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HH INSDALEIGHLIGHTSVol. 7, Issue 10 June 2007

On April 20, 19 students from the Hinsdale United Methodist Youth Group represented the church, community and the school by participating in the 2007 Cattaraugus County Youth Summit. The Youth Summit is an opportunity to recognize Cattaraugus County youth who are involved in community service, youth voice, or peer leadership. Each group was asked to make a display of their service and do a presentation. We chose our theme from the song “Lean on Me.” Our group was awarded fi rst prize for “Most Interactive Presentation for 2007.”

Allison Dzuroff and Bonnie Welch (shown in the bottom photo) were awarded the 2007 Youth Development Coalition Penguin Award. This award was presented at the 2007 Youth Summit on April 20. In order to be eligible to receive this award nominees must consistently and voluntarily serve and support others. Participation in community service, going “above and beyond” to help others was part of the criteria. Only 10 awards are given for Cattaraugus County high school youth and we are proud of these well deserving girls in this achievement.

Participating in the Youth Summit were: Bonnie Welch, Zack Howard, Allison Dzuroff, Ashley Crytzer, Michelle McCutcheon, Brittney Wielkie, Jade McCutcheon, Ashley Warfi eld, Paige Kent, Jordan Kent, Jessica Neal, Kara McCutcheon, Katie Fitzpatrick, Nick Caster, Rose Reid, Brent Liberati, Taylor Kent, Steven Neal and Angela McCutcheon with leaders Jan Bishop and Nancy Clayson. Any students wishing to participate in community service projects can contact Nancy Clayson at 557-8310.

Youth Summit spotlights teen serviceYouth Summit spotlights teen service

2 Hinsdale Highlights June 2007

Once upon a time many of us probably heard the old saying, “You think the cost of educating children is high? Try getting along in life without a good education!”

The divide between those who have at least a high-school diploma, post-secondary degrees or beyond and those who do not graduate from high school continues to grow. Take a look at the chart at right for the stark reality—the differences in yearly income for dropouts and those who graduate, have some or even a great deal of education beyond high school. Of course there are many other reasons for staying in school and getting training of some type beyond 12th grade. These include feelings of self-worth, social and cultural benefi ts, value to community and family; even life-long good health may have connections to continued education as those who stay in school learn self-discipline and the ability to wait in order to gain benefi ts rather than rely upon instant gratifi cation.

In one study, most drop-outs who were interviewed reported that they “could have, and believe should have, succeeded in school.” Many factors play into their decisions, including immaturity, boredom, lack of support, pregnancy and drug and alcohol addic-tions. Unfortunately, hard work alone is insuffi cient in bringing those dropouts into the middle class as the jobs they might have gotten in the industrial age are shrinking rapidly. Instead, they need more advanced computing skills, critical thinking, communications skills, and a strong will to be fl exible and adapt to the demands of a changing world.

A high school diploma is important to employers; even when a GED is an acceptable substitute in some fi elds, in others the differ-ence in the social and academic learning process required to earn that diploma can set apart the student as a potential employee. High school graduates have learned how to get along with people—both other students and adults—some of whom they may not have liked or admired, and have shown that they can achieve goals.

In an article in Time, 2006, the author N. Thornburgh wrote, “Dropping out of high school today is to your societal health what smoking is to your physical health, an indicator of a host of poor outcomes to follow, from low lifetime earnings to high incarcerations rates to a high likelihood that your children will drop out of high school and start the cycle anew.”

This is a challenge that we face together as a learning community—and it doesn’t start when the child is a teenager. Signs along the way such as falling behind in grade level reading, unaddressed truancy, and gradual disengagement from school set the stage well before 9th grade. As educators, parents, and community members, we must heed these signs and fi nd ways of intervening on behalf of our children.

