CLASSEN AUCTION - Remember to mark your calendars for March 9th!!!!  and plan to attend this year's auction.  
 
Middle School Baseball:
Anyone interested in playing middle school baseball (boys) needs to go and see Mr. Young. 
 
Classen Track and Golf:
As of this point, we do not have a track team or a golf team at Classen.
 
Yearbook announcement: The pre-ordering period for the Classen Yearbook is over. We will have approximately 50 extra books for sale at distribution time (late May)  for the price of $40. We do not reserve copies or have a waiting list. All sales are first-come-first-serve.
 
Anthony Foster is having a concert this Saturday the 10th at  the Civic Center Little Theater.  It will be at 8:00 pm. The cost is  $7.50.
 
AMERICAN IDOL UPDATE - Anthony Foster and Michael Preston were spotted on Tuesday night's show both holding gold tickets to Hollywood.  CONGRATULATIONS and GOOD LUCK IN HOLLYWOOD!!!
 
A Middle School Dance will be held on February 9th, from 7 - 10 pm in the school cafeteria (enter & leave the building thru the front doors of the school).  The Builder's Club is sponsoring the event to raise funds for the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society to combat pediatric cancer. Tickets will be on sale next Thursday and Friday before school in front of the auditorium, at lunch in the cafeteria, and in Ms. Kingsolver's room anytime between classes.  The cost is $4 before the dance, and $5 at the door.  Dress is casual to dressy casual.  All middle school students from Classen are invited to come and have clean, safe fun together. 
 
AOL USERS - I got a notice yesterday that many aol accounts did not receive the Classen News 2/7/07.  If you fall into this category I will be glad to resend it to you or you can access on the Classen Parent Groups site or Classen SAS website.  Sorry for the inconvenience.   
 
HISTORY DAY RESULTS:
 
Senior Division Papers
 
First Place
Tory Wooley
“OKC Bombing”
Second Place
Raleigh Logan
“Triumph and Tragedy through the eyes of Shakespeare”
Third Place
Ainsley Russell
“Triumph and Tragedy: The End of the 300 Year Old Romanov Dynasty”
 
Junior Division Papers
 
First Place
Kelly Bergin
“The Triangle Shirtwaist Disaster of 1911”
Second Place
Aaron Rozin
“From a Country Divided to a Country United”
Third Place
Jacob Jones
“Gaius Julius Caesar”
 
Junior Division Individual Exhibit
 
1st Place
Alexis Buckendorff
“Collapse and Recovery”
2nd Place
Nicholas Bharucha
“Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii: Destruction of a Culture”
3rd Place
Tie:
Stephanie Hill
“Omens: Downfall of Montezuma II”
Samantha Morrison
“The Oregon Trail”
 
Senior Division Individual Exhibit
 
1st Place
Tie
Douglas Marks
“The Dirty Thirties: Oklahoma‘s Triumph over the Dust Bowl Tragedy”
Andrew Middleton
“Jerrie Cobb: Triumph and Tragedy in the Sky”
2nd Place
Aimče Kanter
“Warsaw Ghetto Uprising”
 
Senior Division Group Exhibit
 
1st Place
Jo Nguyen, Christine Schem, & Monet Olorunnisomo
“Tragedy in Uganda”
2nd Place
Kristen Berlin, Phoebe Henderson
“Jim Thorpe’s Lifetime Achievements”
3rd Place
Brian Li & Max Proctor
“The Beatles”
 
Senior Division Group Documentary
 
1st Place
Cynthia Ngo, Nhu Vu, Jessica Lie, Alyssa Kennamer
“Robert Schumann: Tragedy & Triumph of Genius”
2nd Place
Caramia Testa, Carol Coleson
“The Dust Bowl”
3rd Place
Courtney Jacobs, Elizabeth Hoang
“The Doors”
 
Senior Division Individual Documentary
1st Place
Tiffany Le
“The Life of Will Rogers”
2nd Place
George Malatinsky
“The Hungarian Uprising”
3rd Place
Nyssa Vasquez
“Joan of Arc”
 
Junior Division Individual Documentary
 
1st Place
Christopher Chan
“Gone but Not Forgotten: The Triumph & Tragedy of Arthur Ashe”
2nd Place
Mitchell Brown
“The Rise and Fall of Elvis”
3rd Place
Tie
Neil Pruthi
“Space Exploration”
Lindsay Fritts
“The Tragedy of the San Francisco Earthquake”
 
Junior Division Group Documentary
 
1st Place
Graham Carroll, Nick McCartney, Colin Morrow, Danny Vo, Alvin Ngo
“The Manhattan Project: The Destroyer of Worlds”
2nd Place
Tie
Brent Bashaw, Hunter Hinkle
“D-Day: WWII”
Fariha Rafa, Fabiana Qurashy, Najmee Salsabil
“Bangladesh Liberation War”
3rd Place
George Kurosawa, Supreeth Mannava, Jacob Melton
“The Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”
 
Junior Division Individual Performances
 
1st Place
Rachel Rodgers
“It’s All I Ever Saw: Growing Up in the Dust”
 
Junior Division Group Performances
 
1st Place
Amanda Braud, Stuart Braud, Michelle Roselle, Caroline Rutherford
“The Tragedy at Kent State”
2nd Place
Reyna Hulsey, Shantel Wallace, Evan Butler
“Titanic: the Story of Three On-Board”
3rd Place
Chad Stephenson, August Reiger, Christian Shultz
“Video Games”