, and Samantha Palmateer; back row - John Beyer, Christina Stephens, Carl Raymore, Nathan Palmisano, Lauren Pleace, Señorita Smith, and library media specialist Stephanie Hogan.

Foreign Language Books Add Spice to LMC . . .

Students in the Grades 7-8 Orchestra performed with their sixth grade counterparts at the middle school on Monday, November 24, under the direction of Mrs. Emily Gervase.

Holiday Strings


Busy Start for First LEGO League Team

The Pioneer Brick Panthers First LEGO League team has had a busy fall preparing for a regional competition at Houghton College. Unfortunately, the weather prevented Pioneer from participating, so advisors are preparing the team for other upcoming events.

“This is Pioneer’s first year participat-ing in First LEGO League (FLL), so we all (students and coaches) have a lot to learn,” said Maria Muhlbauer, one of the coaches. “I know that I am speaking for the other coaches when I say that the level of creativ-ity displayed by the team members has been astonishing.”

For those unfamiliar with FLL, it is a three-part competition. The spontaneous “Core Values” section will assess how well team members work together as a group in order to perform a specific task.

The “Project” section is more of a tradi-tional science project. Students are to research a way to innovate ways that people learn. The team must then share their innovation with a group of people who can benefit from their research. They then must create a short presentation to show the judges what they learned through the research process.

Last but not least is the “Robotics” com-ponent. Students are honing their computer programming skills in order to train a robot to complete missions. Each mission is worth a predetermined amount of points, so the team that accumulates the most points will win this section of the competition.

Above all else, the FLL sessions stress the importance of having gracious professional-ism. This means that the team must display good sportsmanship and camaraderie. The coaches agree that this is the most important takeaway from the learning process.

Stay tuned to see how Pioneer fares at its first FLL competition.

Middle School Book Fair a Success Despite ObstaclesBy Maria Muhlbauer, Library Media Spe-cialist

After getting back on track after a MA-JOR snow event in Western New York, it was time for the annual Pioneer Middle School Fall Book Fair (although it felt more like a winter book fair).

Sadly, the arrival of the Book Fair was delayed due to the storm. We were originally hoping to have everything up and running for school on Monday, November 24, but we were unable to get it set up until 12:30 p.m., which still left a little time for folks to browse.

Over the next two days, the book fair was open during the parent/teacher conference times. This was a great time to get a head start on holiday shopping. The popular titles this year included Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul and the Minecraft handbooks.

Despite the snowy start, the book fair was very successful and raised $636.07 for our library. This money will be used to pur-chase new books and supplies for the library makerspace.

Thank you to all who supported the book fair! If you are still interested in shopping for books, our online book fair is available through December 6 at bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/pioneermiddleschool9

Happy shopping!


What’s Happening in LOTE?

The Pioneer Middle School Languages Other Than English (LOTE) department has been up to a lot of cultural celebrations in the last two months!

In October, we celebrated Hispanic Her-itage month with a variety of activities for all students of Pioneer Middle School. In one of the activities students were to “Find Joaquin” throughout the school, and use their own En-glish language to figure out Spanish words.

They also learned about culture and his-tory. For example, there was a great “El Día de los Muertos” video, and they participated in Spanish cultural and historical trivia. Any-one who had the correct answer was eligible to win a chance to break a piñata in the 8th grade Spanish room. What fun!

In November, we celebrated National French Week, as each day focused on a spe-cial French-speaking country. Monday was France, Tuesday was Canada, Wednesday was Switzerland, Thursday was Madagascar, and Friday was America. Students ate Poutine, sewed berets, enjoyed crêpes, and had the opportunity to talk to a French exchange student, Leila, in French (and English)! We had a blast!

