Classen News: April 9, 2008

**ATTENTION 8^TH GRADE PARENTS**

The 8^th grade Bridging Committee and your student have been working very hard towards our Bridging Ceremony to be held Friday, May 16^th, 2008. This week, a packet of very important information has gone home with your 8^th grade student, so if you have not seen it, please ask them if they have it to give to you. In this packet contains a “Bridging Information and Registration Form,” a “Comet Congratulations” form and a “Class of 2012” form. (A picture form was sent from Ms. Curry last week) If your child does not have a packet, have them pick one up in Ms. Allen’s room (B308) before this Friday the 11th.

Dates to remember:

1. T-shirt Form w/ money due – Monday, April 14^th.

2. 2 student pictures due – Wednesday, April 16^th.

3. Registration Form w/ money due – Friday, April 18^th.

4. Comet Congratulations due – Thursday, May 1^st.

5. Bridging Ceremony – Friday, May 16^th at 6:30 p.m.

If you have questions regarding the 8^th Grade Bridging Ceremony, please contact Bridging Chair Christi Hill-Savage (Christi@SWATokc.com or 848-6176) or Ms. Curry in the counseling dept. (dmcurry@okcps.org or 962-0252) or Ms. Allen (lkallen@okcps.org)

**The Counseling Department Needs your Help!!**

Many of you have asked, “How can I help?” Well, we have an answer for you – NEXT WEEK!! J

CRT testing is quickly approaching and the counselors are in need of adult monitors all day for several dates in the month of April.

1. Monday, April 14^th – need 2 monitors from 7:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. (There will be a lunch break from approx.10:40 to 11:20).

2. Tuesday, April 15^th – need 2 monitors same as above.

3. Wednesday, April 16^th – need 2 monitors same as above.

4. Thursday, April 17^th – need 2 monitors same as above.

5. Friday, April 18^th – need 2 monitors same as above.

6. Tuesday, April 22^nd – need 11 monitors from 7:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. (There will be a lunch break from approx.10:40 to 11:20). The entire 6^th and 7^th grade will be testing that day.

7. Wednesday, April 23^rd – need 5 monitors from 7:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. (There will be a lunch break from approx.10:40 to 11:20). The entire 8^thgrade will be testing that day.

The end of the month, they will also need monitors for End of Instruction testing – t.b.a.

If you can help any or several of these dates, it will be greatly appreciated – we couldn’t do it without you!! To help, please reply to Christi Hill-Savage at Christi@SWATokc.com or 848-6176.

Classen Science students won over $600 at the State Science Fair last week.

Calvin Layman 4^th with $15

Pratika Goparaju 3^rd with $25

Audrey Matheny 3^rd with $25

Honieh Sowdagar 2^nd with $40

Zack Baretto 2^nd with $40

Jonathan Sergent 2^nd with $40

August Reiger 2^nd with $40

Amanda Ahadizadeh 1^st with $50

Supreeth Mannava & Aaron Roe 1^st with $50

Gerard Franks 4^th

^{Asheema Pruthi 4th}

Kelsey DeJesus - Judges award with $15

Cooper Waltz & Allie Burns 4^th place

Christina Parks & Megan Pantellia

1^st in ISEF and 2^nd in OJAS with $115 and a special award

Sophia Hackney 1^st in category, 3^rd overall with $125

Chris Chan 1^st in category and 2^nd overall with $150

2008 OU BIG EVENT/CSAS BIG HELP BY THE NUMBERS

150+ CSAS student Big Helpers (many of whom were volunteers)

100+ Rolls of masking tape

90 SOONER Volunteers (including members of the Pride of Oklahoma Marching Band, Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, & Delta Sigma Pi business fraternity)

71 gallons of FREE paint (thank you Gibb family and Kwall Paint)

40 + CSAS parent volunteers

10 + CSAS teacher volunteers

7 classrooms painted: Warner, Lea, Kellum, Thomas, Wells, Vanderlugt, Madron

4 or was it 5? pillars encased (thank you Marc and Alec Hull )

2 finally dumped rows of theater seats

1 cafeteria painted (led by Ms. Stafford & Neka & Laura)

1 hall painted (behind door number A114)

1 gym foyer painted (CSAS student-led project)

1 indescribable wall repaired and multiple holes patched.

(thank you Lyal Grissom – who drove up from Noble)

1 termite-eaten windowsill replaced (Thanks Susan Webb & Neill Chaffin)

1 wall from last year finished by Mr. Holzberger

1 Giant salad & a ton of snacks consumed (Special thanks Hendrix family)

dozens of brushes taken home for cleaning (thank you Kitchen Sisters)

1200 bottles of water & a pallet of plastic (Thank you Santa Claus)

0 rooms look worse than they did before!

