“The Power of Respect is to Not Disrespect.”

- Ray Lewis

From the Principal’s Desk

At SCHS & within the

county in general we welcome you, we take pride that there

is a small town feeling here in Vevay &

that “at SCHS we are family.” This is

a great place to grow up & learn. In

the main office you will observe &

experience that the Guidance Coordi-

nator, AP, AD, and Principal truly operate with an open door policy &

want input from students & staff. We

pride ourselves on being flexible,

responsive, & creative. What is best

for students will always be the core of

our decision making. We work hard to

be super at what we do, to achieve

excellence. Graduation is goal #1 for each & every student at SCHS.

A theme for us as we have embarked

on our journey together at school is ‘ownership’. Staff will have the same

group of students for home room

through out the student’s career at

SCHS, when a staff member’s group

graduates, that staff member will fall

back and begin again with a new group

of freshman. The home room size is 10-14 students; the small class size

will help promote staff ownership of

each student and facilitate a positive

relationship with each teacher/

student. When students have a prob-

lem or issue we ask that the parent

contact the home room teacher

first. We also want students to ‘own’ their learning. To help students own

their learning, SCHS encourages and

teaches organization, communication,

goal setting, & technology skills. To

ensure students have a voice we

encourage each student to be involved

in an activity or club. We structure

our school in a manner so that clubs & groups will communicate. One exam-

ple of this is “Student Leadership

Advisory Council” (SLAC). Student

leadership development is the process

of involving students in meaningful

ways both in and beyond the class-

room. We provide opportunities for students to demonstrate their talents,

skills, & interests while continuing to

develop new skills.

SCHS students and staff bring new

energy and ideas to our program daily.

Leadership, technology, teamwork,

communication, and organization skills

learned in school transfer directly to the work place and community. I

encourage you to come give us a visit

and see for yourself and experience a

quality high school education. Wel-

come, make it a

great day!

DID SOMEONE MENTION FOOTBALL?

From the Sports’ Center at SCHS As one can

see, section-

al time is upon us and it is

turning Mr. Todd’s hair

white. Wait a minute! Hair?

Mr. Todd? Is there some-

thing wrong with this pic-

ture? (LOL) Everyone has

to de-stress somehow I

suppose. Anywho, the

state tournament in all

sports is a much anticipat-

ed time of the season. Any-

thing can happen. Just ask

the softball girls! The girls

golf team has already com-

peted in their sectional at

Bedford. Volleyball will play

in their sectional at South

Ripley over fall break. The

cross country teams will

run at Hanover in their sec-

tional on October 9th. Our

boys’ soccer team will play

in a sectional at Rising Sun

on October 3rd and 5th. Our

girls’ soccer team will be

the hosts of a 7-team sec-

tional on October 1, 2, 4, &

6. We are also honored to

host the boys’ soccer re-

gional on October 11th &

13th. This is an exciting

time of the year for sure.

Come out and support all of

the fall Pacer athletes!

Volume 1, Issue 2

August, 2012

Date: 09/28/2012

Time: 8:30pm - 9:30pm Sponsor: Student Council

Place: Back parking lot of

Switz. Co. High School.

Activity in support of sur-

vivors and victims of can-

cer. At dark balloons were

released into the night sky.

Purple balloons for survi-

vors & yellow for the vic-

tims’ families. Donations

were made to the Ameri-

can Cancer Assoc. & the

family of Mike McClure.

(More on page 4.)

WELCOME TO PACER COUNTRY

! ! ! HOME OF PACER PRIDE ! ! !

T-H-E Pacer Post

This edition of the 2012-2013 Pacer Post is

dedicated to the memory of Briana Nicole Hite.

Born: 06/03/1999 Deceased: 09/01/2012 Brianna was in the 8th grade at the Switzerland County Middle School. She loved playing volley-ball, basketball, watching TV, singing, drawing & dancing. She was special & dearly loved by all she met, and will be sorely

missed by everyone.

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About the Staffulty

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Mr. Adam Pietry-kowski is the new Social Studies teacher. He comes to us from Madison Consoli-

dated High School. He is a gradu-ate of Madison, as well. He also graduated from Hanover College and absolutely loves sports. He likes Switzerland County High School students and staff. Be sure to say hello to Mr. Pietrykow-ski when you pass him in the halls.