Sports Gear Day at Arcade Elementary

The Pioneer High School Guidance Department recently held another event in its Career Speaker series. The theme for November was jobs in the visual arts field. Shown is high school ceramics teacher Scott Losi, along with Liz Bryson (center), coordinator of Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s Education Program, and Kelly Macagnone, School Program Coordinator in the Education Department at the Albright-Knox. About 50 high school students joined the discussion as Scott, Liz and Kelly explored careers in museums, graphic arts, education, development, marketing and finance. Each of the speakers also talked about the ways in which they prepared for their careers in both high school and college.

Career Speaker Series at H. S.First grade students of Mrs. Joy Cary show off their finest fan paraphernalia during sports gear day on Nov.14. From left: Harley Kinmartin, Kennedy Whiting, Taren George, Morgan Payne, and Gage Marinaccio.

Seventh Grade French Teacher Kate Welker (left) makes crepes along with Substitute Teacher Sue Groves.


NHS Inducts 18By NHS Advisors Stephanie Hogan and Bridget Yansick

The Pioneer chapter of National Honor Society (NHS) held its annual induction ceremony on Monday, November 24, in the

Members of the National Honor Society shown left to right at the 2014 induction ceremony: front row - Joseph Rice, Ethan Darling, Chris Flood, Treasurer Amy Breslin, Secretary Ashlee Gray, President Brooke Rule, Vice President Sam Tillinghast, Historian Austin Morgan, Brandon Schloss, Zachary Madden, Christopher Darling, Jesse Molik, and Tom Holmes; second row - Kelsey O’Hare, Allison Herrick, Trevor Fisher, Kristi Flanigan, Emily McAfee, Megan Sonner, Kaitie Wood, Scott Mann, Courtney Perkins, Audrey Granger, Mary Wischman, and John Beyer; third row - Amanda Conrad, Megan Hill, Tristan McAfee, Lucille Peterson, Kristie Drzewiecki, and Shania Platt; fourth row - Erin Kirsch, Kaleigh Cass, Samantha Duttry, Elayna Kinney, Kaitlyn Johnson, Erika Wittmeyer, Tricia Hulton, Kristen Callanan, Michael Buziak, Caroline Kolasny, Natalie Sobczak, Taylor Plowe, and Allexus Hammond; back row - Joey Bragg and Christina Stephens. Not pictured: Kenny Blesy, Sarah Gambino-Fontaine, Kara Heitzman, Sabina Mogavero, and Katelyn Slomba.

George C. Crawford Auditorium. Induct-ees included: Amanda Conrad, Christopher Darling, Ethan Darling, Kristie Drzewiecki, Trevor Fisher, Kristi Flanigan, Chris Flood, Megan Hill, Zachary Madden, Scott Mann, Emily McAfee, Tristan McAfee, Lucille Pe-terson, Joseph Rice, Brandon Schloss, Kate-lyn Slomba, Megan Sonner, and Kaitie Wood.

In order to be inducted into NHS, students must maintain a 90.0 average. Once it was determined that they qualified academically, they each completed an application and essay demonstrating their service, leadership, and character. The 18 students inducted this year strongly exhibited all of these characteristics. Congratulations to all the new members.

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BOARD OF EDUCATIONMary Lou Merlau, PresidentMelissa Nocera-Collins, Vice PresidentRaymond Haberer, District ClerkTom Lewis, Edward McCarthy, Tanya Nickerson, Linda Rule, Darla Schwab, Jimmy Yansick

CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIONDr. Sharon Huff, Superintendent of SchoolsNicholas Silvaroli, Assistant SuperintendentMichael Lucow, Director of Special EducationJames Graczyk, Director of Physical Education, Health & AthleticsRobert Morgan, Director of Instructional Technology & Computer OperationsMichael Irizarry, Director of Curriculum & InstructionMark Schultz, High School PrincipalMelissa Prorok, Middle School PrincipalMellisa Devitt, Arcade Elementary PrincipalTiffany Giannicchi, Delevan Elementary PrincipalJeannene Wagner, Administrator on Special Assignment

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