Working together for the benefi t of Hinsdale Central students,

Judi McCarthy,Superintendent

dministration reaNotes from the Superintendent

Wise educational investments equal big returns


On Monday, May 7, the Hinsdale Guys & Gals met in the HCS cafeteria for their monthly meet-ing and dinner. The seniors enjoyed a chicken and biscuit dinner, were entertained by members of Mrs. Fuller’s instrumental music classes, and listened to budget and capital project presentations from Mrs.

Jennifer Jacquith, Business Administrator, and Mrs. Judi McCarthy, Superintendent. Every-

one agreed it was an entertaining, fi lling and informative evening!

Guys & Gals go back to school


BOARD

BRIEFS

April 2007

MINUTES• Approved minutes of Business Meet-

ing of March 28, 2007 and Workshop Meeting of April 11, 2007

FINANCIAL• Approved Warrants for the A-Fund • Approved Warrants for the C-Fund • Approved Warrants for the F-Fund • Approved Budget Status• Approved Treasurer’s Report for March

2007• Approved Extra Classroom Activity

Fund • Adopted the 2007-08 Budget in the

amount of $8,618,488• Approved the 2007-08 Property Tax

Report Card

PERSONNEL• Approved Larry McCutcheon as a

volunteer for the Girls’ Varsity Softball program

• Accepted the resignation of Sheila Freeman as a Teacher Aide

• Approved Sheila Freeman as a substi-tute teacher

• Approved Rob Blendinger as spring Weightlifting Head Coach and Chris Blocher as Weightlifting Assistant Coach

• Appointed Jennifer Jaquith to the position of Business Administrator, effective April 23, 2007 starting salary $54,500

• Accepted the letter for intent to retire prior to July 1, 2008 from Diane Varley

• Approved Jeff Kenney as student tutor

SPECIAL EDUCATION• Approved CPSE recommendations and

placements• Approved CSE recommendations and

placements

DISTRICT• Approved Bonding Resolution for

Bus #75 and Bus #29 in the amount of $99,270.03

• Accepted the bids for the used cars from J.Lowe for $551 for 1994 Olds and R. Elwood $650 for the 1997 Tau-rus

• Approved transportation requests for the 2007-08 school year for the fol-lowing students: Johnathan Rhoades and Jordyn Harasta to Southern Tier Catholic; Andrew Reiman to Archbish-

op Walsh; Joshua & Tiphany Wagner to Archbishop Walsh; Christopher and Chenoa Cousins to New Life Chris-tian; The Ruggles children to Portville Christian School

• Accepted the bid from Leonard Bus Sales in the amount of $64,756 for the 29-passenger bus pending voter ap-proval on May 15th

• Adopted the 2007-08 Cattaraugus-Alle-gany-Erie-Wyoming BOCES Adminis-trative Budget

• Voted for the following candidates to fi ll the vacancies in the annual election of members of the Board of Coop-erative Educational Services: Area 3 – Gilbert Green; Area 7 – Robert

Keenan; Area 8 – Maxine Dowler• First reading of revision to Policy 1345

– Appointment and Duties of the Inter-nal Claims Auditor

• First reading of revision to Policy 5310 – Bonding of Employees and School Board Members

• First reading of revision to Policy 5560 – Audit Committees

• Approved Friday, May 25, as a holiday added to the Memorial Day Weekend in light we had only used one snow day to date

• Approved Betty Linderman as the Head Inspector with Virginia Wilmot and Pat Wing as Clerks for the Budget Vote on May 15, 2007

• Approved the French Club trip to To-ronto May 27-28, 2007

SUPERINTENDENT• Review of Hinsdale Centrals new web-

site: www.hinsdalebobcats.org

EXECUTIVE SESSION• Adjourned to Executive Session

ADJOURNMENT• Returned to the Meeting and Adjourned

Kenney represents HCS as Big 30 scholar

On Monday, May 14, senior Jeff Kenney was Hinsdale’s representative at the Principal’s Academic Big 30 Banquet.

Jeff, along with 37 other high school scholars from our New York-Pennsylvania area, competed for one of two $1,000 scholarships, as well as individual recognition. Jeff received a beautiful “Principal’s Plaque” after the banquet honoring his scholastic achievement.

