GBS Tennis Team Takes 11th in State

Congratulations to the GBS Tennis Team for finishing 11th in state. State Qualifiers were doubles players, Adam Teitelbaum & Vedran Svraka as well as Tommy McNichols & Fred Tye. Junior, Michael Moore finihshed 5th in State in Singles and was named First Team All State for the second year in a row.

Congratulations to coach Larry Faulkner and the entire tennis team.

GBS Girls' Soccer Team wins Sectional

Congratulations to the GBS Girls' Soccer Team for beating New Trier 1 - 0 Thursday, May 22, 2008 to win their sectional.

During Monday's playoff game the team ended their season to St. Ignatius. Congratulations to our team for their outstanding season.

The girls accomplishments this year include:
* 18-game unbeaten streak
* 12-game winning streak
* 21-3-1 overall record (NEW SCHOOL RECORD)
* IHSA Sectional Title - 1997 and 2008.

Thank you Titans!

GBS Boys' Water Polo Team Earns 3rd in State

The GBS Boys' Water Polo Team earned 3rd in the state at Stevenson HS on Saturday, May 17th. Congratulations to the team for their amazing season and for claiming 3rd in the state by defeating Sandburg HS 7 - 6! See the meet results or see photos (see 25 - 29 for GBS) from the Tribune.

GBOC Teacher Anne Blair Named National Association of Special Education Teachers' Outstanding Special Education Teacher

District 225 joins Doug Strong, the Instructional Supervisor of our Off Campus Program, in being thrilled to announce that GBOC teacher, Anne Blair is the 2007-2008 winner of the Outstanding Special Education Teacher Award from the National Association of Special Education Teachers!

This award is bestowed on special education teachers who have demonstrated outstanding achievement as a teacher in the field of special education. It recognizes and rewards the special skills and excellence of special education teachers throughout the United States.

Candidates are judged based upon the following criteria:

• Teaching
• Curriculum Development
• Engagements with Students in Educational Activities (outside of classroom)
• Other Demonstrations of Quality Teaching
• Relationships with Students, Parents, Colleagues, Administrators, etc.
• Teaching Honors, Awards, or Recognition
• Teaching Innovations
• Service (outside of classroom)
• Community Service
• Other Areas of Service
  Service Honors, Awards, or Recognition
• Service to Professional Organizations
• Service within School District
  Professional Activities
• Awards and/or Certifications
• Membership/Participation in Professional Organizations
• Other Contributions to the Profession
• Professional Development and/or Continued Education Publication
• Research

Congratulations Ms. Blair.

Students in the Advanced Television Production Class Place in the Chicagoland Student Video Festival

Students in the Advanced Television Production Class competed in the Chicagoland Student Video Festival on April 28. The Chicagoland Student Video Festival is the largest student video festival in Illinois and attracts over 60 schools and 400 contestants.

GBSreturned home with several impressive achievements:

Logan Cascia returned with three awards:2nd place in dramatic narrative with "Outre."1st place in humorous narrative with “The Chaotic Adventures of Ed the Pencil”and finally, Logan won the prestigious $500 Nadine Sterk Scholarship for Excellence in Television Production.

Greg Kubik and Jack Sormaz placed first in video documentary with their "Mission for Mississippi" video. The documentary tells of the Interact Club's trip to Mississippi to work with Habitat for Humanity building homes for people who lost their's in Hurricane Katrina.

Naoki Izumo placed 1st in the Commercial Production.

Jackie Durment placed 3rd in Live Performing Arts Directing.

Andrew Austin and Sara Levi placed 2nd in the News Feature category with "The Making of Chaos."

Mark Helenowski placed 3rd in the News Story category for his story: "Tommy Faust: A Titan Hero."

Dan Kruzel bought home two awards: 3rd place in the video documentary category for his feature on ceramics teacher Kurt Webb; and 2nd place in Live Performing Arts Directing.

Congratulations GBS Advanced Television and Mark Ferguson.

Solace and Nine Audition Results

Thanks to all who auditioned for next year’s acappella groups.
We listened to over 70 singers.
Below are the names of the members
of the new Solace and NINE 2008-09



Solace

Danielle DeWitt
Alexis Ekeberg
Sarah Gamalinda
Smitha James
Anna Karadzhova
Emily Nichols
Kristin Olsen
Catherine Poulos
Traci Sarli
Katie Zarletti



NINE

Dan Carson
Neil Carson
Michael Cullum
Ryan Kirby
Arun Kousik
Josh Propp
Jim Ryan
John Splithoff
Jimmy Villaflor

GBS Horticulture Team wins 18th State Championship

Congratulations to Horticulture teacher Jeff Yordy and his team for winning the Horticulture State Championship.

