From the Schoolhouse
School Dates to Remember
April 12 – area track meet in Wink; April 13 – JV district tennis meet in Mertzon and junior high tennis meet in Forsan; April 20 - junior high district tennis meet in Garden City; April 29 – band concert and sight reading contest in Crane; May 14 – UIL Banquet; May 18 – junior-senior prom: May 19 – baccalaureate service; May 23 – graduation.
Bearkat Booster Club News
By Nancy Hillger
The Bearkat Booster Club will host the 2002 UIL Banquet May 14 at 6 p.m. at the Community Center. A meal will be served and then we will recognize students who participated in UIL events during this school year. Tickets are $10 per person and are available at the high school office and also from Nancy Hillger or Tibby Niehues. If you plan to attend, please purchase your ticket by May 7 so we can get a meal count. Come and see what an exciting year we had and all the accomplishments of our students.
Also, thanks for supporting the booster club this year. All your work and donations were greatly appreciated.
GCISD Sends Math, Science Team to State
Garden City’s Texas Math and Science Coach’s Association team will compete at the state meet April 13 in San Antonio in the following events: Wade Jansa in Number Sense, Mathematics, and Science; Amy Multer in Number Sense, Calculator, Mathematics, and Science; Whitney Kellermeier in Mathematics; Lyza Ann Lopez in Science; Taylor Niehues in Number Sense, Calculator, Mathematics, and Science; Colton Schwartz in Number Sense, Mathematics, and Science; Cade Halfmann in Calculator, Mathematics, and Science; Jason Flores in Calculator; Tyler Bednar in Number Sense, Calculator, and Mathematics; Cory Multer in Science, and Shaun Maxie in Calculator.
The final state qualifying meet for the TMSCA was held in Seminole March 9. Results of the meet are as follows: Science 6th grade -- Wade Jansa 1st, Amy Multer 2nd, Lyza Ann Lopez 3rd, Eric Hirt 4th, Whitney Kellermeier 5th, Analisa Gonzales 6th. Science 7th grade -- Cade Halfmann 2nd, Colton Schwartz 4th, Jason Flores 6th.
Science 8th grade -- Cory Multer 3rd, Shaun Maxie 4th, Tyler Bednar 5th, and Angel Rodriquez 6th. Number Sense 6th grade - Wade Jansa 1st, Amy Multer 2nd, Whitney Kellemeier 5th, Eric Hirt 7th, Lyza Ann Lopez 7th, Analisa Gonzales 10th
Number Sense 7th grade -- Colton Schwartz 2nd, Jason Flores 4th, Cade Halfmann 7th. Number Sense 8th grade -- Tyler Bednar 1st, Shaun Maxie 7th, Cory Multer 8th, Angel Rodriquez 10th
Calculator 6th grade -- Amy Multer 3rd, Lyza Ann Lopez 4th, Whitney Kellermeier 5th, Wade Jansa 6th, Analisa Gonzales 8th, Eric Hirt 9th. Calculator 7th grade -- Cade Halfmann 1st, Jason Flores 2nd, Colton Schwartz 4th Calculator 8th grade -- Tyler Bednar 2nd, Shaun Maxie 4th, Cory Multer 7th, Angel Rodriquez 8th
Mathematics 6th grade -- Amy Multer 1st, Wade Jansa 2nd, Whitney Kellermeier 3rd, Lyza Ann Lopez 4th, Eric Hirt 7th, Analisa Gonzales 10th Mathematics 7th grade -- Colton Schwartz 1st, Cade Halfmann 2nd, Jason Flores 7th Mathematics 8th grade --Tyler Bednar 2nd, Angel Rodriquez 5th, Cory Multer 6th, Shaun Maxie 7th
The number sense team placed 1st. Members were Wade Jansa, Colton Schwartz, Tyler Bednar, and Amy Multer.
The mathematics team placed 1st. Members were Colton Schwartz, Tyler Bednar, Cade Halfmann, and Amy Multer.