All of us at HCS wish Jeff continued success as he continues his academics after graduation at the Rochester Institute of Technology.


Don’t lose your riding privilege! Follow these rules. 1. Observer same conduct as in the classroom. 2. Be courteous, use no profane language. 3. Do not eat or drink on the bus. 4. Keep the bus clean. 5. Cooperate with the driver. 6. Do not smoke. 7. Do not be destructive. 8. Stay in your seat. 9. Keep head, hands and feet inside the bus. 10. Bus driver is authorized to assign seats.

Driver Profi le: Mr. Rod RohlBus Number 72 To the best of my knowledge Mr. Rohl has been a teacher, coach for the majority

of his career but after time went on Mr. Rohl was asked to drive bus from time to time as a last minute fi ll in driver, but then when he retired from teaching he became a full time school bus driver in 1989. He is back into coaching the football team at this point in time and of course fi nds time between bus runs to play a little golf. Some days he comes down with a sickness he calls golfi tis, and the only cure is to go play nine holes as a minimum to get feeling better. Mr. Rohl needs to be thanked for all the thousands and thousands of accident free miles he has driven with your precious cargo aboard. Keep up the good work Mr. Rohl and we all hope you don’t come down with that dreaded illness of golfi tis.

On May 3, Mr. Blendinger again took 9th-12th grade French students on a day-long trip to the home of the Sabres, Buffalo. First stopping at the Walden Gal-leria, the 36 students had lunch and their choice of shopping at any one of the 185 stores. From there they took a short bus

journey to Lasertron, where the red team soundly defeated the blue team. Then they went on to the eye opening metro that took them to Canisius College to check out campus life. After the tour they then got back on the metro to go to the downtown theatre district for dinner. Post dinner, they

returned to Shea’s Performing Arts for a live performance of “Monty Python’s Spamalot.” The French Club would like to thank the Hinsdale Administration for their continued support of such unique and cultural experiences.

French Club tours Buffalo, attends ‘Spamalot’

Transportation Talk ...

by Jay Ballard


Sports Physicals RequiredAny student planning to participate in

a fall sport must have a physical before the beginning of the season’s practices in August. Physicals will be done at school on June 5 and June 19. Students can stop at the nurse’s offi ce and pick up a health history form to be fi lled out by a par-ent/guardian. When this is returned to the nurse a time will be scheduled for a physi-cal. If you would like to have this done by your own physician, please pick up paperwork at the nurse’s offi ce or it can be printed off from the school’s website.

New Immunizations for 6th GradersThe Varicella (Chicken Pox) vaccine

and the new Tdap (Boostrix, Adacil) vac-cine are now required to enter 6th grade in New York State. Please check with your physician and send verifi cation of these to the medical offi ce prior to the start of school in the fall. If you took advantage of the immunization clinic we had in late May, your child has already had these vac-cines. Call the nurse at extension 405 if you have any questions.

Please Pick Up MedicationsIf your child has medication at the

nurse’s offi ce, please stop and pick up any that is left over. All medications will be discarded after school on the last day of classes.

Pre-K and Kindergarten PhysicalsChildren are required to have a physi-

cal done by their own physician before entering school in September. Be sure to schedule a time well before school starts so that they are all ready. While they are there discuss required immunizations with your physician to be sure your child has everything needed for school. All paper-work can be mailed or faxed to the school or turned in to the main offi ce during the summer.

Reading First Program

Thank you to all who helped make our Winter Soccer season a success. Just a reminder there are still soccer jerseys out there and we need them turned in!

We will be holding summer and fall soccer sign-ups from 6-7 p.m. at the Gile Hollow Field on: Friday, June 1; Monday, June 4; and Wednesday, June 6.

The cost is $12 per child or $30 per family. For questions or concerns, please contact Stacy Giberson at 557-2466.

