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!

GBS Music on Channel 11 WTTW

On Wednesday, April 30, Jim Shellard and Marty Sirvatka appeared on channel 11 WTTW at 7 p.m. on the television news show, Chicago Tonight. They were interviewed about the National GRAMMY award recently received by the GBS Music Department. In addition, Evelyn Chou, Dolores Hackett, Amy Lewin, Karlee Nussbaum, Kristin Olsen, Neil Carson, Dan Carson, Jon Galanis, John Nichols and Chris LoPresti performed.

Thank you all for sharing your talents.

Titan Pom Tryout Information

Tryouts for upcoming Pom positions for the varsity and junior varsity will be held on May 9th beginning at 3:30 p.m. Clinics to prepare for tryouts will be held on May 6,7, and 8th from 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. in the Fieldhouse Dance room. Evaluation materials are available in the student activities office now. If you have questions, please contact Ms. Manning at 486-4661.