The science team placed 2nd. Members were Wade Jansa, Cory Multer, Colton Schwartz, and Cade Halfmann.
The calculator team placed 2nd. Members were Tyler Bednar, Shaun Maxie, Cade Halfmann, and Jason Flores.
GCHS Business Professionals Compete at State
Ten GCHS members of the Business Professionals of America Club, accompanied by sponsor Reta Bell, recently competed in the state contest in Houston. No one advanced to the national level.
Curtis Eggemeyer competed in Banking and Finance and Administrative Support Team, Collene Cox in Administrative Support Team, Boyd Batla in Administrative Support Team, Lori Hoelscher in Advanced Accounting, Ashley Hirt in Advanced Office Systems and Procedures, Kristina Scott in Integrated Office Applications, Daniel Martinez in Spread Sheet Applications, Kim Webb in Database Applications, Amanda Henson in Computerized Accounting, and Chase Burks in Keyboarding Procedures.
Of the 15 students who participated in the BPA regional contest, 14 placed. Qualifying as state alternates were: Collene Cox in Desktop Publishing, Boyd Batla in Advanced Word Processing Skills, Lisa Eggemeyer in Legal Office Procedures, Keith Batla in Fundamental Accounting, Samuel Sanchez in Computer–Aided Graphics, and Anna Flores in Basic Office Systems and Procedures.
Several Bearkats Advance to UIL Academic Regionals
GCHS students were strong competitors at the District UIL Academic Meet in Odessa Mar. 23 and several qualified for regionals to be held in Levelland April 19. Jessica Hoch advanced to regional competition in Prose and in Accounting, along with Boyd Batla and Daniel Martinez in Computer Applications, and Yvonne Escamilla, T.J. Pelzel, and David Neufeld in Computer Science.
With 10 schools competing at the March meet, Garden City students received the following places: Jessica Hoch -- 1st in Prose, 2nd in Accounting; Leslie Batla -- 6th in Accounting; Boyd Batla -- 1st in Computer Applications; Daniel Martinez -- 2nd in Computer Applications; Samuel Sanchez -- 6th in Computer Applications; Drew Plagens -- 4th in Current Events; Brecklyn Hughes -- 5th in Social Studies; Keith Batla -- 6th in Science; Yvonne Escamilla -- 3rd in Computer Science; T.J. Pelzel -- 4th in Computer Science; David Neufeld -- 7th in Computer Science.
The Computer Science Team placed first and the Accounting Team placed second.
Coaches were Jerry Cannon, Reta Bell, Jill Tubbs, Jimmy Fine, Randy Gartman, and Linda Jones.
Boys Go to Area Track Competition
Bearkat varsity boys finished 3rd and the JV finished 5th in the district meet and some will compete in the area meet.
Those varsity athletes, with district finishes in parenthesis, are: T. J. Pelzel, shot put (3rd), discus (2nd); Kendall Goodwin, high jump (3rd), long jump (1st), triple jump (1st), 1600 relay (3rd); Mitch Rider, 110 hurdles (4th); Brian Hillger, 100 (1st), 200 (1st), 1600 relay (3rd); Anthony Hoelscher, 400 (6th), 1600 relay (3rd); Tyler Coats, 1600 relay (3rd).
Placing in the JV division were: Blake Chudej, 110 hurdles (2nd), 300 hurdles (3rd); Robert Lopez, 100 (1st); Wade Machicek, 400 (4th); Wade Machicek, Blake Chudej, Samuel Sanchez and Alonzo Talamantes, 1600 relay (6th); Daniel Martinez, Wade Machicek, Trey Hillger, Robert Lopez, 400 relay (6th); Logan Willis, 1600 (3rd), 3200 (2nd); Samuel Sanchez, 3200 (5th).
Other members who competed in both the varsity and JV divisions were: Drew Plagens, Josh Schmitz, Justin Crowley, Matthew Cmerek, Matthew Frysak, David Neufeld, Tim Schniers, Taylor Willis and Colby Hirt.