Summer and fall soccer sign-upsscheduled for June 1, 4 & 6

NNotes otes from from the the NNurseurse

Here’s an example of our students hard at work in the Reading First Program. This writing about ladybugs was written by fi rst-grader Toby Nelson.


GUIDANCE CORNER

June 20Wednesday

8:15 a.m.Living

Environment

12:15 p.m.Physical Setting/

Chemistry

RCT in Global Studies*

June 15Friday

8:15 a.m.Comprehensive

English: Session Two

12:15 p.m.Comprehensive Regents Exams:

French & Spanish

RCT in Reading

June 21Thursday

8:15 a.m.Physical Setting/

Physics

RCT in U.S. History and Govt.

June 18Monday

8:15 a.m.Second Language

Profi ciency Exams: French

& Spanish

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in Writing

June 13 Wednesday

12:15 p.m.Regents in

Global History & Geography

Examination Schedule: June 2007June 14

Thursday

8:15 a.m.Comprehensive

English: Session One

RCT in Science*

12:15 p.m.Mathematics A

Mathematics B

June 19Tuesday

8:15 a.m.Physical Setting/

Earth Science

12:15 p.m.Regents in U.S.

History & Government

RCT in Mathematics*

Uniform Admission DeadlinesMorning Examinations - 10 a.m.Afternoon Examinations - 2 p.m.

* Available in Restricted Form only. Each copy of a restricted test is numbered and sealed in its own envelope and must be

returned, used or unused, to the Department at the end of the examination period.

June 22Friday

RATINGDAY

Be an Academic BoosterWe are a group made up of parents and staff. Our goal is to award

students in grades 7-12 for their academic achievements. We are looking for volunteers to help us out, whether it be with fund-raising or attend-ing monthly meetings to help with ideas. As far as fund-raising goes, we have been having 50/50 raffl es and bake sales during the boys’ and girls’ JV and Varsity games.

Our fi rst award being planned is a Spring Breakfast. If you are inter-ested in helping, please fi ll out the form below and return it to the school offi ce, or phone 557-2227, ext. 400 or 411.

Chemistry3-3:30 p.m. every Monday and Wednesday

Physics3-3:30 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday

U.S. History10 a.m. June 18

Math B3-4 p.m. May 29–31 and June 7–12

Congratulations to the following students on their college accep-tances:

Chaelyn Wielkie - SUNY Fredonia

Zachary Howard - Gannon University

Regents review schedule listed


ALL EASTERN CONFERENCEMixed Chorus Kaitlyn Kremer - Alto

CONFERENCE ALL STATEMixed ChorusKaitlyn Kremer - Alto

AREA ALL STATESenior High Mixed ChorusKaitlyn Kremer - Alto

Senior High BandJade McCutcheon – Flute IICrysania Linderman – Clarinet IIChelsea Fitzpatrick – Tenor Sax I-1Stephen Cledgett – Trombone I-1

Junior High Mixed ChorusShaughn Bryant –TenorKatie Fitzpatrick – Soprano

Junior High BandNadine Dyskant-Miller – Flute I-1Leigh Ann Cledgett – Flute I

ALL COUNTYSenior High BandJade McCutcheon – Flute ICrysania Linderman- Clarinet IChelsea Fitzpatrick – Tenor Sax Stephen Cledgett – Trombone IDevin Kinney – Tuba I-1Ashley Keesler – Percussion I-1

Junior High ChorusKatie Fitzpatrick - SopranoShaughn Bryant - TenorLarry Selph - Tenor

Junior High BandNadine Dyskant-Miller – Flute I-1Leigh Ann Cledgett – Flute IMolly Petrinec – Clarinet IIDanielle McStraw – Clarinet IIIDustin Mendell – Alto Sax IIShaughn Bryant – Trumpet IIIJordyn Shaw – Trombone II