Members who competed included:

• Dimple Rana (2nd place in state)
• Erin McBride (3rd place in state)
• Luke Hampton (6th place in state)
• Ieva Pucinskaite
• Crystal Collado
• Auri Mujica
• Bridget Ieronimo

Grammy Presentation Wednesday, May 7th

THE GRAMMY FOUNDATION® announced this year's Grammy Signature Schools and has named Glenbrook South High School as the National GRAMMY Signature School.

According to their press release, "The National GRAMMY Signature School will receive $10,000, and the two remaining Gold schools each will receive $5,000. The recipients are determined by a panel of top music educators and professionals."

Congratulations to our music program for the well deserved honor of being the National GRAMMY Signature School. State Representative Elizabeth Coulson is putting forth a resolution in the Illinois House of Representatives on Thursday, May 1, 2008 and Village President Kerry Cummings is putting forth a resolution in the Village of Glenview on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 to celebrate this significant honor.

A ceremony to honor this amazing accomplishment will occur on May 7, 2008. There will be a press conference at 6:30 p.m. in the Student Activities Center at Glenbrook South followed by an awards ceremony at 7:00 p.m. in the Watson Auditorium. The ceremony will include special arrangements by the music department and the Grammy presentation. The regularly scheduled band concert will follow.

GBS Radio Placed 3rd in National John Drury Radio Awards

GBS Radio placed 3rd overall in this year's national John Drury Radio Awards. Radio also took 3rd overall in the “Best High School Radio Station” Category. Individual awards included Caitlin Staniec & Brian Siegel, 1st Place Sportscast; Courtney Cronin, 2nd Place Sportscast; Brian Foss, 2nd Place News Feature Story; Andrew McCarthy, Robbie Levin, Michelle Nitahara, Kevin Brownell, Kevin Pratt, Margret Juravic, Ian Pragovich, Carolyn Miller, 2nd Place Radio Drama; Jackson Garvey, Courtney Cronin, Alex Goslin, 3rd Place Sports Play-By-Play.

Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Oswald and the entire radio program.

GBS Boys' Gymnastics Team Qualifies for State

The GBS Boys' Gymnastic Team are among the eight teams to qualify for the state meet being held at Barrington HS. The team championship will be held on Friday, May 9th.

The boys listed below also qualified to compete for individual honors at the state meet on Saturday, May 10th. To qualify for competition for individual honors one must be an out-right qualifier by placing in the top five finishers on an event in the sectional meet or qualify at-large by being in the top 25 scores of all gymnasts who competed in the sectional meets who did not qualify out-right.

Individual Qualifiers:

• Senior Steve Deutsch: all around, floor, pommels, rings, vault, parallel bars and high-bar
• Senior Joe Giallombardo: all around, parallel bars, rings, vault, parallel bars and high-bar
• Senior Alex Gerena: rings
• Senior Andy Park: parallel bars
• Freshman Adam Klosowiak: floor, vault and high-bar

Congratulations and good luck Titans!

GBS Math Team - 8th in ICTM State Competition

The GBS Math team took an impressive eighth place overall at the ICTM state competition in Champaign, IL on April 26th. Eighth in State is very impressive considering the number of great schools in Illinois, all of which are competing at this contest.

Results:

The Freshmen-Sophomore “2-person team” took 8th place in the state.
The Junior Team took 3rd place.
The Junior-Senior 8 person team took 4th place.
The Calculator team took 3rd place.
Oralist, Winston Luo, took 3rd place.
and…
The Senior Team took 2nd place in the state!

Special individual awards at the competition went to:

2nd place Junior, Michael Tarczon
2nd place Senior, Winston Luo

A special congratulations go to Ben Barber, Joseph Kim, Winston Luo, Jordan Nach, Danie Rajchwald, and Matt Sada for the highest finish by the Senior team in school history. Congratulations to our Seniors and to the entire math team for an outstanding season!

GBS Radio Takes Third at John Drury

Glenbrook South Radio placed 3rd overall in this year's national John Drury Radio Awards. The students also brought home the following:

Caitlin Staniec & Brian Siegel- 1st Place Sportscast "University of Florida Athletics"

Courtney Cronin- 2nd Place Sportscast "Varsity Men's Basketball Preview"

Brian Foss- 2nd Place News Feature Story "Silencing Schools"

Andrew McCarthy, Robbie Levin, Michelle Nitahara, Kevin Brownell, Kevin Pratt, Margret Juravic, Ian Pragovich, Carolyn Miller- 2nd Place Radio Drama "Non-Sequitur"

Jackson Garvey, Courtney Cronin, Alex Goslin- 3rd Place Sports Play-by-Play "New Trier at GBS Hoops"

Congratulations to Dr. Oswald and the GBS Radio crew!