Two Switzerland County High School seniors are a part of this year’s BPA State Leadership Team. Chloe Griffin is serving as District 11/12 President and Lo-gan Todd is Vice President of Member Activities. They will have an integral role in planning this year’s activities at the Fall Leadership Conference and the State Leadership Conference in Indianapolis. Chloe and Logan

will receive concentrated leader-ship training and have the oppor-tunity to network with business students and professionals from across the state. We are proud of their leadership at the state level. They both are great ambassadors for Switzerland County High School.

The Book Club is reading the 1st book in the Maximum Ride series The Angel Experiment by James Peterson. In this book we are fol-lowing a group of teens that have been genetically altered by a group of scientists. This book is fiction, at this time, but could be in our future? What is happening in the field of genetic alterations at the present time? Book Promotion By Mrs. Anne Findley Have you thought about reading a Rosie title? There was infor-mation about them in last month’s school newspaper, & they can be found in our library. I am reading Matched by Ally Condie. I am caught-up in the love story which is set in a dysto-pian time period. What is a dysto-pian time period? Stop in the li-brary & let me know. The 1st person with the answer wins a free cappuccino from School Grounds! There are several copies of this title, so join me in reading Matched. I am sure you will share my feeling of relief that we are not part of their world! Want to chat about this book? If you stop in the library, I can set you up with an Edmodo account tht can be used for this purpose.

Business Professionals of America (BPA)

Book Club News

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IMPORTANT DATES

SAT TEST DATES FOR 2012/2013 TEST DATE REG. DEADLINE LATE FEE REQUIRED (Given @ MCHS) October 6 September 7 September 8 - 21 (Given @ MCHS) November 3 October 4 October 4 - 19 December 1 November 1 November 2 - 16 January 26 December28 Dec. 29 – Jan. 11 March 9 February 5 February 6 - 22 (Given @ MCHS) May 4 April 6 April 6 - 19 June 1 May 2 May 3 - 17

ACT TEST DATES FOR 2012/2013 TEST DATE REG. DEADLINE LATE FEE REQUIRED (Given @ MCHS) September 8 August 17 August 18 - 24 October 27 September 21 Sept. 22 - Oct. 5 (Given @ MCHS) December 8 November 2 November 3 - 16 February 9 January 11 January 12 - 18 (Given @ MCHS) April 13 March 8 March 9 - 22 June 8 May 3 May 4 - 17 Students are encouraged to register online for the SAT and/or ACT. ***Fees may be found on the test website or in the registration bulletin located in the Student Services office. ***Free official on-line SAT/ACT practice exams at www.learnatest.com/library with library card. ***Twenty-First Century Scholars may request a fee waiver form by calling 1-888-346-5683 MCHS stands for Madison Consolidated High School located in Madison, IN. MCHS School Code: 152-170 MCHS Test Center Code for ACT: 175-210 MCHS Test Center Code for SAT: 15-520

From the Guidance Department: Mrs. Marla Edwards

On Sept. 25th FRONTLINE on PBS presented “Dropout Nation.” What does it take to save a student? Every

year, hundreds of thousands of teenagers in the U.S. quit high school without diplomas - an epidemic so out of

control that nobody knows the exact number. At Houston’s Sharpstown High, once a notorious “dropout facto-

ry,” a high-stakes experiment is under way to rescue students from the edge. FRONTLINE spent a semester im-

mersed in Sharpstown to produce a portrait of four students in crisis and the teachers, counselors and principals

waging a daily, personal struggle to get them to graduation. A troubling and inspiring journey through the maze

of an inner-city high school. If you missed this presentation, it’s not too late. You can watch via the Internet. Go

to http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/dropout-nation/ where you can still watch the entire presentation.