Elementary ChorusKristyn Hayman- SopranoStephen Colley - Alto

Elementary BandFelicia Karnuth – ClarinetMatt Davis – Alto Sax

Racheal Whiteside – Alto SaxJonathan Cledgett - Percussion

SOLO FESTLEVEL VINadine Dyskant-Miller – Flute A+; A+Jade McCutcheon – Flute B+; AApril Elliott – Flute ALeigh Ann Cledgett – Flute A; ACrysania Linderman – Clarinet A; AChelsea Fitzpatrick – Tenor Sax A-; A+Stephen Cledgett – Trombone A; A+Ashley Keesler – Snare Drum A-; AShaughn Bryant - Tenor A-; A+Katie Fitzpatrick - Soprano A+

LEVEL VApril Elliott – Alto Sax ADustin Coykendall – Bari Sax B+Devin Kinney – Tuba A+

LEVEL IVJessica Neal – Bass Clarinet B+Shaughn Bryant – Trumpet A+Jonathan Cledgett – Snare Drum A

LEVEL IIITaylor Kent – Flute ExcellentMolly Petrinec – Clarinet ExcellentDustin Mendell – Alto Sax OutstandingRose Reid - Alto ExcellentAlexandria Bump - Alto Excellent

LEVEL IIChelsea Kuhs – Bassoon ExcellentJordyn Shaw – Trombone Excellent

LEVEL IBrianna Linderman – Clarinet OutstandingMatt Davis – Alto Sax ExcellentRacheal Whiteside – Alto Sax ExcellentDanielle Kenney –Alto Sax Good

Music student achievements for 2006-2007

What: Scholastic Book Fair When: May 31, June 1, 4 & 5 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Where: Hinsdale Central High School Library

This will be a BUY ONE – GET ONE FREE event! When you purchase one item, you will received another item of equal or less-er value FREE! You may even wish to donate your FREE book to a classroom of your choice or our school library. We invite you to join in the fun. Please stop in and check out all the wonderful books at our Book Fair. Also, take advantage of the great savings that the BUY ONE – GET ONE FREE event has to offer.

(NYS sales tax will be applied to purchase.)

Dates changed for Book Fair


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Hinsdale Central School3701 Main StreetHinsdale, NY 14743www.hinsdale.wnyric.org

BOARD OF EDUCATIONJohn Fitzpatrick - PresidentMark Ash - Vice PresidentJohn AmesJeffrey HewittBobbi Jo Kent

CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION Judi McCarthy, SuperintendentLaurie Edmonston, Principal Pre-K to 12Jennifer Jaquith, Business Administrator Andrea McLaughlin, Director of Pupil Personnel Services

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JUNE CALENDAR

On May 4, four seventh-graders attended the fi rst Middle School Leadership Conference in our area. Attending were (l-r) Daniel Krawczyk, Danielle Mor-gan, Ryan Crino and Angela McCutcheon. Sponsored by the Cattaraugus-Alleg-any Secondary Principal’s Association, this conference, led by national presenter Ed Garrety, offered suggestions for students and their principals to develop student leadership in their schools. In addition, the conference emphasized the goals of a positive attitude, staying focused, making good choices and having gratitude for all the “good” in each person’s life.

Hinsdale’s team of four will work with their principal and the Student Coun-cil. Meetings throughout the year will give the students greater opportunities to discuss their education and their futures.

Young leaders attend middle school conference

1 Book Fair (H.S. Library), 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

1 Heritage Days Opening Ceremonies, 6 p.m. (Town Park, Firehall)

2-3 Heritage Days Festival & Trout Derby

4-5 Book Fair (H.S. Library), 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

5 High School Concert, 7 p.m.

7 Bookmobile, 10:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.

13 Bd. of Ed. Workshop, 7 p.m.

13-21 Regents Exams

15 K-4 Picnics

15 Last Day for Pre-K

19-20 ½ Days for grades K–6, Dismissal at 11 a.m.

20 Last day for grades K-6

24 Graduation, 2 p.m.

27 Board of Ed. Business Mtg., 7 p.m.

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