Yet to come but happening soon:

1 more very large hole repaired (Thank you in advance Daniel Castano)

1 bulletin board built & mounted in C Hall (Thanks again Marc Hull)

1 more refrigerator disposed of (just when we thought there couldn’t be any more.)

A bit more cleanup to be done – everyone invited to check the cafeteria floor & tackle any missed drips, spills, footprints

SHOW ME THE MONEY

(We have figured out that this project can be a fundraiser… still accepting contributions! Drop off check with Ms. Seda – payable to CSAS PTSA with OUBE/Big Help in memo)

$ Raised ________ (tba)

$ Spent _________ (tba)

# tables, chairs, shelves purchased _______ (tba)

More Thank Yous:

Tony Rupert, Pat “who-started-it-all” Mahoney & Paul Middleton (who should both have received hazardous duty pay this year), Karin (thanks again) Stafford, Marti (we finally found the buckets) Sawyer, Sherwin-Williams, Steve’s Wholesale, WACO, OK State Surplus, Ronnie Ketch, Scott McAdoo, Valerie Harris, Gina Bonner, Mary “Little Big Help” Ngyuen, Alyssa Kennemer, Sam Tran, Darshini “Big Help” Murthurajah, Kevin “3daysinarow” Higuchi, Nhu Vu, the Go-fers, Neka Shultz & Laura Murray, Mildred Lopez, Bessie Lopez, Ms. Madron’s personal painters, Marria & Tristan Bratcher (batting clean up), Lynne Zoch, Kaleb (OU Supply Chair) Potter, the amazing Laymon family (especially Rosie ), Kim “the tireless” Hoang, Brian Hoang, John Nguyen, Susan “the intrepid” Webb, Zaida “Dr. Warner’s Girl Friday” Shilling, Trina “ditto Ms. V” Morrison, Pam Newby and friend Pam, Becky “need any help?” Patten, Eaton York, The Marvelous Morrows (Steve & Paula each supervised rooms as liaisons for OUBE teachers), Dixie “I’m all yours” Hendrix, Brett “fearless leader” Conner, Christi “gotta paint” Savage, Laura & the custodial crew, Pauline the cafeteria lady, Reed Savage, Daniel Solis, Corey Lamb and her attention to detail, Courtney Christine Evans-Kiplinger, Ava Puckett, Karen Thurston & Gehrig, Mary Scott, John and Marjorie Dew, Robert Frazier, Phil Reid, Alex Do, Gary Shilling, Sean Smith, Lisa “yes we can” Modrall, Reggie Irons, Melissa Foy, Bea Scofield, Angela, Helen Gaudin, Jamie & David Hunt, Genea Valeion, Robin “I can get it for you wholesale for free” Eaton, Jake “water boy” Rupert, Jonah Gerth, Jacci Rodgers, Lou Holman, Adam Gratch, the Kitchen Sisters Christa Rozin and Janiece Gratch , the Kathy “tool time” Gibb, the unflappable Liz Hull, Brooks “first responder” Ray, Carmen & Carter McBride, Sue “how do I make out my check?” Ryan, Angi Shaffer, Kirk & Julie Fredrickson, Mary Baker, Jennifer Arlan, Aaron Rozin, Kiara Ealy, Kaci Jonte, Tichina Williams, Pollye McCown, John Porter, Kelly Martin, James & Judy Chen, Jean& Ben & Lydia Hill, Michelle Moore, Ali & Sam, Summer Webb, Mark Nakmali, Kinyon & Braxton Savage, Taylor Patry, Jacob Hunt, Charlotte Smith, Alix Qualls, Desiree Singer, Chenise Nakashani, Nyssa Vazquez, Nadya Vasquez, Nick Rupert, Annie Dang, Reann Garrett, Shravanthi Mannava, Monet Olorunnisomo, Maky Nguyen, Alexis Embry, Ayeh Agular, Jo Nguyen, Elsa Higuchi, Le Long, Michael Payne, Aubrey Lea, Lisa Seda, Jennifer Vanderlugt, Debbie Kellum, Seth “the apprentice” McNayr, Beth Stanbrough, Beth Croll, Ben Rupert, Ben Rossavik, Ben Hill, Thibault Lazennec, Roman Kim, Jeff Lee, Ray (the inventor of email) Tomlinson, and all of the anonymous kids who either volunteered or were conscripted to prime pillars, pick up trash, mark walls, haul water, scaffolding, ladders, buckets, plastic, with deepest apologies to all overlooked who deserve to be mentioned by name including but not limited to…

All of the Sooners Assigned to OUBE 2008 Job Site

Number 49

On behalf of the 21^st Century Comets,

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

Barbara “There’s no such thing as too much tape” Rupert