GOAL ONE . . . FIRST AND FOREMOST . . . GRADUATION 100%

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SCHS Calendar: Sports and Other Important Dates

October 2012

Glow For Cancer (continued from page 1)

Korah Taylor, Jacqueline Hensley & Shyla Prince

Students, Faculty, & Parents Attended

Korah Taylor, Jacqueline Hensley & Olivia Hewitt

Volume 1, Issue 2

Students enrolled in the SCHS Work Transition Program have very busy days! In addition to their daily aca-demic classes, they work approx. two periods per day in community based job shadowing positions, doing voca-tional related activities, or weekly recycling for our high school and the administration bldg. Those commu-nity based positions have included: Little Lambs Day Care, Martin Sup-ply, Danner’s, the former IGA, Frog-gy Radio, Swiss Villa, Los Bandidos Rest., SC Historical Museum, The Ogle Haus, Hoosier Theater, & the SC Baptist Church. Students do re-ceive pay for their work time. With that money, they practice banking, budgeting, shopping, and restaurant skills during class outings. Those community outings offer real life

situations to apply skills practiced in the classroom. Students learn to fol-low a supervised routine & gain inde-pendence as confidence in their abil-ity grows. Their goal is to work inde-pendently, follow a schedule or set routine, obey all safety rules, use cor-rect procedures, respect supervisors and co-workers, produce quality work, & have good attendance which often pays off with employment when they graduate. Functional/Daily Living Skills are also a part of the Transition Program. Students have opportunities to practice food preparation & cooking methods, cleaning up after food preparation, & laundry skills. They shop for need-ed grocery items & help plan what is to be cooked. A variety of activities are presented throughout each day to

also presented her solution to the nationwide problem which is to place seawater greenhouses on the coastline. The greenhouses have a special pipe system that breaks into two different sections. One goes into the greenhouse to water all the crops and the other goes into an under-ground storage tank. Since Nila gave her presentation, the United States Armed Forces are looking into continuing research on the sea-water greenhouses. She is very excit-ed about the future of seawater greenhouses but, this was just the beginning for Nila. At the World Food Prize Summit she was able to interact with global leaders. Each discussion group of seven to nine students was led by three distin-guished global leaders in science, industry & policy. Nila’s paper on seawater greenhouses will be pub-

SCHS FFA Advisor: Mr. Greg Curlin

Nila Johnson, a senior, has been selected as Delegate for the World Food Prize Summit in Iowa. She was selected after displaying her presentation at Purdue University in Sept. Her presentation was seawater greenhouses. It dealt with Somalia and the water scarcity and irrigation education. Her presentation con-tained information and data about Somalia’s population, typical family/farm life, and the devastating drought problem. Nila showed how the third world country has strug-gled with two droughts in one dec-ade causing Somalian families to leave their homes and farms. She

lished in the Youth Institute Pro-ceedings and is available online. She was also able to connect with student leaders from around the world and tour innovative industrial & re-search facilities. By participating in the Global Youth Institute in Iowa, Nila is eligible to apply for a prestig-ious Borlaug-Ruan International Internship, an all-expenses-paid, eight-week hands-on experience, working with world-renowned scien-tists and policymakers at leading research centers in Africa, Asia, Lat-in America and the Middle East.

Congratula-tions, Nila. SCHS is so very proud to have you as one of our outstanding students!

News from Work Transition: Mrs. Sharon Hansel

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FFA News

help students prepare for the transi-tion from school to adult life. Stu-dents stay busy, work hard, & have fun while learning things to help them succeed after high school. The Work Transition Class also bakes & sells those wonderfully delicious Otis Spunkmeyer cookies.

Hats off to Mrs. Hansel, Gina Wat-son & SCHS’s Work Transition Class. We are so proud of you!

Pictured is Harlan Scud-der and Mr. Darwin Nel-son of Vin-cennes Univ. Harlan is the first of nine

SCHS students to receive OSHA forklift training, pass & receive certification. At age18 they will receive their DL card/Operator’s License. The other eight partici-pating students are DJ Mullins, Justin Kasson, Jason Gatto, Noah Wieczorek, Michaela White, Shel-by Henry, Elizabeth Cassidy & Branden Grenat. Their training consisted of a combination of for-mal instruction (e.g., lecture, dis-cussion, interactive computer learning, video tape, written ma-terial), practical training (demonstration performed by the trainer, Mr. Darwin Nelson, and practical exercises performed by the trainee student), and evalua-tion of the operator’s perfor-mance in the workplace. These students have taken a major step in preparing for their future after high school. Taking responsibility and owning one’s education and future is what we’re all about at SCHS. We are so very proud of these students and look for even more certifications in the future. Rock on SCHS students!

