NAtioNAl Merit AchieveMeNt - Westmont Hilltop School District
NAtioNAl Merit AchieveMeNt - Westmont Hilltop School District
NAtioNAl Merit AchieveMeNt - Westmont Hilltop School District
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citizenShip & community recognition<br />
Perfect Attendance Award<br />
A student with a strong work ethic may not be able to achieve perfect<br />
attendance for many valid reasons; but students with perfect attendance have<br />
certainly demonstrated their determination to succeed through strong evidence<br />
of work ethic and enthusiastic participation. At the middle school, students who<br />
were awarded the Perfect Attendance Award were never dismissed from school<br />
(except for school-related events) and these students were never tardy coming to<br />
school. Punctuality is a noteworthy achievement in addition to their outstanding<br />
attendance records, and it provides an acknowledgement for pre-high school<br />
students who have already developed an important skill that employers will<br />
value upon graduation. The students in the accompanying picture have earned<br />
the perfect attendance award.<br />
Grade 5<br />
Aunna Yingling<br />
Grade 6<br />
Michelle Concannon<br />
Alec Geibig<br />
Gregory Heider<br />
Alana Somerville<br />
Middle <strong>School</strong> Perfect Attendance: Row 1 – Devon Gilbert, Alana Somerville, Aunna Yingling, Greg<br />
Heider, Alec Geibig Row 2 - Ashlyn Bulas, Taylor Somerville, Aaron Marko, Michelle Concannon, John Minnick<br />
Key club Award<br />
“Citizenship & Community Recognition”<br />
Grade 7<br />
John Minnick<br />
Grade 8<br />
Ashlyn Bulas<br />
Devon Gilbert<br />
Aaron Marko<br />
Taylor Somerville<br />
Stephen Daniel Legath<br />
This year’s Key Club award goes to Stephen Daniel Legath. Key Club, under<br />
the capable leadership of high school teacher Janice Layton, is dedicated to serving<br />
our school and community. This year, Key Club was led by officers Stephen Legath<br />
(President), Andrea Ghezzi (Vice President), Britney Smith (Secretary), Kyle Kunkle<br />
(Treasurer), and Nicole Simmons (Webmaster). The year began with participation<br />
in the 2nd annual Homecoming Community BBQ with hot chocolate sales and the<br />
hit of the night—the fish bowl game. Key Club members served the Senior Citizens’<br />
Luncheon in November. In December, Key Club members baked cookies to raise<br />
money for Cookies for Kids Cancer. Over the winter months, Key Club assisted with<br />
the elementary school blood drive, and sold candy bars for Valentine’s Day with all<br />
of the profits going to a “No-Kill” Animal Shelter. This spring, Key Club participated<br />
in Daffodil Days, assisting in daffodil sales to raise money for the American Cancer<br />
Society. Key Club also assisted in the Spring Campus Clean-up, where members suited<br />
up in safety gear and walked around the high school campus and neighborhood<br />
picking up trash and litter that was left from the winter months. Key Club had a very<br />
successful year and plans to grow in the coming years at <strong>Westmont</strong> <strong>Hilltop</strong> High<br />
<strong>School</strong>.<br />
Bullying Prevention is a<br />
community initiative<br />
The WHSD invited the community<br />
to an event highlighting the bullying<br />
prevention programs available district<br />
wide (along with issues connected to<br />
cyber-bullying). The district hosted the<br />
event at the middle school entitled “ABC<br />
Night.” ABC stands for Anti-Bullying<br />
Community. Highlighting the evening’s<br />
activities were presenters Karla Good,<br />
the elementary and middle school’s<br />
Olweus Bully Prevention Program<br />
coordinator, and Detective Julie Wagner<br />
of the Johnstown Police Department.<br />
We invited our entire community<br />
to become an ABC (Anti-Bullying<br />
Community).<br />
Westy’s Angels<br />
At the middle school, Westy’s<br />
Angels also participated in the<br />
American Cancer Society’s Daffodil<br />
Days. The Angels sold bunches of<br />
daffodils, potted daffodils, and the<br />
Boyd’s Bear with daffodils to benefit the<br />
American Cancer Society. This was only<br />
one example of the fine philanthropic<br />
services that this group is involved with<br />
under the direction of their advisors,<br />
Mrs. Denise Cunningham and Mrs.<br />
Barbara Miltenberger.<br />
Math-A-thon<br />
at the Middle <strong>School</strong><br />
Grade 5 students at the middle<br />
school raised a total of $4,311.00 this<br />
year alone, and since 2005, the students<br />
have raised $20,574.25 for the patients of<br />
St. Jude’s.<br />
Middle <strong>School</strong> collects<br />
Food for the Needy<br />
The Middle <strong>School</strong> collected over 750<br />
cans of soup, boxes of cereal, and other<br />
canned goods for a local food pantry<br />
and the Women’s Help Center. The food<br />
collection was run in conjunction with a<br />
faculty versus student basketball game,<br />
which was played December 23, resulting<br />
in fun for the middle school and food for<br />
the hungry. Middle school students helped<br />
to collect food daily, count items for the<br />
inventory, and box it for delivery, under<br />
the direction of Miss Jodi Hillegass.
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