See You at the Pole 2012:

Awaken

The students in the FCA invited all to attend See You At the Pole™ 2012 on Wednesday, Sep-tember 26th at 7:15 a.m. For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father… I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being so that Christ may dwell in your hearts…And I pray that you… grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and…that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine…

See You at the Pole™, the global day of student prayer, began in 1990 as a grass roots movement with ten students praying at their school. More than two decades later, millions around the world pray on their campuses on the fourth Wednesday in September. SYATP is simply a prayer rally where students meet at the school flagpole before school to lift up their friends, families, teachers, school, and nation to God. SYATP is a student-initiated, stu-dent-organized, and student-led event.

One of the amazing aspects of See You at the Pole™ is the spiritual harvest that continues on. After students rally together at their flagpole in September, Bible clubs, prayer groups, and evange-lism takes place all year long. Many churches work together to sponsor before and after the Pole rallies for students. Whether a single student standing alone, two or three huddled together in uni-ty, or hundreds gathered in front of the school, See You at the Pole™ is about students praying for awakening on campuses all over the world.

The 2012 See You at the Pole™ theme is Awaken and the Scrip-ture is Ephesians 3:14–21.

Come check-out the SCHS FCA (Fellowship of Christian Ath-letes). We invite you to join our club and interact with all the oth-er members. Bonds of friendship can be forged that will last a life-time. Listen to the club an-nouncements each school day morning and when you hear that we are meeting, come join us and find out for yourself what a fan-tastic club we have at SCHS.

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SCHS Students in OSHA Forklift Certification Program

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FCA News: Mrs. Casie Jesop

A Project of AP Environmental Science and SCHS Conservation Club

Recipient of the 2010 Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence in Education & Outreach

It was a lovely day in April of 2001, the bluebells were in bloom along Indian Creek & its tributaries. A van load of SCHS stu-

dents were collecting twenty water samples to test for E. coli bacteria- an indicator of sewage or animal waste pollution. The

students & their teacher, Mrs. Fancher, were delighted to be outdoors on a lovely spring day. Two days later, however, the

bacterial results showed a cause for much concern-the bacterial counts indicating polluted waters were very high. Students

called resource specialists in Switzerland County, the District Conservationist, the County Health Department Sanitarian, &

others, & the Indian Creek Watershed Project had its start. For two years, resource specialist, both local & state, interested

citizens, & many students met in Mrs. Fancher’s classroom to discuss additional data, and to examine solutions. This Indian

Creek Task Force began to develop a grant proposal for a Watershed Management Plan to be submitted through the Indiana

Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) to the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). The grant proposal

was accepted & funded & serious work on the Indian Creek Watershed Project (ICWP) was begun. A citizen’s ICWP Steering

Committee developed & continues to this day, still with student involvement. Historic Hoosier Hills, the project financial spon-

sor, hired a full-time Watershed Coordinator, who is at this time, Mr. Cary Louderback. Following the completion of the Water-

shed Management Plan, a second grant proposal was developed & funded by IDEM & USEPA for the implementation of Best

Management Practices—farming and land practices that improve water quality in the 44,000 acre Indian Creek Watershed. The

watershed is all of the land, the 44,000 acres, that drain into Indian Creek & its tributaries.

From 2001 until 2012, AP Environmental Science & SCHS Conservation Club students have been fully involved in the Indian

Creek Watershed Project: doing volunteer water quality monitoring at twelve sites on Indian Creek and its tributaries, con-

ducting watershed workshops, participating in watershed & roadway litter cleanups, & attending & participating in the ICWP

Community Steering Committee meetings. Students & their teacher have always been fully involved as volunteers in this

IDEM & USEPA project that has brought over $500,000 dollars into Switzerland County for improvement of farming practices

to benefit water quality. Additional funding is now being considered by IDEM & USEPA for additional Best Management Prac-

tices (BMPS) on farms in Switzerland County.

Fast forward to September, 2012. Students in AP Environmental Science Class, as part of their curriculum, are learning the

techniques of water quality monitoring through a series of tests that they will conduct in the field. Students recently attended

and participated in the Indian Creek Watershed Project Steering Committee at the Jack Sullivan Community Center on Sep-

tember 13. A student representative, Nelson Hughes, President of Conservation Club, served as a voting representative of the

ICWP Steering Committee, on behalf of students in attendance at this community meeting. Students will be “outstanding in

the field” soon, continuing a long history of community volunteer service with their water quality monitoring. These students ,

and their teacher, provide real-world data to the state and federal government. Students also monitor Ohio River quality, as

part of ORSANCO RiverWatchers. SCHS is one of about thirty schools, colleges, or citizen groups which monitor the Ohio

River and submit data to ORSANCO, the Ohio River Water Sanitation Commission, an eight state commission of states adja-

cent to the Ohio River.

The Indian Creek Watershed Project of Switzerland County Contributed by: Mrs. Bonnie Fancher

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The Town Crier

Mandatory: Parent/Teacher Conferences 10/23 & 10/25 (3:30 pm to 7:30 pm)

Future Goals

From Gregg Goewert, Principal

Looking and hoping to be an

Indiana Commerce Best Buy High

School (Indiana award),

a 4-Star School (Indiana award),

and a Blue Ribbon School

(national award) down the road,

I thought I’d share the national

award winners for 2012.

The following eight schools were

recognized as 2012 Blue Ribbon

Schools:

1. Douglas MacArthur Elemen-

tary School, Cedar Lake

2. Ferdinand Elementary,

Ferdinand

3. Northview Elementary School,

Valparaiso

4. Smoky Row Elementary

School, Carmel

5. Webster Elementary School,

Plymouth

6. LaSalle Intermediate Acad-

emy, South Bend

7. New Palestine High School,

New Palistine

8. Yorktown High School,

Yorktown

CAN WE DO IT? THE ANSWER

IS A RESOUNDING YES!!

WILL IT BE EASY? ABSOLUTELY

NOT!! IT WILL TAKE RESOLU-

TION, DEDICATION, AND HARD

WORK BUT, IT CAN BE DONE!!

FOR THE SAKE OF OUR CHIL-

DREN, IT CAN BE DONE!!

JUNGLE JIM’S &

MRS. MARZON’S CLASS

The student’s explored 6 acres of

an International Market. They

enjoyed food samples from

around the world. They learned

the history of the Jungle Jim

Food Market and got to explore

each department. They also dis-

covered thousands of incredible

edibles from around the world.

10/02 @ 6:00 District FFA kickoff mtg. @ Jennings County HS.

10/03 @ 9:00 Indiana Tech Rep @ SCHS in the library.

10/11 Paintball . Forms are in the Guidance Office.

10/14 Cincinnati National Col-lege fair @ Duke Energy Center (1:00 to 4:00).

10/08 through 10/12 Fall Inter-cession. Transportation available.

10/15 through 10/19 Fall Break. Everyone enjoy!!

10/23 & 10/25 Mandatory parent/teacher conferences (3:30 to 7:30)

10/29 Picture Retake Day for both Underclassman & Seniors.

10/29 Josten’s will be here to dis-cuss & handout information on graduation for all students.

10/31 @ 9:00 the Rep. from Cinti. State College will be in the library.

11/01 Fall Sports Banquet @ 6:00

11/08 Josten’s will be here to take orders for senior graduation rings.

11/14 is Scheduling Kickoff Night @ 6:30 pm.

11/14 ASVAB Testing @ 8:30 am

11/17 IUPUI “Dental Day.” This is for students seeking a career in dentistry.

11/21 through 11/23 is Thanks-giving break.

12/24/2012 through 01/04/2013 is Christmas/Winter break.

04/06/2013 is the SCHS Jun-ior/Senior Prom @ Butler.

Check the office windows for col-lege representative visits to SCHS

WINTER SPORTS SCHEDULES WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON IN THE OFFICE. CHECK PERIODICALLY TO PICK-UP ONE OR TWO OR THREE!

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SCHS Vision Statement:

An environment where academ-ic, social, and ethical growth is expected and where students

share in and accept responsibility for their learning.

SCHS Mission Statement:

To create a culture of confi-dence in which all students are empowered with the academic, social, and ethical knowledge

and skills to become well-rounded citizens ready for life

beyond high school.